ChainsawAsh

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

Warbler said:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/mount-holyoke-college-women-tells-professors-avoid-word-women-020618924.html

I am telling you its mad, mad, mad, mad world

Tell me, in your own words please, how this is “mad?”

It seems insane to me to outlaw the use of a term such a “woman”. It also seems insane to me to say that you can’t assume someone who isn’t a woman, isn’t a student a women’s college.

The 1950’s called, they’re looking for you.

(Ok, to be fair, the 2010’s called too, but still, this is an outdated way of thinking.)

ah, of course.

It’s a binary way of thinking.

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ALLOL!

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

ray_afraid said:

Maybe I’m looking at this wrong, but if you don’t identify as a woman, why go to a “college for women”?
And if a person with a penis identifies as a woman, will they admit this person?

Why is there still a “college for woman”? It would not be allowed in any way shape or form a “college for men”.

Why is there still a “college for black?” It would not be allowed in any way shape or form a “college for whites”.

Don’t quite get the point you’re trying to make here. Seems pretty much the same as Warbler’s point, I think.

moviefreakedmind said:

ChainsawAsh said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Why are people taking out 100,000 dollars in debt to go to this school?

Why do people take on incredible amounts of debt to go to any school?

Genuinely asking, I have no idea why I did it either.

It was hammered into me that it’d be the only way I could get a job and not live a shit life. To be fair, I do live moderately well, but that’s just because I live cheap and don’t have a family.

Yep, basically this for me too.

moviefreakedmind said:

Why are people taking out 100,000 dollars in debt to go to this school?

Why do people take on incredible amounts of debt to go to any school?

Genuinely asking, I have no idea why I did it either.

Jeebus said:

I think if his hand did drop, it would’ve totally ruined the tone of the scene. It would come off as a joke, and that certainly wasn’t the time for jokes.

Johnson has commented on this and said pretty much exactly this. Mark may have as well.

Raiders is IMO an absolutely perfect film, but E.T. is up there too.

dahmage said:

ChainsawAsh said:

So happy I found a faster way to clear my cache on my phone.

faster than a factory reset?

I know you’re joking, but on Android, press and hold on the browser icon (Chrome in my case). After a second, it’ll start “wobbling” and a popup menu will appear, with the options to uninstall or go to app info. Go to app info, click storage, and then voila - clear cache is right there! Much easier than going through settings, apps, app management, scrolling until you find the browser app…

JEDIT: Stupid swipe text errors…

So happy I found a faster way to clear my cache on my phone.

paja said:

Whipleash

CatBus said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Mrebo said:

I like that 75,000 people just up and decided that heroin didn’t taste as good once it was legal 😉

Those are hipsters for you.

Although I like your answer better, Portugal’s laws didn’t just decriminalize and walk away. They decriminalized and were very aggressive with making treatment options available.

This is true, and I absolutely think the way to go is full legalization in addition to a very heavy focus on harm reduction and treatment. Legalization without shifting focus onto treatment is not a smart move IMO.

It’s fine, TAS only has the one audio track. 😉

The solution to all of this is simply to watch Restructured instead! 😄

DuracellEnergizer said:

chyron8472 said:

There is no amount of meth or heroine or cocaine or LSD (et al.) that does not ruin lives.

As LSD isn’t addictive, I don’t see how it can ruin lives.

The biggest risk with LSD use is the potential to cause an earlier onset of mental illnesses like schizophrenia, but it won’t make someone schizophrenic who wasn’t already going to develop the condition, just make it manifest earlier.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/opinion/sunday/portugal-drug-decriminalization.html

only about 25,000 Portuguese use heroin, down from 100,000 when the policy began.

The number of Portuguese dying from overdoses plunged more than 85 percent before rising a bit in the aftermath of the European economic crisis of recent years. Even so, Portugal’s drug mortality rate is the lowest in Western Europe — one-tenth the rate of Britain or Denmark — and about one-fiftieth the latest number for the U.S.

In 1999, Portugal had the highest rate of drug-related AIDS in the European Union; since then, H.I.V. diagnoses attributed to injections have fallen by more than 90 percent and Portugal is no longer at the high end in Europe.

Just a couple highlights from the article linked, which, by the way, was written in September.

moviefreakedmind said:

Mrebo said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Mrebo said:

if hard drugs are legal, do you think that should or should not be a basis for deciding on child custody between divorced parents?

Of course it should.

Should evidence of hard drug use justify social services going into a home to at least temporarily take away children?

Of course it should.

Basically, are you going to pretend that hard drug use by parents doesn’t pose an inherent threat to children?

Of course it does.

You know what else does? Alcoholism.

I think hard drug use poses a far greater threat to children. If I see a parent buying a bottle of hard liquor versus buying meth, I’m going to have a very different view of that, as it seems you would also. If hard drugs have a lessened stigma and are more readily available, more people are going to use. Parents addicted to hard drugs may let their children be exploited in addition to neglecting them. For this increased negative possibility, the benefit is what? Greater freedom for people to mess their lives up as drug addicts?

This strikes a nerve with me. You chose meth because it’s the obvious worst example, but the amount of children abused by drunken parents is staggering. All of the crap you listed is common in the homes of children living with parents that are severe alcoholics. For you to downplay it sickens me.

EDIT: Basically, I’m tired of this hypocrisy. Alcohol ruins more lives than hard drugs do. If you or anyone else are going to pretend to care about drug-users and the children (somebody think of the children!) then you have to be in favor of criminalizing alcohol too. If you’re not, then you’re a hypocrite.

+1

Mrebo said:

If hard drugs have a lessened stigma and are more readily available, more people are going to use.

This is actually demonstrably false. Look at the statistics in Portugal since they decriminalized.

Full legalization would be a little different, sure, but I strongly doubt you’d see an increase in hard drug use with that either.

For this increased negative possibility, the benefit is what? Greater freedom for people to mess their lives up as drug addicts?

Oh, let’s see…fewer people incarcerated for nonviolent offenses, less money being poured into a losing “war on drugs,” fewer deaths from gangs and organized crime since any black market in drugs post-legalization would be massively less profitable than it currently is under criminalization…just to name three things.

Mrebo said:

if hard drugs are legal, do you think that should or should not be a basis for deciding on child custody between divorced parents?

Of course it should.

Should evidence of hard drug use justify social services going into a home to at least temporarily take away children?

Of course it should.

Basically, are you going to pretend that hard drug use by parents doesn’t pose an inherent threat to children?

Of course it does.

You know what else does? Alcoholism.

Children can be taken from their parents due to neglect even if they don’t use drugs, so I don’t see the issue you think you’re raising.

And one more, to wash that Slurm taste out of my mouth.

Possessed said:

I think all drugs should be legal without restriction. That way people that want to do them can do so without hurting anybody, and if they die it’s their own fault and our overpopulated planet would probably be better off. Let people hurt themselves if they want to, making them illegal is only causing people to Engage in other activities that are actually criminal to get it.

+2

Full legalization would also cripple organized crime, saving a lot of lives. Sure, they’d find something else to make money with, but not in the staggering numbers something like, say, the cocaine trade brings in.

Dek Rollins said:

Ha, he got sucked in eh?

Yep! He said it was “Ballad” that did it and thanked me for making him watch up to that episode.

Dek Rollins said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Dek Rollins said:

If Frink were to watch Cowboy Bebop (which he won’t), I actually wouldn’t recommend the movie first. The plot is far less interesting because of the grander scale it tries to portray. Anyone who’s new to the series should just watch the first couple episodes to get introduced to the characters and what they do.

I suggested it because I’ve had bad luck a couple times with people not digging the first episode or two of the show.

Hm, interesting. Did these people take more interest in the movie?

Usually, yes. One didn’t watch the movie but promised me he’d watch through Ballad of Fallen Angels before giving up on it. He texted me two days later, having binged all 26 episodes, to ask to borrow the movie.

Dek Rollins said:

If Frink were to watch Cowboy Bebop (which he won’t), I actually wouldn’t recommend the movie first. The plot is far less interesting because of the grander scale it tries to portray. Anyone who’s new to the series should just watch the first couple episodes to get introduced to the characters and what they do.

I suggested it because I’ve had bad luck a couple times with people not digging the first episode or two of the show.

Ah, okay. They split it up into volumes for DVD/BR then. Makes sense.

There’s no season 2 of Bebop either. That was the joke.

JEDIT: Actually, if you like Firefly, Frink, you should give Bebop a chance. There’s a very good, totally standalone Cowboy Bebop movie, I’d give that a shot as your introduction to the series (though it’s not a long series to commit to - 26 half-hour episodes).