ameancow
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- Comment on Stay Mad 12 hours ago:
You mean you don’t have to like Kamala? I’m voting Kamala.
Not fond of her, but she’ll do better than Trump by leagues and miles and make history while not rocking the boat. Libs will love her. I bet she gets a second term.
- Comment on Stay Mad 23 hours ago:
I will cast my vote between tears but nobody ever promised preserving democracy will always make you feel good.
In fact, I am close to launching into a really hard condemnation of every last one of you lazy-ass motherfuckers who expect everything to always play out like a 2-dimensional anime plot where you’re the good guy so you’re supposed to always feel good, and any struggles are easily overcome. Go back to your discord safe-spaces and let adults out here make the hard choices.
- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 3 days ago:
I mean it’s a niche thing, people who are really into piercings really like them, and those who aren’t into them tend to really really not like them, whereas some other fashion accessories are generally more universally acceptable even if not necessarily loved.
- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 3 days ago:
This isn’t an argument about abortion or gender affirming care you nut, this is about fashion. It’s not about “women’s bodies.”
Plenty of women express “dissatisfaction” with the fashion choices men make and it’s fine. What’s the difference?
- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 3 days ago:
I quizzed you why you thought a normal, common expression of aesthetic taste became a sexual entitlement issue to you immediately, it was weird, it remains weird, you are weird, every comment makes you seem weirder about it, and I don’t think this is a healthy place for you to be engaging and tripling down on. I’m blocking you for your good as much as mine.
- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 3 days ago:
I’ve re-read your comment dozens of times trying to understand why this concept is lost on you, that it’s FINE to be disappointed with someone’s fashion choices, be it someone you know personally, or a generalized view of trends. It’s OKAY. It doesn’t MEAN anything other than, some people like things and other people do not. I too feel a sense of disappointment when people with otherwise pretty features accessorize it in ways that distract or detract from my preference. AND THAT’S ALSO OKAY.
You know what else? You’re ALSO allowed to be disappointed with how some people dress, talk, act or just about ANYTHING else that you like or don’t like. This is called being an adult human with values, taste and self-esteem.
Whatever cartoonish picture jumped into your head of some “alpha male” casting judgement on women he wants to sleep with, which I think you’re picturing here, that shit is coming from a place of insecurity or pain inside YOU, this is not an objectifying or entitled attitude to express or hold. Disappointment with someone’s choices is a normal and healthy thing that men and women feel and express all the time and sure it can become toxic in extreme circumstances, it’s nowhere NEAR that to just express not liking a thing.
- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 3 days ago:
What is your point? Did a billboard with the word “disappointment” fall on your great uncle and kill him?
- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 3 days ago:
Okay setting aside your clearly toxic and unkind attitude that is betraying what this is really about, some personal issue that is making you seeth, why is the word “disappointment” triggering YOU so hard?
I would be disappointed if my date comes home with me and takes off their shirt and they have a tattoo of Sonic the Hedgehog on their chest. Because I don’t want to look at Sonic when we’re together, does that make a lick of fucking sense? Do you understand that people have consensual relationships and preferences for their partners?
- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 3 days ago:
What does random women he has nothing to do with having piercings have to do with him?
Are you not a native English speaker? Do you understand that people can give opinions and critique of things they don’t like without it meaning an expectation that someone is going to DO something for them? You immediately made some random, innocuous comment about someone’s aesthetic tastes into an issue about entitlement and I assume implications about sex? Don’t you get how fucking weird that is? It betrays something on YOUR mind specifically that nobody here is talking about.
Do you think people shouldn’t have fashion choices? Do you think humans can’t or should not have feelings about things? Every comment you make here just makes it weirder.
- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 3 days ago:
No you went on a rant about if op is “entitled” to those women? That’s just a fucking weird take from someone talking about disappointment in a fashion choice that people choose. Don’t reframe your weird comment.
- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 3 days ago:
I’m not really sure who likes them other than the people who get them and other people who like those specific piercings for whatever reasons.
It’s wild how insane people get about their piercings and body modifications though. Like, chill out you freaks. If someone doesn’t like your fashion choice, unhinged rants and attacks aren’t going to make someone magically start loving metal accessories stuck in your soft parts.
- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 3 days ago:
Bro is expressing distaste in a fashion accessory, why you taking it so hard?
- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 4 days ago:
If I die and find out the universe really works this way, I will renounce all of existence and opt out. I rather an eternity not existing over living in a stupid children’s book universe of weird arbitrary rules about who gets to do what and go where through these systems of hierarchy.
- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 4 days ago:
And here I am over here, an agnostic absurdist, just laughing at the silly monkeys.
- Comment on Evidence 4 days ago:
The works of Roger Penrose have shown that it’s conceivable or potentially even provable that at the very largest scales of time and space, there is no meaningful difference between the accelerating “cold” end of our universe and the collossal expansion that began the universe as we know it, and in fact those two states are perpetually cycling, birthing new universes from the explosion of old ones. This is based on the idea that when there is no more physical mass in the universe, you can look at the universe from a reference frame that only looks at the geometry of the energy expanding through space and it’s identical to the beginning states.
I would recommend PBS Spacetime youtube channel for a lot better explanations of conformal cyclic cosmology than my feeble mind can try to relate.
- Comment on Evidence 4 days ago:
How do you think all the stuff managed to get there in the first place?
You’re still thinking like a meat-monkey. There are stranger states out there than one can imagine, and that’s not hyperbole. There was no causality before expansion, because there was no meaningful interactions or spacetime in which interactions can occur.
You’re always going to have a hard time imagining this, because again, you are a human. We all are, none of us can imagine states of the universe without time and space.
- Comment on App development 5 days ago:
Yeah that sounds so much like post-hoc justification that I’m seriously surprised that it’s being swallowed by anyone.
I mean, great if it DOES help with such a terrible problem, it’s just I have seen this thing being talked about before and it’s NEVER been discussed in terms of helping trafficking victims. This is the first I’ve heard of it. Almost every time you see this kind of narrative being discussed it’s either 99% of the time a bunch of sweaty incels online whinging about how women aren’t really pretty and just want to trap guys or some other dom/sub kink fantasy nonsense to validate their depression and self-loathing, OR about 1% of the time it’s an actual empowering discussion talking about unfair hollywood beauty standards.
- Comment on The heart we can't neglect indeed 5 days ago:
Seems like every billionaire has all these lofty goals and huge dreams to make the world better… but only if they get statues erected of them personally.
So yes, we are not a mature enough species to handle power and wealth, we can’t even take care of our planet and all we had to do there was not pump poison into the air and we couldn’t even pull that off. Lets cap wealth at a hundred million bucks, tops, and then forcibly take away their money and build houses and gardens and water purifiers all over the developing world. There are probably fucking genius savant children being born who could solve all our problems, out of 8 billion people the odds only increase, but if the majority of these potential world-changing children die from dysentery and other diseases in vast numbers every day, then we’re losing talent constantly.
If anyone was running the world like a business, they would need to get called in for a performance review, asap.
- Comment on Get scattered 1 week ago:
These are emotional people with absolutely no care or enjoyment for reason or logic or learning how the world works. I believe strongly that the way our brains develop as we grow, be it influences from environment or genes or upbringing, just can go in radically different directions. Kind of like how some people have no internal monologue, or some people can’t visualize images in their mind, I think some people can’t comprehend the world outside of a very “mystical” interpretation, even when taught how physics and evolution work, they still will see those forces as expressions of a mystical universe with a personal, subjective God who is trying to communicate with them.
You absolutely cannot reason with this kind of perspective because it’s not one of reason. The MOST you can hope for is getting them to feel something, and in this I have only ever found common ground in things like expressions of love for the universe or the beauty of nature, but that’s like one person going to the baseball game to watch the game, and the other to eat the food.
- Comment on PSI 1 week ago:
I’ve had a lot of reptiles and as a result, a lot of reptile bites.
Almost every time I’ve been bit it was an accident or a response, and as soon as the reptile realized it had human skin in it’s mouth it would release. Even herbivore iguanas have a lot of pretty sharp teeth, but almost never bite intentionally.
Parrots meanwhile… they are evil incarnate, at least to me. I’ve never met a parrot that didn’t bite me hard enough to let me know it could easily amputate parts of my body if it so chose. Meanwhile I see them loving and cuddling other people, people who say things like “He’s really very loving, he never bites anyone, he’s perfectly safe to pet!”
- Comment on PSI 1 week ago:
Fun fact, german shepherds bite more people annually than any other breed!
shows off face scars
And the vast majority of bites are from animals improperly socialized or cared for, and then of course police and military duty. My shepherd bite was from the family dog that my father abused pretty severely.
- Comment on Thanks 1 week ago:
I don’t think Square One was what the user above was referencing, but it’s certainly what I was thinking of! I loved that show, I grew up in isolation basically so I had no idea it was considered weird to love math and had an affinity for math, but Square One and other PBS shows were the closest thing I had to any kind of formal education.
- Comment on Thanks 1 week ago:
I grew up watching PBS; Sesame Street, Mr Rogers, The Electric Company, 321 Contact, that weird math show with the math cops… all the classroom ASSET programming, and so on.
I lived in the back-country so I assumed that everyone was into learning and being smart and understanding how everything works. I thought “Wow the future will be grand if so many people my age grew up watching the same things and wanting to learn and read and think!”
Holy shit, the last several decades have been a massive disappointment. Like, crippling depression disappointment.
- Comment on Anon goes to the gym for the first time 1 week ago:
I mean, it really it is you reach out and take initiative. It’s never like this if you sit around waiting for this kind of thing to happen, you will be perpetually disappointed in others.
But like our fictional hero, I can at least attest from my own long life, that if you seek out the kind of experiences and people you wish you had in your life, you will find them. But if you are discouraged because you had one or several bad experiences, or if you’re discouraged because you read about someone else’s bad experience, or if some youtuber told you how bad things are, you will live in that world and that world only as long as you live.
- Comment on well shoot 2 weeks ago:
That’s how you build natural immunity.
Not everything you’re infected with gives you benefits, there are a vast many transmissible infectious agents that can literally kill you. While the chances of licking your finger in a grocery store and getting something that bad are pretty slim, it does happen, and your “natural immunity” is working all the time anyway, you don’t need to DO anything to help it along, stop thinking you know better. If you’re annoyed with how other people handle their hygiene, how about be an adult and keep quiet.
- Comment on well shoot 2 weeks ago:
I wet my finger on the drops that fall from the misting nozzles in the produce area. Works every time, no licking. You’re all welcome.
- Comment on Why do teeth don't regenerate? 2 weeks ago:
Yep! Or even how you usually breath without thinking about it but can take over manual control. Your brain does a LOT of things with your senses all the time that you don’t notice, it has layers and layers of intelligence that makes decisions on what it will “report” upwards, so you depend on basically a vast system of managers or sub-officers that are conscious but have no language, to fully captain and control your meat-ship.
- Comment on yay, no dunning kruger for me! hold up, oh no 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know, I think there’s more to be said for actual experience and someone’s attitude more than education. Having a deep understanding of psychology can only help with analyzing issues and understanding people’s motivations, but there’s still going to be a disconnect from academic understanding of a subject, and actual experience and connection with a challenging area of learning.
Or to put it more simply, in my last job as a manager I hired two people who had psychology degrees or majors for a technical/data position on a team, hoping for the very same kind of understanding and empathy with each other that you would think an education in human psychology would provide, and those people turned out to have the most issues with others because of their own lack of real-world experiencing socializing and maintaining relationships with others.
- Comment on Why do teeth don't regenerate? 2 weeks ago:
The idea is that if you can make your surroundings as dark as possible, then shine a very small point of light into your eye and wiggle it so there’s a shadow changing angles rapidly across your retina, this will make the blood vessels you can’t normally see shift slightly in your field of vision so your brain forgets how to edit them out and they pop into view.
This site gives instructions how to use black construction paper with a pinhole in a dark room, but I’ve learned how to do it with a nearly closed fist and any bright light source.
- Comment on Anon watches some old and new movies 2 weeks ago:
This comment alone makes me understand why my 12-year-old reddit account was banned, it was so I could come here and find this comment with this instruction that will massively impact my life.