petrol_sniff_king
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- Comment on i love standing out💖 3 days ago:
I can smell jealousy from a mile away, man. If you want to wear a skimpy outfit, by all means.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I do admit that it’s feasible.
But, considering it has very little to do with the matter at hand, why bring it up? Why bring it up in this way? Why suggest that we and them are in league with each other?
Also, “do you condemn hamas?”
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“Do you condemn hamas?” - Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
If I recall, it’s actually tit-for-tat with occasional forgiveness. Two tit-for-tats can get stuck in an endless back-and-forth.
Regardless, I love that you brought that up; it’s one of my favorite game theory lessons.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I’d say (different person) it’s just not relevant. It’s cry-bullying.
If he wants to show evidence, he can. But even then, he ought to be showing it to mods or something—what are we supposed to do about it? Are we suddenly not upset about the secret ban list?
Anyone with a touch of fame, caught in a scandal, loooves talking about the alleged violence of their opponents. Do you remember when BLM was happening and Fox was pretending that the entirety of Portland was on fire? Or literally anything Isreal has said about Gaza?
I don’t actually know that he hasn’t received one, single death threat, but since what he wants is sympathy for his crimes, I’m inclined not to give him any.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Oh yeah, I don’t hide them. Votes even on reddit can be a useful temperature check for audience engagement.
I do think it’s funny when people whine about getting downvotes, though; it betrays just a little bit of discomfort with whatever else they’re saying.
- Comment on Keep puffin, dork. 6 days ago:
You could try asking onahole for that. Or Realbotix. Evidently, it would give bored teachers something to do during class.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Ahhh, I see. Thanks for that.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Ooh, ribald is a fun word.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I can’t wait for 2028 or whenever when they decide arbitrarily that Biden criticizers disappeared between elections, suggesting that we’re paid ops.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
The votes represent, in some sense, a social consensus, and consensus actually does matter quite a lot to people.
If you ever see people arguing about which movie is objectively better than some other, that’s what they’re doing. They’re fighting for social capital.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
People aren’t actually answering your question, so I will:
I have no fucking idea what
-1 + 1is supposed to be doing.If it were
“100” - 1 + 1, I might say he’s converting a string to a number, but he isn’t, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I think that a person gets a little sympathy for their bad childhood when they show a willingness to be better than that, not before.
Like, I am capable of an absurd degree of forgiveness, but the person in question has to show that they’re worthy of it—they don’t just get it for free.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. .ml I think censors words like bitch automatically, but that’s just .ml. I’m allowed to view them. I can see all the secret words.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 6 days ago:
You’re kind of missing the point, I think deliberately so, but maybe that’s mean of me.
It’s clear, though, that you don’t respect the element of skill or overcoming adversity as it relates to the non-textual story being told. That the difficulty is a part of Miyazaki’s writing.
If you and I both beat her at the same level of relative difficulty, what’s stopping us from having a conversation?
What is stopping two piano players from having the same conversation?
One could play a very technical, complicated song achieved through years of practice; another could play a lullaby they learned after a month of instruction—should we assume that these two understand the piano in the same way? That they would even enjoy talking to each other about the songs they played, especially if the latter is entirely disinterested in, and even seems somehow insulted by, the achievements of the former?
If two people play the same song at differing skill levels, they will have different experiences, but they’ll still be able to talk about the song, as it is. Their favorite parts to play, the trickiest bits to master.
The Dark Souls conversation really puts me at an impasse because I actually love accessibility settings, but it really bothers me when I see people, probably through a kind of learned helplessness, refuse to engage artistically with the thing that’s been stuck in front of them.
Dark Souls and its ilk are games about “rising to” and by choosing Easy before the game has even begun, you’re kind of failing the very first hurdle. You aren’t learning the piano.
Philosophically, I think you just don’t vibe with what Dark Souls is trying to do. Which is fine. And I would freely admit that an entire industry deciding to follow closely behind Dark Souls’ lead would probably be a worse one.
It might be nice to include less spicy options at a dinner party, but if you were at a hot sauce party, it would seem a little odd to complain about it, no?
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 1 week ago:
Yeah, I remember what this fuck did to California’s high speed rail.
- Comment on How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026) 1 week ago:
I think this is partly because bodybuilders, like culturally, are aiming for sexual appeal of a very masculine and stoic kind, which is to say that it’s not really that appealing.
To put it another way, to be sexy is to be the object of someone else’s desire, but straight men tend to think of this as damaging to their power. They both want to be objectified by women and always above them socially, which is a contradiction.
What I mean is: all men should want a fatter ass, but very few can be this honest.
- Comment on How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026) 1 week ago:
I was gonna comment this myself :)
This is only a problem if you want women’s attention only and the lack of it is fueling insecurity and self-loathing, but I love to see men like these guys in the comic so cutely impressed with and supportive of each other.
- Comment on Me_irl 1 week ago:
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They can patch it before releasing it.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Can you make it stop chuckling and pretending to breath as well?
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 2 weeks ago:
Well, I’m glad I give that impression, haha.
I believe the same, my friend. I’m sure I’ll see you elsewhere. :) - Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 2 weeks ago:
I was thinking the same. :p
My last comment was definitely a final word of sorts.I think we may just be mutually disinterested in the other’s conversation. I can sense the thing you’re trying to pull me into, and in truth, it would be possible to get me to say “the smoker should stop smoking, as a moral vow to their own betterment, or even to their society’s”—I don’t like smoking—the problem is just that I find this to be so trivial that it is not worthy of consideration. It isn’t pragmatic enough.
I will freely admit that you probably spend more time thinking about the subject matter of moral philosophy—I don’t really study it at all, I’m just a strong believer in justice.
But anyway, I appreciate the conversation. I hope it wasn’t too obnoxious, haha.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 2 weeks ago:
The only reason that I keep bringing up worthiness to receive care is to reaffirm that idea that the hospital is a safety net. That is the only way I think about it. I’m not looking for efficiencies. Its efficiencies do not affect my moral calculus.
If there were enough smokers that the hospital had to triage the issue to focus on some guy’s brain tumor, that’s fine. That’s a budgeting issue. I would also choose the nicer of two people if both were hanging off either end of a bridge.
Would it be nice to spend obesity money on something else? Sure. It can’t be, though. It’s hard to see obesity and cost as a moral issue when I don’t actually view the obese, nor the smoker, nor the drug addict, nor the suicidal, nor the adrenaline junkie, nor the MMA fighter, nor the venomous snake guy as burdens. Every one of these people “should know” that they will cost the medical industry money; they might be the ones to “kill” a guy with a brain tumor. I’m not bothered by this because these are the very people the medical industry is built to serve. It exists for them.
A medical industry that cannot accomodate obesity is one that is failing its own constituents. It is failing to serve its purpose. So, becoming obese, and costing the healthcare system money, is immaterial. It doesn’t matter.
But, a guy in the supermarket sneezing on people is a burden. Not because he is straining medical services and indirectly murdering in-care patients, but because there are people in the supermarket who now must be burdened with illness.
So this is what my view comes down to:
- If a person gets someone else sick, it is their fault for spreading disease.
- If a 100-capacity hospital is unable to accomodate a 101st person, that is a systemic failure of the hospital, or its backing government.
This view is useful because it means I am socially equipped to punish people for anti-social and irresponsible medical behavior, but also that I remain sympathetic to victims of the tobacco and sugar industries. And that guy with the snake.
It’s also not that complicated, because my problem is chiefly with anti-social behavior.
How does this relate to necrophilia?.. I don’t know. He probably shouldn’t do that.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 2 weeks ago:
And what if spending money on the MRI for the guy with the brain tumor delays a study on Alzheimer’s disease? And what if that Alzheimer’s study took money that could have been used to further develop gene therapy?
I don’t really understand the point of this.
If a guy has a dildo stuck up his arse, he needs help. …There’s no follow up point, he just needs help.
I would find a medical industry that harbors contempt for the indignity of having to help this guy… pathetic. Like, it’s silly.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see any moral difference between the contaigen and smoking
I don’t understand what you mean.
Smoking isn’t contagious. Smoking might be socially contagious, but that’s a different kind. Smoking and the resulting cancer would be the kind of disease that people “choose” to take on, which is different from being accosted by influenza.
You might be thinking about this on a societal level? I meant interpersonally. Showing up to an event while sick and without a mask is a little fucked up. And covid touches on the societal, but my chief moral complaint is really with people who were neglectful of the community effort to minimize harm during a pandemic, who would choose possibly killing somebody’s grandma so that they could go to the beach. I’m not really thinking about… taxes.
Whether it is ethical for people to “overuse” the medical services their society provides I think depends ultimately on what it is fair to ask people to do, and what the actual consequences of not doing them are.
Like, is it immoral to get a dildo stuck up your arse? Because you’re wasting a doctor’s time. I feel like we might be touching on such austere efficiencies that we’re beginning to lose sight of what a doctor is for.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 2 weeks ago:
I’m already a moral relativist.
What I’m asking is if a person who wants to and does have sex with corpses, knowing that this is socially profane and must be kept secret, is this a trustable person?
Also, respect for the dead often involves rituals that are non-medical. I think disease obviously played a part in how these rituals were formed, but I don’t think that disease is the primary reason people care.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 2 weeks ago:
When I read liability, my instinct was contagion. There is absolutely a moral obligation to minimize contagion—we did a whole covid-lockdown thing about it.
Being obese is too self-contained an issue, if it is an issue, I think. The only one suffering, if they are suffering, would be the obese person, and the only externalization of that would be financial costs that are too abstract for people to take personally.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 2 weeks ago:
With regard to the corpse, maybe.
There’s possibly a virtue ethics argument against the person doing it? Like, it’s a little weird that they want to, right?
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
You want to go to battle over papers?
When you cite papers, you cite passages. Which passage disagrees with me?
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
I’ll make it clearer.
is it not strange to even consider the legal age of consent for purely fictional characters?
No, it is not.
You seem reasonable enough, so if I seem terse or frustrated, I am not necessarily directing that toward you.
The purpose of politeness in society is to demonstrate, virtue signal even, a person’s willingness to abide by the social contract. You are virtue signaling safety.
The normalization of lolicon material is not a problem because it “breaks laws,” it makes it more difficult to catch warning signs from bad people early. It provides too much plausable deniability.
This is not dissimilar to the aversion of racists when they start talking about race science, or making “ironic” hitler jokes—these people are not “breaking laws” either. The purpose of treating them as socially deleterious is either to shame them into better behavior, or, failing that, to excommunicate them from society. False positives, whether these people were truly racist in their hearts, is immaterial to me—I do not care. They should have enough social sense to know better.
A disclaimer: Obviously, none of this means that I want pedophiles to fear getting help. Getting help is outside the purview of social excommunication; shame would not be serving a purpose in this case. But this fact really has nothing to do with whether I’m accepting of the endless flirtatiousness anime and other Japanese media seems to have with child sex.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
It depends on why people are engaging with those things, and what it is they think they’re doing.
When people talk about fictional pedophilia “satiating the person’s needs so they don’t go out and commit a real crime,” they’re kind of tipping their hand, don’t you think? A gun-game player doesn’t actually want to kill anyone, but apparently fiction and non-fiction are veeery similar concepts in the mind of a lolicon.