y0kai
@y0kai@anarchist.nexus
- Comment on first state btw 3 days ago:
Oh, I read it like a contraction.
“This map’ll annoy me”
- Comment on first state btw 3 days ago:
Wait, they’re not all pointless?
- Comment on first state btw 3 days ago:
Actually, I think that’s South Alassippiana. I was hoping for a long Florida, but Alabama is still dipping its toes in the gulf.
- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 3 days ago:
i constantly hear stories of Europeans who won’t visit family because the drive is too long. i ask how long and they’re like “20-30 minutes” lmao. it has taken me that long to get to the store in some places I have lived in the US lol
- Comment on Why? 1 week ago:
idk basically any USB cable. It’s rare that they fail for me in general, though I have a couple that have given out, and I’ve seen this happen to other people, but I’ve never had it happen to me.
Perhaps anecdotal, but I try to avoid unplugging by pulling the wire whenever possible and I also try not to bend it near the connector if I’m using it while charging.
- Comment on Why? 1 week ago:
must be an apple thing lol i have never had this happen
- Comment on SBA #266 Time for a Commercial Break! SpongeBob Adventures is brought to you by... 1 week ago:
its hot and its ready
- Comment on The customer is always right 1 week ago:
Interesting….
- Comment on how much NyQuil is needed quit smoking? 2 weeks ago:
idk dip a smoke, let it dry, and find out
- Comment on Not How It's Supposed To Be 2 weeks ago:
lmao i love that it is inconsistent, it’s very Fry.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
this is very ignorant.
…if I make the choice to drink. Then I make the choice to drive. Should I not be responsible for all what happens after my choice?
You are held responsible, that’s how it works in lots of (maybe most) places. If you are drunk driving while leaving a bar though, the bartender is also held liable for over-serving you and/or allowing you to drive.
Like now in Hollywood they are now going after the supposed drug dealers instead of blaming the star who made the choice to use hard drugs and they knew the consequences?
Pretty sure they’ve always gone after illegal drug dealers and that people are allowed to have any empathy they want toward whomever.
Why should we celebrate or say good job to people who say I have been clean for such and such long?
Because addiction is incredibly hard to overcome and just because someone has become addicted to something does not mean they are worth less than anyone else. This is like suggesting that if you get in a car accident and sustain severe injuries, and the doctor says you’ll likely never walk again, but you try every day and eventually regain the ability to walk, it should not be celebrated. You made the decision to get into a car knowing its potential consequences, did you not? Who cares if you made a bad choice and overcame the odds?
Are you suggesting that just because someone made a choice that affected their life poorly that they should not be encouraged to heal and live a healthier lifestyle? If so, that seems pretty cruel and hypocritical to me. I’m sure you’ve had to recover from a poor choice you made at one point in your life.
They made the choice to use whatever drug and they should live with the consequences.
Sometimes that’s true, someone gets curious and tries a drug, then gets hooked. But you’re making a lot of assumptions here.
First, who says they chose to try the drug? Back to the car accident example, lets imagine a person gets severely injured and the emergency room doctor administers an opiate for the pain. Suppose that this person is unaware that they are already genetically prone to addiction (this just means they’re more likely to get hooked on a thing than others may be) and that first hit or prescription that the doctor gives them is all it takes to become addicted. Now they’ve got to go through the rest of their life trying to avoid a relatively easy to get substance that creates urges likely more powerful than anything you have ever felt before, other than maybe hunger or thirst.
Secondly, you’re assuming they know the consequences. Not everyone is so educated. Some people have drugs pushed on them when they’re still kids or teenagers when they either don’t know any better or, their still undeveloped brains don’t quite comprehend the idea of long-term consequences. Do these people (or any people, for that matter) deserve to live with consequences they either didn’t know about, didn’t understand, didn’t foresee, or didn’t have an actual choice in? Even if you do decide they “deserve” these consequences, is no one who makes a mistake allowed to want something better for themselves? Should people stop having their own emotions and desiring a better future just because you look down on them?
Also, who says they made the choice to use a particular addictive drug? Maybe they went to a party and wanted to smoke some marijuana, which is relatively harmless and much easier to quit if one finds themselves using it too much. They have a joint passed to them, smells like pot, they take a hit, and now they find it’s been laced with some other drug. What if they liked it a lot and now they’re seeking out something they didn’t even choose to try in the first place.
It should not be celebrated that they rectified a very wrong choice years ago
Why not? Should people not be celebrated for growing and working to become better versions of themselves? Can no one make a mistake without becoming irredeemable in your eyes?
when they were not suppose to make that decision in the first place or even put themselves in that position.
Aside from what I talked about above regarding how one may be administered drugs without being given a choice in the matter, who are you or anyone else to decided what someone is “supposed to” do? Is your way to live the only way one should live? Is your method of decision making infallible and the only method that should be used?
What if I say you’re not “supposed” to talk out of your ass about topics of which you clearly know very little? My belief about how one is “supposed to” act has clearly not stopped you but you’ve put yourself in this position and now have the foreseeable consequence of having to read a reply like this one.
If one day you change your mind and decide maybe you don’t have enough information to draw judgement on tens of millions of people you’ve never met, I believe you should be “celebrated [for having] rectified a very wrong choice”.
I sincerely hope you never have to deal with anything like addiction.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
lol idek if we still do a census.
last time we tried president dumbass had it all but canceled
- Comment on Is there a reason why bullets aren't squared? Glock's are squared on the outside but shoot round bullets. Why not square, was it ever tested? Not talking about all guns just usually handhelds. 2 months ago:
idk a knife maybe?
- Comment on Why the fuck does the Chronic part need to be in Depression. 2 months ago:
The good part is that you’re self aware enough to recognize it’s just wonky chemicals. It doesn’t help much, but it’s pretty cool still.
I hope you feel better soon.
- Comment on Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform? 3 months ago:
a man can dream
- Comment on Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform? 3 months ago:
lol not unless they make a PC version in 10 years.
hopefully this one is a flop and rock star goes out of business.
- Comment on Saturn's Bestagon 3 months ago:
wow I can’t believe they fit the whole world in there!
/s
- Comment on ‘Build Vice City’: the GTA 6 scam that’s hitting gamers worldwide 3 months ago:
can’t wait to not pay for this game
- Comment on Why don't county jails open up their free bed space in times of severe cold and severe heat to the homeless and others and just give them their own cell? And can leave whenever. 4 months ago:
idk about your county jail but I’m pretty sure ours is either full, privatized in some way, or both.
There’s no way a for-profit prison is giving away real estate for free. Instead they’ll attempt to incentivize sending more people prison so they keep their cells full and are able to achieve that coveted capitalist “growth”.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
packet
- Comment on If internet means wires, then how come my mobile phone gets connected to the internet ? I'm roaming everywhere with it inside my pocket. 4 months ago:
The internet does not mean “wires” any more than electricity means “wires”. It may use wires in places, but that does not define the concept.
Internet is just an interconnected network of computers. The connections between those computers can be wired with copper, wireless over radio, or they can use light through fiber optic cabling made of glass. The internet is about the concept of getting disparate / discrete machines to communicate, wires are just one of the tools it can use to do that.
- Comment on Kiss your homies. 4 months ago:
It started out with a kiss how did it end up like this?
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 6 months ago:
wait I thought they were just “staring into space” so how are we assuming they’re busy now?
- Comment on Just one more square bro 7 months ago:
no this is a gain
- Comment on Is it possible to reverse pit a copcar before they pit you? Like if you know a cop is going to pit you on their right side, can you use your left back end to hit them first? 8 months ago:
lol no you’d be pitting yourself that way.
you could slam on brakes and maneuver to their rear to pit them, but that probably won’t turn out well either.
- Comment on Im stupid but have money 8 months ago:
just buy what would make you happy / comfortable
- Comment on Capital i and lowercase L look the same in pretty much any sans-serif computer font 9 months ago:
People named Al are not necessarily artificially intelligent.
- Comment on Is "depress" ever used in this context? 9 months ago:
Just remember that depressing a button is not the same thing as making a button sad sometimes
- Comment on Arc raiders is a horrible game 9 months ago:
I haven’t had an issue with this at all. I’d say over 50% of the time, if I communicate with other players that I don’t intend to kill them, we end up working together.
- Comment on ai will surely save us all 9 months ago:
I can tell you yourbage by asking only 3 simple questions:
- What year were you born?