TinTower posted:

https://twitter.com/jebrux/status/1262894917631819777?s=21

Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:

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my pit bull attacked a dog today and put it in the vet ER. Owner is billing me. I tried to break up the fight and saved his dogs life. Ended up in the ER because the other dog bit me. HELP!

Today around sunset my pitbull which is a rescue from the county shelter got out when my pregnant GF was taking out the trash. I heard her chasing after the dog down the driveway and immediately chased after them. By the time i got there my dog had a much smaller dog's neck in his mouth and the other owner was kicking my dog to get him off. I grabbed my dogs collar chest neck head and jaws in that order to try to stop the fight. My pit WOULD NOT let go. It was like a completely different animal on pcp or something. The whole time im trying to break it off the other dog is biting the poo poo out of my thumb. Anyways their dog survived just fine and the owner expects me to pay the vet bill. The after hours giant rear end vet bill. I saved his dogs life. Shouldnt he at least pay for my hand if i pay his vet bill? Im a massage therapist and am not able to make money now. I cannot afford both my med bills and his dog's. What can i do / what am i entitled to do?

Peanut Butler posted:

tipping is bad and has its origins in post-civil war methods of making sure black people didn't get paid as much, if at all

Magna Kaser posted:

here's one that is less depressing and political

For some quick background, many Chinese animal names are fun mashups of animals and concepts for interesting linguistic reasons.

Brawnfire posted:

It's gonna suck when Marx gets snagged in those tree roots. It was already a bitch pulling that thing with all the soil pressure. And then the digging to bury columbus upside-down... really shoulda gotten a bigger crew for this job.

Hollandia posted:

I mean you could focus on the valknot or you could just look at the pattern of swastikas around it. Unless I’m missing something.

Powered Descent posted:

I often visit a hundred-year-old office building that has that exact same pattern molded as trim around the elevators in the lobby.

SneezeOfTheDecade posted:

Runcible Cat posted:

My 1488&Me results just came in!

Mak0rz posted:

Yes but the first black president was also coincidentally the only president ever. It's not like there are 44 other white presidents or anything.

EL BROMANCE posted:

What would suck: if that guy is Krasinski
What would suck even more: if that guy isn't Krasinski

The two videos Cody did about SGN were both good, and I was closed enough on the 'guess what clip it is' answer that I gave myself a point anyway.

subpar anachronism posted:

Someone once tried to convince me that Scott Adams's chud chode act was entirely ironic and he was actually extremely left. All I learned from that is people are really not smart.

Platystemon posted:

I hate you for making me look this up.



[page 238 is an illustration]



So that’s the main text of the theory. Now let’s back up a few pages.





Now watch him handwave objections in the second edition.






Does he truly believe his expanding world theory?

• He lists gravity as an assumption about reality.

• A few lines later, he says he has “doubts about reality”.

• He doesn’t accept any of the counterexamples to his theory readers sent in.

• He doesn’t mind if people think he believe in his theory.

In conclusion, I don’t think it can be said that he doesn’t believe in it.

LIBERTARIAN BONUS ROUND




Is this just a thought experiment?

Pinus Porcus posted:

Crossposted from GBS:

TinTower posted:

the woman who complained about that “shut the gently caress up TERF” anime meme in the House of Commons.

RareAcumen posted:

Glad I'm not gonna live to the 2100's and have to keep seeing these things

https://twitter.com/HydroTheSquid/status/1274775881437724674

Platystemon posted:

They let that guy be a scientist? President is more to his competency.

It’s not eleven days per year. It’s eleven days in fourteen centuries. He probably just Googled “difference between Julian and Gregorian calendars” and ran with it.

Even if he were right about the difference between the calendars, why does he assume that everyone makes the same elementary errors he would? You’re telling me that bleach kills coronavirus? Let’s inject ourselves with bleach. Why did no one else think of this? I am such a genius.

Annabel Pee posted:

Someone on my facebook posted this crap about Lewis Hamilton's opinion on BLM is hypocritical because he uses problematic brands like Adidas and Nike. Has anyone got a good explanation to explain to people why this type of thinking is stupid, Like the you live in a society comic thingy but explained better?

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“You know, when I was a young man, hypocrisy was deemed the worst of vices,” Finkle-McGraw said. “It was all because of moral relativism. You see, in that sort of a climate, you are not allowed to criticise others-after all, if there is no absolute right and wrong, then what grounds is there for criticism? … Now, this led to a good deal of general frustration, for people are naturally censorious and love nothing better than to criticise others’ shortcomings. And so it was that they seized on hypocrisy and elevated it from a ubiquitous peccadillo into the monarch of all vices. For, you see, even if there is no right and wrong, you can find grounds to criticise another person by contrasting what he has espoused with what he has actually done. In this case, you are not making any judgment whatsoever as to the correctness of his views or the morality of his behaviour—you are merely pointing out that he has said one thing and done another. Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy.
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We take a somewhat different view of hypocrisy,” Finkle-McGraw continued. “In the late-twentieth-century Weltanschauung, a hypocrite was someone who espoused high moral views as part of a planned campaign of deception—he never held these beliefs sincerely and routinely violated them in privacy. Of course, most hypocrites are not like that. Most of the time it’s a spirit-is-willing, flesh-is-weak sort of thing.”

“That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code,” Major Napier said, working it through, “does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.”

“Of course not,” Finkle-McGraw said. “It’s perfectly obvious, really. No one ever said that it was easy to hew to a strict code of conduct. Really, the difficulties involved—the missteps we make along the way—are what make it interesting. The internal, and eternal, struggle, between our base impulses and the rigorous demands of our own moral system is quintessentially human. It is how we conduct ourselves in that struggle that determines how we may in time be judged by a higher power.”

Karia posted:

Lol if you don't have Enrique act as your strawman posting enemy so you can take them down in public and feel like an Internet Superhero.

Arivia posted:

Can someone screenshot the tweet Atwood is responding to there? That TERF has me blocked and I'm trying to figure out the conversation.

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How did the people in Gilead know which people to make into Handmaidens?

Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:

The control panel of one of the greatest modern media juggernauts in the world looks like the interface to an early Javascript idle game.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

https://twitter.com/BostonPatrolmen/status/1284208409148035077

Thank you for your example of what disingenuous looks like.

Regalingualius posted:

Now I kind of want to see The Room-era Tommy Wiseau make an FMV game, for whatever reason.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

https://twitter.com/camillalong/status/1284770178685952000

BaronVonVaderham posted:

This made me remember a thing I saw over the weekend:



Fucker is now apparently worth $178 BILLION. What does $178 Billion buy you that $100 Billion can't? Or even anything beyond a single billion?

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

How much could lowtax have rode into the sunset with if he sold this shithole in like '04 or '05

Arsenic Lupin posted:

"Demon sperm" is trending on Twitter and I want everything to come to a full stop.

RoboRodent posted:

I mean, this is all true. Fungi are very weird.

I like to helpfully point out that they're closer to kingdom Animalia than kingdom Plantae.

TinTower posted:

One of the essays I did on my degree touched upon the point that Voltaire was a whiny pissbaby who got on the grift train after he was “cancelled” for writing a pamphlet calling a scientific rival a shithead for proposing a theory he disliked.

That theory ended up being shown to be true as a consequence of other physical phenomena.

Arivia posted:

I don’t think she’s trying to disassociate her institution or defend anything. Her original tweet is way too tentative and way too conciliatory to be anything but a terminology clarification.

Nostradingus posted:

Uh oh, what happened in Lebnaon?