It has been a solid 20 years since I thought about that game, but you’re so right. I immediately remembered the purple heart ring. 

I get that. Hence the tu quoque fallacy. You were just wrong, as I explained, that it was a fallacy. If anything it was just a failure to provide sources cloaked in condescension, but given that I meant it genuinely and googling is easy, I don’t feel like it had any effect on my arguments. 

Also, this is a tu quoque fallacy. 

“Read a book” would not be a straw-man argument even if it was the major thrust of my arguments, it would be an ad hominem fallacy. Luckily, it wasn’t so much a part of my arguments so much as a rhetorical hype man and, primarily, a genuinely earnest plea.

Please read some books. I’m begging you. I hate people who are seemingly intelligent but just have so, so many of their facts wrong.

I mean... yes? I mean, I think you don’t know as much as you think you do about the ascendancy of the car, but I’ll roll with it. In this scenario, I would want the blacksmith to be subsidized until cars were more widespread and were reliable even in cases of emergency! I would, in fact, want that very much. “It…

I get that your life, personally, might not be significantly interrupted. (Though I would encourage you to look closer at your mailing habits - most of the smaller businesses ship through USPS and the current estimate is that shipping fees will go up by $10+ a parcel if USPS fails.)

Here’s the thing: people in remote areas do pay more for most things (look up the food cost struggles of people in the Canadian north, though I expect Alaska also has similar problems). This is a hardship that causes people to suffer based on where they live, which is kind of Not Great considering “well, move…

I get what you’re saying, but I think what he means is that for most people, telling someone to fuck off when not at work or near it wouldn’t impact their career, while for him it would because he’s a public figure. Which is definitely a position of privilege, but I’m not going to rag on a guy who’s struggling with…

So. I’m not religious or even particularly “spiritual” myself, but I did study it in university, and you’re just... wrong, about a lot of your points. If by ‘religion’ you mean ‘Christianity’, maaaybe, since those that aren’t like that are currently outliers. But the global experience of religion has not historically,…

Sigh.

I disagree.

For sure. Mutual aid groups have their faults, but they’re 1000% better than apps right now. 

Yep. That’s the trade-off my family and I are taking right now, since we’re self-isolating after a potential exposure. We’re tipping 20%, trying to do single orders instead of multiple, and focusing on needs rather than wants. Still feeling shitty about it, though. I left a note in my order thanking my driver for…

Oh, don’t get me wrong! I have no fondness for the guy at all and it wasn’t meant as a defense of him as a person. Honestly, it’s just petty annoyance at people taking overwrought writing at face value.

Honestly, I think it’s more that the writer chose to relay it in a scripted-sounding way. People do just... breathe. (Former journalist here.) 

Much fucking sympathies. I’ve honestly given up on goth/kink communities at this point of my life, in favour of finding individual friends who are also into those things. It’s much harder and lonelier, but in my years in various scenes I’ve known rapists, abusive partners, pedophiles, and general all-around creeps who…

I loved her music long, long before I heard anything about her as a person. It’s a real shame that her truly great music is now overshadowed by whatever’s happening with her and the muskman. 

Jazz apples are perfect. Sweet, a little tart, great texture.