Plus back before the woke liberal agenda took over the media he was always talking about “boners” which I can relate to.

It’s the set of background conditions and events leading up to the current story, but that’s not important right now.

Yes.

Urban Dictionary would like to access your Bristol Scale Data.

The link above had this to say about the author:

I learned what an unhappy individual he had been: an alcoholic, prone to depression. “I have always understood the Nazis,” Golding confessed, “because I am of that sort by nature.” And it was “partly out of that sad self-knowledge” that he wrote Lord of the Flies.

So not necessarily allegory. It seems more a bleak worldview portrayed through fiction.

I haven’t tried LLMs myself, but even completely made up garbage would be better than today’s search engine results.

You either get advertisements for things that have nothing to do with what you’re trying to find or you get privacy preserving links to sites that have nothing to do with what you’re trying to find.

This is true. I asked my LLM.

Like search bars.

If you think of LLMs as a thing to replace search bars then this kind of makes sense.

Their first part is a short work of fiction about making a religious person feel bad.

Their second is saying that science doesn’t answer the question “why.”

Philosophy asks “why” at least it does here on Earth.

You messaged me directly rather than responding in the thread, but messaging back is failing, so I will respond here.

There is no theory involving deities that fits the models of the universe we have based on observable evidence, and there is no evidence in support of any theory involving deities.

For anything else we would say that this thing doesn’t exist and leave it at that.

Agnosticism gets lost in the fallacy that since it’s logically impossible to prove non-existence we must hold open the possibility of existence without evidence.

So I’m an atheist because it is the default state to be, it makes no statement requiring evidence, and it doesn’t require fallacy.

She’s crying because she realized that she could buy a second home if she hadn’t been foolishly donating to the church all this time.

So your arguments for agnosticism over atheism is that you don’t want to make religious people feel uncomfortable and science isn’t philosophy?

It’s amazing how context matters on these things, because I was pretty peeved for her when I saw the original article.

Her comment feels a little callous and manipulative with this context, but I am going to give the benefit of the doubt that she didn’t have these details when she made her post.

Didn’t they do that one song with Kanye?

Catholic school is just the middle ages with extra steps!

Everyone stating that the first panel is a unisex rule has really not given it much thought.

Men are not punished for being sexual beings in our society nearly as harshly or frequently as women. A man is not likely to be branded a “slut” for the fact that their naked body exists and was allowed to be photographed.

Yes, it could cause men harm to steal and leak their naked photos, especially if it’s wielded as a weapon in a revenge porn scenario.

But no, men do not have an equal impact on them as women do in the case of having their nudes stolen and leaked.

And I am just going to venture a guess to say that the rule in the first panel has been said to or about women significantly more often than it has to men. I’ve only ever heard it said about female celebrities in the news.

I say this as a gay man who has tons of nude selfies and sex videos dating back 20 years or so. Every gay man I know has nudes. It’s an expected part of gay dating and hook up culture to have photos like that to share. If they were just leaked to some website I would most likely not be impacted at all in any way, even if friends found them.

That’s just not the case for most women.

In some countries it’s against the law for women to leave the house without their husband’s permission.

So there are likely men who actually would believe that a woman doesn’t NEED to walk down the street any more than take a nude selfie.

You’re right.

Nobody should own things because security is not good enough.

It’s exactly like saying something as dumb as that.

And I love unisex rules that apply almost exclusively to women!

Make up a company you tried to start but failed at and plug it in there.

It’s not a lie, you just failed to try to start it.