Seleni

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[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The problem tends to be that (1) experts are only experts in their own fields, but have a distressing tendency to think that makes them experts in all fields and (2) an expert is often only an expert if unchallenged. Plenty of ‘experts’ have had their research get supplanted—or attempts have been made to supplant it—with newer, more accurate research, but the older so-called experts often fight against that newer research so as not to lose their exalted status. Sadly, you see often in science (look at how Louis Pasteur was treated when he dared to suggest bacteria caused disease).

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

I hate to say it, but I absolutely guarantee the law will do nothing but show up afterwards and pick up the pieces. If he does decide to get his fat ass off the couch and come get you, you’ll have to handle him yourself.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Tell that to the .ml folks lol

Their instance auto-censors them when they use it

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Playing ‘The Mysterious Axeman’s Jazz’ no doubt

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Yup. I’m totally sure that had nothing to do with this guy’s response to her coming to his door.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I mean, tbf, if he’d called the police they’d probably have shot the person 6 times. Maybe he just felt like cutting out the middle man?

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Remember, these are the same people that believe hurricanes hit us to punish us for not being nasty enough to LGBT people. In their mind her ‘sinful ways’ caused her to be shot.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Some did—my paternal grandparents were a love-at-first-sight case. After my grandfather passed away, my grandmother was so heartbroken she basically stopped living.

Some didn’t—it wasn’t after my maternal grandfather held grandma’s hand to the hot stove, or beat her black and blue, that she finally got up the nerve to throw him out and file for divorce; it was when he started to go after their kids. Even so, as a single mother she faced all kinds of difficulties and discrimination socially and in the workforce.

But I can’t even imagine what things would have been like if she had been forced to stick with him.

And regardless of how much my paternal grandparents loved each other, they were still chained together, both by society’s expectations and by laws that, for example, wouldn’t let my grandmother have her own bank account until the mid-70s.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Yes that would be the joke.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

My grandmother too.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Every time the pockets-in-pants thing comes up:

Women in the comments: OMG yes please what we have now sucks

Men in the comments: well acktually…

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