Sergeant Bucky Yarns

Lawyer, crafter, fangirl. She/her.

[cephalopodvictorious]

I can see all the ways it needs to improve but I can also see how far I’ve come, so I’m pretty proud of this one

[victusinveritas]

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.

Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.

Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.

Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event

Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.

Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.

[creepymutelilbugger]

you know I never put it together that he built his platform on draining the swamp and then like went and made a swamp and now refuses to drain it

[hibiscus-sweetie]

"get home safe" is a spell and i am casting it on all of you ✨

[hungwy]

letting family members sit in for dead senators is just monarchy logic im appalled that this has even happened before

[sugoiney-weaver]

Each state gets to decide how their state is represented in Congress

This has been a common method for a long time in some states

The idea is that a Senator's sibling/spouse/parent/child knows their intentions and policies better than a political rival or a random person would. It's a pretty good way to prevent political assassinations tbh

[prizedpesto]

An unelected individual getting grandfathered into a real political position due to their blood or legal relationship with a deceased elected official is not pretty good actually

[cephalopodvictorious]

Like we have succession plans for a reason. You can have a vice chair, a protege, literally anything that isn’t “some relative”

[cephalopodvictorious]

SPIRIT HALLOWEEN SIGHTING

[achillesinhighheels]

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

I will always take the cat's side. "she's drooling on me" you're so lucky "he always wants to be petted" then pet him "he's mad I won't let him on my desk" make room on your desk for him. I am your cat's defense lawyer and the cat is always innocent on the grounds of them being A Little Kitty Cat.

[mariamlovesyou]

losing my mind losing my mind

[randomgermancupcake]

N64 graphical glitch

[dragongirltitties]

your dog is clipping through the environment and you're laughing

[trickstertime]

[mapswithoutwyoming]

Starting to think all the backlash to the idea of the trolley problem is just people trying to hide the fact that, deep down, they know they would be too scared to pull the lever.

[astra-the-dragon]

I suppose one of the advantages I've gained from having been in the military is that I went from a suspicion I would have the conviction to make those kinds of calls, an absolute certainty that I do have it. I've held lives in my hands, but thankfully I rose to my training and my convictions. I chose the best of the options I had available to me at the time.

There is nothing shameful about being too afraid of making the decision, in my view. But yeah, it's cowardice to project your anxiety by claiming the philosophical quandary itself is meaningless.

[zaprowsdower27]

No reason to wonder. A ton of people openly bragged about how morally pure they were for not pulling the lever in 2024. They just hate it when you contextualize it like that and insist they were taking a third option to sound less terrible when their actions are 1:1 compared to the thought experiment.

[nitpickspot]

If anything, the reason I reject it is because I consider the thought experiment ITSELF to be cowardly.

All human lives are worth the same amount, and any LOSS of human life is as large a tragedy as any other amount of lost human life. You aren't doing a GOOD thing by condemning one person to die to save four more, you're not even doing a BETTER thing. It might be the more valuable thing in a coldly utilitarian point of view, but from my moral stance death is death. You don't get to compare and contrast your way out of that.

[dappercat123]

You’d be too scared to pull the lever huh?

[darkladynyara]

People hate the trolley problem because it is inherent to the problem that choosing not to act is an active choice. That's why they reject the problem itself rather than making an argument for choosing to not pull the lever. They aren't afraid to pull the lever- they're afraid to admit that their priority is keeping their own hands clean.

[doomhamster]

Hear hear.

You can tell by the "well I'M too moral and pure to think killing one person to save five is good - ". If that person had engaged with the experiment honestly they'd know that it's not ABOUT trying to establish one course as the moral one. It's not about being able to, as @darkladynyara says, come out with your hands clean; you won't. It's about making you consider what you should and would do when all the choices available are bad ones.

[amberautumnfaebrooke]

has anyone noticed recently that it's expensive

[sociallyawkwardrevolution]

times like these really make you appreciate pouring river water in your socks

[bilgisticallykosher]

the wise anon

The wise anon.

The wicked anon.

The simple anon.

The anon who doesn't even know how to press the ask button.

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

Author says US publisher nixed Holocaust book after he refused to condemn Israel

Dr. Rafael Medoff says editor at Dark Horse Comics demanded book on Nazi genocide include anti-Israel genocide charges

[targetedknowledge]

[homunculus-argument]

[whaile]

late summer / early fall thoughts

[sidlingmooselike]

It never fails to gobsmack me the things some of y'all believe Jews believe. I remember someone confidently saying that Jews believe they all go to the Christian version of Heaven, regardless of whether they were good people or not, because they're "chosen" and in Heaven they get a segregated all-Jews section. Like, y'all are just making shit up at this point. And you could just, idk, ask Jews, but even when a Jewish person tells you "um that's not what we believe" you think they're lying.

[saintjasperira-deactivated20250]

demonic possession wouldn’t even affect me, i would just assume it’s The Symptoms

[afeelgoodblog]

Marjorie Fiterman 102 and Bernie Littman 100 are the world's oldest married couple.