The platinum rule is fine insofar as it’s true and not a bad thing to consider it just doesn’t make sense to me to chalk it up to another rule.

I don’t really think it is a better rule. For one thing, it’s encapsulated in the golden rule as I explained. For another thing the golden rule is phrased the way it is because it’s meant as an introspective idea. It’s meant as a heuristic when you can’t know how someone else might want to be treated, or when you are making a decision that might affect other people without full information of who they are or what they want.

Part of the reason we teach it to kids so that they can have an understanding that their actions affect other people to the same extent that other people affect them.

I think the nuance of the golden rule is that “treat others the way you want to be treated.” Implies that the way I want to be treated is that I want someone to consider that I might be different to them. If someone was unsure of how I want to be treated, I would want to be asked, or have them be considerate enough to avoid treatment they’re unsure about, therefore, I do the same. It doesn’t mean “punch someone because you want to be punched.” (To exaggerate).

The golden rule is perfect if you use that bit of nuance and we don’t have to make up a new rule.

3 or 5 they’re two different moods. 4 is too in the middle for me.

Or: God is real, he’s as vindictive, petty, and cruel as the Bible portrays him to be and anyone like that you definitely don’t want whatever their idea of heaven would be.

“In one go” is a loose term here. You’re not going to feel pretty tomorrow no matter which way you slice it, but if you start at like 7pm and are up until like 1 or 2 in the morning that’s a lot of time to space out the drinking. For a 750 ml bottle that’s about 2.5 shots an hour. Bad for you, but doable. Not to mention they did not fill the cup up with a whole bottle.

Source: have done.

Cocaine

ITT lotsa people who have never been made aware of “morning breath”

Because your body naturally produces things you need to clean, it’s like 75% of the reason you do it. Eating stuff just speeds up the production of bacteria. Give your breath a smell as you wake up in the morning before you eat anything, it reeks.

You should brush your teeth in the morning whether you eat breakfast or not.

So often it’s me typing out a big old comment. Realizing I can preempt some nuance to help the conversation. Thinking of a dozen more little nitpicks that might happen and realizing it’s just not worth it and it’s really the idiocy of the argument that’s making it so hard to explain myself.

Quick ≠ bad

Forgive me for being a plebian but as someone who only casually engages with the internet, I’ve always wondered academically how one ensures their safety when pursuing a piratecal life.

That’s funny I’ve had the “…but not quite” in my vocabulary for years and I never realized where it might be from.

And the last panel just tells you to use cocaine, unrelated.

To point 3, I heard some author point out, and I think it makes a lot of sense, that reading bad writing can maybe tell you what not to do, but there’s so much good writing out there, more than you could read in a lifetime, that it just doesn’t make sense not to read all the best books. If you read in a world of excellent writing your standards are that high and you can still take lessons from the worst of the best.

Yeah the take plays against their point and into the hands of fascists. A common retort from “capitalists” goes “well why doesn’t your economic system compete on the free market? If it’s so good it will rise to the top.” You believing your ideology will defacto rise from a blank slate after society collapses lends credence to that argument. (Which is flawed in so many ways)

I was going to say. If I lived there there wouldn’t be nearly as much trash on the lawn and it’s honestly pretty cozy

Yeah but then when I see a backwards L I don’t know what the fuck’s going on

Buddy you have got to rephrase this.

Yeah. A well stocked pantry could be anything from oil, salt and spices to like condensed milk, noodles, other vegetables or even prepped sauces.

“WhAt Is GoInG oN???¿‽”

Followed by that article. Horrific journalism.