Yes.

You’re not wrong, but anyone who leaves shit like this or the stupid church dollars as a tip is a special kind of asshole.

There goes my hero, watch him as he goes.

There’s a saying about people like you. “you’re an ignorant cunt”.

The fuck did your parents do to you to make you so proudly ignorant?

I am speaking anecdotally, but in my daily interactions at my kids daycamp, my kids views are pretty much on par with the rest of their peers. There’s a boy at their daycamp who likes to wear dresses. He’s treated no differently than any of the other kids. They have unisex bathrooms because the ratio of girls to boys is out of whack, so it makes more sense.

My point is that kids today don’t care. They don’t have the same hangups that we were raised with. And why should they?

Woah… you weren’t being sarcastic? Why? What is your logic?

and even though he’s my friend and I’m the first person he came out to it still feels weird when he walks into the bathroom with me.

That’s a you problem, and it’s up to you to get over.

As a father of two elementary school aged girls, I can tell you that they don’t give a shit. They would rather be supportive of their friend. People who insist on perpetuating outdated concepts of gender roles and modesty are on the wrong side of history.

They’ll do their own research and make their own well informed, reasonable conclu…

Sorry, I can’t keep that bullshit up.

Most groups will move their goalposts as far as they need to in order to make the new reality fit their narrative. They won’t actually change their minds about anything here on earth.

Other groups will start attacking the sources of the new information. The weaker will simply question the facts, like they did during the pandemic. There will also probably be a more militant arm, physically attacking telescopes and sources of extraterrestrial information like Gary Busey’s son did in Contact.

A few will embrace the knowledge that there is intelligent life outside our planet… and immediately start preparing missionary trips to spread the word of their upcoming redemption like some kind of latter day Prior of the Ori.

A very small group will see this as the truth it is… that their accepted view of reality isn’t correct, that maybe they should rethink things.

In short, we can absolutely depend on the religious to ruin things for everyone else, just like always.

But seriously, we should also be hopeful that whatever intelligent life we may possibly discover doesn’t have their own problems with religion… because that will not end well for anyone.

Of course it’s some asshole from Shaker Heights.

There was a guy who started a personal website back in like 96 or 97. He basically posted his scans and screencaps of celebrity nudity. He also opened a celebrity nudity message board that he built from scratch. The board thrived. It became a hub for all the superstars in the “celebrity imaging” internet community. All the guys from all the best IRC channels would premier their work on this site. Eventually he expanded into a celebrity nudity database. He wrote scripts that would scrape Usenet, IRC and a slew of other resources for new pictures of famous women in various states of undress. Each image was meticulously cataloged, indexed and tagged. The entire thing was an amazing bit of engineering. He was a literal pioneer in the wild west that was late 90’s internet. Mr Skin LITERALLY got his start on this man’s board. The database was huge, and it ran smooth as butter. He eventually changed to a subscription model where you pay by the gig. I don’t know how much he charged, because he grandfathered all the regulars and old schoolers in for life.

He could have gone the Mr. Skin route and partnered up with sponsors, put banner ads on every single page, he could have asked me to actually pay for my membership… And he would have made a shit load of money in the process. But he didn’t.

For almost 25 years he ran the site, personally cataloging every new image that was added every day. He closed it down this past November. And it really hit me just how rare a place like that is these days.

That’s what I miss about the old internet, when people did things for fun, to share information, to connect… and they had integrity.

I can’t wait to be one of the “I was part of the great Reddit migration” dudes when this lemmy stuff inevitably goes tits up in 15 years.

Real Shittymorph or not, the very fact that someone is trying makes me believe that everything will be okay.

Yeah, no. There’s no complex or embarrassment here. I really don’t give a shit what anyone else thinks about my pale weird legs. It’s just personal preference. I’ve never been much for short pants.

But I absolutely, unironically appreciate your word salad at the end there. Masterful writing.

Something something hunters penis

Holy shit is that true? There needs to be an English word for “schadenfreude”.

Much like the Death Star contractors discussion in Clerks, I can’t feel sorry for anyone who stuck around after it became clear who they were working for.

I agree with your overall sentiment, but I’m good keeping my ugly knees and hairy legs covered.

The ‘stripped-down’ version is being pushed into schools.

Cite your sources. Show proof.

I won’t play these semantic games with you.

All you have been doing is arguing semantics. Literally the basis for your entire debate is based on semantics and wordgames.

Dude, there’s a very good likelihood that I am descended from slave owners several generations back on my mother’s side. Do you think I felt guilty? Do you think I felt responsible? Do you think I felt “harangued”? No. I felt lucky to be alive in a time where I can be a better person than my ancestors. I felt glad to know that I can help raise my kids to be on the right side of history going forward. I felt appreciative that I can do what I can to be a force for good in this world.