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The top 5 regrets that people share on their deathbeds:

The BBC portrays an indebted Afghan father selling his 7-year-old twin daughters into sexual slavery with adult men as a man who is forced to make difficult choices 🇦🇫

What did Chud do wrong that was illegal? Nobody has been able to give me a non retarded answer to this question

Here's a writer's tip for making really creepy horror plots and settings. Take something familiar and beloved, something that is intimately connected with the readers' happiest memories, then create a depiction of it that's just a little bit... wrong. And present it as if it were the real thing. For example, imagine you're ten years old, you've just come home from school, and your mother is cooking in the kitchen. Except there's something a little strange in the way she greets you, something subtly wrong with how the words are strung together, and there's this buzzing tone in her voice, and as she looks up at you, her eyesockets are filled with the blank hexagonal walls of twin beehives, crawling with the busy golden bodies of the swarm... "What's wrong, honey?" Done correctly, this is the stuff of nightmares. Oh, and in other, unrelated news, billionaire Larry Ellison's kid has an art film studio, and they decided to make a video game about growing up in the 90s. For $ome rea$on, lot$ of $ocial media account$ are quite excited about it.

"Could X have counterfactually been Y?" is a clash of (conceptual) orthogonality vs. correlation. "Could a midget be the best basketball player in history?" Conceptually yes, because height and basketball playing ability are less than perfectly correlated. Practically, no.

"What if you were a seagull?" is not a nonsense question You can ask "what if a human mind that had all of your ideals and preferences were inside a seagull?" and it might not be a *useful* question, but it's kind of an interesting one and definitely not incoherent Or you can ask "what would it be like to be a seagull?" which is also not hard to parse, if a little harder to answer reasonably. I guess you can argue that it's nothing to be like a seagull because seagulls aren't experiencers, but that's not terribly well supported What taoki is presumably saying is that some lives seem awfully unpleasant, and like, yeah? They do? Working from extremely basic principles about pain and being prevented from fulfilling instinctual drives, we can say that it's probably not fun to be a rat that drowns in a bucket or a person whose babies all die or whatever

Why am I tearing up this is so cute 😭