at 17yo I thought my circumcision scar was a birthmark and I didn't know you had to have sex at least once per pregnancy

parents, please tell your kids where babies come from and what all their parts are supposed to do, and don't circumcise them either

this classic image's time to shine

The "before I cave in" remark is probably just about failing the "avert my eyes" thing and looking at the women in the Mat 5:28, committing adultery in your heart kind of way. From a Catholic perspective OOP's concerns are completely reasonable as even thinking about sex too hard is supposed to send you to the forever torture zone. I doubt this guy is a hair trigger away from committing SA but the situation is disturbing in a few other ways

Source: am ex-cradle-Catholic and read all the stuff about sexual morality

map is outdated, Benedict XVI died in 2022

edit: map is not outdated, the Vatican is half a square kilometer

Besides the immediate threat of mass rioting and an armed resistance no matter who you're flogging, public torture as entertainment is a very, very bad precedent to set, and only serves to build up a culture of antipathy. Imagine how the wider justice system would change once that's normalized.

To quote the words of the Behind the Bastards podcast, I think you should make it absolutely priority #1 to get your condition treated and prevent yourself from committing sex crimes, as in, it should be a slightly higher priority than breathing

PSA that, while having said profound things about loneliness and addiction as of late, Johann Hari has a long history of plagiarism and making stuff up, and once really strongly implied in a TED Talk that if you have good social support then it can just vanish your opiate withdrawal symptoms

@5:00 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PY9DcIMGxMs generally just web search this guy

I wonder what it sounds like to physically speak something in parentheses

I understand and appreciate the intent of what you're saying, but I have really bad executive dysfunction/ADHD/whatever issues that make this not a realistic choice for me. This post wouldn't need to exist if I had the motivation to sit down and read my way to victory. Long-form listenable content is also just much easier for me to multitask with.

Congratulations, you've invented the Martingale betting system and are well on your way to becoming an adept probability theorist

The short answer is that casinos account for this by changing the profit returns and the odds of making a profit at all so that catastrophic losses are much more likely

there are a few valid reasons to take issue with certain religions besides just "being edgy" - most have stuff in their scripture and doctrines that's unpalatable to the common unaffiliated person.

This is the short version of my comment where I don't cite a wide range of questionable passages from several religions. I'm trying to hold myself back. If you DM me wanting to get into it I'll be polite

The Mandela Effect does not exist in the manner you're describing, and by priming your audience to expect a specific false memory you're tainting the data from any responses you get.

People wouldn't have the Berenstain/Bernstein thing mixed up in their heads so much if the conversation about it was always phrased as "Who are the authors of that old children's picture book series with the bears?" instead of adding doubt with "Do you remember the authors as Berenstain or Bernstein?"

you don't have one of those DM_ME_(thing) usernames

A good line from a video about a cancelled game jam documentary: "Matti was hired as a Pepsi Consultant, a job title less dignified than Human Trafficker"

Usually for the same reasons you'd get entangled in a movie or book? Games are allowed to be emotionally complex just the same as any other form of media, and the interactive aspect gives them some extra leverage for it that others lack.

Probably not. I found a website that has TNG episode transcripts and I did a web search within it by putting "site:http://chakoteya.net/NextGen/ snoring" into duckduckgo. It only reports Wesley snoring in "Evolution" and Worf snoring in "Redemption: Part 2". Searching for the keyword "snore" gave no useful results.

In the last 48 hours they've only posted on their Facebook about how they helped get Trump elected and criticized (insulted) a study that examines "the relationship between community-level firearm violence and dental health". They seem pretty unconcerned

It's meant to roughly gauge how clearly you picture things in your mind's eye by asking you which apple you see when prompted to imagine one. #5 references the lack of a mind's eye in people with Aphantasia (coincidentally this Wikipedia article has this same chart as a header image)

I got stoned in VRChat for the first time, not too long after getting my first VR headset. As a furry who's very interested in screwing with my sense of self, this was a really big deal to me in a way I can't easily explain.

I imagine OOP was asked "Would you kill your own child if you thought it was divine mandate" mere minutes before posting this