Bo7a
@Bo7a@lemmy.ca
Yup. I’m Bo7a.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 2 weeks ago:
Possibly that is part of it. But I am not sitting here saying humanity is getting worse over time in general. Just that the value placed on some of the unwritten parts of the contract have lessened in value somewhat.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 2 weeks ago:
The concept of reading through a comment and understanding it before writing a vacuous reply must terrify you.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t say anything about morality declining or nothing meaning anything anymore.
I feel like I’m just repeating myself in every one of these replies.
People are no better now. Morality is definitely not worse now. Overall, humans are more accepting of each other now than they have been in most of human history.
My comment is only on the perceived value of a vow. And how that is tied to the perceived value of one’s word.
This isn’t generational, nor is it me saying the kids need to get better, because in fact I think the kids are doing very well all things considered.
However, these kids are also growing up inside a system that feels like it’s under collapse. Where the only true physical rewards in life come to those who easily break their word or do not consider a vow to be beyond all circumstance.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 2 weeks ago:
Just considering the demographics on this website, there’s a fairly decent chance you’re not older than me. Our experiences may differ.
But just by reading this, it’s pretty clear that we have a different definition of a vow. I’m not sure why you’re so up in arms about this.
I called you contrarian because you’re in here arguing a point I didn’t even make. I didn’t say that I would hold you to a vow nor that I would judge you if you broke your vow.
I said that over the last ~50 years of me watching people I have seen a general pattern of the lessening of the value of these intangibles.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 2 weeks ago:
That’s correct. People have always been people. In my short time on this dirty ball in space I have noticed that people I know and people I work with and people I interact with on the street all put less and less value on intangible things like honor, respect, and your personal word being worth something as time goes on.
I’m in no way saying people were better in the past. I’m saying that the value assigned to these intangibles is currently worth less than it was in recent cultural memory.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 2 weeks ago:
Once again a comment replying to something I didn’t fucking say.
Contrarian bullshit is so chic.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t say anything about a divorce or murder. Maybe I was bad at getting my point across.
The point I’m attempting to make is that putting value on your word, and by association giving extra value to a vow over another type of promise, is a lesser respected or necessary part of being a human in the late stage capitalist society that we live in.
This can be evidenced by people saying that a vow can easily be broken if the circumstances change.
That is not what a vow means.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 2 weeks ago:
Unless you have made a conscious vow otherwise.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 2 weeks ago:
Love and respect are not like columns in a fucking spreadsheet.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 2 weeks ago:
A lot of people in the current culture we live in do not place any value on their word or honor. I don’t really blame people for this since the system we live in rewards exactly the opposite behavior.
But it does make it very hard to communicate with people when you don’t have the same vocabulary.
It seems like you and I believe a vow is something that you make and would hold yourself to regardless of circumstance. But the nature of our capitalistic society teaches us from very young age that if it will improve your standing, your finances, or your situation in some way, then it is okay to break your personal code.
With that rambling paragraph in mind, it’s not surprising when we find out that most folks don’t have a personal code and vows mean nothing more than a pinky swear.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 3 weeks ago:
Wrong thread, duder.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 3 weeks ago:
Every security person in the world just groaned and rolled their eyes at the same time.
- Comment on Brickshelf 4 weeks ago:
Sadly I called these folks in the spring and they were not very forthcoming with any details about pricing and were quite dismissive of someone who only wanted one pallet. Maybe their sales team had a bad day that day, but it turned me off very quickly.
- Comment on Brickshelf 4 weeks ago:
None that we have found on our little 6acres.
- Comment on Brickshelf 4 weeks ago:
This is infuriating for a very specific-to-me reason.
For the life of me I can not find anywhere that will just sell me ‘plain red bricks’. But I keep seeing them everywhere like they are worthless trash.
- Comment on Nothing to see here. Just a pine cone. 5 weeks ago:
Furlow the squirrel-o is offended by your unfounded accusations. Image
More seriously though. Given abundance of food basically everything we ‘know’ about animal species interaction gets thrown out the window.
At any moment outside my window you find a dozen species eating side by side every single day that we were told would ‘for sure kill each other before sharing a food source’.
What that says about scarcity in relation to humanity I’ll leave to someone else…
- Comment on Hello there 5 weeks ago:
Everyone I have met who was worth talking to has seen and loved this movie. Am I old?
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 5 weeks ago:
The last cut was in 1999 to clean up an undercut. It got longer for about 15 years after that. Now it gets shorter, thinner, and blder, every day.
- Comment on anon discusses car dependence 1 month ago:
Shut the fuck up. –
REMEMBER THE ONLY WAY TO BE FRUGAL IS TO NEVER DO ANYTHING THAT BRINGS YOU PLEASURE, OR EAT ANYTHING BUT BEANS/RICE AND DRINK ONLY WATER.
This is what people who say shit like that sound to folks who know that life is not meant to just be survived, but enjoyed.
- Comment on Misogyny or something... Idk 1 month ago:
Boob kerchief?
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 month ago:
Count another one for the sysadmin building a homestead in the forest while also building platforms for evil corpos from home.
I also have no intent of ever turning my farm into any kind of income. But it is definitely worth all of the extra work to spend any brakes sitting outside surrounded by animals, trees, water and sky.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 month ago:
Sysadmins hate computers.
- Comment on do what you love 2 months ago:
I have a degree in philosophy and I draw PowerPoint decks for other nerds to use and turn into data platforms that I used to build myself…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
We have gotten out to the forest. Even built a pretty comfy little life here. But I know for sure that I will die of starvation here when the last potato runs out.
I am ok with this. Hopefully 20+ years away… But still.
- Comment on :3 3 months ago:
I’ll put up the usual - You don’t know my needs. Don’t yuck my yum. My truck is necessary.
You buy performance cars. I have a big stupid truck and blow every cent on motorcycles that will never see plates or insurance. We can be friends maybe.
- Comment on we are creators 3 months ago:
Fair enough. Cheers.
- Comment on we are creators 3 months ago:
I don’t think I understand your point here.
I was talking about my experience which is 80% in North America. Your points do not apply in North America as we have actually been getting worse for non-car travel in most cities since the 90s.
And that’s without even mentioning the atrocities that are considered inter-city or city-rural travel.
- Comment on we are creators 3 months ago:
Not in Canada. Not in the US.
Over here we are actively gutting existing bicycle infrastructure to please the right wing morons
- Comment on we are creators 3 months ago:
We actually did live in switzerland back in 2020 (I know, schengen is not EU) and were about to lease a home in France, but someone in my family fell ill and I had to come back to Canada.
The transit, grocery , pharmacy, and cultural access was amazing to us, even in times when locals were complaining of severely limited services.
- Comment on we are creators 3 months ago:
Also Canada where the majority of experience comes from. If I could see some my taxes going towards a Euro-style infra for moving people and things I would be a much happier person overall.
