That’s not wrong but I’m not expecting anyone to forget about the negatives. If you punch 0 babies but you are so worried about causing harm that you’re miserable all the time and doing less good as a result, the world is on the whole worse off. It’s not a math equation but I would rather someone eats meat if that means they’re working to change the industry rather than someone who doesn’t eat meat and does nothing. Someone actively working against transphobia and contacting whoever their officials are and canvassing does far more than their $20 does.

I’m just saying there’s no possible way to exist without doing harm, anything you can cut out you should, but if it’s to the point where it’s stopping you from doing good in the world, that might be the line you should stop at.

Even if you do none of those it just keeps going. Coffee? Using too much plastic? Drinking 90% of soda brands?

I just like to think of it like “these things are bad, what good can I do rather than trying to cut out every bad thing?” If every HP fan supported the author by buying it, but then volunteered in a soup kitchen one time, they’ve done far more good than bad.

There are some recommended by dermatologists like lac hydrin. I have chronic dry skin and whenever I actually decide to use it my skin gets noticeably better even when I’m barely using it.

Npr will remain defunded but he will be slammed. And also raked over the coals.

I think he was trying to do what guy #1 did but guy #1 was already there again and one upped him with like 6 roses

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Because they’re being somewhat derisive and structured their sentences to be less comprehensible

“…you have ironically demonstrated that a pre-existing functional understanding of the concepts at play is an important component of more advanced literacy.”

Translation: being familiar with more words/concepts gives you the ability to understand what was said on a deeper level.

This actually took more effort to write than the esoteric one, because I put in effort to make sure I’m not being esoteric for the sake of it. I’m not against using more vocab or higher level sentence structure, but the sentence I quoted is a perfect example of being verbose for no gain in understanding or richness in the sentence.

I thought it just entailed manipulation, not the self interest part, so you’re probably right.

Sure, I just don’t like how they frame it as “we will literally go extinct and free information will die if we don’t get record gains this year too.”

Yep 100%, I didn’t mean to make it seem like the other side is better, I think online dating is pretty terrible for everyone. I’ll think a long time about if I want to match with someone but I’ve heard many people say “just spam like and then you can decide on the couple matches you actually get.” I don’t go on because I don’t want to see the cardboard personalities, and actually cool women don’t go on for the exact reasons you said.

Hopefully in person hangout spaces become a thing again, since that’s so much better than online.

I mean I would still rather not be the woman in that situation since you don’t know who actually cares about you. Just that it’s pretty unfortunate that we still do the basic evolution thing of “males compete for a female’s interest!” I don’t really want to play that game, and irl I didn’t feel I needed to nearly as much.

While I don’t disagree, many of the women I’ve seen on dating apps have about as much personality as a cardboard box, yet still get tons of matches. It’s just annoying having to be super funny and interesting and etc to get any attention at all, compared to the other person actually just existing and saying “hey.”

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wikipedia-millions-bank-beg/ Interesting article, ignore the clickbait title. Even the former executive director thinks the foundation spends too much on chapters and other outreach

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_is_a_Wikimedia_Chapter%3F

If you support these things that’s great, but it’s a bit disingenuous for them to beg like they’re barely keeping the lights on when they have record gains every year.

Bus drivers are magicians, I always think “where is he even going to go there’s not even close to enough space” and they just magic the bus smaller to fit while I’m panicking the whole time thinking we’re about to crash.

This is something I’ve thought about a lot, is this really true? People say you don’t know someone unless things get bad, but like… if someone improves my life 95% of the time, but then they don’t get sleep or are having a rough time and they treat me really badly, is that 5% the “real them?” Idk just something about that doesn’t sit quite right with me.

At least we can be allied with tankies about that now. 1/3rd of the country is literally in a cult and 1/3rd doesn’t really care so long as gas prices stay low.

Theres something called “morally lucky” where they didn’t really think things through that much but just ended up in the “more correct” group anyway. Some more common examples than what you gave would be things like “omg Ben Shapiro is so short what a gnome,” or “trump has a tiny dick lol!!” while saying body shaming is not okay and isn’t ever acceptable.

I think it just attracts the terminally onlines, I think most people on the fediverse are pretty cool and willing to argue stuff reasonably, but the insane people are so loud that’s what you’ll see very often.

I think it’s also important that sometimes the 2 dishes is just the 2 dishes, otherwise your brain starts to say “sure you say 2 dishes, but that really means the whole thing!”

Well in that case would you also be against affirmative action? I would also say that’s racist, but I also want the perspectives of other ethnicities, who likely grew up differently, when decisions are made. I think discrimination is sometimes just a necessary evil.