Jerkface (any/all)

Just to be clear, the scam that only serves the upper class that you are referring to is… public intercity transit? Have I got that right?

It takes more than liking girls to get a man’s sexual assault stats.

The USA effectively does not perform governance in the sense that is meant by liberal democracies of the last century. That’s just not what the USA does, and it doesn’t make sense to compare it to a government that exists to serve its citizens.

It’s definitely been seen in many many games, but I would call it an established design element rather than a gimmick, as it has often been used to very good effect.

Not a comment on PZ but often “intuitiveness” and expressiveness must trade off against each other. I prefer expression.

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Well then it’s not really inherent. You’re talking about culture; we don’t just innately divine the nature of existence, we argue with each other and come to some kind of consensus. But the thing is, culture is arbitrary and almost necessarily wrong. None of us agree with each other about our place in nature. This quality you are citing does not exist in reality.

Think about how a human struggles to understand death and mortality. Ten years after a loss, our mind still seeks ways to reconnect with a person we knew, still tries to find ways to talk to that person. Our minds are kept from fundamentally accepting and understanding death. But most mammals do not behave like this. We tell ourselves it’s because we understand death and they do not, but if you examine the behaviour like an alien anthropologist, it looks like many non-human animals DO understand the nature of death, and we do not. We do not see reality, we see what our evolution wants us to see.

Humanity’s distinction is that it is aware of its own place within nature

That’s pure hubris. It’s neither evident that we DO understand our place, or that other creatures understand less well than we do. This is the sort of thing we tell ourselves for our own psychological needs, not because we have evidence that leads us to believe these things. We could quite easily “understand” a facile pretense presented to us by more fundamental layers of our own nature, crafted to bend our choices and perceptions towards those that benefit our DNA but harm individuals. Or, we could simply be wrong. There is no way to test our math.

the unification of all of humanity into one system

This seems so arbitrary. Why is there a line that perfectly encircles every single human, and no other organism? There is nothing we all share, that is not also shared by other creatures. And yet, there is essentially nothing of meaning that we do all share. This group seems either too large or too small. I think you only come to such a Goldilocks conclusion when you start there and work backwards.

jfc it’s only Stalin praise if you assume it’s praise also of a fucking political assassin what is wrong with fucking people

Nooooooo, what you’re supposed to get from this is, “fuck political violence.” Please try again.

If Tarantino is the exemplar of what you want from your media figures, fuck that shit. Anyway, you act like there are not reasons people act with professionalism and courtesy for their colleagues. Slagging each other in the press is not in their best interests and I again wonder why that would appeal to you.

Why? This feels more like an unexamined emotional need than a practical one.

Tough. You ARE being recorded, all the time. Personal concealed cameras are totally okay.

Apparently I was unclear by what I meant by “commercial porn”, which was: porn that you pay for. If you want to purchase commercial porn, you need a credit card. To use a credit card, you must reveal the verified identity associated with it. To answer your initial question, my point was to draw your attention to the many interactions you already accept that are strongly associated with your legal identity. Personally, I would rather not give up my legal identity just to buy groceries from my local corrupt corporate grocery store, and I find that a LOT more invasive than doing so for porn.

I missed the chance to spend my mother’s last moments of awareness with her. If you do not do this you will regret it for the rest of your life. It will be far worse than any awkwardness and inhibition you now feel and it will never end.

100% of commercial porn sites have always required you to identify yourself.

I will not be responding to comments.

Then fuck off. Like, actually. We’re not here for you to use to meet your emotional needs and not actually contribute.

Okay, but why? The hypothesis that they bought an extremely successful business because they want to make money doesn’t need any further explanation. What is the motivation for them to try to export their strict laws to other countries? You act like it gives them so much personal joy at taking away our gay kissing, that’s reason enough.

I know tone doesn’t come across but I was only being partially ironic. I recognize that sometimes one just needs to bitch. My neighbour across the hall has no concept of being mindful not to bother people while in the halls. He’s a no-joke seven foot tall guy with a booming voice and no volume control. I know every single fucking time he enters or leaves the building, because he’s always ALWAYS on his phone in the corridors. He speaks some African language that I am sure normally sounds delightful, but when a literal giant is approaching my door while shouting in a foreign language, it’s kinda stressful. I can hear him in my entire apartment! Shit, now you got me doing it.

People definitely love you for your personality

Are they just assholes or is it something deeper?