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Edited by Mrph1 on Dec 1st 2023 at 6:53:59 PM

Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#16251: Apr 3rd 2014 at 8:19:29 AM

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Bet he did. Kings tend to be able to make time for these things cool

Schild und Schwert der Partei
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#16252: Apr 3rd 2014 at 8:29:02 AM

Well, as long as you use "met" in the same euphemistic sense as "know" in the Bible, I'm sure he managed it somehow.

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Polarstern from United States Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#16253: Apr 3rd 2014 at 10:32:02 AM

Proposed to the woman. She said yes! Muahahahaha! She can't escape me now! [lol]

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Wildcard from Revolution City Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Dating Catwoman
#16254: Apr 3rd 2014 at 10:33:21 AM

Congratulations Polar! Hope you have a very happy marriage!

METAL GEAR!?
CaissasDeathAngel House Lewis: Sanity is Relative from Dumfries, SW Scotland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
House Lewis: Sanity is Relative
#16255: Apr 3rd 2014 at 10:46:52 AM

Congratulations! I'm so happy for you and your whole family! Great news! grin

edited 3rd Apr '14 10:47:00 AM by CaissasDeathAngel

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Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#16256: Apr 3rd 2014 at 10:54:16 AM

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Congratulations. [awesome]

Schild und Schwert der Partei
blauregen Since: Apr, 2013
#16257: Apr 3rd 2014 at 11:13:58 AM

Congrats smile

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#16258: Apr 3rd 2014 at 11:15:03 AM

Congrats!

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Gabrael from My musings Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
#16259: Apr 3rd 2014 at 11:29:30 AM

All Happiness for you guys!

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BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Mod with the Migraine
#16260: Apr 3rd 2014 at 11:34:33 AM

Go Polar!

...

Forum meet-up at the wedding? cool

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#16261: Apr 3rd 2014 at 11:48:41 AM

Congrats Polar!

...It's weird having so many websites and no way to properly display now, lol.
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Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
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Visiting from the Hoag Galaxy
#16263: Apr 3rd 2014 at 12:51:44 PM

Congratulations! wink

Not Three Laws compliant.
CaissasDeathAngel House Lewis: Sanity is Relative from Dumfries, SW Scotland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
House Lewis: Sanity is Relative
#16264: Apr 3rd 2014 at 3:17:42 PM

Mozilla boss Brendan Eich - the creator of Java Script - has resigned after just a month after it emerged he donated $1000 to support Prop 8 in California in 2008.

Surprised its had no coverage in this thread actually - OK Cupid redirected all Firefox users to a message saying "please don't use Firefox because this hatemonger is in charge" with links to other browsers, though one could click through the message.

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Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#16265: Apr 3rd 2014 at 3:38:05 PM

That whole kerfuffle just felt weird to me. You'd figure it would be the proprietors of a site like OK Cupid that would be up in arms about gay marriage or gay use of the site, while Mozilla's boss would be in favor. Weird world.

Sixthhokage1 Since: Feb, 2013
#16266: Apr 3rd 2014 at 3:45:36 PM

I was hoping Eich would resign soon. I'd rather not have sites blocking my preferred browser out of moral opposition like OKC did.

CaissasDeathAngel House Lewis: Sanity is Relative from Dumfries, SW Scotland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
House Lewis: Sanity is Relative
#16267: Apr 3rd 2014 at 3:54:19 PM

[up][up] Why would they be against it? As a dating site, being in favour of same-sex relationships means more business for them.

[up] They didn't block access, the message could be clicked through (and presumably avoided out right by using, ironically, javascript).

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Kostya from Everywhere Since: Apr, 2011 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#16268: Apr 3rd 2014 at 3:58:16 PM

[up]Every business could make more money if they let LGBT people shop there. It never stopped any of them from being discriminatory for no reason.

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Lost in Space
#16269: Apr 3rd 2014 at 4:00:34 PM

Whether OK Cupid's protest specifically caused the resignation or merely contributed to the media environment that prompted it is less important than the fact that a major company's CEO was forced to resign over their stance on LGBT rights — a significant victory for the campaign to make it socially, politically, and economically unacceptable to be a homophobe.

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Morgikit Mikon :3 from War Drobe, Spare Oom Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Mikon :3
#16270: Apr 3rd 2014 at 4:02:02 PM

Cue the homophobes crying because their new martyr was bullied by the existence of LGBT people.

KnightofLsama Since: Sep, 2010
#16271: Apr 3rd 2014 at 4:04:53 PM

The main legit argument in my mind against poly marriages is the potential for abuse in the creepy fundamentalist cult type of affair. Bad enough when cases with a 70 year old church leader with 8 different 17 year old wives come to the surface, worse to give them a loophole to argue that it's legal. There are still some very, very messed up power dynamics when it comes to women and sex throughout the world, and plenty of people would use polygamy as a method of causing further repression and control.

I don't disagree that the potential exists, but I would suggest that given that these sort of relationships already exist without any formal recognition that granting legal recognition to polygamous relationships would have the opposite effect. By recognising the relationships, that in turn gives the participants in these relationships access to legal options that currently exist for those in monogamous couples (alimony, custody, child support etc) rather than being trapped because of the lack of legal recognition as they are now, thus curbing those sorts of abuses.

Edit: And congrats to Polarstern.

edited 3rd Apr '14 4:05:12 PM by KnightofLsama

CaissasDeathAngel House Lewis: Sanity is Relative from Dumfries, SW Scotland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
House Lewis: Sanity is Relative
#16272: Apr 3rd 2014 at 4:06:31 PM

Kostya - Yes, but as a dating site, OKC have a lot to specifically and directly gain from being open to gay clients - entire markets focussed around them. That's very much different from a business who may happen to benefit from the good will of the LGBT community, so it would be completely counter intuitive to their business model to be anything but gay friendly. Ogodei suggested that it would be expected that OKC would oppose gay marriage, but I can't see the logic.

edited 3rd Apr '14 4:06:46 PM by CaissasDeathAngel

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Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#16273: Apr 3rd 2014 at 4:43:32 PM

I don't know, someone who is focused on getting people married might be more into the sanctity of marriage and thus have an issue with gay marriage? I'm just saying if one of the two parties was to be against gay marriage, i'd pit the dating executive versus the tech executive.

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