You’re right, is Social Democracy. But that’s where we are, politically these days. The largest socialist organization in then U.S. (the DSA) is ostensibly not socialist in policy. Anything slightly left of RAGING corporate handouts and bombing brown people is COMMUNISM now.

I got confused by when they both raped Lot in his sleep. It’s been a LONG time since I read the Bible, my bad.

Nah, that’s what Lot did when he was hosting a couple of angels for God, who had sent them there to Lot (the only good man in Sodom) to see if he or anyone in Sodom was worth saving. Then an angry mob shows up to Lot’s house and demands that Lot let than rape the angels, cause they were hot. Lot instead offers up his two daughters (who were fucking each other anyway, so whatevs) to be raped by the crowd. God thinks that that’s cool, so he promises Lot and his wife safe passage out of Sodom as he destroys it, but them must swear to not look back upon it’s destruction. While they are leaving town, Lot’s wife looks back at the city being destroyed and is turned into a pillar of salt.

I wasn’t familiar with the term, but I always (until this moment) assumed that everybody viewed science that way.

Hi there. I’m an artist who gives away everything for free because I don’t personally think it’s ethical to profit from pure human emotional expression. I also don’t think it’s ethical for some faceless corporation to profit from my art. I will ABSOLUTELY fight against my art being used to train AI models, but I have ABSOLUTELY no desire to profit. In fact, I have the opposite desire.

So tell me exactly what is rent-seeking?

The creepy new drama teacher was an evil demon the whole time?!?

As a middle schooler I used Power Point to make FMV games for my friends and classmates, and it was basically this. Just, like, SO MANY slides

I like to think of life as the universe reaching out and trying to know itself

There’s a flaw in your logic, here. Mentally stable evil people would/did. I’m NOT mentally stable and I absolutely never would.

Have an upvote! >:D

I REALLY wish this how wars worked. Just two people locked in mortal combat

Just Google “Neil Gaiman” and “scandal” for more context, but basically he used his position as a popular artist to do some gross, sex pest stuff.

Don’t talk to cops.

Would “the average person” agree with you?

There was this Supreme Court case in 1973 "Miller v. California, during which the Supreme Court basically decided that it has to be obscene in order to be considered pornography, and then the question became, “What is legally considered to be obscene?” From that case we derive something called the “Miller Test”, which has three criteria:

1. Whether “the average person, applying contemporary community standards”, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.

2. Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions specifically defined by applicable state law.

3. Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

For a something to be considered pornographic, it must be ALL THREE criteria, with the first two criteria being left in the hands of local ordinances and governments, and the last being left sort of up to interpretation depending on a locality’s culture and values.

The definition of pornography has changed over time. Caligula might have been considered pornography AT THE TIME, but by modern legal definitions, I don’t think it passes. Even the extended version with penetration, because the film isn’t “intended to arouse” and also does not “lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value”.

It WOULD be pretty cool if the protesters improved drainage. Just sayin

That WOULD be ideal, yes

Good. Now have HBO Max put a LOOOONG disclaimer before each movie plays

Oh I’ve never heard of that! My dad grew up in West Germany, and he would always have Braunschweiger and brown mustard on rye, which I sometimes liked sometimes didn’t, but I’ll have to get my meat eating roommate to try this Mettbrötchen and report back. Seems like a classic working class lunch