Boogie_Man

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by Boogie_Man 9mo ago
""...Well- What does he deserve? To be shot? To be shot for the satisfaction of our moral feelings? Speak, Alyosha!" "To be shot" murmured Alyosha, lifting his eyes to Ivan with a pale, twisted smile." "Br
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by Boogie_Man 10mo ago
Thanks for posting this. I mostly gave up on viewing the one or two Twitter feeds that interest me after nitter stopped working. It wasn't ideological, I just wasn't able to reliably view and navigate without an account, and when
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by Boogie_Man 10mo ago
I recall being flabbergasted the first time I saw someone watching (what I think was) tick tock. An adolescent boy a few rows in front of me at an amphitheater was watching what I believe was comedic content at full volume, but the jump cut
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by Boogie_Man 10mo ago
I'm reminded of the time GPT4 refused to help me assess the viability of parking a helium zeppelin an inch off of the ground to bypass health department regulations because, as an aircraft in transit, I wasn't under their jurisdic
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by Boogie_Man 10mo ago
"Forget everything you thought you knew about big d*k Hitler"
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by Boogie_Man 11mo ago
Is the title an intentional mirror of Carver's short story collection "What we talk about when we talk about love"? If so, can someone smarter than me explain what the author means by this connection?
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by Boogie_Man 11mo ago
This might be the wrong place to ask these questions, but this comment caused me to think about the situation. Russia and/or Putin has been sold to me as "crazy" since the 90s. I don't really believe that, and presume it
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
Excellent and straightforward negotiation, reminds me a bit of how mobsters speak in film combined with how God speaks in the old testament.
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Corner Game(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Boogie_Man 1y ago|0 comments
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
I recall seeing a clip of an interviewee who is a cave diver. He was giving a description of the time he came closest to death while cave diving, and it came down to someone in his group losing it, and him attempting to prevent that person&
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
A few years back I decided to finally learn correct cursive so I was able to sign my name to documents correctly. When I discovered there were multiple types of cursive, I landed on Kurrent (the predecessor of Sütterlin) and now frequently
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
No sorry, I was including that example because it's something "political" that is also pretty universally accepted and uncontroversial, and as a consequence could only really upset the most upsetable. I meant it as a contrast
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
I agree with you generally, but the two points I want to make are that these shows are messaging politically (I know you agree with this, and I appreciate you saying so as many others in this thread do not agree), and that this political me
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
I agree that it's generally important to respect other people and other cultures, both ethically because it is a ethical thing to do, and practically because it helps us all "get along". I find, if we strip this from the colo
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
I agree with you in that the question of something being "political" is inherently related to the context, and that some things some people might find political (like the importance of voting from my original comment) are not &quo
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
I understand and sympathize with the desire to directly equate every current social issue no matter how small with a social issue from the past as part of a larger "chain of social progress" because I think it originates with th
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
I might be missing what you mean, but I tried to explain as best as I could how I would understand these things to be "related to "politics" ". Offensiveness of difficultly in pronouncing native Alaskan name - I believe
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
I appreciate the poetic response and think that the point I believe you're making: "people who are inclined to criticize anything which isn't exactly as they'd like it will never be pleased, so you can't spend all o
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
I don't want to be "that guy", but I often find myself as the "intolerable lib" in some situations and the "intolerable con" in others, so here we go: There is a degree of quasi-political messaging in PBS
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
Sorry Tom. I apologize to the moderators and other posters and will attempt to only post high quality discussion moving forward. I notice that my initial comments are generally high quality but that I feel compelled to respond to everything
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
Fallacy of relative privation
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
Fallacy of relative privation
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
Dogs aren't a native species and can in fact be ecologically damaging. Squirrel population control is a question beyond my ability. Butterflies are both native and useful. Hopefully this is helpful.
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
Legit service dogs are legit, go watch footage of them working. I'll probably eventually be wrong someday and have to apologize profusely but that's the risk you run.
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
Walking path at my tennis park is for people only. No dogs, no bikes, and I'm not even allowed to skate it. Personally I'd like dogs only at dog parks but we're not there as a society.
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
I am personally extremely tired of seeing random misbehaved non service breeds in red amazon.com vests which say "service dog". It's entitled, disrespectful to the public, disrespectful to the rule of law, and disrespectful t
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
Yes For non commercial purposes
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
Sorry, It wasn't a rhetorical device, it actually happened to me today. I'm not taking either "side", I thought it might explain something I didn't understand. 100% legitimately.
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
Someone got mad at me today because I said "we beat slavery" was I accidentally dog whistling? It's just how I thought about it. I guess "white people" did beat it but also "white people" were doing it. We
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by Boogie_Man 1y ago
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