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A bible interpretation question, but you're "not trying to get religious or anything". How do you imagine that works?

Totally fucked up and i hope someone in NY with a mobility issue files an ADA complaint with this easy online form

He pleaded guilty to 3 felonies and 6 misdemeanors for not paying $1.4 million over 3 years, including making false deductions and dipping into company funds. That's not "filling out a form wrong", and if it is, his father should pardon everyone who has been charged under the bad laws that allow people simply "filling out a form wrong" to catch 9 charges. Especially for the people who couldn't afford accountants and lawyers to file the form correctly for them.

Pardoning your own son only for any possible federal crime, not just the ones he was charged with, especially after saying you wouldn't, is gross nepotism. And the pardon starts from 2014 when the tax and gun charges are for 2016 onwards, which implies there's more Joe Biden knows about.

Thank you for your service. <3

While this discovery is very cool, this bothered me:

"Alphabets revolutionized writing by making it accessible to people beyond royalty and the socially elite. Alphabetic writing changed the way people lived, how they thought, how they communicated,"

Ancient Chinese scripts seemed to manage just fine, even during their "writing is magical and only the rich are smart enough to know that magic" phase. Is it possible that the alphabet itself didn't change the way people lived, but perhaps the people who introduced it to the area changed the way the original inhabitants lived? The conclusion that the alphabet was the cause just seems really Western exceptionalist to me.

Bats don't have grabby little hands in addition to wings, the wing veins are from an insect, the curves in the ears don't happen in any animal, the bat doesn't cast a shadow on the hand, and the artifacts in the fur are tell-tale copy paste with added noise. That's just the second image, and only some of the problems.

Especially given the events of the last week, that doesn't seem to have worked either, no matter how direct. The ineffectiveness would also explain why Fuentes has now been doxxed.

Yeah, ridicule or insults are generally not very helpful at promoting positive change, unfortunately. If they were useful, we'd tell parents to insult their children as a teaching method. The fact we don't recommend that might imply that ridicule is not great for personal growth. Insults usually only helpful as catharsis for the person using them. More reason to be considerate in choice, in my opinion.

Actual good actions are necessary to promote other good actions. I hope we both can do more good going forward.

That's definitely a fair point that it's quite indirect, which I think raises another question - why not just directly call the actions cruel / contemptuous / arrogant or belligerent / whatever else? Do we need to describe the person at all if it's really the actions that we're trying to discourage? Calling someone a slur, while harsh, seems to be perhaps as indirect as the dead hamster metaphor - if the goal is to condemn their choices.

I think it's great that you're considering this, and would like to add some food for thought.

Isn't it strange how many words in English are insults derived from medical descriptions (and sometimes medical descriptions derived from insults)? Cretin, idiot, imbecile, dumb, moron, spastic... even words we don't consider insults which do describe disabilities are used to describe bad things. Like being "blind/deaf to " or making "short-sighted" decisions. Our language is a reflection of our culture, and the English-language culture really dislikes human variation.

Finding words with the same harshness can be difficult, and it's also great to consider what makes a word harsh. Sending a message that behavior is not ok is important too, but I think we need to consider who we include in the collateral damage. Even if we don't intend it, many of our insults are historically created with bound associations which we perpetuate with their use. For example, moron has close ties with the American Eugenics Movement. That's something I think anyone with a shred of empathy would want to very much not associate with.

For practical advice on what to do, I'm a fan of using absurd metaphors. The Swedish have a good one for Fuentes. "Hjulet snurrar men hamstern är död" - the wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead.

If you describe something which you consider to be a bad choice as "going full retard", you associate making bad choices with cognitive disabilities. This is immensely harmful to people with cognitive disability who have to work every day to distance themselves from that prejudice. The association is discriminatory, and a bad choice.