You could say that about the vast majority of all choices any human being has ever made. They only made the choice they did because of a lack of better options. Which is yet another reason that the 'all porn is rape because no woman has ever really had a choice in any matter relating to sexuality' arguments fall…

That's the problem. The idea that all the different waves of feminism agree on 'choice' is totally false. The stupid fucking second-wavers like juliarams here don't want women to have a choice to participate in sex work, because they believe that women aren't mentally and emotionally fit to make their own choices. …

Pharmaceutical companies don't make any significant money off of vaccines themselves. Vaccines, whether it's 5 distinct shots or 12, is an inexpensive, one time procedure- at best, it's a 'get a booster every 10 years' kind of deal. If they make, say $0.10 profit per vaccine distributed (a reasonable guess- they…

There used to be one in my town, but it closed before I ever got a chance to go! They had burlesque shows!

I actually agree with your side of this debate, but that's a terrible argument. I could argue "I'm not mocking black people, I'm just mocking the 'thug culture'* that some of them participate in." This is a bullshit excuse, and doesn't absolve me of racism at all, because race and culture are tangled together so…

Am I the only one disappointing in the American Assembly for Men in Nursing (AAMN) for not being just a little more creative with their naming? Seriously. How hard would it have been for them to reorganize a few words and have "MAAN" as their acronym?

And you should never, ever stop.

Not disagreeing with your point about the lack of artistic talent here, but my thought on the the concept of combining 'Charles abusing Nigella' with 'Homer abusing Bart' is that perhaps its questioning why society thinks abuse is horrible in one case, but funny in another. I mean, in the one case, we (collective we)…

It's really only censorship if you're forced into taking down your art. This isn't a governmental agency or an angry mob, or really any group of people capable of forcing change. This is nothing more than a few people on the internet saying "Dudes, that's gross and horrible. Kindly pull your heads out of your asses…

That's what brown recluse bites do. Quite a few people end up with a large, clearly visible abscess for the rest of their life.

You need to search the internet to know whether that's a thing or not? Have you met people? Surely you're aware that there is NOTHING in the world that people haven't used as a makeshift sex toy.

Yup. In the best possible case scenario, the manager is a dumbass and deserves to be fired. Worst case, the manager is a dumbass, a bigot, and a human skidmark and deserves to be fired.

Your comment doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. I literally have no idea what you're trying to say.

I don't know if either of those things fits the usual definition of 'food', to be fair.

Eew. Nothing like a celebrity infestation to ruin a perfectly good beach.

Barack Obama is the head of a regime that's committed quite a few atrocities of its own. Not nearly on the scale N. Korea has, granted, but still.

And then there's James Joyce, whose love letters have been empirically proven to be the absolute height of creepiness.

But all of us know at least one of us who may be a literal robot. You know it's true.

I got a vibe of "I just want to try this to see if it works" sort of engineer curiosity off of this. Sounds pretty similar to what your SO was thinking.

"logic and simplicity are NOT the opposite of romance. Lies and selfishness are."