I do block them, but I will still call it out when I see it.

Go the fuck away, fascist.

Sure, but a corrupt government can fabricate evidence to keep their enemies silenced.

Look at Russia and their treatment of Alexei Navalny.

Actually the thought is if the government can just imprison you to stop your candidacy, they have too much power.

Thus they can continue to run.

Maybe you’re thinking of something along the lines of Bishop Berkeley’s Theory of Immaterialism.

Essentially, things only exist and continue to exist because we agree that they do and expect them to remain that way.

Also featured in the children’s book Mr. Radagast Makes an Unexpected Journey, which I adored when I was younger.

I wonder if this tricking back to Biden’s desk is what finally made him pause an ammo shipment.

That isn’t the type of behavior that I think most find annoying but I’m sorry that you get that reaction at all.

I think many people are so annoyed with feeling they are attacked for eating meat (and I do eat meat) that when that button gets pressed the anger just rises up.

For me I get a little true guilt. I know I’m not helping in the best possible ways that I can, all the time. I’m not perfect and won’t ever pretend that I am, and I also haven’t given up on getting better. When I go a day without eating meat, I congratulate myself. With a burger. (No, not really.)

Petite mort, translated from French, means “little death”, and is generally used as a euphemism for orgasm.

Some of us have died… a lot.

You had what we call a shower epiphany.

I think half the reason Black Mirror caught on so well was that coincidence.

We wanted to see the predictions.

I was playing on a MUD (early mmorpg thing by telnet) in 1994 and the creator wanted some of the core players to make characters as part of the plot. The game never went anywhere after that (it was called Kaspelheim) but the character I made was Pronell Mordini, perrin (otterlike humanoids) trademaster.

I just kept using the name online since then. It’s never taken. But someone else did get pronell@gmail.com.

And why haven’t they had an election in 18 years? Because they are a subjugated people and Israel won’t allow elections.

There are no good sides here, but that’s a particularly bad gotcha argument.

I’m sorry but the correct plural is octopedants.

To be fair, there’s a decent chunk of idiotic people who believe that anyway.

That’s the best standard I can think of.

I have a phone job and one bad day a caller told me I sounded like I didn’t want to be there that day, which was true.

But it’s made me more aware of how I sound or present myself and, y’know, the whole fake it til you make it thing has worked with me.

Being happier on the phone led to happier outcomes with the members, which led to me not having my head down all the time.

Well it was once recorded, so it was heard at the time. Then it was lost or forgotten until recently.

But if we have to bury it again for the sake of pedantry, alright.

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Nothing, because we almost certainly don’t live in a consensus reality.

Focusing is a mind and memory skill.

Here’s a Reuters link from Google.