For sure. I agree with everything you’ve said here, and fully appreciate you bringing up those points. Cheating comes with a context and complex circumstances that don’t make things so clear cut.

Not mad atcha, just disagreeing. It’s all good

I do agree with this general sentiment, I’ve been in a cursed, abusive relationship and cheated on them (though not to the point of sex) because at the time I was being quite explicitly threatened and coerced into staying in that relationship. If I had been found out, it would not have looked pretty; OTOH cheating like that was a major step in giving me the confidence to leave.

I have no idea what the woman’s circumstances were, but I agree they could’ve been very complicated and not as black/white as it seems.

At the same time, I also don’t think it’s fair to claim her lies didn’t hurt the OP, and I don’t think OP is a bad person. I wouldn’t have blamed the other person if it had happened in my circumstances. I can 100% understand why a person might cheat (obviously, as I’ve done it), but if you betray a person’s trust, especially the one who actually hasn’t wronged you at all, then it’s not unfair or unreasonable for them to react negatively, nor to assume the other person should find out too.

Personally, I’d do the same as you. But it is an understandably murky moral sea, and I’m not sure any answers are 100% right. Not confronting it there and then could mean OP just gets lied to more.

While I do agree they can, in a small way, help create that idea. There are multiple western voting systems where even undeniably winning the popular vote does not win or lead to mass discontent for failing to be governed by the actually mandated parties. If people aren’t even reacting to that, winning a lot of votes is never going to mean that much.

I mean, this is obviously taking the analogy too far for argument’s sake. You can’t intimidate a painting and soup doesn’t damage glass.

Every time I feel I’ve made any observation of modern society, Lenin and/or Marx already made it over a century ago. Makes me very mad at how enduring this bullshit has been.

Protecting the artwork on the Titanic is my new metaphor for how stupid this is.

I’m a big fan of art, but uncritical support for an endless flow of soup at valuable items until rich people stop killing all of us.

Shooting in the direction of someone in the full knowledge that your bullet will not possibly hit them is not attempted murder. It’s… actually not any crime.

Sufficiently advanced capitalism is indistinguishable from primitive superstition.

It’s not real. Honestly it’s never real, and companies keep pretending it is because it gets views. So stop believing this shit.

Even when it’s so real that world leaders are doing press conferences about it, you should still be at least somewhat skeptical.

I was in the gifted program and I felt like all it did was separate us from the ‘normal’ children so we’d be less annoying to the teachers.

Everyone I don’t like is a human shield (and some-fucking-how that means it’s okay for me to kill them).

I believe they’re vaguely more regulated in Europe. But be careful the conclusions you draw, the modern way of supporting the lie is mixing this lethally dangerous pseudoscience with real science.

Even if they did nothing else, it’s possible that their massaging the neck was enough, and the rest was nonsense/dangerous. Placebo in babies is also a genuine thing (usually proxied via the parents).

Source missing from that post, but it’s from the Pew Research Center.

I couldn’t find any justification for their picking those countries (maybe they’re the only countries that let the Pew Research Center establish any presence). And their methodology seems to suffer similar biases these kinds of wide opinion polls typically do (e.g. if you don’t answer the phone or agree to talk to weird strangers you’re not counted), which typically skew towards older conservatives who are sitting at home. Sample sizes also leave a lot to be desired.

Not to say this data is entirely inaccurate, but as with like 90% of these studies, they leave so much statistically uncertain that it’s borderline meaningless.

More hug emotes needed

Guy who has fucked with Python here for like a decade; as far as I’m aware, sadly no. Though if it’s all the data is representable in text, consider JSONs.

Please let me know if the answer is actually yes though because pickle is a pain.

No kidding, as a child, I printed out a full 43 page guide on rearing Chaos, it was the bomb. Just a focused and fleshed version of that as a game would be rad.

In spite of the public figures and reputation, I’d argue the UK is honestly fairly trans-friendly as a culture IME. In decades of knowing and seeing trans people out, as well not always dressing to my own supposed gender. I’ve never seen anyone have a hard time for it anywhere (I’m sure it happens, but clearly not that frequently).

It’s still a crumbling fascistic country in decline, but not really any more so than all of the fucking west. I’d still rather be here than the USA. Downside is citizenship gets you access to butt nowhere else, whereas EU gets you access to all the EU.

Yeah, this will happen, at most, the second election cycle after Trump. I’d bet money on it. Even people on Hexbear frequently underestimate how much memory holing happens.

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