it looks so cute tho

“plant-based - hunting (fishing included)”??? while i’m not going to be so bold as to claim there is not one person in the world who doesn’t eat meat but does sport hunt, it’s difficult for me to imagine that’s very common lol

have at it. i refuse to dignify the actions of any genocidal maniac with an endorsement in the form of my vote. simple as.

okay so I read the whole thing. it describes a really shitty, extant system. it defines the spoiler effect. it shows how the spoiler effect makes the already shitty system even more shitty. all that’s fine and well. never once does it say that voting for minor party candidates is literally a vote for republicans, which was the actual statement that I took issue with.

you’re welcome to make the argument that the result is the same and that’s why you specifically will only vote strategically. that’s fine. it does absolutely nothing to compel me to vote for either democrats or for republicans. or even to vote at all for that matter. why participate in such a fundamentally broken system at all then? just to give one more point to 99% hitler? no thank you.

abstention is, quite literally, not a vote for the person you like less.

voting for a minor party candidate is, quite literally, not a vote for republicans.

Zuzak’s comment is great and i wouldn’t dare to suggest that I could do a better job - I just want to hammer on the point that you are not the agent of karma

when I say you, i don’t mean you DragonWasabi, or you DragonWasabi’s friend, i really mean anyone. especially in most Buddhist schools, there really isn’t a “distributer of karmic justice” or what have you. it’s just, as i understand the Buddhist perspective, a force of nature and it is how it is. it doesn’t need an agent, and acting as if one is that is almost certain to worsen one’s karmic load, hence ahimsa.

disclaimer that i myself do not identify as Buddhist or anything resembling a Buddhism expert. i took one intro to Buddhism class in college and that’s all i’ve got.

Yes and/but -

that seems to be where the buddhist view regarding karma separates itself from, say, hinduism, where karma becomes the entire basis for the caste system

“hinduism” (itself a colonial term with little basis in material reality regarding actual practices and beliefs) is just as multifaceted and diverse as buddhism, if not moreso. i largely agree with your comment, i just think it’s important to point out that among vedic traditions you will get very different thoughts on the caste system and it’s justifications and it’s relation to karma. a dualistic vaishnavite will likely see the castes very differently than a follower of non-dual tantric shaktism. both are likely to have perceptions of karma, but one might argue that it justifies castes, another might argue that castes are entirely an illusion as is the whole imminent world (as in some forms of advaita vedanta), and yet another might argue that castes are merely part of god’s play but don’t have any more significant implications than that.

thanks this made me sick to my stomach 🙂

helthcare pls

looks like the fire atronachs in skyrim

nah, im not on board at all. first of all, i’m a folder every time. no disrespect to crumplers, but that’s a no from me. second, this guide says to use a wet wipe but makes NO MENTION of the fact that you should under no circumstances flush wet wipes. that’s a serious oversight. finally, team bidet forever.

i love pinball and I’ve found that every single person I’ve introduced it to ended up finding it very cool. most people, like myself before I got into it a few years ago, don’t even know that there are really objectives and ways to advance the game on most tables, so once you start talking about specific shots and what to do people tend to get really excited about it - especially if you act encouraging and excited when your opponents in a hotseat game are doing well.

the tricky part is getting someone to a table to play 😅

you dropped this, king:

i’ve been taking finasteride for about a month now and so far so good, i’d say. I can’t say I’ve noticed a whole lot so far (which I hope is just because it hasn’t been long enough, and not because im not gonna get everything I want out of it - fingers crossed).

I’ve seen some folks online say that it can have pretty serious mental well-being downsides, but I personally haven’t noticed any of that. lately I’ve been having tons of what im lovingly calling “mega-dreams” (dreams spanning multiple in-dream days) which are out of the norm for me and I suspect it’s got something to do with finasteride.

the mechanism is different, as i understand it. I’m not an expert by any means but my doc told me spiro actually suppressed the production of T, where finasteride suppressed the conversion of T to the more active form, DHT. that means that the result of taking finasteride can actually be increasing your T levels, even tho it’s decreasing the active form that causes more of the, idk how else to say it, “masculinizing” stuff that T does.

anyway, like I said, so far I’ve been doing well on it even if I haven’t noticed as much as I would like to at this point.

hope that helps a lil bit!

look at the smug leftist liberal kid. got a lot to learn, that one! epic own with facts and logic, charles.

are the pro-Trump leftists in the room with us right now?

You do not, in fact, “gotta hand it to him”

i mean, i’ve got some hands he could catch

yeah and it’s also funny because something something homelessness

because you hexshits are a monolith obviously