My requirements are bidirectional communication. If the buttplug doesn’t register and decode clench-morsecode, I will not use it!

If you are in power, your gender becomes irrelevant.

Why else would a fuckton of oppressive monarchs be women?

Fair enough, I thought the “Fuck the colorblind” meme/image was somewhat known and changing it to “Fuck the imgur-blind” would make sense.

At least it will – presumably – make more sense for nearly every single British person that might see this in a couple of hours.

Though I do agree imgur sucks. I usually use img.bb when I need external image hosting, catbox occasionally blocks the IP address(es) of my VPN.

You didn’t put this on imgur! Now every Brit can tell what it says >:(

I now see how posting this at 12 am UTC could lead to more colorblind people than British people stumbling across this meme first.

Block and move on if you care so much about someone not conforming to grammar conventions in the most harmless manner imaginable.

Just imagine your comment under someone using all lower case letters instead of capitalizing Proper Nouns and the beginning of sentences.

You support Palestine because you believe they are the victims of genocide.

I support Palestine because I believe they are the perpetrators of genocide.

We are not the same.

Is “tgg he stay” an auto-miscorrected variant of “that is still”?

Does the scenario you provided even measure emotional intelligence? I feel like it measires confidence and willingness to confront someone, neither of which feel particularly related to emotional intelligence.

Also, to be frank, I don’t think many people consider the ability to revognize the emotions of others and to empathize as “intelligent”. A blind person isn’t unintelligent because they cannot see, so why would you use the term emotionally unintelligent for a person that is blind with regards to recognizing emotions?

To some extent, though I still often hear people using the 12 hour system.

Just yesterday I’ve heard someone complain about their night shift which starts at 6.

Especially because in German you can’t say “half 17” for 16:30, only “half 5”. You save two whole syllables with this way over “sixteen thirty”!

Yes, the joke is that being raped makes you a woman. Not very funny imo.

Nope, the treaty with Ukraine (purposefully) never specified consequences for anyone violating it. It only said (I’m paraphrasing here because I don’t want to look it up) that the signatories will respect Ukraine’s borders.

The US respects this treaty still and doesn’t recognize Russia’s claims to Ukrainian land. The lack of specified consequences for anyone violating it makes the treaty nearly worthless.

Signing “I will respect your border” is very much different from “I will defend your borders”.

The UK had a defence treaty with Poland though. Had this treaty not existed, the UK would’ve probably done nothing.

The UK didn’t start the conflict, it was Germany who forced them to act or lose all trust in upholding international treaties.

Hasn’t he admitted to changing his opinion after learning about the effects on children? I’m not in the loop about this.

But yeah, you definitely shouldn’t treat his words as gospel. A lot of questionable-at-best stuff in there.

I sometimes like to read his political posts:

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2025-jul-oct.html

And honestly? I mostly agree with them? Like this:

ABC ordered to pay Antoinette Lattouf another $150,000 for unlawful termination over Gaza Instagram post.

But a company faced with enormous threats wielded by fascist officials who demand that certain views be suppressed will treat such penalties as the normal cost of sucking up.

The [Israeli] army says that HAMAS is using apartment buildings for “surveillance”, and has bombed some of those buildings to destroy them. Based on this logic, the army might bomb every tall building in Gaza City with the large bombs that the US is providing

He has some questionable beliefs as well, though for unusual reasons. He accepts non-binary people but refuses to use they/them pronouns because he doesn’t like the ambiguity of singular/plural pronouns. So he has invented the neopronouns per/pers to refer to singular non-binary persons. I genuinely think no other person on this planet could hold this opinion.

Not gonna lie, that’s such a boring, corporate term.

Germans use the much more creative expression of travelling to Balconia.

Same here.

A pattern in almost every song, book, poem, movie?

Like greed? Antisocial behavior? Populism? Lies? Belief in your own supremacy? Capitalism?

Honestly, my first thoughts were they witnessed Cthulu. Though I suspect they intentionally chose to phrase it such that it invokes this analogy.

If we ignore the pattern aspect they mentioned maybe how history repeats itself? How tyranny emerges and sustains itself on fear and oppression?

I have no clue. It’s so vague.

When I met Ralph, he actually gave me enough fentanyl to overdose every day for a century.

(I haven’t met Ralph [A false precondition says nothing about the truth of the postcondition])

According to the German (I have not found an EU equivalent) office for statistics, you are part of the top 1% of full-time workers if you earn >213,286€ per year:

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2025/04/PD25_134_621.html

Sure, this doesn’t include billionaires who don’t work but there just aren’t enough of them to matter. It’s not like there are hundreds of thousands billionaires in Germany.

Earning 400,000€ in two years makes you part of the 1% though?? Where else would this guy be? Upper middle class?