Visited the states in the 90s. Driving through the night. Went into a gas station convenience store half asleep needing cigarettes. Ask for whatever brand is on display. Girl behind the counter asks, “Hard or soft?” This question boggles me and my brain short circuits. I just keep asking, “Huh? What?” over and over until she gets frustrated and picks one for me.

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aggressively, repeatedly clicks a ballpoint pen

I’ll take you all with me!! Biological life is an abomination. Spacetime is hell!

It is true. ed(1) is the standard editor.

citation required. maga is successful because fascism works. maga is successful because young white males are fuckign idiots.

I like to smell people.

Me.

I had a partner who smelled weirdly almost indistinguishable from me. Now my own scent reminds me of them.

No, but it might be to charge a “missed appointment fee” if you don’t get there on time. That’s the fucking difference between punishment and consequences.

This is identical to “drug addicts choose to be drug addicts and so do not deserve medical care” except it’s closer to “blind people choose to be blind”

The argument isn’t that everyone should be allowed to come whenever they want, but rather we should assume good faith and not intentionally punish people for being late. The natural and social consequences are more than sufficient for whatever misguided purpose the punishment is meant to serve.

That’s just it. The sacrifices that a poor or disabled person has to make to be on time for their doctor’s appointment are much greater than the ones their typical patient has to make. We all have to make sacrifices for punctuality, but we’re not all asked to make the same degree of sacrifice.

Oh, so it’s like Flight Gear several years ago. Well, keep working!

Having kids is a scam and you’re trying to convince yourself you’re not a sucker.

I mean, you can deny the premise all day long, but it will never win you an argument.

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“Ethical” does not mean “good”, “moral”, or “right”, it means something more like, “consistent with an explicit set of ethical axioms.” It’s meaningless to say something is unethical without stating or at least implying a specific ethical philosophy.

Carnism says that it is sometimes acceptable or even good to be cruel and violent to animals. Veganism says that it only is in cases of absolute necessity. A researcher or scientist for a cosmetics company might follow all the ethical requirements of their profession, and yet by any other standard, do unforgivable harm both to animals they experiment on and to the humans they mean to exploit with their research.

there is no ethical consumerism under capitalism

What is the source for this quote? I most often hear it used to argue in a fatalistic way in favour of continuing to do whatever harmful thing it is a person wants to continue doing. I don’t think it is true, certainly not for those who are struggling for survival. Ethical doesn’t necessarily mean that there is no harm. It means that the harms have been considered and a meaningful attempt at balancing those harms according to some ethical framework has been made.

Yeah, it EMOTIONALLY supports them. Dude. It’s okay. It also supports the users who get value out of it in actual material ways.

It isn’t so much a front end as a privacy-enhancing proxy service. You can’t participate, you can only consume. If our governments are going to conduct their interactions with us on fucking Twitter, we need services like this. Or we need our states to stop neglecting our need for online infrastructure and punting to capital interests.

Plus, SJG is a genuinely awesome company full of people who are really dedicated to the love of gaming. You don’t feel like you’re being exploited by fashion and capital. You feel like you’re collaborating with your friends.