The first two don’t actually believe it. The third one sure does, though.

No way, really?

This is actually basically the philosopher HLA Hart’s theory of what law is.

God damnit I read this in his dumb voice

If only

Yeah, I think that’s the right interpretation. Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll look it up!

My wife came to realize she needed to date women. That, and she had very bad anxiety that she began to refuse to treat. She had multiple screaming and crying breakdowns over simple social situations with my family. She couldn’t leave the house for months. I was working two jobs, taking care of our animals, and doing all the housework. She would lay on the couch and doomscroll all day.

I spent 40 hours on the phone with Kaiser Permanente trying to get her a therapist. When we finally did get her a therapist, the therapist told her that she was autistic, that the anxiety she experienced was just who she was, and that other people should just accept it.

We were going to couples counseling, too, and I said in one session that her anxiety was something she needed to work on with the goal of ultimately fixing it, because it was maladaptive and making both our lives really hard. The therapist cautiously agreed with me. Afterwards, she demanded to fire the therapist and moved out of the house. She stayed with my aunt and uncle for a month. I think she would have continued to drag it out, for a year or more, but I had no faith in the relationship anymore. When she sent me an email reiterating the same unactionable, generic criticisms she had always raised in couples counseling, I told her we should just get divorced.

The actual divorce was amicable. We had no kids and few possessions. I bought her out of most of it and we split the rest. No lawyer needed. She moved into a house with a group of lesbians and started over.

I struggled with feelings of failure and inadequacy for a few years after that: why couldn’t I help her? Why couldn’t I make her happy? It’s taken a decent amount of therapy, but I have come to understand that sometimes things end without a conclusive reason, and we don’t have full control over the outcome of our lives. I could have done everything right, and it still would have ended.

There were many good years prior to things unraveling. A blooming flower is no less pretty because it will wilt.

Did anyone else really struggle to figure out what the hell the thumbnail on this was?

Are we sure he’s not just defending the hopelessly corrupt Clarence Thomas?

Didn’t expect the deep state to be the national park rangers.🎶

I guess this is supposed to be funny but it reads as sad and abusive to me.

No. Children should be taught about all the major religions and allowed to decide for themselves.

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Yeah, he just killed a million Iraqis, nbd

So hilarious that people are just down voting you without providing any evidence of new student loan action on Biden’s part. Libs will do anything to justify the status quo.

A lot of real partisan morons in these replies to you. Criticize Biden for doing almost nothing to eliminate crushing student debt? You must be a Trump supporter!

Where’s the logic?

How? He’s just forgiving the shit he was supposed to forgive. He’s not revising and expanding with this new round of loan forgiveness.

In the US this is true in academic philosophy and probably the humanities more generally. Women get tenure track positions with, on average, half the number of publications that men have. Most tenured professors are men, but it’s slowly changing as the strong preference for women at the junior levels percolates upward. Within the next twenty or thirty years we’ll need to address the bias against men in junior positions or we’re going to end up with the same problem but in reverse.

There’s nonstick without pfas. Does it have other chems we have no idea about? Probably. But not pfas.

Don’t give them any ideas