Notice how this guy goes right to "get punished by women" when implying a man doesn't have complete control over her. Like mutual respect and communication aren't even possibilities in his mind.
dareakinkuade Threads 2h When a woman knows you can be brutally ruthless if she misbehaves, she will always be in her best behaviour around you. Only simps and weak men get punished by women.
What does an abuser say?
That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. Jason CO @jasonc_nc. 2/8/25 I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. • 24 L7 1.8K 15K Ill 399K ... Max Dubler @maxdubler True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer
So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.
Do you mean "identify in some way", or actually know their *names*? Because my memory for names is absolutely terrible. If you include things like "this book I read when I was a kid that had X, Y, Z", then I can agree. But if you mean literally give their names, no.
I have left work to drive someone who was just a "in my gaming group" friend to the hospital because he needed it.
This guy does not actually give a shit about her at all.
My boyfriend (21M) refused to take me to hospital (21F) after asking him multiple times. I'm now questioning the relationship...... I recently became severely unwell with chronic migraine episode. I suffer with chronic hemiplegic (mimics stroke symptoms) migraine which I get treated for every 3 months using Botox. I haven't had an episode in a very long time. However the other day I have a migraine come on that was the worst pain of my life. It started in the morning and gradually got worse by the evening time. I was in tears from the pain however at this stage I could still talk. I had a phone appointment with my Dr and she advised me to go to hospital. I rang my partner (21M) while he was at work, I never call him when he is working. He didn't answer so I kept ringing until he did answer. I was on the phone crying to him explaining I needed to go to hospital. Straight away he denied and said no as he can't leave work. I got more upset. He said okay give me 10 minutes I'll call you
During this time my vision becomes blurry and my speech is slurred. I am home alone crying on the couch in pain. I couldn't use my phone to call for help or text as I couldn't see. My partner never rang me back. 1 hr and 30 mins past and he comes home. I am very upset with him but I'm glad he is home. He still doesn't take me to hospital. At 2:30 am I am crying asking to go to hospital and he keeps refusing saying it's okay just sleep, I'll take you in the morning. I didn't sleep, I lie in bed, in pain for hours. Finally, he takes me to the hospital at 7am. I am very upset with how he handled the situation. I will have this condition for the rest of my life and I need a partner to support me. Am I being dramatic by what happened? I love my partner, he is my best friend but when it comes to a situation like this, he didn't put me first. He put work before me. We have been together for many years, I'd love some advice. Thank you Note: He doesn't work in front line work or a life threa
4JLizabeth 1h Imagine what would happen if you were in labor. Next time call an Uber or an ambulance and get rid of him ASAP I have had the exact same episode you describe twice in my life, once and I was alone and once with my current partner. He took me right away and this was during the 2020 pandemic when nobody wanted to go to the hospital. Reply 136 coolcookie236 OP 1h Sounds like you have found your gem. Your partner sounds like an amazing guy. Thanks for sharing your advice -15 Adept_Mission_4829 1h Not even a gem. Just a responsible, decent person.... Examine your standards
This is the raising of standards women about talking about.
So whenever you see some dude talking about humbling and lowering standards, walk away.
House decides they’re A-ok with a significant portion of women not being able to vote. I’ll be calling my senators again tomorrow and hope you will too.
Fun debate question: is D&D 1e without dice more or less like D&D 1e than D&D 4e is?
Early '80s, I ran diceless D&D for friends at school lunch time. We didn't want to bring dice and risk losing them or idiotic lunchroom monitors take them away, so I as GM just decided what happened for stuff.
We also ran diceless Tunnels & Trolls - which, of course, was a very different game!
On a podcast this week, California GOP congressional candidate Dennis Feitosa said that white nationalist Nick Fuentes was "charismatic" & "capable of reaching a lot of people," meaning "narratives that the Jews are putting out there is going to effectively, you know, get a little weaker."
I feel like whoever came up with that saying had a very strange understanding of the word "dangerous".
I remember long-ago conservations on the old rpg-create mailing list with someone who believed that people making rules-light RPGs actually hated RPGs and were trying to kill the hobby.
I wish I was joking....
A murderer is a murderer. If the problem is that the state is sponsoring and defending a murderer and saying so aloud causes the state to sponsor and defend more murders, the source of this problem becomes utterly apparent.
Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?
Okay, might as well get this started.
It's January 1, which means, as I'm sure you all know, that there's a whole new bunch of characters who have entered the public domain. This time around, it's characters created in 1930.
The following is a list of pulp & pulpy characters now in the p.d.
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Silhouette of Batman from Batman: The Animated Series
Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.
This was in 1989. I was 19. My players were around the same age.
And these grown-ass men, 35 years later, think you can't have fun in a fantasy game without being able to treat the antagonists as sub-human.
Sheesh.
* the PCs discovered the orcs were encroaching into dwarven lands because elves had pushed them out of their ancestral homelands
* the PCs found empty land on the other side of the dwarven lands, and negotiated passage for the orcs through the dwarven lands
One of the first arcs I did when I started my first homebrew campaign went like this:
* orcs were invading dwarven lands
* the PCs managed to fight the invasion to a standstill
* the PCs were asked to negotiate a peace treaty
garciaxmariax 19h This is the world liberals want 8 HEATED RIVALRY Heated Rivalry A man cooking , cleaning, and child rearing while a woman plays video games.
These types of dudes are afraid women will treat them they way they want to treat women.
I know I prolly need to reschedule rheumatologist and take the cancel fee next time. But I *really* NEED to make it to CT scan and neurologist today. If I get enough shares to get 25 from 3 people, that will get it done. Please. 🙏💖
I chaired an IRB for years, and ran a gigantic human research protections program even longer. The unethical nature of this proposed research is clear. It would not pass muster when examined under the Common Rule, Subpart D, or FDA regulations. Safety and efficacy have been established. Unethical.
Worse than Tuskegee because at least at the start of that trial there wasn't already an effective therapy. Hit's all the other marks though - single blind, on a vulnerable population, white investigators, black patients etc. Just a big ol racist boondoggle.
This is just Tuskegee levels of malfeasance. Like the example you would put on a public health ethics 101 training and then scrap it because it's too obvious.
This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands
Now, I personally love reading, and read something like two or three books a week all through junior high, high school, and college... but that was on my own, not assigned for English!
Wait, did US kids *ever* read a lot of full books in school? I don't remember us reading more than "one or two a year" in high school, and I graduated in 1988. Mostly we did short stories and writing exercises... and I was in Honors and AP classes.
