honestly, i’ve never seen or heard a single coherent definition of what we even mean by ‘free will’. until the question makes sense, i can’t really answer it, and don’t see any point in discussing it.
anyways, who here believes in blabblesnork? that is a word that refers to something, i promise, but no, i won’t tell you what it means.
trains. i know it isn’t particularly new technology, but i am still excited about it.
that’s neither authority nor authoritarianism. you’re conflating multiple different meanings so you can shift the goalposts on the sly. a doctor can give you advice, and if you’re wise, you’ll heed it out of respect for her hard-earned expertise, but she doesn’t have authority. she isn’t empowered to force you to do anything. even being involuntarily committed is generally something done by courts, not doctors; the doctors are merely required to carry out the courts orders.
that is probably because for some reason, in america, people think of DD as being enormous, when in reality american bra sizing just sucks and places seldom stock larger than that.
from what i hear about what facebook is like these days, maybe craigslist.
i mean, what did you want them to do? slice your head open and dig around manually until they find the Bad Thoughts?
extra funny when you consider that Balin and Dwalin are brothers.
i’m Penrose Cash, filling in for Houndstooth Shakur, and you’re listening to NPR.
i can’t think of any reason it would.
i’ve read that lobsters are sorta immortal. the problem is they keep growing, and eventually they can’t get themselves out of their shells when they molt, and they also have trouble getting enough food and avoiding predators when they get too big. if they had society, i bet lobster kings would be enormous and ancient.
i had never heard that definition of factoid before this thread, personally, so i figured folks might appreciate a source. *shrugs*
wow that’s a lot of words. so, basically, you want a term to say ‘i’m straight, but i’d never date a trans person’, but you want it to somehow shield you from any suggestions that you might be somewhat transphobic, and you want it to free you from any obligation or expectation to introspect and unlearn the transphobia that society has programmed you with?
it’s fun, but alas, false.
i feel like each sentence of that was less coherent than the one before. you should keep going, get weirder with it, see where you end up.
that only seems to talk about the use of the fasces as a symbol, which is pretty different from explicitly calling oneselves fascists, or holding specifically fascist beliefs. the same article lists a ton of other places one can find fasces. the symbol is much older than the ideology, but that doesn’t mean anything using the symbol shares the ideology.
i’m a little confused why you ever “always considered [yourself] bi”, when nothing you’ve told us here even remotely seems to point you to that conclusion.
it’s a plant, but rather than photosynthesizing, it is what’s called a mycoheterotroph, which means it gets its nutrients by siphoning stuff from fungal networks in the soil, so, sorta?
wow, there are some really steaming takes on anarchism in the comments here.
what makes their office software so much better than, say, libreoffice? i don’t work an office job, and haven’t had the misfortune of running windows since i dropped windows 7, but when i did switch, the programs seemed basically the same. office software seemed like a solved problem by then. what new features has microsoft added and convinced people they need that foss options don’t have?
harsh. why?