It's the angle. Can you hold your weight with your arms straight out to the sides? Sure, you can do push-ups, but can you do this?

or this?

Most people can't.

That's not how I meant it.

There's a cultural value in virginity in girls. It's pretty common across cultures: for marriage, virgin women are more desirable than non-virgins. It's biased; the virginity only increases value for girls, and it probably stems from men wanting to be sure than any prodigy are actually theirs. Women can be nearly 100% sure a kid they have is theirs (not quite 100%, as there's a brief period when a channeling swap could conceivably be made), but the men can never be certain. The best odds you have is to get yourself a virgin. So female virginity has been valued through history (by men), and I think this is where the fetish of having sex with virgins comes from.

That's what I'm taking about. I've never understood the appeal of "being a girl's/boy's first."

I have never, ever, understood the appeal of virginity. Who prefers someone who is uncomfortable, awkward, and doesn't have any experience?

This has always baffled me. This is one reason why I think sex workers should hold a high status in society: they provide an valuable service in training the uninitiated and unskilled. It's like taking tennis lessons, and all your future partners should be grateful for their lessons.

Man I hope there's a brace across his back, because a human's arms are not strong enough to overcome that much resistance.

But it there were a sturdy brace, that looks like almost enough resistance to keep him from dying, if he can keep from tumbling. Which he probably can't.

Yeah, that guy's best outcome is a lot of broken bones.

Ah, but I agree with you! It's commendable that we care for our weak who would otherwise die.

The other wolf, though, thinks there's a good chance the stupid are going to drive us to extinction.

Thanks for not taking offense when you legitimately could have. Reason 1 why Lemmy > Reddit.

"Where will you hucka-pucka to?"

Maybe? Natural selection seems to work for the rest of everything in nature. But humans are special, aren't we? Above nature; different rules apply to us, nature itself treats us differently.

I do agree that humans are fundamentally different in that more of our individual value is learned than inherited. OTOH, more of our value is learned than inherited, and that's where the problem lies. It's not there genes, it's the parents and the parenting. I'm not suggesting we'll improve humanity by removing stupidity through evolution; I'm saying there are a lot of people who I don't believe are fit to raise children. And there's a corpus of examples that could support that argument; how about that guy who literally shook his infant to death last week? Good father, him?

I'm not a parent myself, and I will never be one. Maybe I'd make a good father, maybe not. But I'm not breeding, so taking me out doesn't affect the gene pool; I'm not playing in the gene pool.

And, no, I did not misunderstand the point. What I said was that if I could get a guarantee that others would also be removed, I'd volunteer to be in the group.

That was hyperbole, BTW; if I really believed it, I'd go to a Trump rally with a bunch of C4 and ball bearings wrapped around my torso. Even if I were an Einstein, it'd be a net benefit to humanity.

Dude. If I could guarantee that my sacrifice would also remove some N>1 number of dumbshits who shouldn't be contributing to the ecological load the Earth's ecosystem is bearing, I'd volunteer.

The Idiocracy intro got a lot of things right.

She doesn't look too thrilled about getting married to Junkie Joe; it looks more like he's got a gun stuck in her back.

At first I read "Portland," saw my mistake, shrugged and thought, "either way."

I've never been to Poland. I'm sure it's nicer than Portland.

Few abilities will protect you from muggings as the ability to squirt substances from your ass on demand.

Never saw the plant before relocating to this part of the country, and now it's one of my favorite plants. It's hardy, easy, looks great, grows like the dickens but doesn't spread like a weed. We had some landscaping done and accidentally split a couple of mature plants in moving things around, and now I can't tell which were the split ones, and which survived whole - they all look great!

This year, I'm putting it everywhere. It can have the whole yard as far as I'm concerned.

Great picture!