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  • Frat boys are college guys who are apart of a fraternity.

    Bears are gay men that are fat and/or hairy. (Wikipedia’s words, not mine)

    Raves are a type of party with light shows, glow sticks, etc, to produce a certain aesthetic.

    Burning Man is a specific week-long party that happens out in the desert. Many camps are erected and it becomes a caravan city, essentially.

    The comic is saying that the character who keeps get bad vibes from the bears formerly went to Goth parties and likely had bad experiences from frat boys at those parties.

    In this case, though, because burning Man costs a ticket fee and alot of other things to go to, and because all the bears are gonna flirt with every guy and anyone who is even slightly homophobic is gonna get uncomfortable and leave, there are only bears around in the place they’re at.









  • The conversation has to broach:

    • Medical standards groups have our interests at heart even if medical companies do not
    • trans people exist and have a right to live how they like.
    • Children have a right to some self-determination, including figuring out their sexual preference and gender identity.
    • All people deserve affordable health care and affordable housing, regardless of their race, religion, or background.
    • Criminals deserve to be treated as human beings. Jails directly stand in opposition to that.
    • there’s likely more that I can’t think of.

    These ‘dialogues’ are not about things the left can morally budge on, and they’re insanely exhausting, especially when your opponent isn’t arguing in good faith. No one is obligated to go through that social stress, and frankly it’s probably easier for most to just physically fight right-wing zealots.



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    4 days ago

    Careful with the noble savage fallacy. Europe was constantly ravaged by disease due to animal domestication, in ways the Americas were not. Many Native American civilizations created insane mathematical, ecological, and civil wonders during their existences. They 100% would have used double-blind studies if they had any major reason to advance medicine prior to Europeans bringing plagues.



  • I think that spring still leaves ambiguity. A very thick, powerful spring like that in an ejection seat could probably get the bowling ball airborne, but wouldn’t actually impart anywhere near the same amount of energy on the marble.

    A small elastic band like that used in a slingshot on the other hand would have difficulty getting the bowling ball to fly at all but could turn the marble into a bullet.



  • A bowling ball imparted with the momentum from a slingshot won’t even have the energy to stay air-borne.

    The marble imparted with the momentum from a slingshot will fracture or even penetrate your skull.

    Momentum is m*v. However, kinetic energy is (1/2)m*v^2, where the velocity is providing exponentially more to the equation.