Ehhh, I wouldn’t place it at the same level as astrology. I do think people do the self fulfilling prophecy shit with it though.

I thought I was an introvert for a long time so I kind of became an insular hermit for like 5 years of my life after college and then I realized I was horribly miserable at the end of it.

And then when I forced myself to socialize I realized I actually fucking loved it and my introversion was from bad early social experiences due to autism and living in a backwards rural hellhole.

Ignorance born of environment is understandable.

Ignorance born of anti-intellectualism is malicious.

Lot of dead people in an airport after someone with an ammonia based cleaner they have to dump out right after someone else had some bleach they had to pour out.

I feel like the downward trend after the peak is accelerated if you are specifically studying philosophy.

The difference is Saudi Arabia is always evil and the US is only frequently evil. Always when a Republican is president but also occasionally when a Democrat is president.

TBF, scammers are legit getting scary effective with AI tools. Banks are going to get way more paranoid by necessity.

Ain’t life grand?

“I can’t come in, I’ve been shot in the head and I’m told I’ll be dead soon.”

“I feel like you aren’t considering how this will impact the team.”

That’s because more than half of the country is some combination of evil and/or retarded.

You sounds like a conservative. “I don’t understand how someone doesn’t believe what I believe so they must be somehow intrinsically evil.”

EDIT: Also I don’t think anyone was saying they don’t believe empathy is real, but that self proclaimed “empaths” are usually full of shit.

“promoted” LGBT rights internationally in a way that got LGBT people thrown under the bus world wide as a side effect of resisting American imperial power.

Hey I don’t like HRC but this take is pants on head unhinged. Shes not doing anti-LGBT 4D chess, she was just narcissistic/delusional to think she’d be anywhere charismatic enough to convince people internationally to treat LGBT people better.

Do people in the global south & developing world have agency? Or are they simpletons being manipulated by grand puppet masters? If the answer is they have agency, the bigots that live in those places should own their bigotry and you shouldn’t do apologia for them. If the answer is they are simpletons well… ok.

I feel like I’m completely detached from this social relation. I find self proclaimed “empaths” mostly just annoying or unconvincing. I don’t really have any hatred for them.

People misread my feelings all the time. Then again I’m autistic and default to a poker face like 90% of the time unless I exert effort to emote.

Dumb only if you are jumping to conclusions about how unattractive you are. (Likely)

Smart if you somehow have empirical data (not just vibes) demonstrating your innate and unavoidable unattractiveness AND find horniness -> masturbation a net negative experience. (sad but understandable)

EDIT: Though also consider prostitutes, VR porn, or once they become available, convincing sex robots.

He is doing the right thing if only because he is preventing a child from playing Roblox.

He’d be a hero if he gave him a copy of Minecraft (or really almost any non-F2P game) to play instead.

For those saying “Get out of the middle lane!” What if I don’t know the area and I’m trying to minimize the amount of suddenly needed lane changes I need to do to get into the correct one?

What if I’m driving a clunker and my transmission doesn’t handle constant speed changes well making staying on the on-ramp lane a little risky?

What if I’m already fucking going 9mph over the speed limit? Look motherfucker I’m risking being late to work too, but I’m not going 10+ I can’t afford a fucking ticket either and I’m not slowing down or dangerously constantly changing lanes because your rich ass can afford repeated speed tickets.

In my own case I call both cis & trans women “guys” or “dudes” under specific male dominated contexts. Like during playing video games & pen and paper gaming.

This has always been fine except for recently there is a hiccup. My cousin has semi-recently begun transitioning, so whenever she’s playing video games with me on my discord I kind of can’t help but slow myself down (or end up correcting myself) when referring to her which I wouldn’t do for a cis woman… Thus far they have not noted this as treatment differing what I might do for a cis woman because admittedly the cis women on my discord never jump in to play Battlefield or Killing Floor 1/2 anyways but it still makes me wonder if I’m helping or hurting the situation.

I’m solidly middle aged and the last shooter I played regularly was a Battlefield game (Like a year ago). Despite my age and there being a lot of players in any given match I got good enough at the game to move the needle on matches consistently and virtually always stayed on top of my team’s scoreboard.

Reaction time and aim are important but overrated. Understanding the game’s mechanics at an in depth level is far more important. This was true even back when I was a kid playing Halo PC and CoD4.

No one is real unless they’re so incredibly impulsive that they’re in jail.

Hey, I don’t know that I care that Miss Newly Irrelevant Politician Lady is posting a politically motivated condolences post and I know we’d be better off if she had won. But Dick Cheney was an aggressively evil piece of shit and doesn’t deserve tact.

Yeah, we’re definitely better off with her not being president. Much happier with what we got instead.

One of the rare good things to come out of Indiana.