HenchmanNumber3

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[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

People don't want to be around others (the fear aspect), so they drive their own bubble around.

You say this like it's a bad thing. It doesn't have to be fear, it can just be preference. There are introverts and asocial people, neurodivergent people, people with social anxiety, and any number of other reasons that they don't have to justify to you as to why they would prefer not to be around a mass of other people. Social interaction in cities tends to be of an impersonal gesellschaft nature anyway, so it's not like you're missing out on a genuine social experience most of the time. It's fine to just interact with those you personally vet and invest in.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Famous sportsballer ages like every else. News at 11.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 41 points 9 months ago (8 children)

About 90% of abortions are performed before 12 weeks, well before the fetus could even look like a post-birth baby like the one depicted in the meme. This is a common tactic of anti-choicers to depict abortion as being performed on fully formed and almost born fetuses. They try to use edge cases to argue against unrelated and more common experiences. Fetuses aren't conscious or sentient or viable when most abortions are performed. Don't let them get away with disingenuously conflating those concepts and milestones.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 141 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Apparently abortions are performed with all six infinity stones.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

The idea that random people pick a select few musicians to be inducted is just more artificial scarcity bullshit. It's not a legitimate institution if it can't recognize more people to give a wider breadth of exposure to the legacy of rock n roll. By inducted some, they pretend they have the authority to determine the legacy of rock n roll, but their snubs say more about their deficiencies than about those they snub.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is less of an issue if you judge everything that isn't first hand from a known friend or family member as suspect or at least just a waste of time. Facebook used to be a place to talk to people you knew in the real world. You could ignore anything they reposted and still engage with the actual examples of their own experiences that they posted. But now it's so flooded with ads and listicles and clickbait and video clips that it's not even worth trying to keep up with the people you actually know.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's still not stealing. It's plagiarism or fraud or any number of other terms, but stealing necessarily requires the deprivation of a limited, rivalrous thing, like money or property. You can't steal fame or exposure or credit, except poetically. And by that point, the word becomes so watered down that it's meaningless. You might as well say I'm stealing your life seconds at a time by writing this extra sentence.

The purpose of using the term stealing here is only to borrow the negative moral connotations of the term, but it doesn't communicate clearly what exactly is happening.

It's perfectly valid to say you consider it morally equivalent with theft, but it's not stealing.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

So, his glowing red weak spot is emotional trauma. Time to ask around in the castle where he grew up about stories from his childhood.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hated it when older people said this to me, so you probably won't appreciate my perspective now, but you have a vast amount of life ahead of you with a lot more information you can encounter that will contradict what you think you know for certain right now. And you'll encounter newer information after that that will contradict the previous new truths you felt so enlightened to recognize. You don't have to listen to me at all of course, but if you think you already know what you believe, you don't need to make a post here to discuss it. If you're not open to the thoughts of others, I wouldn't recommend wasting your time soliciting them. If you're just looking for affirmations of your pre-existing perspectives, a chatbot might be a better outlet.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'd recommend taking some sociology, anthropology, and political science courses in college if you'd like to delve deeper into these topics. There's a lot of scholarship out there on these issues to explore.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago

Also you can't just make your own micronation wherever you want. It has to already exist.

This kind of makes the concept of a micronation useless. The point is that anyone can make their own nation with their own rules wherever they are or go. If you have to pick someone else's, then it's no different than picking someone else's recognized nation.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The lack of punctuation in the post text seems problematic.

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