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@boxo@anarchism.space 🤔 in that case i'm betting the teacher, if they're canny, is being intentionally ambiguous

get good student brownie points by talking about both senses of object of law - the purpose of the law, and the people directly affected by it. top it off with a nice little half-twist of "one cannot truly separate the intent of the action and the effect of the action" to look extra smartypants.

@boxo@anarchism.space also if you are ready to chuck the english language across the room now while screaming about how it is a dumpster fire of a language, you are entirely correct

@boxo@anarchism.space you are going to hate this answer but: yes. it could mean either the purpose or the subject, depending on context

of course, legalese is... kind of its own distinct dialect with different rules. so if you are looking at the law itself, it gets even more complicated because you have to then look at what that meaning is in that specific context, which is basically what lawyers do.

what's the larger context? i can probably suss out things a bit more with that (but i am not a lawyer, etc.)

#ffxiv shadowbringers spoilers:

new and updated amaurot.gif

you'd think with the noble viera warrior Really'big Carbuncle i'd have hit my max limit on stupid joke alts that happen to be viera, but no

hey look, it's everyone's favourite eorzean animal-girl, uhhhh *looks at smudged writing on hand* Catastrophe Jeanne!

on this note, how many levels of extra is it when you start making your own bootleg ripoffs of your OC

i do now have a picture i need to draw or get commissioned of my stupid au vader submitting to princess leia's requirement before joining the rebel alliance: photographed holding a sign that says I BLEW UP ALDERAAN #VADERSHAMING

"i did *not* blow up alderaan, i was merely *present* while tarkin-" "he's dead but you're not though so stuff it and hold still so i can take this picture" " *SIGH.* "

@cute@deadinsi.de ...of course then there's the popular fan theory of that's why darth vader's suit seems such a step back in terms of technology next to luke's hand, etc., as it is an intentional muzzle, so part of the torture palpatine inflicts includes making sure only the shittiest prosthetics are used as a very deliberate limitation device

ah shit i've made it sad again

@cute@deadinsi.de to be fair you can get real sad real fast thinking about how a lot of this probably should have been, y'know, a parade of red flags about him acting out due to trauma, which the jedi reaction to was "hmmm, feelings? just don't :)"

however "vader shaming" is just a really great cw

also y'know who's a double idiot on this train of thought? fuckin palpatine all "oh yeah, nothing can go wrong with traumatizing THIS guy as a form of recruitment"

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz and the sequel

women: i'd like a partner that sees me as a person, not somebody who i have to baby, parent, and tend to constantly

men: WOW.......... FEMINISM IS RUINING THE WORLD....... CIVILIZATION IS DOOMED TO FALL....................

i can't believe i've had a true brush with celebrity, ending up in a party with Jared, 19, who Never Learned to Fuckin Read

so in ffxiv i have a macro set up for when my shoulder is being stroppy, saying hi sorry i can't type much my shoulder is acting up (because typing while trying to play the game does get a bit ouchy - but if i shift so only one hand is on keyboard and the other is on mouse, i'm good)

a lot of people have responded very sweetly with "hope you feel better", etc.

today though

i got my fav response yet

"JOKE'S ON THEM, I CAN'T READ"

ok so both my phone and laptop have decided all chromecasts are lies and fake news, and vice versa.

i of course discovered this after i went and rooted around and moved things and made my shoulder angry, trying the other chromecast.

cool guys, thanks

boy it sure is cool that cameraphones mean everyone's now super psyched to take pictures of a fat person existing in the world, not blur her face out, not attempt to conceal her identity, but instead present her as something to be mocked because it's a funny meme

did i just have a go at someone and unfriend them for this when they also just posted about their grandmother's death? yes. is that mean? probably.

fuck it. i'm a mean fat bitch.

unfortunately a lot of people are just stuck in - and are going to be stuck in - a cycle of "i have this need. it is valid. therefore, anything i do to fill it is valid. you can't stop me from filling this need." the only solutions they know of and know how to use are, well, bad ones.

i don't know how many would listen when told "this need is valid, but what you're doing - hurting people in order to fulfill it - is not". but at least there's hope in opening up the conversation, i think.

this mostly means that people who have grown up only seeing people use unhealthy strategies will repeat them, and then it's just on repeat for another generation. the cycle of abuse continues. because nobody is speaking up and going "what if you didn't have to hurt yourself and/or other people in order to get this need met? this is a legitimate need, and there's much better solutions than hurt to this problem."

it means the bitter pill of accepting responsibility, but it's also worth it.

bc honestly, as is pretty common with emotional needs, if all you're aware of and all you see as an example of someone asking for help with this need is the really fucked-up ways to do so, you're going to end up thinking that's the ONLY way to ask. it's like thinking food is either magically already on your table, or it's something you have to dupster-dive in the dead of night. people are going to be a lot less stressed about it if you just show them the grocery store and give them a cookbook.