The only animal I can think of that won’t eat when hungry is a lonely guinea pig.

You’ve never talked to anyone who raises snakes, have you?

It’s kinda amazing how this thread has brought out a bunch of people who wouldn’t pass an intro high school biology class, but seem to think they’re a genius on animal welfare.

“We can’t make this a narrative about how trans people are all crazy? Never mind.”

Look up when Tacitus was writing his histories versus when they happened. Most ancient history is written years after the fact.

They also give us historical information about the time they were written, even if we can’t trust their accounts of the time they claim to describe.

Also, most books in the New Testament were written within a matter of decades.

Y’all really need to take some history classes. We don’t treat sources as if they are infallible depictions of events. We think about bias. We think about corroborating evidence. And if there are problems in a source, that doesn’t mean it has no value.

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Yeah, how silly to critically analyze ancient historical/cultural texts to better understand history. Obvious the study of history is just about judging how stupid people in the past were compared to us modern day geniuses. That’s the real value of reading history - the schadenfreude of “lol those stupid ancient Greeks didn’t understand how thunder works. I’m so much smarter than they were.”

It’s not like there’s any value in trying to watch the evolution of a cultures belief over time, and try to see if you can better understand patterns and trends in human behavior. The Bible is poopoo for dumdums, and there’s no value in anything that isn’t STEM.

The scholar in the video literally includes an image of God with his penis from 800 BCE at the end of the video. Maybe actually watch the thing before you decide he’s making “circular arguments.”

There’s literally a fucking Wikipedia article you genocide denying troll. Here’s all the rape you can stomach!

In its June 2024 investigative report, the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (CoI) concluded: “The frequency, prevalence and severity of sexual and gender-based crimes perpetrated against Palestinians since 7 October across the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) indicate that specific forms of Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) are part of Israeli Security Forces (ISF) operating procedures.”

I let my license lapse. I’m really worried about getting a dui because it stays in the system so long, and I feel like as a trans person cops would look for any excuse. It did help a lot when I did get high every day.

I just wish my brain would say, “you worked a full shift at work. It is okay to eat a pizza and watch Star Trek. There isn’t anything else you need to be doing.”

She made the allegations 35 years ago. But because he was one of the “good old boys,” no one did anything.

According to a statement posted on social media from elders at the church, the allegations were brought to light 35 years ago.

After that, he stepped away from ministry for two years to receive counseling. He acknowledged in a sermon in 2014 that he was “sexually immoral” when he was a teenager.

He returned to ministry in March of 1989, two years after his abuse was exposed, he says with blessing from the girl’s father and church elders.

A teenage girl, in Texas. Where it is legal to fuck kids if you marry them. Her dad even took the rapist fuck’s side. He admitted to it to his flock, but characterized it as consensual.

She probably did tell a cop, who probably asked her what she did to entice him. People on here have this delusion where reporting rape does anything. I know of a local middle school where a teacher fucked kids for decades before finally enough spoke up for them to do anything.

Young ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage, see

Some say that’s statutory (But I say it’s mandatory)

Why do MAGAts love fucking kids so much?

So when the AI bubble burst, will there be coding jobs available to clean up the mess?

Trump is also talking about an “invasion from within.” This is “obey when we tell you to kill American civilians.”

The Handmaid’s Tale (it’s kinda funny how both you and a commenter replying to you misspell the name in two different ways) is going for a “The Lady or the Tiger” ending. Do you believe that Nick is actually part of the Resistance, or is he part of the state secret police? The narrative tricked us a little with the “relationship” between Offred and the Commander - can we trust anyone at all?

The epilogue also gives the narrative some verisimilitude. It’s pretending to be a historical document - how would the world post-Gilead react to accounts of what happened to women during Gilead? How would you interact with the Diary of Anne Frank if you didn’t know that she was killed in the camps?

I fail to see how it’s similar to “The Mist” here.