Str: 3,14^[1] Dex: 5 Con: 15 Int: 1 Wis: 1 Char: 1

I was though D: since the Kremlin fired me I have pivoted from state operator to lib wrecker.

The journalist cum (heh) podcaster Michael Hobbs did a bunch of reporting and investigation into moral panics. He reckons one of the key aspects to identify is what you don’t need evidence to believe.

E.g. lots of people “just know” phones are bad in the same way people a few hundred years ago “just knew” women reading books was bad. I think a lot of concern about pornography and masturbation is still tainted by religious moralism as actual evidence of harm is extremely sparse.

People look at trends in society they don’t like and attribute them to social values they don’t like. Actual investigation is often jawdroppingly difficult, and we should avoid sweeping generalisation or confusing cause and effect.

Like if it’s true that idk kids do use phone too much and it’s bad, is it phone that means kids use phone too much? Or would kids be doing some other thing that is maybe even worse (again if it is true that phone is bad) because of structural changes in society and culture.

Guilty, guilty, I’m strawmanning.

But they called me a psychopath for saying that sex as a hobby should be no more controversial than carpentry. Apparently all sex is about objectification, involves blood and urine, carries a risk of children which then subjects them to the cycle of blood and piss ( so much wrong there), and isn’t productive.

It was very unusual, I think they were just having A Day

Me (to my wife): I love you so much, if this moment stretched out forever it still wouldn’t be enough time in your arms.

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Was that the now deleted comment chain about how all sex involves treating people like objects while you smear blood and urine on them?

That was an interesting message to see in the inbox.

I think for around half the population a wank is plenty productive.

It seems that all hexbear can agree on is that hoi4 is busted and stellaris is temporarily busted. I suppose I’ll need to find time to learn viccy.

Can you fuck with the English in it right proper? I think have an ancestral grudge because my number one starting goal in all these games it to evict the English from England as Ireland.

Is it praxis to pick Germany in HoI4 and lose as fast as possible?