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Y’know how things have mostly gotten worse for the past five years, with most innovation going towards corporate control, and nearly all tech services moving towards enshittification?

Yeah five more years of that.

I find suicide distasteful and seek glory.

Damn that’s such an insult to Goebbels.

Counterpoint: Superman is strong enough that he could raze the system to the ground.

Making the mother of all power vacuums Jack, can’t fret over each billionaire!

Condensing a rant I had on another comm with this question here: fruit belongs with meat. fullstop. Idk why we’re still having this discussion when medieval peasants were able to figure it out in like the 12th century.

My guess is that MAGA content was getting flagged, and Youtube believes that should be monetizable in modern America.

I got long arms and an exfoliating luffa. I just wash every part. There’s no part of my back that I can’t reach.

I do think some of the blame has to lie on the centrist candidates who legitimize the grievances of the far-right by pandering to them, instead of calling out their lies and collaborating with the left. Seems to be a global trend of centrists preferring to try and capture the vote of the mythical right-wing moderate.

Is it really a cost if those states want to make things worse for themselves? They all have the same ability to choose sensible economic policies, they just seem to want morons in charge.

It’s better than my lunch today

This is absolutely not true. I’m kinda like a “traitor” who doesn’t get viewed as a man, so I’ve been in group texts with my predominantly women friend-group and they feel comfortable enough to speak freely. They absolutely say stuff like “all men are trash” and mean it, some of them like to brag about stuff like pretending to date a guy in order to get him to help them move before ghosting him. They say shit like “you’re one of the good ones” without an ounce of self-awareness.

The message from liberals that I see is “Maybe men need help, but it’s their fault that they are like this and they’ll need to solve it.”

I really want to like Hellsing Ultimate. The same story I love, but turned up to 11! Nazis fighting the Vatican fighting Vampires, what’s not to love?

Well it turns out when you turn everything up to 11, it mostly just becomes noise. A lot of the interesting subtle moments that I enjoyed in Hellsing were either dropped or abridged. Don’t even get me started on the extreme tone flipflopping! I stopped watching about halfway through, and don’t think I’ll ever pick it back up.

Then we must agree to disagree, because there really isn’t any further to debate. My argument is that human beings are irrational and capable of making irrational decisions. Your argument is that irrationality is merely a pretense, and that there must be a confluence of factors that caused these things to happen. I think trying to constantly find a reason when one doesn’t need to exist is a path to madness, and that is why I believe in free will.

See, now we’re getting into parts that we can’t prove. My argument is that it is irrational. Your argument is that it merely seems that way. There is no reconciling our positions.

This implies that every action must have a reason behind it, which I frankly find a laughable concept. Human beings are irrational creatures; our actions don’t require a reason. We have the ability to choose chaos. Unless your argument is that the cells in my stomach have the ability to know what kind of food they want and can unconsciously pass that information to my brain, there’s no reason for me to decide at 8:00 PM tonight “Hey, I want to eat Pakistani food.”

In fact, I could choose an invalid choice! Say I chose Pakistani. I would logically need to find a Pakistani restaurant to order from. What if they all closed at 8? What if I didn’t have a Pakistani restaurant near me? I may make a decision that ultimately, I cannot act upon, and then I would have to introduce some constraints to my decision making process. The decisions that follow would have a reason, but the initial whim doesn’t require one.

This depends, because there are two different kinds of randomness. A lot of the “randomness” that people encounter is actually based upon something, and our theoretical entity with access to perfect information could predict the outcome of that randomness perfectly. I’m thinking of stuff like computer randomness, number generation, games of chance, that sort of thing.

However, true random absolutely exists; in the words of Terry Pratchett “Things just happen, what the hell.” You see it with mutations in nature; ordinarily healthy cells can spontaneously change without directed input. It is unpredictable, even for our theoretical entity.

If free will was truly non-existent, it would mean that a theoretical entity with access to perfect information would be able to perfectly predict your actions. I don’t believe that is possible; I think that human beings are too irrational. Consider a very simple decision: what am I going to have for dinner? You could know the restaurants I have access to, what food is in my home, what I have discussed in a given day, and even what my current mood is, but it can ultimately come down to a whim. I could choose something I’ve never had before, for no reason, and seek it out.

I believe that we are individual actors in a very complex system that introduces lots of constraints to our decision-making process. We may not even be consciously aware of some of the constraints; however, we are always the ones ultimately making the decisions. You always have the option of a whim.

I learned this from the reverse, as eggs are a valid substitute for human blood in sacrifices.

Yeah delivery has become such a fucking shitshow. I shelled out the money for a PO Box, which seems like the only solution in the U.S., because in my experience FedEx and UPS are not functioning companies; they’re scammers that take money from corporations to lose packages.