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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My wife doesnt like when with I tell story's that took place before my wife died. She says, "its very disrespectful."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You could fix this joke by instead saying “before my wife’s death” or “before the death of my wife”, and having her just say “that’s very disrespectful”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My wife doesnt like when with I tell story's that took place before my wife died. She says, "its very disrespectful."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But why would your wife say “it’s very disrespectful to refer to them that way”? That doesn’t make sense either

  It already doesn’t make grammatical sense because your wife hasn’t died, so you can’t refer to it happening in the past tense - you’d have to say “before my wife dies” which ruins the joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody's Wrong About Bricks & Minifigs Case (Reckless Ben) [50:26]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He says at the end that in the next video he will talk more about Reckless Ben’s internet campaign, so I’m presuming/hoping that will be covered. This video was just talking about the legal complexity of the various claims, denials, and (actual and potential) arguments of all the parties involved in the ownership and possession of the property itself. The next one may be juicer in terms of criminal activity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people fed up with stations bending the knee to Trump, tune into PBS or Local Channel's or start their own. Kind of like stephen colbert did for the ultimate fuck you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stations didn’t actually close, but it did hurt.

  Trump’s Move to End Federal Funding for NPR and PBS Was Unconstitutional, Judge Rules | Chicago News | WTTW share.google/1tTMfAO2j5K36GdCL

  The cutbacks took effect last fall and have had a variety of impacts on local stations across the country, as well as the national PBS and NPR operations. Some stations have laid off staffers and cut back on programming.

  But the networks have remained on the air, despite Trump’s remark in January that “they’re sort of gone now, I guess, I heard they closed up. They were terrible.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depluralize⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Way to Die In The West

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day it was ok to receive a paddlin (simpson ref there) at school as a kid. But on the flip side it was against the law to beat a paddle a prisoner by a guard, why the rule difference?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to propose a different speculation from the other answers -which have some truth - but I don’t think it’s that deliberate.

  My guess is that it’s because prisoners are adults that can sue, claiming “cruel and unusual punishment”, and win. Kids generally won’t. We’ll maybe now they would, but less so back then.

  Another issue is that despite the basic principle that they both involve “corporal punishment”, there’s a world of difference in methods and purpose between them. Guards weren’t using a paddle to sternly swat prisoners’ bottoms, and teachers in school (generally) weren’t using billy clubs and fists to beat the shit out of kids. Guards use it for instant compliance and control, teachers use it as (harsh) corrective instruction. Obviously there were exceptions but overall that was the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If refusing to see your dying parent "wrong"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily.

  You didn’t provide any further context, so I will not bother providing further explanation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would they really?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  heard in David Attenborough’s voice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would they really?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a little disturbing whether they could successfully breed.

  It’s more disturbing that they would try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big if true 🚨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember: no pre-ordering! Personally I’m waiting until the first stable sex 2.1 patch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨should the BBQ cover be put back on after every use ... or just once at the end of BBQ season⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually never completely close it, unless I’m cooking. Once done cooking, I leave it open to cool, clean it, and the leave the lid propped partially open.

  It’s still protected from precipitation, but if I close it all the way wasps inevitably build a nest in there. I don’t like my hamburgers that spicy.

  But yes, I do this after every use. How much effort is it to just cover it? Why wouldn’t you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone want homework help?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I was in the market for a good used car, which car would be the best to outrun the cops?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it’s got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dumb stance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Evil is itself a subjective term. It is not possible for anything to be objectively evil, even if every person who has ever lived agrees - which they definitely don’t. To be “objective” it must be measurable, supported by facts; “good” and “evil” are not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dumb stance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Prove it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aged gouda starts out mostly white and will definitely become a dull light brownish-orange as it ages/dries out. Cheddar, while not considered a white cheese (naturally yellow, that is - not necessarily with added color) will also turn a darker color when aged. I think that’s what the parent commenter was saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike most people, I get my information from a vetted, trusted source.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the cup barely visible on the left? I’m wondering if that one explains the gigantic taco.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike most people, I get my information from a vetted, trusted source.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean Green Burrito?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe that the reason everyone is having an issue with your question - and your replies - is that you’re communicating poorly.

  You seem to be inventing usages for words and terms that have well-established, widely understood meanings: “house trained” already means something unrelated to human behavior, but you seem to be using it in a way similar to “domesticated”. “Manic” is commonly associated with mental health conditions, so you being confused as to why that was mentioned doesn’t make sense when you were the one to mention mania:

  Since when I experience protohuman traits such as Kill, Conquer and Reproduce. It doesn’t feel anything like what is explained or expected with Mania.

  Also:

  House trained (less calm (instead of more controlled)

  I just can’t figure out what that is supposed to mean. Being civilized is less calm?

  Regardless, to attempt to answer what I think you’re asking: these “protohuman traits” such as “Kill, Conquer, and Reproduce” were selected over millions of years of predatory competition. But once civilization became the dominant selection filter, survival was more contingent upon cooperation than domination and aggression.

  Physiologically, our endocrine systems didn’t need to change, though - there’s been either not enough selection pressure or not enough time for there to be a noticeable difference in how we process various enzymes and hormones that we evolved to survive as hunter-gatherers. It simply hasn’t been necessary to our survival to “control” it.

  Besides, it took millions of years and thousands of mutations across thousands of speciation events to develop that extremely complex system, and civilization has only been around for about 20,000 years, and - at most - two or three hominid species.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a whole genre! ⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Slut!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We will all be slaves⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The prison industrial complex was the status quo long before Biden was even born. Why limit it to him? Blame Nixon and Reagan for both the drug epidemic and the criminalization of drug possession (accounting for something like 40% of the current prison population), and the near collapse of mental health and rehabilitation programs. Blame Clinton for enabling the corporations to grow even richer off of slave labor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piss Post⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PUT…THE TP…DOWN! TP is for SHITTERS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, but I just noticed something about that (I’m probably very late to the party here): so an endpoint of unregulated capitalism is that ownership is limited to a few, who almost certainly acquired ownership through some form of class exploitation and theft. Or, to oversimplify it…ownership is theft. Hmm, sounds familiar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You sound like one of my PMs. “Klugerama, your coworker was able to resolve a UI issue in just 3 days, why did it take you over 3 weeks to convert 50k lines of code from C# to Java?”