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happyhippy posted:A/S/L? 21/F/Cali
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Jul 3, 2022 19:14
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Guavanaut posted:I wonder what the architects of birthrate panic will try next when that doesn't work. Finally, the libertarian dream of "the only role of the government is to provide me a girlfriend" is realised. https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1543637206874656768 ww3 lets gooooooo
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Jul 3, 2022 19:14
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The Pakistan tweet might have seemed more convincing if they hadn't rebranded to the cartoon ape club entirely beforehand.
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Jul 3, 2022 19:15
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Brendan Rodgers posted:I do have ethical concerns about spermless babies
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Jul 3, 2022 19:20
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Perhaps this is rishis new idea for funding the army.
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Jul 3, 2022 19:29
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah unethical companies will just use predominantly African-American prison slave labor in the southern states through a subsidiary called Not The Royal African Company to wash their hands before they'll use a high tech birthing program, because that still means you've got to feed and train a bunch of kids. I'm thinking more of specialised applications, like super soldiers and stuff. I am 100% confident that a bunch of unethical stuff regarding genetics and augmentations has already happened without public disclosure. The technology is there it's just taboo. But I'm saying this in an unprovable way. Ranting on a street corner about Space Marines.
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Jul 3, 2022 19:34
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah unethical companies will just use predominantly African-American prison slave labor in the southern states through a subsidiary called Not The Royal African Company to wash their hands before they'll use a high tech birthing program, because that still means you've got to feed and train a bunch of kids. The cunts who supported overturning Roe were the same as have been screaming about the Great Replacement for generations. And aren't they going to be surprised when they learn that while black women are only around 12% of the female population, they have almost 40% of the abortions.
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Jul 3, 2022 19:47
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Guavanaut posted:The Pakistan tweet might have seemed more convincing if they hadn't rebranded to the cartoon ape club entirely beforehand. Massive we really are and the monkey thing is a cover-up ruse?
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Jul 3, 2022 19:50
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The british army is hardly unfamiliar with investing heavily in apes.
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Jul 3, 2022 19:54
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The british army is hardly unfamiliar with investing heavily in apes. I will take this joke in good faith and not a dig at the African corps of the Imperial Army
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Jul 3, 2022 20:09
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Guavanaut posted:Maybe, but unless you spirited all the men away the instant that you got parthenogenesis working I think gender would continue in some way or another. And it wouldn't just be women that would have eggs that could be used to make clones of themselves, plenty of trans guys and nonbinary people have the necessary eggs and might be interested. They had that. It was called Y: The Last Man. It's a really good story up until they try and explain the plague and they somehow came up with the dumbest explanation. And responded to the backlash with "how everyone does wasn't important. I just kept teasing solutions throughout the story."
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Jul 3, 2022 20:12
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Le Guin had some stuff on that or things like that. The Left Hand of Darkness obviously but also probably the most affecting short story I've ever read, The Matter of Seggri. Also lots of stories set in the same world as Left Hand which she wrote throughout her career Of course it's almost unfair since she did so much stuff and still never put out anything that wasn't at least extremely good.
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Jul 3, 2022 20:18
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Tesseraction posted:I will take this joke in good faith and not a dig at the African corps of the Imperial Army Hope it's a Gibraltar reference!
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Tesseraction posted:I will take this joke in good faith and not a dig at the African corps of the Imperial Army Geordies
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Jul 3, 2022 20:58
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Rewinding a couple of pages:Jaeluni Asjil posted:Apparently not for buggery. Section 143 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 was repealed by the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which repealed and replaced the vast majority of previous legislation about sexual activity and the age of consent. The relevant law is now sections 1-4 (for things like rape that are always offences) and 9 to 15A (for things that are only offences when done to a child) of the 2003 Act, and the age of consent was equalised across the board.
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Jul 3, 2022 22:31
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Great thread read: https://twitter.com/behavinaint/status/1542614164824260609
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I saw a screenshot of this earlier and couldn't believe it was real. So I went searching to prove it was a shoop... alas.... https://twitter.com/MENnewsdesk/status/1543246989596532736 I'm very confused. Why? Who? What?
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fuctifino posted:I saw a screenshot of this earlier and couldn't believe it was real. So I went searching to prove it was a shoop... alas.... He used to do ads for Halifax about 20 years ago and became quite popular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Brown_(Halifax_Bank) Occasionally he crops up on other ads like one for hotels dot com last year hiding behind a plant pot. (Ed changed the linked vid) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Y6V5sqf0U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yeik38NqDJc Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Jul 4, 2022 |
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Jul 3, 2022 23:57
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The_Doctor posted:Great thread read: Is any of this supposed to be surprising?
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https://twitter.com/profgrump/status/1542894225766977537
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pretty poo poo really that to be honest
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Mi6 just advertised in my timeliness. I'd only abuse any power.
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kingturnip posted:Is any of this supposed to be surprising? I was surprised how many posts it took them to get to the grand FBPE reveal ("the thing they hated most about the proles was their EU citizenship!"  )
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Trickjaw posted:Mi6 just advertised in my timeliness. I'd only abuse any power. Are you sure that disqualifies you
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Funny that the thread should be talking about scams and such, I just recently got stung not by a scam, but by thinking that something that (mostly) wasn't a scam was some kind of scam. I had renter's insurance on my last place I was living, before I bought the place I live in now in Canada, only it seems I forgot to cancel it and in fact completely forgot about it altogether. Then a few months ago I started getting emails from some company I hadn't heard of, saying: quote:Subject: "Account - We can help!" And that's it. No company name or logo or graphics or anything, and the address it came from was "Insurance.Support@[blah]groupservices.com". And they sent this same email weekly for like 3 months. So of course I thought "This is some kind of weird phishing scam or something, I've never heard of this company and they're trying to "help" me when I don't need any help". It was only once they sent me another email saying "IMPORTANT MESSAGE REGARDING YOUR ACCOUNT WITH [Insurance company I actually remember having an account with]" and "We have been attempting to contact you however your file is still outstanding and has been escalated for final review and decision. If we do not hear from you within 48 hours blah blah blah. We trust you understand the seriousness of this communication and potential effects of ignoring this matter" that I contacted them back. And of course it turns out it's a loving debt collection agency chasing me for $120 I apparently owe my bank because they renewed my home insurance and the only way they told me about it was to send me a physical letter, to an address I was no longer living at, despite having my email and phone number. I did contact my bank and they confirmed it. Basically just ended up having to pay it. Wankers. They could have said from the start "We are a debt collection agency" but no. I feel like they've done this on purpose so that they can catch people out and ramp up penalty charges or some bullshit, while saying "Well we've been trying to contact you for 3 months!". WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Jul 4, 2022 |
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The guy I stopped from jumping in front of a train on Friday night has crashed his car, pissed, twice in the past few months  My brain keeps trying to start with “what about THAT moral ambiguity then, eh?” and shutting down in self-defence.I got my wife to send him a message on FB saying [Sanford] says he met you on Friday, if you ever want to take the dog a walk knock on the door or drop him a line on [number]. I think that’s all I can do. Thanks to those who had advice to give on Friday night. The one real-life friend I told was all “Whoa dude, you saved his LIFE. That guy would be TOTALLY DEAD if not for you!” which didn’t help at all!
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Sanford posted:The guy I stopped from jumping in front of a train on Friday night has crashed his car, pissed, twice in the past few months Eh, if it was a phone call or face-to-face chat, I can see why your friend might have said something so unhelpful. The advantage of being a goon on the internet is that I can type something, look at it, decide if it's the level of condescension I'm aiming for, edit it to make it more/less rude and then post it and walk away. Or I can post while drunk, try to make a joke, fail, and end up merely being very rude
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You're not the ultimate arbiter of life and death, you can only be responsible for proximate causes that you can directly influence. If the dude does stupid dangerous poo poo because he is miserable then that's all on him.
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Sanford posted:The guy I stopped from jumping in front of a train on Friday night has crashed his car, pissed, twice in the past few months What moral ambiguity? Did you not consider that the guy might have other mental health issues that led up to the suicide attempt, and that the drink driving might be part of the same thing? He may even have tried to catch the 8:45 in an unconventional fashion because the crashes were previous attempts and he'd had his keys taken away from him so he didn't try again.
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Sanford posted:The guy I stopped from jumping in front of a train on Friday night has crashed his car, pissed, twice in the past few months So if you read comics enough you very often hear about this weird philosophical debate amoung fans (and it sometimes shows up in the stories themselves.) "Why doesn't Batman* just kill the Joker**? Since he doesn't, the next time the Joker goes on a killing spree it is really Batman's fault." It's a terrible argument for a number of reasons*** but one of the main points it misses is how it's a judgment being made by the reader on another person's moral action but refusing to take on any of the responsibilities associated with it. Basically, it's really easy for a reader to say "I would simply kill Boris Joker because I know he is unrepentant and will never change." But it ignores how Batman makes a decision based on what is in front of him and takes on the consequences of the situation in front of him. You made a decision to help a human who was in trouble and that is to be commended. It didn't deserve some type of second guessing then, and it doesn't deserve second guessing now. Regardless of what the person you saved does with their life, you did something that was objectively good. *= Oddly some people replace the names with Spider-man and the Green Goblin, which makes the whole thing even more tenious. Since Norman is bad, but not that bad. **= It also fails to take into account how when you deal with a seriel media, death isn't a permanent end. The Joker might just escape from the afterlife even more powerful. He might shift back to a prankster who performs boner-related crimes. You can only work with the framework that is in front of you. And in our real world, that means having a very limited time frame to make choics with limited information and just dealing with said consequences. ***= Mostly people who argue this think that they are engaging in some grand morality play. Since they think "killing people = mature."
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WhatEvil posted:And of course it turns out it's a loving debt collection agency chasing me for $120 I apparently owe my bank because they renewed my home insurance and the only way they told me about it was to send me a physical letter, to an address I was no longer living at, despite having my email and phone number. I did contact my bank and they confirmed it. I was in a similar position a few years back, my previous employer had overpaid me and they had sent me several letters to my previous address despite knowing I had started a new job in another part of the country so obviously would have moved. All they had to do was take note of the reference request they'd received. Eventually they passed it on to a solicitor who took the wild action of... calling me up on my mobile phone. Genious - problem solved (though I was suddenly a lot poorer!).
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The Question IRL posted:So if you read comics enough you very often hear about this weird philosophical debate amoung fans (and it sometimes shows up in the stories themselves.) It's just another version of the old "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends." - As delivered by Patrick Stewart in the role of Obi-Wan Adama. Obviously here we're not talking about dealing out death per se, but the sentiment seems sound. Thanks, Tolkien. Thankien.
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To which my response has generally been "yes watch me I will make those decisions all day and I would do a better job of it than you would, I appreciate that in your fantasy story you want the ending to be poetic but IRL it doesn't work like that, also abstentionism is still a decision, you're still making the decision, you can't opt out of it, you great beardy hack"
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OwlFancier posted:To which my response has generally been "yes watch me I will make those decisions all day and I would do a better job of it than you would, I appreciate that in your fantasy story you want the ending to be poetic but IRL it doesn't work like that" I've always kinds taken the "do not be too eager" part at face value. There's plenty of people that I do think deserve death, but I've thought about it long and hard first
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Failed Imagineer posted:I've always kinds taken the "do not be too eager" part at face value. There's plenty of people that I do think deserve death, but I've thought about it long and hard first Yeah I agree. Because it just becomes like that proverb "when all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail." Only replace hammer with "Lawgiver, Lawmaster bike and a sweet badge with my name on it" , problem with "other people" and nail with "perps."
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Personally if I were Batman I would simply break the Joker's legs every time he did a crime, the same way he completely demolishes the bones of the low-level goons on a regular basis.
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irish batman would prob just shoot out the villains' kneecaps for them yeah
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*taps head* can’t do boners if you got no bones
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I know you goons like to see peoples picture of their walks so here's a walk I did yesterday, in the Severn tunnel. Ugly old track, sitting next to it is the common British train  Oops, scared the train, very skittish creatures.  Little recess as a place of safety in case a vehicle comes barreling down the track. Also a handy toilet.  That's been there a while.  Nice new track being laid in.  Directions home in case I get lost.  It's a door! Wonderful walk had by all.
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