you know why

sol. here to fuck around and find out.

[bewbin]

Dinosaurs were so naughty santa was forced to send them his biggest peice of coal

[fidelcostco]

ppl without meds: wow…. i can't imagine being dependent on medicine... pills every day? injecting myself every week? how tragic

ppl who need meds: holy fuck they invented the solution to my problem and i literally just need to take magic tiny rocks and inject some substance every week. oh my god. i get to feel better in literally any capacity. holy shit

[fidelcostco]

ppl who need meds but can't access them/meds for their thing don't exist yet: holy fuck I wish I had tiny magic rocks or injectable substance or cream or gel or potion or implant to take at whatever rate necessary to fix my problem. I'd kill to take that every day/week/etc forever if it would fix my thing

[rohirric-hunter]

We laugh at how The Art of War is basically just, "An army can't fight if the soldiers aren't eating," but I'm reading this document about conservation of ancient yew trees and it legitimately says, "You should never fill the center of a hollow yew with concrete," so I think that probably making blatantly obvious statements is just the bane of being a specialist in anything

[bhawk-goose]

"Nobody's that fucking stupid"

Sun Tzu: someone, somewhere, is that fucking stupid

[innerchildabortionclinic]

evil therapist: to ground yourself, look around, name 5 things you can kill, and 4 things you can at least maim

[prokopetz]

Discourse topic #137: if I write a story about a human and a space alien having sex, but the space alien's version of sex is so esoteric that the human is literally incapable of understanding or experiencing it as such and therefore cannot meaningfully consent, do I need to tag for noncon?

[headspace-hotel]

I think its bestiality, but for the alien...? Maybe dubcon.

[headspace-hotel]

nevermind I rescind my initial judgment

there are several followup questions

Is the sex an activity comprehensible to humans, that the human doesn't experience as sexual? E.g. sex is some kind of elaborate ritual that involves walking behind a waterfall 3 times with a sacred flame and then whacking each other with pool noodles. In that case, it's a matter of whether or not the alien discloses that it's a sex thing.

Or, is it an activity that literally can't be explained to the human beforehand because there is no human analog for it? In this case, the human can't consent to the activity because they can't comprehend what it is.

I think it could be further subdivided based upon whether the problem is an inability for the alien to explain/communicate the activity itself, or an inability for the alien to explain/communicate what the activity means.

Wait, is that a further subdivision, or did I just say the same thing twice?

I mean okay, I think "inability to explain/communicate what the activity means" might refer to a couple things as well: either the inability to communicate that the thing is a sex thing from the alien's POV, or the inability to explain/communicate what it will or might feel like from the human's POV.

The first one would be like the pool noodle situation above, but the second one would be like, something incomprehensible happens that is experienced as intimate or potentially violating.

Needs more thought...

[troublepunk-ldn]

I think you can consent to something that can't be fully explained in advance.

If the alien says "This is a sex thing to me, and i cannot describe how it will feel to you/in your language, but it is intimate/intense/potentially violating", then it's perfectly valid consent to say "Go ahead anyway, I'll stop you if I don't like it."

[headspace-hotel]

This is my thought as well...

[patrickrennie]

[absoluteconceptofbeauty]

i want a mysterious source of income

[captainjonnitkessler]

It's so fucking baffling to me that hospitals went back to not masking. Like good news, we have lots of empirical evidence that masking prevents infections! Now to go back to walking around this absolute petri dish of a building filled with extremely vulnerable people unmasked

[lleyksie]

let’s be primitive horses with mama

[guangchuans]

[Image description: digital drawing of an adult horse and its foal running side by side. The design is based on the prehistoric cave painting depictions of horses. The background is solid yellow. End image description.]

[dick-hardboiled]

There is absolutely a platonic explanation for that

[dick-hardboiled]

But I will also entertain the non platonic for my own edification do u understand

[goldensunset]

[comikbook]

ngl the most important thing i was taught growing up was that its not enough to just be anti racist but to also be pro black

[comikbook]

hating racists is good ! but if youre only hating the oppressor and not uplifting the oppressed all you are doing is using a performative method to direct your anger at. being angry is good, but its not enough. you have to love too. uplift the ones that should be uplifted. celebrate black art and culture and people. celebrate blackness for the beauty it is

[innerchildabortionclinic]

[new to degrading someone] I can tell that due to adverse childhood experience you're uncomfortable exercising autonomy so as an adult you find comfort in a consensual relationship dynamic with a power imbalance of some sort that puts you in a vulnerable position

[ben-shapiro-onlyfans]

wikipedia is a gem

[laineysbucketlist]

If I’m correct, this is from the article “list of common misconceptions” which happens to be one of my favorite Wikipedia articles

[xkcd-for-that]

[ID in alt text]

[xkcd-for-that]

Happy first Tuesday in February!

[ashlgcostumes]

I pull up my slide show. The first slide says “I do not want to financially support the Church of the Latter Day Saints in any way”. There are murmurs of agreement and approval from the room

Next slide. “Brandon Sanderson is a member of the LDS”. The muttering has changed tone

“It’s not a very big amount of money though.” Someone in the audience pipes up. “His cut is only a small fraction of the cost of the book, and then-“ my next slide shows an income breakdown, it is titled ‘a small fraction of $10,000,000 is still a big number’

I’m sweating. The following slides explain tithing rules. The vibe of the room has shifted. I start to doubt I’m getting out of here alive

[fuckblast]

[preyingforsnuff]

"Alright so... Please explain this pet play fantasy again?"

"Okay do you're a massive facility AI meant to take care of all of your servers and data and conduct dubiously ethical experiments somewhere deep in your recesses."

".... Okay. And you are...?"

"I am a small creature that scurries through your long halls and shifting walls. I was born within you and I will die within you. You see me as a common pest, but I love you and am secretly helping you maintain efficiency in several key areas. My goal is to be noticed by you."

"babe how do we roleplay this? How is this even a sex thing?"

[bumblepuppy]

imagine netflix says 'Alright fuckers, you win. Here's your secret ninth episode of Stranger Things' and you click on it and it's the secret good episode of Sherlock

[nat-20s]

As an adult I think me and all my friends should all have matching schedules and work like 20 hours a week and also everyone lives within 15 minutes of each other why is that so much to ask

[angelicdewdrop]