Jerkface (any/all)

I mean it is kind of questionable to have the only melaninated characters all belong to the same fantasy “race” that all share the same characteristics like being physically gifted at sports…

Of course he couldn’t keep his mouth shut for the whole month. Gonna be consequences, Donny.

I like a good “ooer” now and then.

They do. That’s why voter suppression is such a big factor in every election.

I don’t think that your assumptions are true. Non-voters tend to be more progressive than voters, because conservatives vote religiously out of a sense of duty and responsibility, and progressives vote when they feel like it.

This is a lever that moves in two directions. Voter suppression is a very real thing that happens in every American election. It’s practiced by conservative candidates for exactly the asymmetry I mention above.

The text does not speak of trauma. Trauma is not “bad things that happen to you,” it is “things that happen to you that break you.” Two people might have the same experience. One receives life-long trauma and one receives a valuable lesson. You might expect people who have been beaten by their parents to be more likely to bear trauma, but this text doesn’t make that claim. You’d have to call on something else.

This text appears to me to be saying that children who witness their parents suppressing their empathy (such as they must to inflict physical pain) are more likely to do the same.

A history of trauma is more common among people who refuse to harm animals on the basis of empathy (as opposed to being plant based for their health or the environment or something) than among the general population. I suspect that empathy is innate. I suspect that people who have experienced trauma have less capacity to ignore, interfere with, and override their empathy.

Mike Harris or Bob Rae?

It’s called trauma.

People are terrified of empathy. Empathy is the capacity (or even the obligation) to experience the suffering of others. Suffering HURTS. Empathy HURTS. People will do anything to avoid thinking about the victim on their plate.

I mean his ICE issues don’t go away. He could spend 20 years in jail and THEN get deported.

Please elaborate.

escape?

The entire phone-based ecosystem.

Time changes as you age. A couple years is not dead.

Unironically, I cannot remember.

on grinder… still don’t know what the sound is. :-( Holy shit, Grindr is so far ahead of any hetero dating app.

The only reason we have them at all today is because they are mandated by obligatory setback distances for houses. We could be building our porches a metre or two from the sidewalk, the only reason we don’t are these stupid laws.

Lawns are friggin stupid.

Connections and The Day The Universe Changed

Edit: Oh, movies. Sorry.