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The difference is I didn’t pull a lever or make a choice to help ensure that those people who die every day would die. And I disagree about ignoring things because I “have no reasonable influence” over them. I might not be able to change the fact that people die every day, but I sure as hell can act responsibly to help make sure I’m not part of the problem (i.e, I’m a safe driver, I don’t drink, I don’t own a gun, etc.). I do not think that anyone on earth is more non-ignorant of and conscientious about the plight of others on this planet, something I think about constantly.

What is it about spiders, especially black shiny ones, that brings out the ICK factor and the OOG factor. I’d rather deal with the guy on the left, and I really don’t want to do that at all. There’s something about radial symmetry - having lots of legs in a radial pattern that is somehow frightening to our brains, I think. Remember the fence around the forbidden lands in Planet of the Apes? It looked like big spiders to me and scared me as a kid.

:( poor turtle orphling. I don’t agree that the secret to a long life is a burden free life, but that the secret to a long life is strength that comes from meeting and resolving the challenges that get thrown at you. It’s not the easy things but the hard things that give you scars that make you stronger.

I still would not be able to live with any action that caused people to die, whether it was my moral fault or not. And I wouldn’t want to have to live with that either.

Oh…it didn’t state that in the graphic. If it IS an unstoppable object, then I’d have to throw myself in front of it after making either choice, because I couldn’t and wouldn’t want to live with either of those choices.

I would take a sledgehammer and smash the trolley to bits, thus solving the problem and saving infinite number of lives. There’s always another option available.

That’s how I feel about it. When you get over being a spoiled teenager, you should develop a sense of maturity and responsibility. Part of being a real adult is having the social responsibility to get vaccinated to help protect and take care of others, not just yourself.

This is satire, absolutely. Yet not inaccurate in terms of how “Christian” bigots actually think vaccines work. You can tell how illiterate and uneducated someone is by how few vaccines they’ve bothered to get for themselves or their children. And such worthless vermin SHOULD go and die, and leave the rest of us to be responsible adults as we are meant to be.

I’d love to go to that kind of party, where rainbow cake is served along with a slice of anthropological oration. But even though I’m gay (and therefore supposed to accept every odd idea that comes along, apparently), I’m not sure gender is a “social construct” alone. There are so many other things that can play into it including hormones and body image and psychological stuff - yet I still feel it was so much easier and breezier when we could just call ourselves men or women or he or she. *(not that I’m against people calling themselves whatever else they want).

I’d really like to try a bidet - as unmanly as that may sound. I’d feel much cleaner and my butthole could sparkle in the sunlight.

It probably is better for the septic tank, but so would be wiping yourself with your bare hand for that matter. And I’m not sure you’d notice the difference from using one-ply paper.

Hmmm, reusable cubes. I hadn’t considered that, I want some!!

It better be made out of gold with massaging purple ass cushions, at that price.

Which in America, we call snails with dirt.

Actual plywood might have worked better (!). I hate one-ply and I have a whole shitload of it because I bought it on sale without realizing it was one ply. Only good thing I can say about it is, ---- OK there’s nothing good I can say about it.

Cheap one ply toilet paper will make you question whether there really is a god or not. I’d sooner wipe my backside with a corn cob.

Sounds nice, I’m looking at buying a new fridge and they aren’t that expensive, but it’s worth it for the icemaker alone, I love ice water also (and tons of ice in my diet coke!). Living in Utah, the colder and wetter something is, the better. The air here makes your throat parched, so it’s great to have that ice water pretty much year round.

A refrigerator with a good ice maker is worth the extra expense. Our ice maker just gave out, and I’d forgotten how much a pain in the butt it is to make ice in plastic trays.

Most Americans don’t support Ukraine or Russia, we’re very self-absorbed and very much believe America rules all other countries. We do believe in military support for the Ukrainian army, however, especially where Russia is the aggressor. And thanks for the invite to suck a dick, we’ll be there!!

C’mon you gotta love the original Star Trek series at the very least. I mean it was a milestone and it’s still my favorite of all the Treks out there.

The fact that it has so many communities (for Trek in general) shows that it really resonates with people across the board. I can’t think of many other shows that have achieved that. Its the mix of science fiction and adventure with very human emotions and problems that make it so appealing, I think.