Aleric

@Aleric@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the internet way, though! When provided with criticism, double down on whatever you’re doing in the most melodramatic way possible. Do so doubly if the criticism is well meaning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in the United States. Way back in the day, I worked as a bill collector. A customer made a similar comment to me while my supervisor was recording the call, just coincidentally for quality. They reported him to the police and I was later asked to testify at his trial. He was sentenced to six months in jail for making terroristic threats.

  For context, this was shortly after 9/11 so people were on high alert. I doubt anyone at Lemmy is going to report you, we’re just concerned that sort of behavior is going to cause an amount of trouble that later cost/benefit analyses would lead you to regret.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CFCs⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Citation: Rectally Sourced Science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can we do when something is too vast to provide representative examples for?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate the sentiment, but I don’t even know if I have a soul. I’ll probably find out in the next thirty years.

  I worry about the capacity for the religious to engage in active critical thinking, something that is necessary for a thriving, functional society but needs to be -at least temporarily- suspended to be religious, but I’m generally not going to debate theists over that point because it’s disrespectful of their beliefs. It’s also completely fruitless and frustrating to engage in debates with someone whose arguments aren’t grounded in observable, testable phenomena. They’ll always “win” because they can make up whatever they want.

  Anyhow, we largely leave you alone, please leave us alone too. We’d appreciate it. With that being said, feel free to go in Galilee guns blazing on any atheists who give you shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can we do when something is too vast to provide representative examples for?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL. Why would you care to debate atheists? Assuming you follow an Abrahamic religion, you have your bipolar sky wizard with his bizarre, inconsistent mythos, while we have standards of evidence for what we believe.

  While we do poke fun at the religious, most of us ultimately don’t care what you believe. We do care about the batshit actions taken by the ostensibly religious to enforce their personal beliefs on others, presented in the guise of religion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Starbucks Union Campaign Just Added Hundreds Of Baristas To Its Ranks⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Katee Sackhoff manages to be incredibly my type while actually not my type at all. It’s an enigma

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Starbucks Union Campaign Just Added Hundreds Of Baristas To Its Ranks⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now is a great time for my daily “fuck Starbucks”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The way this is spelled out really irks me.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I drive a Prius and have a very long commute which goes through a rather conservative area. My existence inadvertently pisses off so many big truck drivers. I’ll never understand why some people need to speed up and pass me immediately after I’ve passed them. It’s not a competition!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Headlines be like⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they were brainwashed into believing they’re somehow valuable and a good investment that retains its value, despite them actually being neither of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish someone would flush already...⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What I think is nuts is how many people see all this and still don’t get it. For example, my neighbor is a conservative voter and he still LOVES Elon. He sees Elon as intelligent, industrious, and successful simply because he has lots of money. He doesn’t care that Elon has repeatedly shown that he basically just won the millionaire’s lottery and used his familial apartheid riches to make more money but way more than your average millionaire might, more than anything because of luck. Nope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish someone would flush already...⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, Elon is there already. Do you need him twice?

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would life be significantly different if no light were detectable when closing our eyes?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. No matter how fast I turn my head, it always seems to move faster!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Half an hour? I see you’re part of that slow eater movement I’ve been hearing about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Speaker Mike Johnson Blamed School Shootings on the Teaching of Evolution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget greed! A number of them are smart, morally bankrupt people who are conning the dumbest segment of the population. That actually used to be the primary composition of the Republican party, then that dumbest segment of the population grew up and started running for office themselves.