Absolutely not. I take cold showers in the summer all the time. I mean, they’re not super-cold, if that’s what you mean, but they’re relatively cool and designed to cool me off rather than warm me up (like the hot showers I take in the Winter months).

Wow, the amount of baseless criticism ITT that doesn’t in any way suggest the commenters have read the article is insane.

The article says the judge has ruled against Trump and his administration in the past. What evidence do you have that he was “hand picked?”

MAGA is basically a screaming toddler at the beach, running around wrecking everyone else’s sand castles because they never bothered to build their own and don’t like seeing other people happy.

What are you talking about? There have been investigations, prosecutions, and convictions. This is unfortunately quite real.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/us/fraud-minnesota-somali.html

Passion and Reason, by Richard and Bernice Lazarus. It’s a very accessible book about the connections between thoughts and emotions. Understanding what’s covered in it would save a lot of people a ton of confusion and social hardship in life.

Those poor kids are about to get fucked.

I like Tim Walz, but unfortunately, he fucked up. Should have had more oversight in his system. I’m for social welfare programs, but they can get abused, which is why it’s critical that they’re well-funded enough to be efficient and have good oversight to make sure they’re not open to too much fraud.

To be honest, I don’t think Democrats on the whole have done social welfare well. Admittedly, that’s often because Republicans get in the way of giving the systems adequate funding, but even in most Blue states, they’re inadequately funded.

Anyway, it’s too bad he’s going out this way. He was otherwise a great governor.

Yes. But I’m a therapist, so….

🎵The internet is for porn.🎶

No, women need to understand how interesting the making of bike tires is.

Alan Moore lives in a castle and actively hates the world. He’s my role model.

This is an impossible question to answer with certainty for pretty much everyone. Maybe the extremely suicidal or the terminally ill, but likely not anyone else.

Death (and our perceived relationship to it) changes with our proximity to it. So, being existentially and emotionally prepared for death when you’re young is very different from when you’re old, and from when death is pretty much imminent. I would wager even people who report a high degree of confidence that they are prepared for their eventual death are less so (and likely much less so) when they are facing imminent death. I imagine the number of people who don’t experience fear when their death is imminent is actually quite low.

I have considered myself prepared for death for much of my adult life, but since sometime in my 30’s I have also accepted that I can’t predict my preparedness in the months-to-moments before I die. The existential threat of your existence ending is simply too dependent on its immediacy to be predicted with certainty ahead of time.

If either my girlfriend/wife or my mother asked me that question, I would refuse to answer and instead ask them why they were asking it. I’d explain that that’s a very nasty question to ask because it’s a loyalty test, even if they don’t mean it as one, and it puts me in a very awkward position—why would they want to do that? I’d ask them to consider how they’d feel if either their mother or spouse asked them that.

And if they didn’t immediately see my point, that would slightly lower my opinion of them, to be honest.

I did mean pro-life! Thanks for catching that. Comment edited.

Except it’s not and never is. You have to prove causation.

I hate to break it to you, but the people who are the most strenuously pro-life are Christian bible thumpers who believe people shouldn’t even be having sex before marriage, and even afterwards solely for the purposes of having children. So, if you have a baby you weren’t trying to have, you’ve sinned in their eyes. For a father to abandon his paternalistic responsibility to their child is another sin, so I don’t think they’d really care if the law forced him to at least pay child support.

Believe me, I’ve had this conversation with members of my family who are like this and it doesn’t trap them in the set of consequences you think it does. They’re perfectly fine with them.

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“Well, at least I ain’t got the ‘tism!” —MAGA Antivaxxer

These chucklefucks probably think herd immunity is what their cows have.

Whichever high-ranking person in the Venezuelan government agrees to give Trump and his oil barons everything they want.