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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Came here to mention this one. I'll be 36 soon and that story still haunts me 20 some odd years after reading it in class. Link for the curious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

thaw and pan fry them, it's fucken amazing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

It's all too common when anti-phrenology people don't understand phreno101.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

For context, this book came out the previous year: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

oh look yet another warmed over "DAE the kids r bad" talking point that i've been hearing literally since i learned language.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it's been a long time for me too lol, took some googling to find the name "mortron". i remember the alien you're talking about but i don't remember what it's called or which book.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

these are Mortons, from the Andalite Chronicles

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

i don't disagree with that person but it's a weird hill to die on, and their behavior is an atrocious embarassment to all feminists and queer people. nobody is going to change their mind after reading that stuck-up, insulting, pendantic rant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

you're not wrong BUT

cramming nuanced and counterintuitive sociological topics down peoples' throats and then calling them bigots and idiots when it doesn't click right away makes you look like a crazy person. if i didn't already agree with you i'd be far less inclined adopt your viewpoint after having an interaction like this, because every time it came up again i would remember your smug ass on a high horse wielding it like a cudgel and mentally disengage.

you need to ease up and give people time to explore and integrate new ideas and perspectives, especially things like this that involve subtleties of linguistics and human psychology - not insult them and storm off when it doesn't take right away. acting this way just makes people double down on their position.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

i read it as "obligated to go to church" too but he wrote "obligated to go to a church". damn english.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

this. milk is fucking disgusting.

 
 
 
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