Airports are far from city centers whereas train stations are almost universally within them; even taking into account that most people don’t live in city center, they tend to have easier access to the train station than to the airport, and then destinations are massively centralized in the city.

Trains have no security theater to delay passengers, and passengers can get from the station entrance to the platform in 10 minutes if the station is exceptionally labyrinthine and they’re unfamiliar with its layout and two minutes if it’s not or they are.

Passengers with luggage can take it on the train and don’t have to be further delayed for baggage claim.

All of these features work to make trains more pleasant than planes even when the door-to-door trip times are equal. The sequential queuing for security and then boarding on a plane is a hassle in addition to extra time; of note, in the Air2Rail link, the most glaring underperformance in high-speed rail modal split relative to trip times is for routes crossing the Channel, because they have such queuing courtesy of British paranoia about terrorism in the Chunnel and also charge higher fares.

Glad to see in the comments too everyone being train-pilled, air travel is horrible and soul-destroying take the trainpill.

I hate hookup culture bury me beside you

Science fiction, as a genre, is basically romance for nerds.

Okay, but that doesn’t address my point. There is a lot of contemporary academic literature on the topic of death and whether it is a “harm” in the same class as other harms. This is not an idea limited to virtue-signalling Greeks, or vodka-swilling Siberians. Epicurus himself is beside the point here.

As a philosophical point, it’s not immediately clear why I should be afraid of death as in, “the state of being dead”. (I might very well be afraid of dying-as-a-process, but that’s not the same thing.)

I can understand the desire to make old age less demeaning, less painful. Osteoporosis, dementia, incontinence, etc. are all terrible things that contribute gratuitously to the sum of human suffering.

What I don’t understand is this deep-seated fear that so many people (including rationalists!) have, solely about the notion that there will be a day when they no longer exist. This goes well beyond the fear of aging.

And it is a “fear”, given the highly emotive reactions the notion provokes - such as OP’s allusion to killing bioethicists as a “remedy”. (Really?)

I am not against life extension per se, especially insofar as it alleviates diseases associated with old age. But as far as the immortality project is concerned, I don’t see the appeal. Mankind’s time and resources are better spent on problems other than staving off a state that none of us will ever be around to experience.

once again i am mad at bioethicists against life extension

Glossing over the colossal uncharitability of this post, I finally figured out why I’ve never felt the idea of life-extension and immortality particularly compelling:

I don’t think being dead is actually bad for you. Old age is bad for you, sure: the pains and aches and indignities. But the state of being dead, itself?

“The best high of all is death. No feelin’, no nothing.” -Panic in Needle Park, 1971

It’s an old idea going back to Epicurus, and way beyond the scope of a Tumblr post.

But for anyone whom I’ve spoken to on the subject, who is baffled by my lack of interest in life extension, cryogenics etc., this is a good starting point. I simply don’t see any reason to fear death, any more than to fear a dreamless nap.

once again i am mad at bioethicists against life extension

man i fucking hate how everything has to relate to porn one way or another these days. i was looking for video editing software torrents and i find a post about a guy warning others to not use the pirate bay for software since he got ransomware'd, and he mentions his 3TB porn folder like its no big deal???? like, why is this something so socially accepted??

I wish men would shame each other more. Just a simple “that’s gross” from his male friend would silence him.

Make porn shameful again <3

Every time I hear the porn isn’t cheating argument I remember when I was listening to Meghan Rienks’ podcast where she literally said she doesn’t mind her boyfriend watching porn because she knows he doesn’t see those women as real people. After she said it she tried to backtrack and explain and I don’t know if that exactly how she meant it but still it really took me back for a minute and I haven’t listened to that podcast since. It’s so normal for people to not see the humanity of women in the porn industry

The complete lack of empathy is astounding. Men, with the help of libfems, have created an entire class of women who are seen as sub human and deserving of violence. They are so dehumanised for men's pleasure that other women don't even recognise that we are all one or two steps away from being those women. If one woman isn't seen as human, none of us are.

Riven: The Sequel to Myst (PC, 1997)

Game of Thrones girls at their book ages

them: you don’t watch game of thrones?? really? how come?

me: 

reblog if you dont have a bra on

Homosexuality also works.

I always thought I was a very average person but through this roe v wade thing I’ve learned that I am quite amazing. In my 26 years of life I have managed to not get pregnant by using abstinence!!! I know I know. According to these people I must have GODLIKE self control cause apparently it’s SO hard to like not have sex or get pregnant.

Turns out there is such a thing as a 100% effective birth control method!

why do people say sex work in quotation marks? like "sex work"

Good question. “Sex work” is written like that to indicate criticism of the term. There are five main reasons why I think critics of the sex trade don’t like the term "sex work":

1) The term "sex work" sanitizes the frequently non-consensual and exploitative aspect of the sex industry.

It is a known fact that the vast majority of women in prostitution are not there willingly and want out [x], but lack the resources to do so. We also know prostitution is inextricably connected to sex trafficking [x] [x] to supply women and girls for men to buy access to. Calling prostitution or pornography "sex work" waters down how most people don't want to do that "job", how they would do something else if they could, how they are there because they have no other options, or how they had to actually be trafficked [x] to meet demand and keep the sex industry going. “Sex work” functions as a euphemism to hide what actually happens to people in prostitution [x] and tries to frame it as if it were simply a matter of career choice.

2) “Sex work” is a very vague term that welcomes confusion when discussing the sex trade.

“Sex worker”. Are we talking about a Romanian woman who was trafficked as a child to the UK? Or a 17 year old girl working a corner in Brazil? Or a drugged up woman being raped on camera for PornHub? Or a “luxury escort” for rich men at parties? Or a receptionist at an “erotic massage parlor” in Germany? Or are we talking about a girl who sells foot pictures on OnlyFans? Calling all of these different people by the same name conflates different areas of the sex industry and frequently hides the darker aspects of prostitution in favor of seemingly harmless versions of the sex trade. 

3) “Sex work” is wildly different from any other sort of work.

While in jobs like construction you’re selling your physical labor and manual skills, in caretaking jobs you’re selling your time and attention and in consultant jobs you’re selling your knowledge; in “sex work”, women are being paid to give sexual access of their bodies to men. Men are giving women money to get unrestricted access of their bodies. Men are paying women to be able to rent women’s organs - vagina, anus, mouth and breasts - to do whatever they want to them in a sexual setting. There is no equivalence to prostitution in any other work area [x]. There is no other job in the world where customers pay to obtain sexual access to the worker’s bodies [x]. There is no other job with as high a mortality rate [x] and STDs [x] like in prostitution. There is no other job where an unwanted pregnancy is an occupational hazard. This explanation as to why “sex work” is not normal work by Sabrina Valisce, a new zealander woman who exited the sex trade, is very interesting and highlights the uniquely sexual nature of the exploitation taking place. 

4) “Sex work” normalizes prostitution as an employment option.

At prostitution’s core, there is the buying and selling of women as commodities for male sexual satisfaction. The vast majority of sex sellers are female and the crushing majority of sex buyers are male [x] [x]. Prostitution exists because male sexual entitlement [x] exists: men believe they are entitled to buy women for sex [x] [x]. In order for prostitution to happen, there needs to be a class of women that men can purchase sexual access to: why should we normalize the idea that a man can pay money in exchage for being able to sexually penetrate a woman’s body? Why should we normalize that women are products to be bought and sold by men? 

5) The term “sex work” shifts the attention to women’s “choice” to be in the sex industry.

In discussions about the sex trade, people often debate about whether women should have the right to choose prostitution as a “career”, and we often neglect to discuss whether men should have the right to purchase women for sex in the first place. Also, by calling women “sex workers” we shift the focus to women’s “choice” to be in the sex trade rather than on the economic and social vulnerabilities that might lead them to consider this occupation - like poverty, abuse, inequality between the sexes [x] [x] and racism [x] [x] [x] [x] to begin with. 

So in conclusion, calling prostitution and pornography “sex work” and saying “sex work is work” ends up being more about protecting the interests of the sex industry and of the men who buy sex and less about protecting the women forced and coerced into prostitution. It tries to legitimize prostitution as a business and a career, hiding it’s exploitative nature. I hope this answers your question

My main take on the vegetarian/veganism discourse currently resurfacing is that people taking the whole “what if plants are semi-sentient” postulate as a fun dunk on sanctimonious vegans rather than cause for more than a little horror is pretty indicative of the state of the discussion

Reuters article from 2018. Hasn’t aged well, has it?

“The problem isn’t porn, the problem is bad sex education in schools!” have you ever considered that there could be…. 2 problems