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- Comment on Anon plays Metroid 5 days ago:
Warframe is… special.
Did you make it thirty hours in? Congratulations, now you can create your character.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 6 days ago:
You can freely ignore the dipshit who thinks “almost nobody was permitted to divorce” means “people went to jail for back-alley divorces.”
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- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 1 week ago:
If not for those specific circumstances… could they have ever been legally divorced?
No.
As I’ve explained five times: there are no penalties for things that can’t happen. When the state refused to let people divorce - which they did, at their discretion, by default, for centuries - people just stayed married. It wasn’t a crime, it was not legal.
Divorce wasn’t legal the way marrying a horse isn’t legal. You can have the ceremony. It doesn’t count. Per your chosen definition: it has no formal status derived from law. Moving goalposts is what you’re about to do to pretend I haven’t given you everything you fucking asked for.
You declared “you had a legal right to divorce from the founding of this country.” Rights are the thing where you have to get beaten to exercise them, yeah? Nowadays you have a right to divorce. In the past times, it took some heinous shit to “escape the bonds of marriage.” You had to beg the church, or the state, and they could just say no. They usually said no.
And there was nothing you could do.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 1 week ago:
‘My family met the extreme exceptions where it was tolerated, so being otherwise illegal isn’t real.’
Horse: drink.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 1 week ago:
‘Where do you think the goalposts would be, if not where I’ve consistently planted them?’
‘Nuh uh.’
Fuck off.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 1 week ago:
It’s an example of how extreme the rule could be, tone-policing troll. It is unequivocal proof you couldn’t just go get a divorce, because the state would almost certainly say, fuck off. Because - in general - by default - it wasn’t fucking legal. It was so restricted that zero women in an entire state were granted one, for thirty years, and you think other states granting more than zero means it was easy sailing.
What the fuck else do you think divorce being illegal would look like? What else could those words mean?
If divorce required a tax stamp, would it suddenly click for you?
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 1 week ago:
But because the writers needed to give you someone to root for
Moreover, because it went from adapting a British sitcom to making an American sitcom. The famous tweet goes something like: “A waiter spills soup on a businessman before a meeting with his boss. In the UK the show’s about the waiter. In the US the show’s about the businessman.”
Same reason Steve Carell went from playing David Brent to playing Brick Tamland. We don’t find a powerful sleazebag as funny as a powerful moron.
Not that there’s much difference these days.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 1 week ago:
‘Here’s an example of how extremely legally restricted divorce was.’
‘Nuh uh, here’s the same example.’
Fuck off.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 1 week ago:
As if it’s something you can go out and do and be punished for. No: it simply was not allowed. The state said no.
This is stupid hair-splitting. You did not have a right to shit - you had to beg. Virginia did not grant any woman a divorce for an entire generation.
- Comment on PFP Evolution 1 week ago:
11: first year with testosterone.
23: first year with estrogen.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 1 week ago:
The US didn’t get no-fault divorce until after the moon landing.
Divorce was considered to be against the public interest, and civil courts refused to grant a divorce except if one party to the marriage had betrayed the “innocent spouse.” Thus, a spouse suing for divorce in most states had to show a “fault” such as abandonment, cruelty, incurable mental illness, or adultery. If an “innocent” husband and wife wished to separate, or if both were guilty, “neither would be allowed to escape the bonds of marriage.”
Divorce was barred if evidence revealed any hint of complicity between spouses to manufacture grounds for divorce, such as if the suing party engaged in procurement or connivance (contributing to the fault, such as by arranging for adultery), condonation (forgiving the fault either explicitly or by continuing to cohabit after knowing of it), or recrimination (the suing spouse also being guilty).
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 1 week ago:
Boomer tropes exist because divorce was illegal.
You were expected to get married and stay married. You’d have unprotected sex with your high school boyfriend, you’re goddamn right you were gonna keep the baby, and you were going to live together until one of you died. Even if it meant separate beds and not asking why he frequented that bar by the docks.
Blame Catholicism. That’s usually a fair bet.
- Comment on kiwis! 1 week ago:
It screamed out all the angy.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 1 week ago:
A serious three-step questionnaire for any subscription service considering AI:
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Could your paid centralized service be accomplished by free local models?
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Yes it could.
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Don’t ruin your thing with cloud AI bullshit.
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- Comment on kiwis! 1 week ago:
There’s no sponsor in that video.
… oh god, Youtube’s fucking up the video itself to fuck with adblockers.
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- Comment on Anon's split personality 1 week ago:
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
- Comment on Consumers Are Financing Their Groceries. What Does It Say About the Economy? 2 weeks ago:
Debt detaches price from reality. Nobody needs to afford things, because they can be saddled with an arbitrarily high number for an arbitrarily long period.
- Comment on Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game' 2 weeks ago:
Just ban it.
Do not stress over some corporation’s ability to harass and degrade you. Acknowledge a business model is shit - and say, fuck that. If they want better profit margins, spend less money, sell more copies.
- Comment on Do you know how much power I'd have to give up to be President? 2 weeks ago:
Two good ways to write Lex Luthor:
“There’s no way people could be so naive.”
“Everyone but me is a complete moron!”
- Comment on '28 Years Later' Was Filmed Using 20 iPhones at Once 2 weeks ago:
IIRC the question was, ‘can we put a camera on a rocket?’
And then the solution was Victorian. The same shit Muybridge did for a galloping horse, one hundred and twenty years earlier.
- Comment on '28 Years Later' Was Filmed Using 20 iPhones at Once 2 weeks ago:
28 Decades Later will be shot in 13:1 surround vision, captured on the director’s watch. And still win twenty awards.
- Comment on ’28 Years Later’ Was Filmed Using 20 iPhones at Once 2 weeks ago:
28 Decades Later will be shot in 13:1 surround vision, captured on the director’s watch. And still win twenty awards.
- Comment on Realistically 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Realistically 2 weeks ago:
In every universe, Alan Rickman is just tired of this shit.
- Comment on Realistically 2 weeks ago:
This movie did more for safe following distance than decades of drivers ed.
- Comment on Realistically 2 weeks ago:
Duck, piefucker!
- Comment on straight male 2 weeks ago:
It really is such bullshit.
- Comment on straight male 2 weeks ago:
We have the best flag.
glances at pansexuals
We have a top-three flag.