One thing I’ve noticed recently was a massive uptick of adolescent sex jokes. It’s really annoying.

This couldn’t be more American if the trenches included a fast food restaurant.

Any other country would’ve issued spades.

then they have rights

Why? I’m not trolling, I just really think it’s interesting where people think “rights” come from. Some people think they come from God. Which is great, because in this scenario we are God. So anything we do is ethical because we did it.

I contend they come from States. Because I notice that rights are different in different States. And I don’t think a god would obey jurisdiction.

Another way of saying this is that the beings themselves have to recognize and demand rights. Because a state is just people deciding things after all.

So where do the rights come from? Are they a legal/socail construct, or inherent in the universe some how? Some third thing I didn’t think of?

If they take grill brushes from law-abiding people then only the criminals will have grill brushes.

Of course science is political. Knowledge is power and all power systems are political.

But ignoring philosophy, Science is a charity. By in large they must beg for their money. You don’t suppose that the people providing the money have any influence?

And I’m not talking about junk science, biased studies, or even fraud. A perfectly run study may still be political simply because it was chosen for funding over something else.

To be fair, the Afghanistan war only lasted weeks. About a thousand of them, but still.

No such thing as a decent pig. ALL cops are bastards.

This is because the institution is corrupt and focusing on the individual actions, motives, and character of individual pigs misses the whole fucking point.

How many good cops does it take to change a lightbulb? Just kidding good cops have never changed anything.

Maybe your talking about Rick Sanchez, Sherlock Holmes, or James Bond because the asshole genius is a trope in media, not real life.

In real life they’re just assholes.

Conspiracy theories are a trick by big Dumb to make people think less.

Late in WWII the UK dropped plans to assassinate Hitler because they had figured out that he was militarily incompetent and was afraid his replacement would be more savvy.

This is stupid because most of the people who know who Kirk is, only learned about him upon his death.

I’m pretty online, and didn’t know much about him when he was alive EXCEPT that he was a huge meme.

Fuck 'em. Their bloodline is weak.

When I was a kid I thought that any asteroid hitting Earth was bad. Now I gotta ask “where is it going to impact” first.

I read somewhere that there was an app developed by some organisation in a big city to track ODs and help addicts avoid known areas where drugs are adulterated. They had to shut it down when addicts would actually seek out the OD causing drugs using the app like yelp from the upsidedown.

Econ101 does not apply to addiction.

Fuck this headline. I understand click bait, but this is abuse of the literate.

The “population cliff” is a made up boogeyman for capitalists. That’s because they’ve relied on population growth for market growth. What’s the harm in population stagnation or even decline?

And I don’t want to hear about young people supporting aging populations. That’s a man-made problem that has solutions. Just not the kind of solutions capitalists can abide. (and if you think about it, it’s a temporary issue anyway).

This kind of marketing ruined gaming culture.

There is a throughline between gendered marketing; the idea that young hetero men owned gaming; and chud gaming culture like gamergate.

The idea of the young horny gamer dude is sexist toward men too. Never mind the accompanying stereotypes of gamers as loosers and nerds.