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[status-quo-hater]

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

[smellophone]

Parade of Horribles spoilers below, open at your own risk

You could say he’s got that dawg in him

[goatituptown]

My conviction that Carl is very handsome has nothing with the several comments about his appearance which indicate that he is, but is almost solely based on the fact that he was in a long term relationship with Beatrice.

Beatrice strikes me as a person that's deeply invested in appearance, both how her partner looks and how they are perceived by others. Despite her cheating on him she looked at him as the person she wanted to marry, and was trying to manipulate him into proposing. I just genuinely don't think she would do all that if he's not also bringing the benefit of being a smokeshow to the table

[beardedmrbean]

[nat-20s]

i think one of my personal favorite aspects of the dungeon crawler carl series is watching Carl, a cishet dude, avoid any sexual or romantic subplots with the deftness of a trained aroace.

[mongo-the-liensis]

[overheard-in-the-dungeon]

The hot Carl discourse is so funny to me because he’s canonically 6”3 and 230 lbs and worked out three times a week BEFORE the crawl 😭

That + the luscious hair?

Hot Carl can stay.

[bludsheep2]

😭

[mimi-maru]

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[spankerella]

I think we all should.

[lawbreaker13]

YES

[communistkenobi]

not what walkable city means even a little bit <3

[cheesetitan]

As someone who has never lived in a city that isn‘t walkable I also did not understand the full scope of what „non-walkable city“ means until I saw a video of someone in the US trying to live car-free for a week.

Like I understood it‘s bad, you‘re not able to easily walk im the city so people take their cars, bad for the climate bad for health yadda yadda. But it‘s more than that, it‘s not that „it‘s more difficult to walk“ it genuinely means YOU CAN‘T walk where you need to.

I can‘t find the video anymore, but here‘s a scene I remember:

The person wanted to go grocery shopping, easy enough right? Nope. They had to wade through bushes, cross at least one major highway and multiple car filled streets, and jump multiple fences, because they literally HAD NO OTHER WAY to get to the grocery store by foot.

Not-walkable means so much more than just „things are far apart“ and „the streets are kind of shitty and dangerous for walkers“ it can and oftentimes literally means there are NO streets, anything is multiple kilometers/miles away so it would take HOURS to get somewhere because there are NO STREETS.

Genuinely seeing that video made me fully understand what non-walkable city means and if you want to fix this issue you cannot just push onto individuals to „just walk“ because that ignores the entire systemic construct behind it. People are not „too lazy to just walk a bit more“, they literally can‘t without being pro-parcour athletes, breaking the law, and endangering their lives.

[thetrashiestoftrash]

Travel times from my old apartment to the nearest grocery store. The distance in between was highways and cornfields, neither of which have sidewalks. And as you can see, there just straight up isn't a public transit option. Biking might be possible, but given the way people drive on those roads, I wouldn't chance it. This is not a worst case scenario: most of these roads do have wide shoulders you can walk or bike on, and it's pretty flat. And this was a relatively fancy neighborhood, new construction, intended for new-money upper middle class with three kids and a dog, and the baseline assumption that every family has at least two cars.

[kymcat]

the economy is in shambles…i don’t know

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[lilyblisslys]

there should be a cool, chill way to say things like “I’m struggling” or “I’m having a hard time” that doesn’t imply you might have needs

[carlsmybitch]

Katia: I'm Carl’s emergency contact.

Nurse: So, you're here to pick him up?

Katia: I'm here to be removed as his emergency contact.