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truly, it hurts our hearts to legalize sending goons to assault you with baseball bats. but you have to understand, if there were no baseball bats the children wouldn't be able to play baseball! ...unstated assumptions? why do you hate children!

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Glad everyone is getting so much joy from early Quaker names! Looking forward to seeing any future pets/children/bands/drag acts named after stuff on this list.

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The thing about elden ring is that for whatever reason you want to call it you really do have to dodge a moment before the visual cue really comes, compared to other souls games. So my second almost-full playthrough, knowing this, has been pretty cool as everything finally clicked. But learning a new fight still feels gross

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If I were normal I would just buy several pairs of drawstring linen pants but nooo they have to be viking shaped. I'm not even a viking guy but if I'm gonna do it I have to do it yk

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they won't even let me volunteer for things because I'm unlikeable so I just sit in my house and become stupider and then they won't let me volunteer for things because i'm stupid. where can I catch it!

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GET A FUCKING JOB KIDS OR YOU WILL HAVE DEMENTIA IN YPUR THIRTIES

I'm like, a cautionary tale about sloth

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I'm like, a cautionary tale about sloth

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you know what they should ban

posting a video where the cat is clearly meowing but when you turn sound on it's just some tiktok music

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I need to keep the people at contra dance awed and perplexed by my outfits and that is why I bought an all over sequin T-shirt for eight dollars

Fun to go to the thrift store now that I've finally embraced idowhatiwantism as a gender

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Fun to go to the thrift store now that I've finally embraced idowhatiwantism as a gender

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In the thrift store trying on jeans to use as disposable pattern making parts and god I I look weird in jeans, I forget that everyone else wears these so often that they look "neutral"

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specifically in those replies I feel like the trivially defensible argument "porn exposure is basically similar to other mass media exposure" is a trojan horse for the unspoken "therefore you should treat those effects as unchangeable and unexaminable natural phenomena," which of course was not made outright so you can get up in arms at me for stating it plainly, but without that context the mocking reductio ad absurdum of "oh, you want to ban all written language now" would be a nonsequitur. the post was literally like "here's something I've anecdotally seen and how I think it might plausibly relate to the prevalence of porn, discuss," jumping to "you want to ban language" is not a good faith reply that furthers conversation, it's just a bid to socially contextualize the original post as something mockable to bring up

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this website is absolutely infested with the junior varsity versions of the kind of guy who writes the "what if everything good was actually bad? tell me I'm smart" editorials for the times. type of guy who would argue against petting dogs just because the dogpilled unintellectual masses were all for it

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love this kind of post where someone mentions an issue they've noticed and the extremely thoughtful reply guys immediately descend to warn us that making a post about the issue is an EXTREMELY SLIPPERY SLOPE that's the same as BANNING EVERYTHING INVOLVED WITH IT and actually if you do anything other than enthusiastically embrace the thing you originally had a kind of critical take on you're holding back progress toward the inevitable technocratic dream world. maybe it's ok to occasionally think, or even dare to mention out loud that new social contexts have negative effects on the people in them

obligatory disclaimer that sex videos qua sex videos are fine and unremarkable

I don't think porn qua porn is harmful, I don't think there's any harm in watching sex videos or whatever, but from my experience on dating apps and such it does seem to me that the experience of looking for porn encourages you to think of your sexuality in strangely discretized..."Marketed" ways, almost? There's a whole ecosystem of terminology, terminology people choose to get their porn seen, and because porn is so private, many people mostly think about what gets them off in the context of trying to interface with search algorithms and recommendation systems, using these terms. And this can lead to an almost "stereotyped" conception of one's own sexuality? I don't think the underlying sexuality is changing that much due to the porn. But I think it's easy to round off your experiences into a set of porn boxes. Which seems bad, on some "culture critique" level. Like it alienates you from your own desires

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in the ikea cafeteria today a lady stopped by my table like "hey I saw you on the bus and I really liked your positive vibe" which is really a first for me at any point in my life

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Another thing fandom needs to start doing more of is projecting on tops.

There are delicious amounts of psychological distress you can inflict on that guy once you get into his head. The brainworms of forcing agency and initiative on someone who genuinely is Not Fucking Ready For It are exquisite.

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your “loyal and virtuous” knight is doubting the cause he pledged his very soul to 🫵😂