If you're too dumb to do moral calculus then you can only go off instinct when you don't have a cultural script to lean on, and instincts are genetic.
Emphasis mine. I think this is a fundamental thing that racists don't understand: our instincts may be genetic, but our learned experiences and moral calculus override our instincts. populations acting off of instincts indeed will not be compatible, but I argue civilized populations who act on logic instead of instinct are more than capable of coexisting.
The power of marketing
something tells me this is bullshit, and not just because it's a JPEG post
there are plenty of courageous war stories from the bad guys, they just aren't celebrated because they fought for the bad guys.
is the money even there to buy out social security recipients? The population of old people in the United States is roughly 60 million plus. let's make a generous estimate and say all those people paid an average grand total of $20,000 into social security over their entire lifetime.
that alone is $1,200,000,000,000, or 1.2 trillion dollars, and that doesn't include the population under 60.
The Simpsons
who is this and why do we care about her opinion?
Product Manager: 100% useful. having a layer between engineering and the stakeholders allows the engineers to actually focus on their work. I know the product managers I work with never get a break, I have the utmost respect for them.
Researcher: this really should be lumped in with product manager. if there needs to be two product managers, so be it, but this doesn't deserve its own position.
Designer: I assume this is short for ux designer. these can be very useful on certain projects, but lightweight projects don't need them.
Contributor: anyone who has this as their job title is definitely not doing anything useful.
Maintainer: should be lumped in with developer. there's no reason to have this as a separate job from developer or engineer.
Developer: without this position, nothing gets built.
millions of years into the Future when Earth is a desolate Rock, archaeologists will come back and discover our home planet. our great civilizations will be rubble to them, and they will dig up scraps. among it all, however, will be one pristine titanium tablet buried near the core, preserved for future explorers to see, and it will read:
" they have no doctrine"
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This caught me by surprise, as pop culture of the last 15 years seemed to view religion as a backward practice of a bygone era. While there has been a decline, the majority of people apparently still have faith.
bsky
opinion discarded
We take random unsourced .jpgs of social media comment threads as sources pretty regularly, so why the fuck not?
we shouldn't.
jpg of a twitter post citing a jpg
delete your account
On the contrary, the cops responded promptly to a scary call, recognized there was no threat, and left with nobody hurt. The only thing left is for the swatter to be located and arrested and I'd call this a textbook example of how to handle the situation.
when seconds matter, the cops are
minuteshours away, while they process your ID request over the phone.
they are heavy set for sure, but their vests and gear make them look fatter than they are.
They should be fine. Other states have similar laws, often using "electronic representation" in their language, and those states have anime conventions all the time. The spirit of the law seems to go after pornography (so Hentai/Ecchi), not anime.
they are pedophiles, just not (inherently) predators
I was just putting the fact that there are layers into comedic terms. The fact is people who consume loli are in denial that they are pedophiles, but they are not inherently evil (just deranged).
why are you defending pedos? are you a pedo?
By its literal definition, if you lust after depictions of children (real or fake), you are a pedophile. The problem is the term encapsulates multiple levels of degeneracy that range from distasteful to evil:
Fake child porn and nothing else? I wouldn't send you to jail but I would also make sure you never coach my kid's soccer team, or work with kids in general.
Have Real Child Porn? Jail.
Distributing real child porn? Death.
Grooming Children? Woodchipper.
Raping children? Drawn and quartered (and fed to a woodchipper).
Running a child sex ring? See above, but not before you are tortured mercilessly to catch your accomplices.
probably didn't help that the product is chinese. I bet they don't give a fuck about the western voice actor union.
I believe the correct term is manslaughter. their reckless actions led to the death of someone, we have laws for this.