Where do you live that's cold enough to do this right now?

I made a lot of my unconscious conscious, but now I willingly give it control because it actually knows what makes me happy.

Probably. Dude was a prototypical pacifist and would probably use it for carpentry.

That sounds awesome! With global warming, maybe anorexia is the strat.

Wearing thigh high socks underneath pants traps body heat, making it uncomfortable unless it's cold out.

6'2", so not the height of the original Vader actor (6'6"), but ironically the same height as James Earl Jones.

I was more talking about other things like projects or stories I write. I try finish my drinks.

The enlightened way is to treat everyone as sincere, even if they aren't. Trolls who pretend to be bigots are actual bigots. I try to give correct answers that would also offend the poster if they were a troll.

Same! It's either less than 10% or over 90% for me.

This is the peak of evolution. It's been downhill ever since.

Every colorful and vibrant person needs a goth and monochrome person to date

Things look really bad, but I ultimately realized that dwelling in doom has no benefits when compared to hope. I don't blindly hope things will work out, but I never write off the future. The future will be best if we think we will win.

Is this about the 4 meanest little shits in town? Propaganda from the beef lobby? Propaganda for child labor from the beef lobby?

This is mostly true for nationalistic American liberals. China is the opposing empire to America, while many see Japan as this "country uplifted by America." This attitude isn't new and isn't consciously held by most people that parrot it. Most don't know any better and many would accept the nuances if presented respectfully.

Empires occasionally do good when it serves their interests, while every country has serious issues they need to deal with. You can still oppose authoritarians or be a weeb without needing to ignore reality.

What a shithead. Spreadsheet should more than suffice.

And here I was expecting transphobic slur

"Sorry, we only have McApple Slices"

It is a shame, as what was really wrong with her wasn't that she used escapism, but that she was apathetic. You can escape reality and relax, but there's work to do if we want to contribute positively to the world. All mediums can pacify us from the horrors of the world. Books are slightly better by virtue of having a lower barrier to entry, but the internet lowered that potential barrier.

Because "humanity" isn't really screwed, just most members of humanity. I hate this assumption that climate catastrophe or nuclear war will be a certain end. No it won't. Humans will survive, maybe even a large percentage of them. LIFE GOES ON.

Maybe you want death because trying to improve things is "too hard," but I want to live. I hold onto hope because life is more fulfilling that way. You're just justifying apathy by assuming we're all going to die when it's actually unlikely to happen.

+1 MP restoring chopsticks

Those are the options they offer based on how much they pay us. Of course we need to buy our boxes; they aren't commies!

At first I was just going to duplicate the top house and say it's what we actually want, but I liked this more.

In part, killing capitalists is not killing capitalism. We need to make a society where people cannot wield that much power over others. Retribution is only a proxy to practical justice, not justice itself. The rich should be forced to give up their wealth, not punished for their actions. They should only be killed for resisting. Violence is necessary to deal with the violent, but it will never be inherently good.

Just like fascists, tankies could theoretically hang out here without getting the boot. It's just that genocide denying authoritarians cannot be tolerated in a tolerant, democratic society. The reason tankies and fascists get the boot is because they can't resist trying to bully and intimidate those that find their views abhorrent. They simply can't resist being terrible.

They're cultists with views that can't stand up to scrutiny, so they need use other tactics to spread their shit and gain power. They use the real downsides and weaknesses of democracy to argue we need an even worse system. Then they argue you actually hold the worst views of their enemies, even though they usually support exactly the same things that make those enemies bad. Tankies claim you're a free-market liberal for opposing them, when the countries they support are state capitalists. Fascists claim you're against freedom of speech, while they are always trying to ban ideas they hate. Some of them are misguided and believe their own lies, but others are just awful people.

It's true!

Us trans people truly have the ability to melt the minds of middle-aged white people.

First off, that's only a fraction of the PowerPoint, and she might have made those slides to not reveal personal info to the internet. Hell, this could just be a joke with dozens of empty slides below the visible ones. However, the person almost certainly still has trauma. I've met a ton of people who cope through comedy, and a lot of them would laugh at this meme.

More importantly, gatekeeping trauma is not ok. Someone having a more traumatic life than you does not invalidate your own trauma. You could have trauma from common experiences, like parents divorcing or the death of a loved one, and it can affect you in serious ways. Many people never seek the help they need for their trauma because they invalidate their experiences. Someone always has it worse, so if trauma is making it hard to live your best life, don't feel guilty about seeking help for it.

She got one upped, outdone, lost to her rival, and now needs to take it in ass again from her.

People are afraid of being enslaved by something intelligent when we're already enslaved by unintelligent systems. Capitalism, imperialism, culture, even evolution itself. These forces already control us, reducing our lives to mere mechanical functions. There isn't a being in control of these systems, but they still devalue us as people. No artificial intelligence will ever dominate us like natural unintelligence.

If it's not a part of capitalism, they don't think it matters. If doesn't directly make them a profit, it shouldn't be done. Housework isn't labor. Activism isn't labor. Love only helps them sell products. They want people to have kids so they have more young workers, but letting people become financially secure enough to have them would hurt their profits.

They want robots to replace manual labor and AI to replace mental labor so they don't have to deal with us. They want productivity without paying for labor, because earning money without doing labor isn't enough apparently. It is morally correct to take their money because they only got it by underpaying us for our work. Every day we don't take it from them, they're taking it from us.

I fucking hate tankies and ML cultists, but I'm always skeptical of anti-communist movements. The fear of communism can bring economically liberal people to your side, but the real threat isn't extreme or radical ideas. It's authoritarianism and tribal selfishness. That's what made Nazis and Soviets so terrible. They centralized power, killed opposition, and valued certain people over others. They pursued the strategies of taking from others by force, often using genocide and imperialism.

Global capitalism and imperialism are terrible things that should be changed, but even saying that is an extreme position that most people in imperial countries would oppose. Most Russians support their terrible war. Most Americans supported Bush's war on terror, mostly souring because it didn't deliver. A majority of Israelis used to support imperialist actions against Palestine, only now turning on their terrible leadership. People support exploitation because they often don't see or feel the consequences, and even when they do feel the consequences, many don't connect them with the actual causes.

Hamas is a monster fed by Israeli antagonism because feeding those trying to coexist peacefully prevents colonization. They build a monster to fight in order to get more support from people who simply want the monster to go away. All the while, they move to accomplish their real goal of getting rid of Palestinians like other evil empires have attempted to do to Jewish people for millenia. It's a fucking tragedy to see people that should know the pain of discrimination more than anyone, perpetuate the cycle of violence. Theocratic nationalism is a sin against humanity.

It's even worse than that. Individuals are a vessel for those gametes, not the gametes themselves. I'm sorry, but sperm aren't fucking people Robert Rowling. You aren't your cum or your period. Inhaling pollen during spring isn't killing trees.

Joanne Galbraith's conservative gender ideology values genes and bloodlines more than people. Living a good life doesn't matter, only reproducing like e coli.

Phobes want the world to make sense because they think it'll fill the emptiness in their soul. It'll never work. The void can't be filled that way.

He goes by Kolanaki on Lemmy now.

Hey. Trump probably isn't really a billionaire and has managed to get charged for crimes even though his former job made him legally above the law. I don't think lawful evil is the correct alignment.

The likely explanation is that the publication intentionally misrepresented what the casting director said. They were probably talking about how what they DID with her in the first season challenged beauty standards. They intentionally made her "ugly" for the story. The casting director might not have meant they hired her because she wasn't conventionally attractive, but the publication knew they could get more clicks by quoting her out of context.

Also, this thread has been kind of toxic about beauty stuff which makes me sad :(