And I mean

Lost me there. BMF would never clarify anything. Always assume that the reader knows exactly what you mean, even if you don’t.

Libs going around like, “There were no red flags” meanwhile his closest political allies were like, “You never SA’d anybody… right?”

A number of his erstwhile defenders were angry and felt misled by the sexual assault allegation Monday, the breaking point for his allies. Platner had promised Democrats there wouldn’t be stories of that nature coming out, two people with knowledge of the assurances told NBC News.

Take anonymous sources with a grain of salt, of course. But it seems like this was the red line for the other social democrats who had endorsed him, possibly because he had reassured them he didn’t have these specific skeletons in his closet, after all his other scandals. Even if plenty of his supporters were ready to go full MAGA for him, I’m not sure he’d survive all those figures calling for him to drop out.

As a gender-Pelagian, I reject the concept of original gender.

Have you considered the possibility that Judy Hopps didn’t want to concieve in the first place?

Maybe they should check height? I can’t think of any way kids could fake that.

Fastest draw in the West

What did I say? “Can’t watch the whole thing right now…”

If it’s just “people used to drink alcohol,” people used to do lots of things, that doesn’t mean much.

Beangust.

Can’t watch the whole thing right now but I disagree with what I saw.

If we want to talk about ancient Eastern philosophy, the fifth precept in Buddhism specifically advises against intoxicating drinks and drugs. While plenty of Buddhists deviate from that in practice, I think they got it right as a general advisory.

People really love the idea of having a “shortcut” or “hack” to reaching a particular state of consciousness, but that kind of defeats the point. It’s cliche, but the journey is more important than the destination. Real personal development is not about reaching some special state of consciousness, it’s more about reflecting and being able to face yourself in the mirror, “warts and all,” and face your demons without turning away.

I drink alcohol sometimes. I happen to be a happy drunk, who can keep it in moderation. But it rubs me wrong when people try to promote some substance as a path to “enlightenment” or “spiritual fulfillment” or whatever. Like, do drugs, drink alcohol, whatever, have fun, but if you’re just having fun, be honest with yourself about that. Not everything you do has to have a moral component, and trying to add that to an activity reads as insecurity to me, and it’s better to face that insecurity rather than rationalizing it away. Like, I play video games, but you don’t see me trying to assign some kind of moral virtue to it.

Promoting alcohol as this “path to enlightenment” is also problematic because alcohol addiction is a real, observable thing. Is it worth causing harm to people who do have issues with it by promoting it? “Screw alcoholics, I need to reach an enlightenment!” is not how anything works.

I like the implication that “spirit” was deemed too complex for modern audiences, but “phenomenology” wasn’t.

Peak American.

Even that feels kinda optimistic to me.

“Goddamn antifa bucket brigades stealing all our water to try and trick us into thinking climate change is real! You know what’d really show them, putting in another golf course!”

At this point I expect that once we reach the point of water wars, acknowledging that climate change brought us there will be considered a capital offense tantamount to treason.

Hoisted on my own Picard

On it

We’re doing good work with that MrKaplan alt we all collectively manage, but if people start leaving .world we need to make sure we have our fake Zionist accounts in charge of whatever community they go to, so we can keep having those accounts abuse their power and turn people against Israel.

The takeover should be smooth sailing, but the one thing that could foil our plots would be if they started purging all the Zionist accounts (which we secretly control). Just imagine the look on Putin’s face if we had to report to him that Zionist accounts were getting banned across the fediverse. He’d probably shut down Hexbear and then balkanize Russia out of shame.