A bit of both. The Greeks and Romans had a cultural taboo against polygamy which Christianity inherited, which means that Christians have historically been opposed to polygamy (which was not the case in Pre-christian northern Europe) on moral grounds. There is also the issue that historically polygamy has been associated with patriarchal societies in which men are allowed or expected to have multiple wives, but women are not allowed to do the same. Additionally, it is also culturally associated with treating women as property of the husband. Personally I don’t have any issue with polygamy if everyone is free to do whatever but the way most cultures practice it, it’s unfair to women. Then again, that could also he said of “traditional” marriage in a lot of monogamous scenarios too.

Canonically Chandler is actually super rich from his mysterious nerd job and just lives frugally, and Monica’s giant-ass apartment is rent controlled and inherited from her grandmother.

Crazy that this came out 13 years ago and things are just going more and more in that direction

This is bizarre to me, I have literally never had this problem. Even if you don’t have a scale, pasta is sold in standardized package weights and recipes have the weight you need so like if it says 12 oz then that’s 3/4 of a 1 lb package. Then again, I always just scale the recipe to the full pound of pasta anyway because it’s easier to deal with instead of just having 4 oz of pasta sitting around trying to figure out what to do with.

The username with this comment is incredible. I just imagine Paul Atreides saying this (Dune Messiah Spoilers)>!with his eyes burned out seeing purely with his spice induced powers!<

They’re dramatically more water and energy efficient than hand washing

I am surprised this wasn’t immediately noticeable after the first time or two.

My dude has evidently never used a dishwasher because if you put dish soap in there instead of detergent (which is either solid or an opaque liquid/paste) you’re gonna have a bad time.

The coastal elites don’t want you to say pop or coke like a real American. They want you to say soda like a liberal soyboy cuck!

I often use “Milwaukee statehood” as a rhetorical tool for any argument about states rights or why we should have 10 tiny population states. Milwaukee has about as many people in it as all of Wyoming, and yet Milwaukee doesn’t get two senators

Counterpoint - pizzas are sold by diameter, but pretty much everyone I know underestimates how diameter corresponds to actual pizza size and think a 16" pizza is twice as big as an 8" pizza instead of four times as big, which it actually is. Meanwhile, a burger patty that is twice as big as another one is actually twice as tall, while one that is wider is only about ~41% wider. Vertical dimension is more intuitive for the overall mass difference.

They still make phones with them, just not the big flagships

Just keep it in the box the phone came in with all the warranty documentation. I’ve never lost one of these

I’m just saying the whole premise of the meme is extremely flawed. It’s made to imply that modern life is in any way as bad as medieval serfdom and that is just not true. For example, did you know that most medieval peasants didn’t own their own ovens and were forced to take the food they produced to someone else to cook it if they weren’t eating something that could be cooked on a simple hearth? Or that they literally weren’t allowed to leave the land they were assigned to without permission from their lord? Yeah things are bad today but they were way worse back then.

You know serfdom basically still exists in parts of the world. Why not go to one of those places and ask if they’d rather live there or in the USA?

I feel like if you had put half the time and effort it took to do this into improving yourself and going outside you could have at least gone on some dates with real women at this point. Talking to an AI chatbot is not the same as human connection and will only lead to further depression as you realize that no matter how much you “love” your AI girlfriend she will never truly love you back because she can’t think or feel, and fundamentally isn’t real.

On one hand this is obviously absurd but on the other hand I don’t actually know how one could solve the sheer scale of pedophilia happening on their platform without some dystopian shit. It seems like there is a maximum size for something like discord because at the scale it is now I’m not sure how you could possibly moderate it. I’ll probably stop using it if they implement this but I can definitely understand why they feel like it’s a good idea.

Yeah I legit think this is a bad thing. 4chan was bad for society but IMO it’s less so than mainstream social media. To get radicalized on 4chan you have to wade through some truly despicable shit right off the bat, where there is this friendly veneer on mainstream Internet that makes it seem safer and less horrifying even though the same underlying filth of human nature powers it all. If you encounter far right ideology on 4chan, it’s stripped of all of the edifices of respectability and it’s clear that what it is is raw unfiltered hatred. If you encounter it on Tik Tok it’s just another political viewpoint because they’re not allowed to show their true colors.

LEDs aren’t the problem, it’s that they’re too bright in the forward direction. It’s perfectly possible to make normal brightness LED headlights, car manufacturers just don’t do it because bright headlights look great on the lot and sell more cars

I know I was just saying 3000 years and basically nobody alive today understands the language. Even people who devote their whole lives to the languages around at that time are basically just making informed guesses on pronunciation and would probably struggle considerably to understand an actual speaker.