artificialfish
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- Comment on I’m probably no longer center-left. If you could decide from my thinking, what political affiliation should I research to see if it fits me? 6 days ago:
That’s just called political apathy and self defeatism.
Someday you will care because it will affect you. Best not to wait until that day comes.
- Comment on I’m probably no longer center-left. If you could decide from my thinking, what political affiliation should I research to see if it fits me? 6 days ago:
Everything…
Why can’t you hang out with people who have different sexual orientations than you?
Why can’t you understand your shared self interest against homophobia/biphobia with other LGBT individuals?
I’d say it’s very self oriented, but it’s really not, you can’t even recognize your own group self interest.
- Comment on I’m probably no longer center-left. If you could decide from my thinking, what political affiliation should I research to see if it fits me? 6 days ago:
Weird
- Comment on why do some straight people deny their loved ones’ homosexuality? (keyword: SOME) 1 week ago:
I mean to me, if I’m trying to get with you, or while I’m with you, all I care about is if you like me or not.
I think a lot of guys think that it would honestly be perfectly ok for you to go on having gay sex in your straight relationship. They aren’t threatened by another woman because that woman isn’t fulfilling the role they fulfill: sex with a penis. They also probably think you’d be missing out not to have both in your life if you are bi.
Or they are just erasing. But sometimes the same behavior can come from completely different ideas.
- Comment on HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys?? 1 week ago:
“Back in my day” (angry fist at the world) I was 11 participating in adult evolution vs creationism forums with plenty of nut jobs. I watched porn on my dad’s computer, pirated music and Naruto, played games Instead of talking to girls. It’s certainly a different world, but not thaaattt different.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 1 week ago:
The vendors were modernizing and they pushed back.
I’m glad you could set up a way to falsify your beliefs so that they could, indeed, be proven false
- Comment on HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys?? 1 week ago:
I’ve just followed this revolving door of male self improvement advice for a long time now. It actually started for me at church, those guys hate a young man without a “role model”. Then people started blaming the lack of role models and we got Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate, when honestly the biggest problem facing men in society was capitalism and overwork not male lack of self improvement. Then people were like, no not THOSE role models, and now people are blaming young men for Trump voting etc, when again it’s role models themselves that are making these kids fail to see their issues in relation to labor.
What if, instead of teaching men to be followers we taught them to be leaders and free thinkers. Women too. I never once woke up as a kid and was like, man I wish I had someone to look up to. I had people to learn from but I was imminently aware of other people’s flaws and the fallacy of emulating success.
- Comment on HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys?? 1 week ago:
She actually doesn’t say he has toxic male role models in his life, he has conservatives in his life, who she admits are not good sex-advice-givers or puberty-talk-havers. She doesn’t say they are Nazi’s or wifebeaters or something. The assumptions I’d make from this is he has conservative trad-marriage role models, which I had too. These people teach you a distorted view of sex, but also a lot of the best male role models in my life live as conservatives.
Anyway, no I don’t really think that male role models are as important as we like to think. This is kinda a “what is wrong with our youth” take on modernity. A good female role model to a man can be almost more influential. Her being a good mom is going to influence his views on women a lot more than any dudebro with no relation to him, especially if she calls him on misogyny he may pick up.
A man who loves women has healthy female role models. That’s more important than anything in developing their views on women.
- Comment on HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys?? 1 week ago:
“If the description is sounding like it fits”
Where in OP did it sound like it fits?
I get the impression the guy I’m replying to is working with troubled youth. Even then, most men and boys are taught to defend their moms as a point of pride, not the opposite.
- Comment on HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys?? 1 week ago:
lol this is a very macho man view of a male growth spurt. Yes he will become stronger than most women, but it’s not a given he will become much stronger, or that he’s a sports guy. I didn’t work out till I was well into my 20s and you could hardly call me strong even compared to women.
Grrr man strong, need break things, intellectual sponge, need other testosterone figure to understand confusing body. Like dude wtf 😂. We had completely opposite male childhood experiences apparently. I was intellectually stimulated, physically weak, and don’t particularly remember needing to ask my dad what was going on with my hormones.
- Comment on HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys?? 1 week ago:
This may be weird, but honestly I wish someone had just given me a copy of “she comes first” (a good book I still use today), and an Adam and Eve gift card. The last one I’ll give you one good reason: it’ll be a lot better if he’s fucking a toy than having sex as a teen. It’ll also make it a bit of a training experience, a lot of guys that age just want to know “what it’s like”.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 1 week ago:
You can literally blame Apple for that, because that standard did progress, and they did not incorporate it into their default messaging app for years due to anticompetitive marketing practices. To compare the responsibilities of a default and only (since you can’t sidecar on iPhone) text messaging app on a phone with 50% market share with a third party app is bad faith.
Did you just reverse your position? I’m confused.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 1 week ago:
It’s not just a visual indication of if it’s encrypted. SMS sucks, truly, compared to apps like iMessage, WhatsApp, etc. so it’s actually annoying to message people with green text. Now that Apple does RCS it’s not a big deal, but in the USA there’s no default internet messaging app like WhatsApp, to the extent that there is one, it’s iMessage.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 1 week ago:
I hate to say it, the reason people choose dating partners on phone use is because of blue texts on iMessage. that’s the only reason. Apple was brilliant pitching that as an Android problem instead of playing fair and working on an open standard since day 1. Dragged their feet for years.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 1 week ago:
Tbh androids privacy is shit. I’d rather deal with Apple than Google both on hardware and privacy any day. The only way I’d switch is to something like Graphene
- Comment on Meta approves bonuses of up to 200% of company executives' salaries as it trims stock awards for employees 1 week ago:
News like this gets out and it should just be automatic unionization. Idk why people are such pushovers.
- Comment on place yer bets 1 week ago:
… that’s exactly what would happen, it would land on all the people who don’t believe in science.
If this happens frequently enough the Republican Party will just vanish.
- Comment on slurp slop 1 week ago:
Highly educational
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 2 weeks ago:
I was under the impression that’s just because of the relative surface area of the ocean vs arable land
- Comment on why do people say annoying/rude stuff and then tell you “it was a joke!” 2 weeks ago:
lol that sounds great. Is it a comedy?
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 2 weeks ago:
I think you have to cut them down and bury them (or at least don’t burn them) for the carbon to “go away”.
That’s how it got underground to begin with.
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 2 weeks ago:
I just literally can’t imagine a machine that is both cheaper and easier to deploy than the green goo we call life. Plant a tree. It’ll even spread itself.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You have to yourself be somewhat powerful. You need to have something they want / need.
- Comment on This is getting bad. Like, really really bad. 3 weeks ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on This is getting bad. Like, really really bad. 3 weeks ago:
Is it? Pretty much every philosopher thought so, even the federalists, which is why they made a republic. And it’s always been a bourgeois republic. Democracy pure is a bunch of idiots listening to social media influencers picking good talkers at the margin of 1% every 4 years. It’s always been theater.
- Comment on This is getting bad. Like, really really bad. 3 weeks ago:
I mean that’s your model. As far as it’s absolute, it’s wrong. There are good laws that don’t protect mere property: murder, rape, assault, etc. And we don’t want vigilante justice dealing with these things. Basically I can admit laws can be unjust, but you can’t admit laws can be just. In such a case, you need to meet your burden of proof.
- Comment on This is getting bad. Like, really really bad. 3 weeks ago:
lol what about all the lone actors who didn’t succeed. Don’t just cherry pick the losses.
Sure laws can be bad /c/im14andthisisdeep
- Comment on This is getting bad. Like, really really bad. 3 weeks ago:
Here’s your guide: hit your cellphone and laptop with a hammer until it’s a fine paste. Then dump it randomly into 3-4 different trashcans. Drive a beater.
- Comment on This is getting bad. Like, really really bad. 3 weeks ago:
They are already possible so we have massive networks of laws and security to try and detect and stop them. That security imposes its will by force into the perpetuator. Thats not anarchism
- Comment on This is getting bad. Like, really really bad. 3 weeks ago:
Your second paragraph just proves you don’t understand the nature of power. Why did Russia Cuba and NK need nukes? Because people without nukes are weak to their enemies. So until the anarchist territory is global, it needs to participate in global geopolitics, in which nukes are actually one of your primary bargaining chips.
Otherwise you’re just a piece of land with no government, and most historical invasions take place when land becomes an easy conquest. Because land is materially useful.