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Cylusthevirus

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Science and expert opinion should be respected, "your own research" is usually worthless, Black Lives Matter, Taiwan is a country, Love is Love, and Trans Rights are Human Rights.

No nazis or tankies, thanks.

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I have a theory that moral traits, like many other things in nature, follow a normal distribution. If I'm right, we can make some estimates of who would violate social rules given the chance. The bottom 5% of the distribution are going to do some terrible things. About 45% are going to be kind of shit, maybe not terrible. The remainder will be some level of decent to pretty well behaved, actually. Admittedly, that depends on what we think the mean level of morality really is. Having observed many a group of kids playing, I don't think it's that bad. Honestly that's why so many teenage edgelords and doomers get told to go touch grass; reality will almost never be as bleak as we think it will be. There's a well documented cognitive bias towards negative events, but it IS a bias.

The Boys isn't realistic so much as it's a deliberate deconstruction of the genre and a bit of speculative fiction ("What if Superman was a sociopath" seems to be the question it asks). It has elements of satire too, so it's not really concerned with being fair so much as creating the story conditions that allow it to show us its narrative.

If you want a more "realistic" superhero show I think the 2012 movie Chronicle is more plausible. And yeah it does go badly for some but not for others.

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I know, it's not buttered noodles and tendies. The horror.

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I got to visit Scotland once and was told in no uncertain terms that we were not to refer to the weather as "cold."

It might be brisk. It might even be bracing. But never cold. Has to be something to it.

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Well they definitely get bigger when the rhythm is right. Do it enough and they can be your weapon of choice.

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lashing out

This is soft selling war crimes. Shame on you.

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BG3 literally has setting for this.

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Okay but Henry Cavill is simply unfair to the rest of humanity.

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Oh I'm pretty sure the rich entrenching their power goes back a wee bit longer than 2 centuries. Ask a feudal peasant.

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Nobody ever mentions Africa is what's weird to me.

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I've heard some good things about fluticasone propionate. Normally it's an over the counter allergy med (nasal spray), but I saw a study where a lot of people that used it got their sense of smell (and by extension a lot of taste) back in about 5 days.

Worth a try, at any rate. They sell it at Costco and most drug stores.

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Yes, clearly the only people that don't like commies are fascists, like all of those people who lived under nominally "communist" regimes. Weird how they developed fascism from the experience.

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The AITA subs are mostly exercises in short fiction.

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Straight men don't need to write about sex; a lot of us are terrible at it. Read Dan Savage instead, he'll sort you.

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Oh no.

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Were there like a panel of demons or what?

Things were awkward when they all got home.

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There's this one webcomic called Oglaf...

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I know it's a meme but there's an actual answer: because humans have them, and Dr. Soong wanted Data to feel human. That was the whole point of the project from what I understand.

"Margaret" by Jim Benton (files.mastodon.social)

alt textCartoon of the Grim Reaper/Death at the door of a smiling, plump woman giving out Halloween candy. Death says: “I’m not wearing a costume. I’m here to take your sou—” The sentence breaks off when he sees what the woman gave him, then he exclaims: “Holy Shit full size Snickers” He concludes: “Nevermind...

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I did a version of this during the height of the pandemic where I hung up a big old clothesline in the front yard and pinned dozens of full size bars to it. Always interesting to see which ones get taken; Twix and KitKat proved the most popular. And the line wasn't empty at night's end! Our neighborhood kids are sweet.

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I really do try to model the behavior and stay home when I'm ill. I had Shingles and Hand, Foot and Mouth this year, so they've seen me call out (I was happier before I knew that viral orchitis was a thing and also, boy does it suck to get a shingles out break near your bloody eye).

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Like 10 seconds away from her in First Contact and he's down there with a Tommy Gun blazing away.

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Dad stop.

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How many forks could a forklift lift if a forklift could lift forks.

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The thing is he's a really cheap drunk because you never have to serve him anything over a certain age.

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Experimental Goats Up Display

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Hah, my mom fell for this shit from letter that circulated around. Dumbest shit ever.

All due to Sodium Erythorbate.

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