True, assuming this is rational behavior. People can do some pretty crazy things out of hubris or pressure though.

I’m not going to definitively state that Jeffery isn’t dead. It really is most plausible that he died that night. I just, wouldn’t be surprised if he showed up alive.

Yeah, I agree that the attempt to engage is the most important aspect. What actually constitutes “engagement” is up to semantic debate.

I do think that new arguments should be evaluated, even if it’s presented in bad faith. I feel that the bad faith nature of the argument is a factor that counts poorly in my evaluation, but it’s good to have a solid understanding of the nuance in your stance, even when it comes to the ridiculous.

But by your own admittance, you did think about it once the question was posed, so no, you’re not an intellectual nepobaby.

We have all had past experiences with how hard brick-adjacent substances affect teeth, so it’s not discarding it as a knee-jerk reaction. If you went to a dental college, and the professor made the claim before you knew better, I’d assume you’d be interested in finding out how he came to that conclusion, correct?

For example, should I engage in the “challenging idea” that the world is run by lizard people?

As a counterpoint, you likely have. You’re aware of the position, aware of the proposed evidence, and determined the evidence falls short of proof, which means you’ve engaged with their thinking before rejecting it.

I don’t get it either. I’m 5’4", my first boyfriend was 5’1", and it was fine? It lasted less than a year in highschool, but I remember it fondly.

I’m not sure what incentive he’d have to both lie about identifying his brother’s body and making so much noise about it being a murder…

Remember that he was deeply involved in Epstein’s businesses, including holding the position of president over the J Epstein & Co investment firm.

I strongly suspect that this sort of thing is done as a gradual rollout to gauge response. You may have just been lucky enough to avoid being sorted into a test group.

I’m not going to show you my ID, but I can hold an extensive conversation with you about Gaia Online, which should prove my age quite well.

Huh, I could have sworn it said MrNiceGuy a minute ago

I dunno, sometimes I want to see discussion about something I’ve already seen, but don’t want to see again. I watched the video the day of, and will gladly talk or joke about it, I just want to choose when and where I refresh my memory of it.

Tangentially, I wish the devs would let me turn off autoplaying gifs, for similar reasons lol.

Unfortunately, I can’t collapse individual comments, it collapses the whole thread.

My lemmy client doesn’t automatically truncate posts like some other social media platforms do. For sensitive stuff like this, just use the spoiler so people don’t have to scroll past a bunch of useless dots.

I bet we could convince the lemon stealing whores to join the lemon party.

Canonically, yes. He was the son of a nymph, and was considered beautiful even as a baby. He got cursed by Nemesis because he spurned all admirers, and they petitioned for revenge.

I’ve been asking for months and months where the protests are

Both the middle school and the high school in my tiny rural town did a walkout today. There’s a protest every day outside the local ICE facility. There have been soft strikes as grassroots support networks form.

If you think nothing is happening, it’s because you’re not doing anything. Get involved.

one cell phone (ideally live streaming to some private cloud so they can’t delete it)

What app are you using for this? I’ve not had luck in finding one.

That’s good then. A lot of stuff uses the standard numberpad.

The thing with pattern unlock is that it is inherently less secure than the other options

Does Graphene scramble the keypad between PIN entries? If not, it’s functionally the same as a pattern unlock.

I chose to be homeless at 19 because I was terrified my stepdad would find out I’d been raped and kill me for not being a virgin any more.

This can also cause a lot of friction between two autistic people, especially where one person understands the rules and the other doesn’t. Then you’ve got one person who’s furious the other isn’t following the rules, and the other who is furious because they’re being expected to follow rules they don’t understand.