Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@Lady @aescling no im just like that

@researchfairy unfortunately i dont think ChatGPTs memory is good enough

@Lady @aescling obviously i only make out w/people in parks

@Lady @aescling i mean also bc we are in a train station

@platypus don’t like that!

@Cyborgneticz honestly my selection criteria whenever i’m shoebuying

@ljwrites i do think this argument is incredibly telling of the authors underlying beliefs though—in order for the comparison to be relevant you have to accept that:
— that sex is morally wrong
— morally wrong acts should always be crimes, and therefore deserve punishment through the legal system
— that women’s rights to bodily integrity can/should be taken away
— that violence is an appropriate retribution for a crime

@ljwrites legally (in the US at least, tho as far as i’m aware this is near-universal) if someone needs blood, or bone marrow, or a liver transplant or whatever and i am the only person in the entire world who can give it to them…i still get a choice about whether or not i want to donate part of my body to save their life. in fact, we think this right to bodily integrity is so important that it applies to dead people! being convicted of a crime does not (and very much should not) erase this right either

so if you take their comparison at face value, it actually favors legal and easily accessible abortions

@asya seems reasonable tbh

@nomo i’m glad it was helpful! i think its something that throws a lot of people because the version of english grammar we’re taught in schools is highly simplified, but then you do pick up an intuitive sense for the more complex real grammar through listening/speaking. it can be really confusing to have to try to resolve conflicts between what ‘feels’ right and the rules you learned!

@nomo english has a lot more than three verb tenses! sometimes we reuse the conjugation from another similar tense (often with an extra word doing the modification bit—any time you see will/would/could/have before a verb they’re actually part of the verbs grammar) but other times they get their own so you end up with wildcards like went, which is used for the past preterite of go, while gone is user for the perfect tense

eg.
i will go to the store (simple future)
she goes to the store every week (habitual, which used the present tense)
i am going to the store (present continuous)
i was going to the store yesterday when i saw a raven (past progressive)
i have gone to the store twice (present perfect)
i went to the store yesterday (past preterite)