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The world is not a fucking trolley problem, there are infinite alternative options to actually stop the murder. And unless you’re actively involved in organising to do so, you have no right to talk about voting to improve the system.

Sorry to disappoint, but in all my time here, I’ve never seen jellied eel. It’s not a thing anymore, alas.

For sure. I agree with everything you’ve said here, and fully appreciate you bringing up those points. Cheating comes with a context and complex circumstances that don’t make things so clear cut.

The Promised Neverland had some good dubbing. As someone who normally dislikes dubs, I think they captured the personalities well, even if the main characters are children. (Just prepare for the end of Season 2 to be disappointing).

Not mad atcha, just disagreeing. It’s all good

I do agree with this general sentiment, I’ve been in a cursed, abusive relationship and cheated on them (though not to the point of sex) because at the time I was being quite explicitly threatened and coerced into staying in that relationship. If I had been found out, it would not have looked pretty; OTOH cheating like that was a major step in giving me the confidence to leave.

I have no idea what the woman’s circumstances were, but I agree they could’ve been very complicated and not as black/white as it seems.

At the same time, I also don’t think it’s fair to claim her lies didn’t hurt the OP, and I don’t think OP is a bad person. I wouldn’t have blamed the other person if it had happened in my circumstances. I can 100% understand why a person might cheat (obviously, as I’ve done it), but if you betray a person’s trust, especially the one who actually hasn’t wronged you at all, then it’s not unfair or unreasonable for them to react negatively, nor to assume the other person should find out too.

Personally, I’d do the same as you. But it is an understandably murky moral sea, and I’m not sure any answers are 100% right. Not confronting it there and then could mean OP just gets lied to more.

While I do agree they can, in a small way, help create that idea. There are multiple western voting systems where even undeniably winning the popular vote does not win or lead to mass discontent for failing to be governed by the actually mandated parties. If people aren’t even reacting to that, winning a lot of votes is never going to mean that much.

I mean, this is obviously taking the analogy too far for argument’s sake. You can’t intimidate a painting and soup doesn’t damage glass.

Every time I feel I’ve made any observation of modern society, Lenin and/or Marx already made it over a century ago. Makes me very mad at how enduring this bullshit has been.

Possibly my favourite YouTube channel of all time. Not personally crazy about the raps (even though they are hella talented and objectively good), but I do sing about sweetrolls and jam to dagothwave all the time still.

What are you worrying about? Nothing happened here, she told you she’s just asking.

Protecting the artwork on the Titanic is my new metaphor for how stupid this is.

I’m a big fan of art, but uncritical support for an endless flow of soup at valuable items until rich people stop killing all of us.

Shooting in the direction of someone in the full knowledge that your bullet will not possibly hit them is not attempted murder. It’s… actually not any crime.

China: Does anything

Media: proof China is losing?

The US military even revealed the SPY balloon didn’t actually have any spy equipment on it, that’s how bad it was at spying! Clear chinese incompetence, they accidentally just filled it weather measuring equipment!

Welcome to… business as usual? Here at least.

Sufficiently advanced capitalism is indistinguishable from primitive superstition.

Well, I forgot people often talk about the not-full-sugar version anyway so it’s all heresy to me. I’ve only had that once ages ago and never again, so I couldn’t judge.

There’s definitely a lot to be said for their historical role, but modernity wise I’d definitely laud it is as up there in the not-so-cringe tables.

As others have said, pirate things. I’d also suggest looking for legally dubious online resources, lots of websites out there that have SRDs and splatbooks laid out in an easier-to-navigate website ways than PDFs.