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Karl H Christ
Karl H Christ

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2 days ago

Porn Stars are People

I used to watch a lot of porn. Probably too much. Still watch some, but nothing compared to, say, from the age of twelve into my early twenties. When watching porn, I have the thought that is surely shared by everyone when they watch porn: I wonder what this girl…

Porn

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Porn

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Sep 18

I was accused by a supervisor of being racist and sexist.

Should a Boss Call Their Staff Racist and Sexist? I was accused by a supervisor of being racist and sexist. She expressed the belief that I don’t respect her because she is a woman of color. I don’t believe that I had disrespected her, and if I had inadvertently done…

Racism

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Racism

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Sep 11

Cars are Insane. Why are we not Teleporting?!

We shouldn’t be driving cars anymore. Or we shouldn’t be driving them for much longer, as they could be and should be soon made obsolete. Cars are insane contraptions when you think about them. They’re metal, glass, and plastic cages that roll around at perilous speeds by the volition of…

Cars

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Cars

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Sep 4

It was Called Twitter, and still kind of is

Are we seriously supposed to call Twitter “X” now? Among the many idiotic decisions that Elon Musk has made for the platform since being forced to follow through on his drunken offer to buy it for an exorbitant fee, and hoo boy, there have been a lot of idiotic decisions…

Twitter

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Twitter

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Aug 28

Stop Buying Your Kids E-Bikes

There’s actually not anything wrong with e-bikes. I have an e-bike. It’s great. It’s a pedal-assist e-bike, which means that it’s an actual bike. The problem is e-bikes with throttles. …

Ebike

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Ebike

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Aug 21

Self-Service Advertising

If a company is advertising, not an actual product but themselves, they should be viewed with utmost suspicion and probably scorn. Listening to podcasts, one hears all kinds of ads that they otherwise wouldn’t. Growing up with television advertisements as the dominant product-hocking and time-wasting media, I got used to…

Advertising

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Advertising

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Aug 14

Respect: Earn it, or Never Get it

There are people who inspire respect and there are those who demand it. Only one of them will earn it. Generally speaking, the people who demand respect are autocrats, dictators, and bullies. They might receive the respect of some, but from most people all they will get is fear. Even…

Work

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Work

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Aug 7

Words and Phrases to Retire: Tolerance

Tolerance is not a positive word, despite being used for many decades as though it is. It’s commonly been promoted as a model for behavior towards minority groups. Racial tolerance is the most common usage, but it’s been applied towards immigrants, LGBTQ people, and others, as the model for how…

Words

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Words

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Jul 31

The Benefits of being Enslaved, or of Ron Desantis not Existing

The Benefits of being Enslaved, or of Ron Desantis not Existing Ron Desantis is a fascist, as well as a racist, a misogynist, a jackass, and an asshole. Those things are often tied, but not always so tightly and in such a massive, wretched bundle as they are in Desantis’s…

Ron Desantis

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Ron Desantis

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Jul 10

Slurs and Self-Censorship

Slurs and Self-Censorship People say horrible, offensive things, without meaning for them to be horrible and offensive, all the time. Put another way: slurs and insulting phrases work their way into the cultural lexicon which, even when not used against the particular group to whom they were originally applied, hurt…

Language

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Language

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