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If you love stinging and irony enough, it all adds up. Plus it's a pretty funny way to die, so you've got that going for you.

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

We might take Bentham a lot more seriously if he didn't spend a substantial part of his life trying to make prison management more efficient: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

He also "referred to his walking stick as 'Dapple, and his cat as 'The Reverend Sir John Langbourne.'

Not to get pedantic, but more humorous utilitarianism examples would have been Mill or Hare.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

You know the story about the scorpion and the frog? Your friend Nino didn't make it across the river.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Republicans, after they officially owned the libs

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

Except there was no reasonable argument beforehand.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuck it, I'm going down stinging!

[–] blackluster117@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Ok, here we go...

I'm going down, down, stung a frog like a clown

Sugar, I'm going down stinging

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Scorpions can survive underwater for very long. It will find its way to the shore soon enough.

They're entering rapids and its exoskeleton gets crushed

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 14 points 1 week ago

Someone should make a reverse version of this story where the frog eats the scorpion midway across.