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Orman

@LizardOrman

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@AlaskanTzar @monoblancoatx @VKlker Respecting people's boundaries and consent isn't deontology

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@AlaskanTzar @monoblancoatx @VKlker People don't though, they treat it as a terminal utilitarian value

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@muhgutfer @isaiah_bb Millennials didn't grow up with pocket video cameras on them at all times

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@ReviewerRadical 8 trillion bullets and no sense of organization or logistics

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@_spey @taizou_hori No wage, only spend

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@TetraspaceWest Also, hilariously, the editor of the lead SF magazine at the time knew where because so many scientists changed their address to New Mexico

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@ReneeLascala @DameWritesalot @beingbrina @coffeespoonie

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@halford_rosie @setoacnna Besides this being preemptively on the nose, how can they possibly think he'd be GC given not only all the other examples people have mentioned, but also Carrot being accepted as a dwarf by most everyone despite being 6' and born to humans

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@misskeishalives @elliespendejo If anything, that's the default safeword. The entire concept only comes up in the first place because people want to be able to say "no" and not actually mean it

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@Zyluki_HP @gjfitzgerald @d_feldman @donatj It's also not a reference tool because it can hallucinate confident answers that aren't true

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2 years

@UrEspinosa @memecrashes Only if you accept the 50% rate as accurate, which would make it effectively impossible to have 20 successes in a row

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@thamosdeaf Wasn't this after the physics community knew that nuclear physics had some military application because everyone abruptly stopped publishing about it?

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5 years

@SilphiumT @JoshuaPotash @WajahatAli When Mandela was in jail, Glasgow City Council renamed a streeet after him. ...It just so happened to be where the S. African embassy was.

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@CSMFHT "You are the worst copper merchant I've ever heard of..."

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2 years

@TMikaMouse >Yall neeed to speak amongst yourselves and plan these things out so you don't leave the company high and dry all at once ...Has she heard the story a mum telling her boy, "Don't stuff beans up your nose" and giving him a new idea to immediately try out? *coughunionizecough*

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@x__nazarene__x @twinkophrenia Any god worth the title should understand the reasons people find it unconvincing

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2 years

@AnaMardoll I once saw a comment on YouTube that Mirabel's gift is converting other people's feelings into fully choreographed musical numbers

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@auspoldecline @Nina_Metz @thesixler Funny how it's never the white person who's "worth less" organically

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2 years

@thatprincesong @bmay He's in the UK, but he's from Ireland. Maybe that makes all the difference

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4 years

@TrustDaSpocess @rj @Annamatedarts There's a similar story in the tech world of the engineering consultant who explains a $10,000 invoice as Replacing the faulty bolt - $5 Knowing how to find it - $9995

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5 years

@Lammah77 @SaHreports @unknownmerc What a weird thought, using a country's wealth and resources for the people as a whole rather than a few private individuals...

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@Thelllusionist @KarlSmallwood Christopher Lee had the right idea that it was more like fencing

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2 years

@Zamorabynature @NomeDaBarbarian Adorable puppies with nuclear weapons and industrial death chambers

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@x__nazarene__x @twinkophrenia Then He can't reasonably expect them to believe

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@upgradeandthen @Johngcole It would be great if gene therapy was that advanced, but no, an injection doesn't do anything to your genes

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@brickmack @83dollaroring

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2 years

@Doc_Wolverine As a Scot, let me head off the question about cultural appropriation... Causing loud problems for the ruling class *is* our culture

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@Kimmylea4 @thomas_violence Surely the right response there is to be offended they were late

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1 year

@EsPyramid @QuakeRoc The assasination itself was just unexpected, but it was basically unbelievable how much the Japanese as a whole turned around and went, "...no wait, he has a point"

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@harpersfairy1 @cuckradecora Also good that NIMBYs don't restrict the building of dense housing at all

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@Siwelthelongboi @greenTetra_ Not having a portrait of the Dear Leader handy seems a very simple mistake

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2 years

@downwithlcc When the characters are telling each other a plan, or story or similar, and we see it play out, but then the reality of what we're seeing warps because the characters disagree how the story goes.

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3 years

@MadelineTraino1 @halford_rosie @setoacnna IIRC, Dwarves's genders are inscrutable to *each other* because there's a line about the first step of dwarven courting working out if your love interest is the right gender

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@NomeDaBarbarian Rich heirs playing a joke on their families by giving all their stuff to their pet human... ...And then running into a Ching Shih situation because nobody was expecting the human to be good at interstellar business

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5 years

@wrongomens [-much later-] aziraphale, inspecting a book carefully: funny, the edges of these pages are a lot less sharp than I remember

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@DanFoxAnimates @LeenaVanD I had to work on site during the lockdowns and I got a new appreciation for environmental storytelling wandering through a deserted office with, "WASH HANDS, WEAR A MASK" and "2M SOCIAL DISTANCING" signs plastered almost everywhere

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@the_nerd_skull ...Also, where is he getting Ellie "being a man" from? Is he just randomly accusing a AFAICT cis woman of being trans so he doesn't have to listen to her?

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@collnsmith There's a little difference, but it's really cool: it was taken by dozens of cameras taking the one photo all at once and stiched together, and in this case, the cameras were so far apart that the imaginary "virtual camera" taking it was the size of the planet Earth.

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@FreddieMurky @Chican3ry AIUI, the original Mulan is actually a good contrast - she presents as a man exactly long enough to go fight, and once the crisis passes, she resumes life as a woman. Vs Barry not only dying a man, but wanting nobody to so much as dress his body in case he was found out

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@pervocracy @shaun_vids Trying to market the fash so hard you forget to make them very fashy

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5 years

@arthur_affect @0ctat0nic @peckerwindsor I don't know how it feels to be on the receiving end, but Sonicfox - marginalisation bingo card that he is - generating this much outrage for the crime of being globally successful while Weird™ gives me endless joy

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@JayHulmePoet ... He's asking you, heavily involved in running of the church and clearly versed in theology, if you've accepted Jesus? What?

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@KaruSnep What was the plan after the rug ran out

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3 years

@RexWolfen @lexucuflexu Maths teachers are so so bad at this

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2 years

@Hupablom @downwithlcc Bonus points if there's too many/too big for them to be physically carrying. Super bonus points if you do that, but it's justified somehow with a space that's bigger on the inside

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@alicemazzy That's even better than the graffiti from ancient Roman tourists remarking on how old the pyramids at Giza are

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@bhop_art @SwiftOnSecurity Running in the kernel too because why not

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@stupidhoroscope This is usually quoted by writers, but: "God's job is easier than yours because He doesn't have to maintain suspension of disbelief"

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@MLaffan @daraobriain Even the ones who want to retire to Spain don't seem to get it, ironically

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@fergsha68 @osutein @thedicemechanic At least until he flummoxed it by saying that having an army of servants to tend the super-garden wouldn't be satisfying. (Which is a very understated awesome moment for him, imo)

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@Anarchomonarchi @autisbian @diet_pepis @protestantwind @coffeespoonie The ADA defines exactly what a service dog is, don't lie

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@powermom331 @RightWingWatch When asking "What would Jesus do?" remember that throwing over the tables and chasing people with a whip are valid options

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@TRizzyRoberts @neptun_Space @the_razzlesnake Or even the bank processes payments out of order so you dip in the red

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@x__nazarene__x @twinkophrenia 🎵Israel in 4BC had no mass communication

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@vexwerewolf Who was it this time?

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@NawImGo_od15 @microgoeswild Nobody is saying the parent isn't responsible. The question is what the school can do about it other than blame the student for something out of his control

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5 years

@tomscott When the Algorithm calls you out

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@daphometisgone @pekorelle They'd probably like to know too

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3 years

@HiroRwar "Exploring their perversions" ...Dude. My dude. What do you think like, *all* video technology's been jumped on for since VHS came along.

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@3blue1brown There are only two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors

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3 years

@MrsDenAsaan @rhipratchett Also Feet of Clay

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@JFLBate96 @SharksOnCouches @robdavies192 @Magnux0 @Hbomberguy All the pro-prosecution media will also prejudice the jury

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3 years

@babybeginner @Sitzkrieger @MargaretAtwood @TorontoStar Your example is terrible because neither of the terms are supersets of each other.

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@Kyotobloom @iamzheanna @Malcolm_fleX48 Gay people actually do love each other in the same way straight people do. Get bigotry that's less than 30 years out of date

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@SaKiEqatar @PhilosophyTube @Chican3ry She is a woman. The joke is mistaken assumptions of how narrow "being a woman" is

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@braxisgremlin @KatyMontgomerie Bigoted against who? Being confused about parts of speech isn't a religion

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@yacobg42 I would've absolutely believed tihs to be out of Spec Ops The Line

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@Hbomberguy What's the actual illegal bit? Disrupting an ongoing case? So why are all the pro-prosecution news allowed?

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@IvvyNemo @alixabeth Children gaining advantage from the success of their parents, rather than anything about them themselves, is the opposite of meritocracy from the go

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6 years

@cfraizer @tessabahoosh @aIexgarland They might well have daughters, but I think the more pressing part is none of us have money

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@nomorelibs4ever @JennyENicholson Do you think trans people transition *to fit in*?

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@KatyMontgomerie @DunnyCounty It's very funny they've accidentally backed themselves into accepting "birthing people" phrasing they also endlessly complain about

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@MemeThemAll @cmclymer That they don't care is the whole complaint, yes

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@hecubian_devil A lot of it probably comes from a disturbingly large number of people thinking of children as extensions of their parents rather than independent people, so of course exerting authority over them is fine

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@patio11 It's really amazing what people will give you if you just ask and seem to have a good reason

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@Chican3ry And also weathered it when his chosen identity was not working in his favour. You don't get investigated for sodomy if you're just pretending to be a man.

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@9BillionTigers Three genders.jpg

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@theproblembeing @Adi_Aliza_DG This is just the sociological version of "look what you made me do." The hateful backlash from people having their hegemony questioned is not queer peoples fault

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@Hbomberguy *tensing up, preparing to run away* She did it with a boomerang

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@x__nazarene__x @twinkophrenia I'm not upset, why would you think so? And if people were making policies that affected me on the basis that Santa said to, I'd take issue, yes

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2 years

@ellle_em not one hand made outfit for a 2yo who's going to outgrow it in short order, but THREE! Cancelling one or two would pay for the dress and still be incredibly extravagant

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@NoCatsNoMasters @SublightMonster @HardSciFiMovies They don't say it in those words though, they couch it in terms like "efficiency" and "underperforming" (the latter as a result of their own budget cuts, of course)

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@undeadmooncat @EffInvictus No, white supremacists who can wrap themselves in the wording of social justice to deliver a point completely antithetical to it

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@unloved911 @esjesjesj It's terrible for any vehicle

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@DuckieWaddles @suchnerve Brain-injuring him into loving her is almost more impressive than just killing him

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1 year

@Mouse_girlSlice @AnarchOnion Reading that in Wonka's monotone. "Stop. Don't. Come back."

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3 years

@SeanMcleoud @JackRouke @SpringsDavid @johnlimouze They're not doing their jobs well and it's not abusive for the vulnerable people they're letting down to complain about it.

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2 years

@mbowman @shaun_vids

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@backpackerraden @devtesla "God's job is easier than yours because He doesn't have to maintain suspension of disbelief"

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@3blue1brown Quite a bit bigger now you've said this.

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4 years

@MadebyDolly @abrahamjoseph @MESalisbury Was it even magic or was he just being dramatic because he couldn't get the colour just right

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2 years

@EdAsante77 @SzMarsupial @AubreyGilleran I mean, besides you saying just now that any family of a gay couple is invalid by definition?

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@wedoalittle @OneRadChee The enlightened "compromise" is a society where nobody finds it acceptable that citizens are killed in broad daylight for spurious reasons by the people supposed to be protecting them

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@SparkNotes Is the law on your side if you bite your thumb at them?

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