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the-muppet-joker

Despite All My Rage...

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THE TESTAMENTS 1.10 'Secateurs'

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nukbody

divine justice

youroldpalsteph

Becka Grove is top tier 👏

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The Testaments S01E09 "Marat Sade"

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Nemesis was the Greek Goddess of Divine Retribution against those who committed crimes of hubris against the Gods. She was the regulator of justice and moral balance. Most often depicted holding scales, a measuring rod, or a sword to carry out justice

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hobo-rg

Additional interesting detail is that within each of these legal doublets, at least to my ear, the two words have taken on somewhat complementary meanings. "Cease and desist", for instance: "cease" means "stop doing that right now" and "desist" means "don't do that anymore from now on." Or "breaking and entering": "breaking" is the act of defeating a security barrier (e.g. smashing a window or picking a lock), "entering" is when you subsequently go into the building where you're not supposed to be.

It seems to me that this is a natural further evolution of the language: Grice's principle of relevance predicts that if you say "A and B", A and B are not the same thing, and so, once the original reason they weren't the same drifted out of memory and into history, people invented a new one.

hobo-rg

I can't say what the difference is between a will and a testament, though. I think maybe it doesn't come up enough in most people's lives. I think most people who aren't estate lawyers have this vague understanding that you can write down instructions for who should get all your stuff after you die, and if you do it properly then it's both "a will" and "a testament" and has legal force, but doing it properly is difficult enough that you have to hire a lawyer to help you do it. I think if you asked people they'd say that they don't know what the difference is between "a will" and "a testament" and probably that's part of why it's so difficult to write these instructions properly. Like, if you do it wrong, you might have written only one of those two things, and that's going to cause your heirs problems.

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

#honestly incredible

mawofthemagnetar

What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?

When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.

the-muppet-joker

I have sacrificed EVERYTHING for tumblr. My wife has left me. My children do not recognize my face. I have faced demonic attack, public execution, and erotic ego death, which is like normal ego death but you develop kinks that make Society despise you, like a psychosexual fixation on Kermit the Frog. "I like your shoelaces." THANKS, THEY TETHER ME TO THE GROUND I STAND ON! I AM UNABLE TO LEAVE! I WILL DIE HERE! I WILL DIE IN THIS HOUSE!