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I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.

He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense

status-quo-hater

Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.

He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM

#actually kinda based

vulcanette-deactivated20260506

the new dj crazytimes song … now that’s what I call music!

vedajuno

allthestarscantfillalifetime

The over-pronunciation of every word is so spot on lol

tetitasdelimon

top 5 horror movies

-having a job

-not having a job

-applying for jobs

-the job market

-the concept of working my whole life

redstonedust

my aunt is watching some generic daytime tv talkshow and the hosts are very cheerfully going "yknow this AI thing isnt actually as cool as i thought it was- i keep noticing the google overview getting facts wrong! isnt that weird?" and its very funny watching regular middle aged people finally catch on. we did it lads it took long enough.

#having a niche and often misrepresented hobby would make you more alert for this sort of thing #better late than never #fuck ai

wetheurban

May will end with the kind of good news that changes your entire mood.

homunculus-argument

Those who think that wisdom and whimsy are mutually exclusive have neither. It's vitally important to do the right thing when the consequences are dire, and to do a whole bunch of utterly frivolous silly dumb shit when it doesn't matter what you do.

localcryptidsteg

Often, the wise thing must be disguised as silly frivolous dumb shit in order to actually work

homunculus-argument

Nobody's going to let you do anything if they think it's actually going to work.

joy-and-whimsy-official

Official joy and whimsy post

elliespectacular

I think the prevalence of AI slop really brings into focus how most ideas are shitty ideas.

Not always bad ideas, but shitty ones.

A bad idea will result in harm or hold something back substantially. A shitty idea is a first-draft. Unrefined, unoriginal, sauceless. A bad idea must be stopped, but a shitty idea can be improved.

Because normally if you want art you have to consider the composition, effort, expenses, techniques, etc. that will go into making it real. Then you have to assess all that and decide "is this idea worthwhile?". In this environment, most ideas that get turned into Something are ones that the author(s) believe in. Ideas that have been shifted and improved upon so the resources doesn't go to waste. Decidedly non-shitty ones.

But with gen AI people just generate whatever half-assed idea they thought up first, often publishing it as-is. No drive to improve, no perfecting the vision. Because the idea lacked passion from the outset. Sowing slop, reaping slop. Every shitty idea put on full display, wearing the rotting skinsuit of all artists from the past, monetized to hell and expected to be taken just as seriously as the non-shitty ones.

I think maybe pursuing this is a bad idea.