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Can 6000 Nuns Be Wrong? published in 1950 by The Catechetical Guild 

I do think the ability to emoji-react is a net win for human communication. not only does it give you an outlet for 'I see and acknowledge this but don't have a verbal response' but it also adds a pleasing alethiometer element to things

my coworker announces that he's off to the dentist. someone reacts with a tooth emoji. is this a statement of dentist solidarity? a wish for my coworker to return with more (or fewer?) teeth than he set out with? simple word association? who can say

Pacific Sideband (Monadenia fidelis)

The binturong of tiredness

I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.

He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense

Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.

He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM

my actual vampire hot take is that if you're going to be a 'vegetarian' vampire (a vampire that only drinks the blood of animals) you MUST have hunter education. i'm so sick of people being like oh well predator animals are mean and scary because they kill cute 'harmless' animals like NO they're crucial for the environment and if you're going to hunt animals for blood you still need to stick to regular people hunting guidelines and only hunt things that are in season and abide by your areas bag limits

vampire that did a detailed study about whether vampires can get prion diseases and concluded they can't and preferentially hunts animals with chronic wasting disease. and then incinerates the corpses.

vampire who is a woke predation abolitionist and so exclusively hunts predators, leaving primarily herbivorous and scavenging animals alone

"For miles around the foul creature's lair is nothing but barren wastes"

"because of The Curse?"

"Because of the deer and rabbits, fucking thing ate all the wolves"

This is why you see so many many many "we can't vote our way out of this" posts online. They know that sentiment will depress turnout. Turnout that will get the people paying them kicked out of power.

Vote

Hungarian voters were smart on an individual level, throwing their support behind Magyar over how they might have traditionally voted, but there was an institutional element to it as well: it took most of the other parties dropping out of contention in order to clear the decks and avoid vote-splitting, which was a brave and principled thing for them to do.

To put this in American terms: They teamed up to elect Mitt Romney to defeat Donald Trump, something our left would never do.

We couldn't get people to team up to elect Harris, who was better than Romney would have been.

The problem isn't "the left" but the centrists.

It wasn't the centrists screaming "Holocaust Harris" at the anti-Trump candidate. Particularly galling, as Harris "earned" this epithet for the crime of not endorsing the mass murder of Jews.

Kamala Harris was the single most left-wing candidate ever ran by a major party. No exceptions. The American strasserite movement ratfucked her without hesitation or restraint.

Speaking as a Leftist; we can't fix our problems if we refuse to recognize what they are.

gas bubbles that make you temporarily insane don't exist, and properly trained cave divers are prepared for pretty much whatever

cave diving perfectly safe! cave diving safe and fun! cave so pretty! look at pretty cave! awaaaaaw! get in cave! wet!

Cave Mouth perfec t size for put monkey in to p\lay! inside very Soft and Comfort monkey play fun put monkey in Cave Mouth. Put monkey in Cave Mouth. no problems ever in ccave mouth because good Shape and Wet adventure for big monkey brain of need fun and adventure. Cave Mouth yes a place for a monkey put monkey in cave mouth can trust cave for giveing good fun for monkey. friend cave

Birds of Greenland /Kalaallit Nunaat /Grønland, 1987 - 90

Four different people at the nursing home I worked at had this clock. It was a lot, let me tell you.

“Build me an army worthy of Mordor!”

lmao

😂 okay yall

youre also banned from medina, but they changed the signs there lmao

and yet anyone can go to the kotel. hmmm

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