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moakley

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  • No sex. No dating. No marriage. No children. Interest grows in 4B movement to swear off men

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  • You can't just make up new definitions for established words.

  • No sex. No dating. No marriage. No children. Interest grows in 4B movement to swear off men

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  • MGTOW is an anti-feminist movement, which means it's based in the idea that women shouldn't be equal to men.

    This movement is based in the idea that women should be equal to men. So it's different.

  • A Comic Wherein an Owl is Also a Ghost [OC]

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  • It's hard to find the balance between letting the joke breathe versus making it too obvious. I'm not sure I hit that balance this time, but it seemed less funny any other way I could think to say it.

  • 'Put that everywhere': Steve Bannon admits 'Project 2025 is the agenda' after Trump wins

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  • A self fulfilling prophecy, in a way.

  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

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  • That's true.

    With a T9 phone, I used to be able to send a complete text message without ever taking my eyes off the road.

    Now that I've got a touchscreen I'm swerving all over the place every time I try to text. It's way less safe.

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  • My wife and I do the same, and the results have been great. An old friend of mine met my daughter for the first time when she was two and a half, and she just walked right up to him and says, "Hello. My name is _____. It's very nice to meet you."

    When my current two-year-old is in a bad mood, we'll ask him if he's being a curmudgeon, and he'll say "No, I'm not being a curmudgeon." They speak in full sentences because my wife and I speak in full sentences. They use big words because we use big words.

    On the other hand my daughter is five now and still thinks it's pronounced "breafixt" instead of "breakfast", and we don't correct her because it's adorable. So we still have fun with it.

    I don't think any of this means they're geniuses or are guaranteed success later in life or anything. They're probably both gifted, but that just means they're a couple years ahead. A four-year-old who talks like a six-year-old is a great parlor trick, but a twenty-year-old talking like a twenty-two-year-old isn't going to give them a big leg up. That's why I like to get all my bragging in now.

  • Texas sees record early-voting numbers, particularly in Democratic-leaning areas

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  • A few years back the GOP closed a bunch of polling places in blue areas. It's flagrant voter suppression.

  • Texas sees record early-voting numbers, particularly in Democratic-leaning areas

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  • You skipped the part where Republicans closed polling locations in Democrat-leaning areas. The lines are intentional on election day.

  • Kroger's Plan to Use Facial Recognition Raises Concerns About Surge Pricing

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  • “customers are shopping more with Kroger now than ever because we are fighting inflation and providing great value.”

    I call shenanigans. I don't always pay close attention to the prices of all the things I buy, but one thing I do pay attention on is soda. (Probably because it's bad for me, so I give myself additional justification to buy it or not.)

    And amidst all this "inflation", and all the talk about lowering prices back down to reasonable levels Kroger's price just on soda just jumped 25%.

    Years ago I used to get a 12-pack for $5, and sometimes there'd be a 3-for-$12 deal. When COVID hit, it was 3-for-$15. Post-COVID, $7 a box. When they raised it to $8, I stopped buying it unless it's on sale or if my wife specifically requests it, and then I only buy one.

    Then I went to Kroger a few weeks ago, and the only way to get a price under $8/box was to sign up for something on their app and sell them my personal information. So I decided not to buy from Kroger anymore.

    This week my wife specifically requested a box, I was in Kroger anyway, and now it's $10/box or 3-for-$8. Fuck that. They hit their limit with me, and there are no circumstances in which I'm paying that much for soda.

  • This is a thought experiment "Ball on a Table" for detecting whether someone has Aphantasia. What do you see when you perform this experiment?

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  • My person was like a disembodied arm. Like if pushing the ball off the table were a game on the Wii, which I guess would mean it was in first person.

  • A Comic Wherein My Cat and I Have the Same Thought [OC]

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  • Thank you. I agree about many comics straining to find humor. That's why I don't make very many comics.

  • A Comic Wherein My Cat and I Have the Same Thought [OC]

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  • A Comic Wherein My Cat and I Have the Same Thought [OC]

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  • Bucky's little sister passed last year, and although she was overall a much stranger cat, she drank from the waterfall part of the fountain. Sometimes Bucky would get in uncomfortably close and stare at her mouth while she was drinking. It's hard not to imagine him unable to see the water, thinking, "What are you even doing?? There's nothing there!"

    Sorry for your loss. I hear it's supposed to get easier, but personally I'm still waiting.

  • A Comic Wherein a Fox Tells a Hilarious Joke

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  • Fun fact: I almost embarrassed myself and wrote "geckering", but my wife corrected me at the last second.

    Geckering is how monkeys laugh. Foxes gekker.

  • A Comic Wherein a Fox Tells a Hilarious Joke

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  • Then I won't do that. Thanks for pointing that out.

  • Debate wrap up: No one has ever so thoroughly dominated Donald Trump

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  • I was actually really disappointed at so many opportunities she passed up to lay down facts in favor of jumping on talking points

    So let's say she corrects him on a lie. Then what? Correct the next one? The one after that? The one after that? Trump had more lies than Kamala had time.

    Responding to lie after lie after lie just lets him control the conversation. What she did was the best option available.