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this guy really always had something to say about almost everything and nearly all of it is still completely relevant almost 200 years later. fascinating stuff.

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The reading comprehension and overall common sense on this website is piss poor.

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we shpuld make a tumblr bar with drinks like sonic screwdriver and the baker street mule

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Double Income No Kids used to be seen as a kind of lavish lifestyle, now it’s like…a requirement to have any remote chance at financial stability

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why so celibate

-the jerker

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Being the only bi cis guy amongst almost exclusively trans friends and peers is wild because in theory its like im living in a horny manga where all of a dudes friends turn into hot babes, but in reality they are hunting me like the last bison on the prairie. 5 years ago I mentioned bionicle and one of them asked when I was starting estrogen.

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putting the word "twink" up on the shelf

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your unreliable narrator fucking bit me

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crisp glass of water moodboard

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absolutely amazing things happening right now. I had to triple check that these were real

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Spot on 😆

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My cats wanted to fight again and I wasn't letting them but the passion in their eye contact suggests they started fighting telepathically

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I was teaching kids today and they got fixated on the usual ‘are they dead now?’ question when I was talking about historical figures. So I was just like ‘Yes, they’re dead now, everyone who was alive in the 1800s is dead now.’ and then one kid was like ‘Except for you’.

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Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture

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I'm not an anarchist, but I can sort of see how they arrived at their position. In some way, it feels like an extension of my own position on the death penalty. That even if some people deserve to die, the state apparatus for determining who needs to die feels unwieldy. If you were to go from that to saying, "well, I guess a lot of functions of government all in some way determine who lives and who dies, like food stamps. Should the state have any authority on that?" And eventually, you just determine that the state should not exist at all if it cannot be said to serve the people and all its functions are too important to leave to people to make those decisions.

I guess the problem is that the decision of who lives or dies still gets made eventually just on an individualized basis. Without a government or a say, the average citizen then bears no burden of responsibility for the decisions made, but it feels as though much more preventable harm might still occur in that scenario because every important program was scrapped along with the responsibility they represented. It's difficult to sort that out.