I’m rather tired of people making claims about the belief systems of groups they have never been a part of. People make such vapid takes and always try to paint their opposition as entirely evil or entirely stupid. It’s possible to argue that harm is being done by others without making the assumption that they have no internal logic or ethics to their belief system. Doing so only proves your own ignorance and makes you a less credible source for critique.
@lightspill I am well enough trained (having been hurt too many times) not to openly speak my mind on popular leftism. But some of the shared ideas on revolution and violent protest make me feel similarly.
But I can’t call out specific examples without people pointing and saying “So you don’t think someone I’ve labeled a nazi is therefore totally and indefensibly evil and therefore less valuable than a rock and needs to be physically harmed?! You must be a sympathizer!”
I’m tired of arbitrary social rules being upheld as moral absolutes.
That includes from the people you think are right.
And especially when the rules involve being cruel to others who are thought to deserve it.
@muellermeier Ooh this has an excellent sense of scale.
@digitalfox I’m picturing a fox very gradually growing taller as he feels more and more left out of a runaway social situation... Slowly, imperceptibly, until… “Hey, were you always 8’3”?”
@digitalfox The amp just decided there’s no point in being able to go to eleven if the knob never gets turned past ten. So it took matters into its own hands.
I'd like to find more books on extremely specific subjects of interest to me. The kind that go on a deep dive into a subject, rather than covering all the surface level information about something.
There are problems with this though:
The first is that I'm not well enough educated or particularly smart. The second is that such books tend to be difficult to find and expensive. The third is that such books are very infrequently published, as they have a very niche market, and publishers don't tend to want to take the risk, hence point two. The fourth is that such books are hard to write in a way that isn't dry and boring.
I can't believe you can get 1 TB microSD cards now.
That's just so much for so small a thing.
Every time there’s a partial solar eclipse, the news says it will look like someone has taken a bite out of the sun.
And I think I know who to blame.
The Pokémon Company seems rather confused on what constitutes a “species.”
So many vastly different Pokémon species can interbreed and have viable offspring. The same creature is a different species at different phases of its life cycle.
And don’t even get me started on Nidoran.
