Look. No one blames you.
flicker
joined 8 months ago
Glad you mentioned 'next of kin.' This is the important answer. If you're married, you can do all that important legal stuff- make medical decisions if your partner is unconscious or indisposed, get the death certificate if that happens and give it to all the people who will need it.
Say your partner is in a car accident and you go to the hospital. There's no marriage, no forms, no nothing to indicate you're at all related to this person. You're just some dude or lady, showing up at some dude or lady's bedside. You can't make the decisions for this person. Even if, say, they have a horrible narcissistic mother they're estranged from- that mother, just by being the mother, can get all the authority to make decisions your unconscious partner would hate!
(Drawing from my own life. Fuck my mother.)
You can't even call the hospital and get information on them. If they aren't awake to indicate a release of information, the hospital can't let you see them, can't tell you anything.
This is just the first example that came to mind. The purpose of marriage is, it's a legal way to indicate that you're the most important person in the life of the person you marry. (And yes, depending on where you are and laws in your state or country or whatever, domestic partnership and other stuff can grant that, too.)
On the plus side, if anybody reading this ever has reason to think that they might need to go into a police station and remove someone being held there, apparently if you and a friend or two look sufficiently the part, you can just walk in, in plainclothes, and claim to be Homeland Security, and just... take a dude and leave.
Tell ya what. Make it as easy for me to pop off a pound as it is for someone else to take a hair dryer out of their luggage and I will happily pay for all the extra boobs I bring on board after I remove the weight everywhere else.
Man, I'd call my lawyer if dialing the phone wasn't such a hassle.
I really really really don't want them to amend. I really, really don't.
But I'm about... ninety percent certain that if I see an Obama versus Trump election, I'll need whoever breaks the news to me to be recording, because the mad laughter that erupts from me will soon be as ubiquitous as the Wilhelm scream.
"What sound shall we use here to signify pure insanity?" "Ah, yes, queue up the flicker laughter."
You're... jerkin it to the joker from Balatro?
I've also seen people who dislike it, but only when it doesn't agree with them.
I would download your car, not because I need one, but just to seed it.
Usually when two people are fighting, if a third person comments against one of them, it's pretty safe to assume they're on the side of the guy they aren't commenting against.
This mod action wasn't just intelligent, it was actually harm reduction.
It's a known thing that folks with ADHD may engage in internet arguments for the dopamine. Divide by Zero has a number of neurologically atypical members, and while we're a self-governing herd of cats (the majority of which seem to have level heads), we can't always stop engaging in stupid, needless, dumbass arguments when we should. Especially when mixed with people of... differing ideology.
The comments section was allowed to mature enough that a majority of people weighed in on the original point of the post, the mod action, before it devolved into arguments about the content of the post being actioned. That's the perfect age for locking the thread.
An analogy- the pirates were allowed to get into and distribute the rum. They were allowed to drink and sing. When they started fighting, that's when the cat o' nine came out. This is appropriate and about the only way to run a ship.
ETA: I hope you all know how fucking difficult it was for me to approve of someone in a position of authority in public like this. I'm real glad there's zero ties to this account and anything to do with my real life because I have a fucking reputation, thankyouverymuch.
Agh fuck.
I'm whiter than the person writing the "am I too white" question.