I do. I like to let people know why though. Seems fair to me.

Nintendo sucks. Buy your kids a steam deck

They should be more than named

Stop spreading this censorship cancer

It is pretty unique. I’m not a huge horror fan in general though so it was right up my alley.

Nah, I’m hungry right now

I thought it was a great horror film. There’s enough there to be spooky but it’s not over the top with jump scares and other genre specific tropes.

Fine, I’ll give it the tongue test and aggressively mash each bite into the roof of my mouth before I swallow it.

I see tons of movies they have no idea I’ve seen. That’s the natural result of making going to the theater a shitty experience. I’ll still watch what I want to, you just won’t get any benefit from it.

I would like it if there was a way to pay a studio / director / production company directly for their work on a film. The old ways of monetizing films don’t really mesh with the way I engage with them.

An upgrade for a non-essential item you already own might prompt some of these considerations from some people. The decision to buy that item in the first place usually won’t, especially when you’re talking about essential items like groceries and housing, which is what the article in the OP is referring to.

This is my problem with economics. You’re talking about theory and practice as if they’re the same thing. All consumers do not make perfectly rational choices. Hell, most don’t. This kind of theory only explains how rich people want you to think things work. It’s not how things work in the real world.

Rules don’t matter if there’s no one willing to enforce them. The strongest legal argument in the world means nothing to people who don’t care about the law.

Never in your life? I always assumed asexual meant very rarely horny, not literally never. Is that common?

I agree, Brian Thompson should never have been allowed to murder so many people with his psychopathic level of greed.

I’m not sure what conversation you think is happening but it has been my experience that everyone is talking about the thing you’re saying no one is talking about.

There’s a user with the name “SatansMaggotyCumFart” or something like that. I think the person you’re talking to is assuming your name is a play on that since it looks and sounds similar but isn’t gross.

I suppose it’s a noble goal in theory but it seems doomed to fail in practice, which makes the whole exercise seem rather pointless. Changing the word doesn’t change the intent behind the people using it as an insult so why give a negative connotation to a bunch of new terms? We already have several of those.

Careful, you’re very close to acknowledging that men have problems of their own and we don’t do that. That’s the patriarchy talking.

I really don’t get how making that word inappropriate to say helps anybody. At various points it was common to say imbecile, moron, idiot, retard, mentally handicapped, developmentally disabled, cognitively impaired, etc. They are all attempts at describing someone with below average brain function. That is a condition that inherently overlaps with one of the most common insults on the planet, calling someone stupid. People are never going to stop using the currently socially acceptable descriptor as an insult so why not just keep using the same word?

Not for long. Capitalists about to do more stripping in that caldera than your mom does on Tuesday nights down at the Beaver Barn.