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i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

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Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.

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Enchantress: I turn you into a hideous Beast. What are the names of your servants?

The Prince: Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts -

Enchantress:

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How do i top my boyfriend?? I dont know how ill see him that way, i haven't done it with him before

ill do it. since you are so fucking complicated

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There’s always something on Reddit

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confession i spent like a year accidentally lying to people about my age because i just genuinely fuckin. forgot my previous birthday. in my mind i was still 23 and continued to be 23 without realising it. it wasnt until i was approaching my NEXT birthday when i did the math and realised i'd been wrong the entire time. worlds silliest and least consequential age fraud.

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I wish these people were oppressed

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This whole thing about scanning your face to prove tour age is making me remember, in 2018 while out in paris we got our wallet stolen during a particularly busy night at a lesbian bar. It was very late and with no money to buy metro tickets we were effectively stranded, but some people helped us and we ended up staying the night at a really sweet older man's place. His face was deeply scarred and he was missing an eye. We chatted on our way and he told me about his life, probably to help calm me down. He explained he had been stuck in a house fire 20 years ago and had had multiple rounds of facial reconstruction and a skin graft, but there's only so much surgery can do so he just learned to live with it. I remember he said he liked the queer bars because they're the only place people don't really stare at him.

At some point I took out my phone, and at the time I was using face unlock. This prompted him to tell me all the ways this technology doesn't work on him. How his phone selfie camera doesn't focus right because it's not a detecting a face. How he had to update his ID the old fashioned way, because the website kept rejecting his photos. And how it was becoming more and more common, and how it was making his life way harder.

This was 7 years ago, and now whenever I see this sort of technology I think of how that guy can't use it. And how house fires are pretty common, and how anything from being born this way to a skin condition to heavy tattooing can probably cause the same issue. Can these people get age verified ? Will they just lose access to all social media, which are increasingly necessary in society, if this becomes the norm ? These are people who are already driven out of public spaces due to how they look, and they're getting pushed out online too all in the interest of companies wanting more money.

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on my loumand grind

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One of the most aggressively boring type of people are the ones whose only consistent personality trait is being a contrarian. The ones who think that your intelligence is measured in how many opinions you have, but who don't have the intellect or creativity to come up with any original thoughts, so they take the lazy shortcut of simply having the opposite opinion to whatever they are presented with. And discovering this little trick is the cleverest thought they've ever had - it's so easy to just be able to say "hmm, no. I don't think it's like that" as a response to anyone saying anything, and then coming up with a different opinion about the subject right there, on the spot. Doesn't even matter if what they're disagreeing with is not even an opinion, but a verified, commonly agreed and undisputed scientific fact.