I’m not incredibly interested in pondering hypothetical questions. Rape is a complicated topic and the existence of a grey area doesn’t mean that everything is a grey area.

If someone lies to their victim about every single part of their personal life and history, while they ostensibly think their victim is a criminal and are acting as an agent of state to arrest them, their friends, and stop a cause they believe strongly in, convincing them to participate in sex is immoral. If someone wants to “devil’s advocate” they can do so with their therapist.

Maybe, when you start arguing that an immoral act is not technically rape, you should simply not do that.

Rape by deception is rape, plain and clear. Why did you pick a scenario where you didn’t lie, and try to compare it to someone who spun up an entirely new person out of thin air?

Of course he didn’t regret anything. ACAB

This point has general merit, but I cannot stress strongly enough Fuck the NYT.

In your 40s, you will pay for the sins of your 20s. Pay attention to your ergonomics because by the time you feel pain the damage is already done.

I use thick cushiony gel wrist supports and an ergonomic mouse. Why would anyone want to be less comfortable and risk future issues?

Boo! 🤮

It is so infuriating how capitalists can use their stolen money to make people think they’re saints. (All the while their “help” causes more damage than if we let experts fix problems rather than pirate kings.)

And it’s even harder to criticize this bastard now because liberals think he’s on their “side” and any criticism must be a “vaccine microchip” loon even when you talk about things he did openly.

I think some people are taking a joke too seriously.

Wait, a cult sends spam to lure people in?

Yeah. This is older than the internet. It’s like writing “For a good time call Nicole” and writing someone you don’t like’s number in a truck stop bathroom.

I heard people talking about it, but just got the message last week. It felt strangely like an initiation. There’s even a link to a discord. I’m terribly curious what goes on there, but don’t want to risk whatever possible ramifications of joining a prolific spammer’s Discord server.

TBF, communists are really hot and good in bed.

Humming seems a bit odd. I wonder if those people are just humming to themselves.

I’ll do things like scuffing my feet, jingling my keys, or pretending to talk on my phone. I am a large guy and I naturally walk very quietly. I have scared quite a few women, and honestly, it is unpleasant for both of us.

In the US we call that the National Guard. The state governor controls them. In no way are they for this sort of situation though.

I don’t care what the dictionary says. I’m telling you what every American means when they say “militia”: crazy fringe conspiracy theorists who spend a lot of time discussing “the Jew problem”.

Companies used to train workers, now they just complain that workers aren’t pre-trained by some magical process. (And millennials are old enough that we’ve forgotten how dumb we were in our 20s.)

Hanna Barbara cartoon from the golden age of animation.

Your fundamental misunderstanding is that “militia” is a euphemism for “right wing domestic terrorist organization”. You won’t find them on Lemmy. There are a few small armed leftist organizations, but they wouldn’t call themselves militias and their mission is defending their communities. They understand that our government has always been tyrannical and a few guys with guns will just get themselves killed.

Don’t believe right wingers. (You can be forgiven for not knowing these were fringe right wing idiots. Media coverage tends to obscure that part.) They say they’re against government tyranny, but really they just hate brown people. (They meant the “tyranny” of having to sit at the same lunch counter as [slurs].) They love what is going on now.

Lots of people like Microsoft and/or don’t know any better.

I think 10% of people believe nearly anything. It’s basically the rounding error for a survey.

Honestly, if you had asked me 10 minutes ago “Is MacOS based on Linux?” I would have gotten it wrong. But if you asked “Is MacOS based on UNIX or Linux?” I would have gotten it right.

Because you have Google. I suspect most people know their star sign. (The Chinese Zodiac is something different.) I don’t believe in astrology, but it’s certainly common enough that it seems difficult to avoid learning at some point. If not, you can find out in 30 seconds.

All it is is an abstraction to make it slightly harder for bad actors and computer programs, not an endorsement of astrology.

Who said anything about Trump besides you?

I swear, libs make up their own narrative to punch left regardless of what Leftists do.

I have never and will never give the slightest fuck about Hunter Biden.

I hate that everyone has just given Diamond Joe a pass for pulling an RBG to hand the country back to Trump. Whatever else Democrats might have done differently, the single biggest campaign mistake is that the Cryptkeeper stomped on our primaries and wouldn’t hand over power until the last minute.

The entire goal of his presidency should have been anointing of a successor. I’m not a huge Kamala fan, but he could have set her up for success instead of waiting. Whoever won real primaries would run a much better general election campaign than Kamala could have this year.