Recent content by IvanKaramazov

Slippery slope arguments are really just empirical arguments. It's impossible for an empirical claim to be fallacious. It might be wrong, but it will be wrong for empirical reasons, not first-principals-of-logic reasons.

None of my top 10 have shown up yet. Only one film in my top 20 (Hostel). I think my rating was pretty chalky with just a few exceptions.

Right on cue, I just got a little taste of this in Albuquerque today. I'm accelerating up the entrance ramp to merge onto I-25. There is traffic, but nothing unusual. There is a car to my immediate left blocking me from merging, but he's going faster than me and I'm going to have plenty of room...

Does this apply to girls-only activities too, or just boys? Like I said, I'm mostly indifferent about scouting specifically, but the overall trajectory of how we're handling these seems perverse and kind of malicious.

It never was.

Yes, this part. We all seem to recognize that its good for girls to have access to some girls only spaces, but for some reason people seem blind to the idea that many boys also benefit from being around other boys. TBH I did not know that the boy scouts were already coed. That's when I should...

I'm positive I've seen this but I can't recall anything about it. Need to rewatch it obviously.

I can't speak for APK, but I don't welfare cheats (is it 1980 again already?) are very relevant to a discussion about paid work. I'm more bothered by the folks who think they're entitled to work 20% less and be paid the same. I would be pissed if my employer added a day of work with no...

No opinion on scouting, but we've been removing opportunities for boys for decades now, and I know folks are seeing the results because it comes up in other threads.

In hindsight, I should have listed Pet Sematary. I forgot about the sister.

Same. Houses in my area go for pretty much what Zillow says they should go for.

No opinion on your trip, but congrats on your 30th. Wishing you and your wife (God bless her) the best.

I agree, but semis are uniquely bad imo because of the slowness and lack of acceleration. We don't have trucks where I live, but they're horrible in corridors that we often drive though, like KC to STL. Pickups are a little silly, admittedly.

Sorry. None of this was directed at you personally - my apologies if it came across that way.

Yes! A huge part of this movie is the setting.