I straight up thought when Eleanor said it was the bad place that Michael was glum to do that thing where she’s completely wrong that he’s done a few times, even as he smiled...not until he actually said she was right did I think that was really the twist.

Oh, I’ll take that bet, because I’m sure they’ll just stop collecting them. Or count them in “just the right way”.

I’m not going to feel bad that this happened. Punching Nazis is something I’m probably always going to have good feelings about. But let’s not glory in it too much, right? Abyss and all that...

Placenta is not vegetarian any more than haggis is. Placenta is an organ.

I really want to like this but I’m very afraid I won’t...the clam shell of the ds was a big deal and they’re sacrificing it, but not getting much for it; I feel like the portability is suffering in a way it really doesn’t have to, and I dialect that the home console aspect is to. Please let me be wrong!

I’ve realized that my greatest achievement in life is probably that Ms. Fisher once “liked” a tweet I twitted.

I tell people who ask to use it that it’s just like my bike: Shiny side up!

I am an asshole. I repair and collect typewriters. I own several fountain pens (including my grandfather’s unfortunately-named “Pen For Men” (PFM II)). Personally, I think of them as like different art supplies; writing with them feels different. You can use a computer to make a watercolor, but it’s not the same feel,…

I would just like to point out that, while not technically true, urine is usually called sterile. So...that reference actually makes me believe it more.

But forgive me for being argumentative, but that seems arbitrary, because that’s true of any punishment. Fines/confiscation can be seen as theft, and imprisonment not as punishment for a crime is pretty monstrous. Death is, obviously, a greater issue, but that doesn’t seem to be a firm foundation.

I really don’t get the moral objections to the death penalty. I get, and agree with,  the practical ones, but I’ve yet to see a reason that it’s immoral in theory (absent the reality that, in general, we’re too bad at it to do it).

Why is it immoral?

An eye for an eye would murder him multiple times. We jail people who kidnap or falsely imprison, and Rajat not a moral quandary. We take years for crimes. I’m opposed to the death penalty because we’re bad at it, but this case is not an example of that. I don’t see a philosophical opposition to the death penalty that…

But let’s be honest, they’re only level 4. Only trump is a 10

I am profoundly happy! Thank you, Lauren, for being a friend.

Problem is, by and large we reserve force/violence to the police. So even though they aren’t medical practitioners, they’re the only ones with the rights and abilities to really intervene in violence. Abilities being a term used loosely of course...

If you call 911 for a psychotic episode, you’re getting law enforcement. Neither medics nor the fire department have guns or handcuffs. Scene safety is a priority, not to mention liability issues.

No, it was about slavery, and the states rights to have slaves. But nice try! Maybe next time lie about something plausible?

I disagree. That Swift wrote satire did not undermine his points about the treatment of the poor. Satire is sarcasm to make a point. What else would using Satan to create a religion based on science be, and how is it different than FSM?