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Yes, in the NSFW version she is forced to drink RAW MILK instead of WHOLE MILK.

I have to listen to my teenage self if I want to have any chance of getting him to listen to me!

“Extreme _non_violence is just as bad as extreme violence!”

Well met, sir!

Challenge accepted!

The Steam deck is pretty cool because it is just a really nice handheld PC that lets me (or, more typically, my wife) play everything in my very extensive Steam library.

Sadly, all we can afford is some ICE.

Thank you, but I figured it out after the first “Woosh” reply.

Oh, shoot… please don’t tell the cops that I bypassed my breathalyzer so that I could comment on the Internet in the morning without being drunk on coffee first!!!

Wait… why is he complaining about the “woke gay agenda” when the top app in that list is Grindr?

In fairness, the swastika was important to Hinduism long before Nazi Germany started using it, and one could argue that Indians should not feel that they need to give the symbol up just because some Europeans misused it.

On the other hand, do you think this would be giving them too much benefit of the doubt? Hindu nationalism seems to be pretty scary, after all.

It makes me sad that we have reached a point where the very randomness that makes these kinds of stories charming (to someone with a twisted sense of humor like myself) also make them less likely to be coming from a human instead of more.

I had forgotten how big of a deal it was at the time! Thank you for the reminder.

It is fine to spend time experiencing human culture in its various forms. I doubt that anyone would see it as being negative he were reading a novel in that last panel.

That is so cool! Thank you for sharing this. 🙂

It is worth noting that this paper was submitted in October of 2024, so it predates the current administration.

I had already made essentially this point earlier in another comment the day before in this post. The only way in which I have changed my position since then is that I now take the thought experiment a little more seriously as a thought experiment, rather than it merely being a useful vehicle for women to express how unsafe men make them collectively feel.

Perhaps you might consider that you yourself should put a little more thought into your posts, rather than making poor assumptions about other people.

That is an excellent point that I had not considered—it might actually be more efficient to make use of the heat in your food to heat your home than to pump it outside!

In his defense, he is doing his best to save the climate by keeping his refrigerator outside in the Winter!

I think that you are reading way too much into my whimsical injection of polar bears into the picture. 😆

Having said that, there was an element of my position that was sincere, which was that it should technically matter what bear you run into. However, MagicShel has changed my mind on this with the following comment above:

Without wading into all the technicalities, could we perhaps agree that if you have to say, “what kind of bear tho’,” that we are already in troubling territory?

Of course, all of this to some extent is beside the point because the important thing is not whether the thought experiment is technically valid or not but why women respond to it the way that they do, because if they feel that a random man is likely to be dangerous enough that they would prefer a random bear—and unfortunately violence against women is prevalent enough that this is not such an unreasonable reaction—then that reveals a societal problem that needs to be addressed.

Oh, wow, that is actually a really good point!

Me bringing polar bears into the thought experiment was intended as a (really stupid) joke, but I had nonetheless taking seriously that technically it should matter what kind of bear we are talking about. You’ve demolished that angle with your comment, though!