Punaparta

There's no obligation to Respect Other People's Beliefs regardless of what those beliefs are, but as a matter of practice you do need to get comfortable with framing arguments in terms of moral precepts you don't necessarily share, because you're never going to live in a world where everyone everywhere has exactly the same moral precepts that you do.

#life #politics #discourse

#note: this only works if the person you're talking to needs their opinions on morality and not a desire to see other people suffer (via @foxgirlmigraine)

Well, yes, but the propensity to think "this person does not hold exactly the same moral precepts that I do, therefore they're a vile automaton driven by a mindless urge to hurt people for no reason" is itself part of the communication barrier I'm talking about. Folks who actually hold hurting Bad People as the highest good aren't nonexistent, but they're a heck of a lot rarer than those Why The Bastards Are Bastards type polemics that reliably do five-figure notes on this site would have one believe.

dramatic-dolphin

This one time, a yank commented on the picture of some Iranian public figure and asked why they look "Caucasian". I had the opportunity to be a wiseass and replied "the Caucasus is just north of Iran".

LMAOOOO

#geography #iran #caucasus

#bomber grape #yasunobu yamauchi

One of the perils of being very widely read is that every so often something in your brain will click and you're like "holy shit, [artist A] and [seemingly unrelated artist B] are probably the same person", and you'll never be able to un-see it, but you can't say anything because they probably keep those identities separate for a reason.

comicaurora

Whats the cutest picture of Wolf that you have right now?

this one's a strong contender

Pettable.

Apparently, she's evangelical.

So, pointing this out to her will not convince her otherwise of her initial thesis, because compassion is itself a sin.

#racism #buddhism #christianity #avalokiteśvara

i started keeping track of how many dudes odysseus loses

ok so i literally forgot that i know for a fact odysseus had 600 men he took to troy. so i dont know where i got 66 extra guys from

#homer nods

How come you don't have a pfp? Up until now no pfp is associated with bots and scammers. And now so many users just don't bother changing the pfp. I don't understand why it's suddenly so cool to look like you've been trying to reach me about my vehicle's extended warranty.

I'm lazy.

i started keeping track of how many dudes odysseus loses

ok so i literally forgot that i know for a fact odysseus had 600 men he took to troy. so i dont know where i got 66 extra guys from

#homer nods

homunculus-argument

Wouldn't it be fucked up if something was farming humans for our kidney stones.

Is this about pearls?

Sometimes I feel like people who write porn about video game characters and try to keep the dialogue stylistically consistent with that of the source material are operating on a higher level than me. I confess in their place I'd struggle to appreciate the erotic potential of "wowie zowie".

coolclaytony

Now, I don't know what character that line refers to specifically. But with that in mind, I know that if just the right hot lady character said that with just the right cadence while getting her holes stimulated, I'd get turned on.

bentbutnotcurved

Unfortunately the character in question is mario

#mario #super mario bros. wonder #princess peach #princess daisy #rosalina

On one hand, Peach, Daisy, and Rosalina also say it.

On the other hand, the context in which they'll say it is...

dramatic-dolphin

have you guys heard of this thing called "actually watching the stuff you put on your netflix list instead of just forgetting about it"? it's really cool.

hyenuh-deactivated20230717

There's a list?

I've just been watching whatever.

#netflix

pasha-hasid

train

terrapincentury-deactivated2018

train

train

train

#the ninja warriors #going to troll gaijin goombah with this

mercutiothecat

I don't know if any Hungarians who have read Dracula caught this, but in the very first few pages Jonathan writes: It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains.

He says this in Transylvania in 1897. That means that the last train he took was a Hungarian one. MÁV was established in 1876. Jonathan took MÁV and it was late.

MÁV was mention-worthyly late even in 1897.