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- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 6 days ago:
Yes. Marked by opulence and a distracted upper class, depending on foreign born nationals and the impoverished to defend them from the mob. A military class they eventually spit on and denied access to anything “Roman” which wasn’t a great incentive for you know, defending them from their own disgruntled citizens or enemies at their door. They cared more about their money and orgies and pedophelia than they did at maintaining the cogs of Empire of which their lifestyle depended. Bread and circuses and a whole lot of arrogant prejudice.
- Comment on A look at the living hostages released by Hamas under ceasefire deal 6 days ago:
Funny how Palestinians “die in detention” and Israelis “are killed in captivity”
- Comment on British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK 1 week ago:
Charge them. If the court wants to be wormy fine. Charge them. Make the courts confess their two-faced practices. Bring up the charges, make them show their bare behinds to the world, publicize far and wide. Talk about it. Make some noise.
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 1 week ago:
You can actually do this which is the wild part about memory and cognition. It’s basically what a lot of therapy practices are.
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 1 week ago:
If you lose your memories, are “you” dead?
No, because other people hold many of those memories for you. And while memories and conditioning play a role in personality they aren’t the end all on who we are. We are still us, even if a bit “different” from before.
If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still “your relative/friend”?
Absafuckinglootly, because I carry that friendship and _I _ owe that loyalty. Just because they can’t remember us, I don’t get to abandon them. Loyalty. People need to learn it.
What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories?
Memory to me is often jarring and annoying. I suffer from unrequested flashbacks frequently.
But, memory is kind of amazing because you can have a shared memory with someone and it be completely different from their experience. Memory is so malleable, and often a coping mechanism, both natural and taught, for dealing with traumas is literally rewriting your memory to something you can live with. Shaving off the pieces you can’t or making them more “dull”.
I had night terrors after a bad accident until my brain literally rewrote the visuals of some of it and while I could verbalize it to you, I couldn’t “relive” that piece anymore which was a huge physical and emotional relief when it finally happened. And I didn’t do it, my brain did it on its own. Memory is weird.
Memory is often deceitful anyway, so relying on it as heavily as we do is actually kind of odd. Our perceived memory is stronger than the real event. We catalog all kinds of other information on top of what is actually the “present”. Think about when you wake up and commit a dream to memory. The retelling of the dream to yourself is actually stronger than the dream itself. Our “story” is the memory not the “present”.
Neat question. I could ramble on this topic for a long time…
- Comment on enjoy life 2 weeks ago:
But we have luxury items! You must impress strangers!
- Comment on Works every time 2 weeks ago:
Worked for years until I developed this pesky side effect called alcoholism.
- Comment on Thanks for the memories 3 weeks ago:
Even better
- Comment on Thanks for the memories 3 weeks ago:
No clue. But I think it has something to do with Israelis blowing trumpets and burning cows in Israel.
- Comment on Thanks for the memories 3 weeks ago:
Rapture was the 23rd-24th. Sorry, it looks like you’re stuck here with the rest of us degenerates.
- Comment on It's not that complicated, guys. 3 weeks ago:
Woah what is actually going on there??
- Comment on US presidents are getting younger over time 3 weeks ago:
I present to you Trump era science! Don’t let those facts stand in the way of the truth.
- Comment on Ibuprofen 3 weeks ago:
This is the way
- Comment on Ibuprofen 3 weeks ago:
No need to just ask my kidneys
- Comment on Ibuprofen 3 weeks ago:
Uh, excuse you, it’s car ibuprofen.
- Comment on Watching DEAD LIKE ME and in Season 2 Ep 4 they line Donald Trump up in a perp walk with KNOWN DICTATORS! Unreal! 4 weeks ago:
I got sucked into this and it’s insane to think this was in 2020. Ugh. But, it did make me feel better about how I got to today.
- Comment on Watching DEAD LIKE ME and in Season 2 Ep 4 they line Donald Trump up in a perp walk with KNOWN DICTATORS! Unreal! 4 weeks ago:
I’m not familiar with that one?
- Comment on Watching DEAD LIKE ME and in Season 2 Ep 4 they line Donald Trump up in a perp walk with KNOWN DICTATORS! Unreal! 4 weeks ago:
Super underrated show. Pushing Daisies and Wonderfalls were good too.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely the Kennedys have skeletons in their closet. You’re referring to Rosemary his sister. She was actually institutionalized until her death in my home state. Another fun fact, Stalin’s daughter also died in my home state. We keep all the skeletons in our closet. We also have some of the most notorious serial killers ever.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 4 weeks ago:
I mean you’re absolutely wrong. Muckraker journalism and intelligence was very alive and well in the 60’s and decades following. It’s wild to say otherwise. They all knew and they knew a lot. No one was covering for him raping women or diddling kids. Flat out. Full stop. He wasn’t even known to be particularly deviant, just slutty.
His own socialite wife didn’t shy from making public wry remarks about her husband’s affairs and the public discussed it constantly. And these women’s accounts are very different in tone from the victims of Trump and the eye witness accounts of MEN surrounding Trump about his behavior.
A fuckboy vs a pedophile (potentially incestuous) and multiple-time accused predator are not the same and whataboutism around that is pretty wild. It is a very disingenuous comparison.
JFK was no saint, but he’s nothing to the level of Trump. And Epstein’s child trafficking ring is not the same as the 1950’s and 60’s mob’s prostitution activities. Some families didn’t even dabble in prostitution at all. And you can’t even compare them to today’s mob. Old families even into the 70’s and 80’s had certain standards of conduct. You can’t even start to compare them to modern global traffickers.
Hate on JFK all you want but pretending there’s some magical missing evidence on him is such a stretch and goes against a lot of evidence of his actual conduct. His haters are many and his life is thoroughly documented. Every juicy lead followed to exhaustion in his time and after.
Meanwhile Trump gives even his best buddies the heebie jeebies.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 4 weeks ago:
To my knowledge none of JFKs affairs were non-consensual, with minors, nor with non-compensated women.
Trump was friends with, and likely using his businesses to help, known child sex traffickers, raped children himself, pissed off his adult prostitutes and brags publicly and privately about his various sexual assaults.
I mean call JFK a whore but adult sex workers and consenting movie stars really aren’t comparable. And who gives a shit about the mob? Let’s not pretend morality aligns with the law. Not all puppies and rainbows but they’re not the same.
And I would say there was a lot of blackmail in the day. They certainly got MLK Jr. and all the JFK women talked, there were even hearings. His scandals weren’t exactly quiet. In fact they were rather well known.
- Comment on Elon Musk calls for dissolution of parliament at far-right rally in London 5 weeks ago:
Finished with the US. Off to destabilize the UK.
- Comment on The first rule of debate club 5 weeks ago:
You could say… it sprung a leak…
(I am so going to Hell…)
- Comment on ... 5 weeks ago:
Right. Poor little Bush. He’s just a sweet ole grandpa.
- Comment on ... 5 weeks ago:
Uh no. Netanyahu swore to Congress it was the right thing to do. Little Bush was just doing his duty.
- Comment on They were weak 5 weeks ago:
Really? They don’t fly in the northern States or western States I’ve lived in in the US nor the European country I’m in or have visited. Also don’t like light and more active at night. They’re a problem where I am now and they are slow and dumb comparatively. They often off themselves by falling on their own backs. You’ll find them on the street dead trying to climb steps and stuff. They are not the flying monstrosities we had in Mexico by any measure. (Oh fudge. I just looked up and they are elsewhere in the country they just haven’t spread to our island but this seems like a recent development. I hope they don’t ever come here.)
- Comment on They were weak 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. Most Mexican cockroaches don’t give a flying patootie about light. Some scramble but you’ll see them during day and they will fly straight at your face. They’re wicked fast and hard to kill too. And they make noise. They’re in a class of their own.
- Comment on They were weak 5 weeks ago:
They’re stupid big
- Comment on They were weak 5 weeks ago:
Idk but those suckers can fly in Mexico. They’re awful.
- Comment on Meowposting 5 weeks ago:
Wait until you see the rabbits