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I'll take mine medium rare

 

That's called Blue rare in liberal states if you ever want to order one

 

Pittsburgh rare is the only way to go

 

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

Edit: Until carrying a child to term and giving birth is as safe as an abortion, forcing a woman to do the former legally is analogous to forcing someone to donate a kidney. I could not and would not do that and I don't want the government doing it on my behalf. Everything the government does is in our name. That said, Roe v. Wade is a poorly- reasoned, lawless decision completely untethered from the language of the constitution and precedent. Abortion, as a matter of policy should be legal. Maybe not anytime, anywhere purely on demand, but ultimately available safely and legally. But it should be the states making those decisions, not the Feds. There is no constitutional right to abortion, except maybe in the imaginations of Potter Stewart and Wm. O. Douglas.

 

Maybe...but it seems you want this information so you can tell them why they are wrong. That's a sad life to live.....

 

No, I don't really think anyone is wrong. I travel around talking to people about their positions, generally with more tact than this. I've talked to a couple thousand people at this point about all sorts of things, at length. I talk to people because I find that everyone knows something I don't, and it's valuable to integrate how they look at things. I understand and accept how that's a perfectly reasonable conclusion given the short interaction you've had with me here, though. I'd probably make the same call in your position. Admittedly, I am very stressed out these past few days. Sorry if that somehow came out at you in any way.

 

I like Lower Deck, definitely better than Discovery and Picard, combined

 

Really? I find that hard to believe... or maybe I've just been exposed to too many scummy people.

I have met very racist people over the years. Those who would quip that it was a shame such'n'such couldn't be "cleaned" off the streets. So much of it is institutionalized/generational hate, but there's so much "new" hate too that it almost seems fashionable.

I used to work with a guy who was so homophobic that he believed getting a blowjob from his wife was gay because that meant if he kissed her his lips would be touching penis secondhand. This same guy laughed about how the police would "protect" the gays in his home country during pride parades then turn around and stone them, and wishing he could join in.

I want to believe that people are good as a whole, but I don't have a very high viewpoint of humanity these days. Actually in a way the pandemic has been good for that, because I just deal with less people overall now and see less of the hate except for the crap online which frankly isn't healthy for anyone in the first place.

 

I for one think that your statement tells us more about you than Soliloqueen‘s real intentions. I find hervcontributions in this thread a breath of fresh air. The amount of words with capital letters and those ending in -ism tend to give me a headache. Yet to find an -ism or an organisation starting with a capital letter which I could wholeheartedly trust.

 

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I wasn't there, but I think UK, when they got around to it, had fairly strict lockdown.

I was there, and India lockdown, at least at first was a bit totalitarian! Cops were beating people up for going out! Even now, we are having daft lockdown, like only on Sunday and night curfew.

Are you saying that they were not taken seriously? My real knowledge of history is very poor, but in plague days, didn't whole villages close to outsiders? Weren't people quite serious in the flu pandemic about 100 years ago, but made the mistake of thinking it was all over when it wasn't?
I'm not sure: historians please correct.

My theory about what makes this plague, pandemic, or whatever name one wants to call it, different is: internet and social media. Blessing and Curse: what, equally? How do people rate that?

Ethics doesn't need religion, and never did. The urge to be better needs definition of good.

But some people are monsters! Not just the famous ones; lots of ordinary, every-day monsters about.

(I do believe that people are basically good, or, at least, not bad.)

I do agree with the comments about existing! And my personal belief is that, having decided to come here, if one route closed, we'd just have found another one.

I'm adopted too. 1950s Britain, where single mothers could be committed to mental institutions for the mental illness of loose morals (or something like that, they called it). Yes, I'm glad that someone gave birth to me; yes, I'm delighted that a great couple then took on the task of being my effective mother and father after that.

Very true.

A cow is going to die because of you! Monster!

( I'm a meat eater too)

 

That's, really, all I was saying.

 

Going to post this from the film thread about the "wokeness" in entertainment. Credit goes to @ColtMrFire. Article from the link does have some interesting reader comments.

 

It's just a powder keg ready to blow.

 

I didn't read the comments or the article for that matter - just the snippet @ColtMrFire posted, but I'm not surprised. I have a "you made your bed, now you have to lie in it" attitude. It's a problem with heterogeneous cultures, they usually become purity cultures sooner or later.

 

Mo' Yeoh is always good.