JustZ
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- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 3 days ago:
We also have some good idea that a lot of his followers were prosecuted and killed, and never recanted in the process, which might incline you to believe in the radical truth that they lived by.
Man, I can’t get trial transcripts for cases that happened 2 years ago, and you’re getting them for trials that happened 2,000 years ago?
- Comment on Wow, this is so much faster 1 month ago:
I’ve heard that as well about the bows.
- Comment on If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts? 2 months ago:
All good points.
Oh, doxing. Yeah. The conservative media machine doesn’t sleep on one inch. They have unlimited money, labor, tech, and time. Their goal is to make public service work contentious and adversarial, and stop government from working, especially on things like registrars of voters, boards of education, and of course jury service.
Of course that was going to be an issue in this case. Need to start treating interference with government service as a serious crime.
- Comment on If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts? 2 months ago:
I don’t know either. I don’t do any TV news. There must more important things going on than jury selection in loser Trump’s case. That said, what happened with this social media jury thing?
- Comment on Anyone else travel to see the eclipse just to have clouds come in right before totality? 2 months ago:
I traveled to Burlington and it was utterly spectacular.
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 2 months ago:
Ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 2 months ago:
I have sneakers that I only wear indoors.
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 2 months ago:
Have indoor footwear and outdoor footwear. Walking flat. On the floor is not great for your feet, legs, knees, low back. Should always have some arch and ankle support, and some toe protection. If you want to be mobile when you’re 80, consider this now.
- Comment on Why do people around me tend to increase their responsibility load (i.e. have children, become a manager, do charity, etc.) while I (30M) try to avoid it as much as I can? 2 months ago:
Different concepts of self, maybe, learned from your childhood.
Perhaps you have a limited mindset: suppose you have a happy, productive day of work/effort, and at the end of the day you are tired; on the following day, do you need to rest and rejuvenate because you worked so hard the prior day, or do you work even harder because your efforts from the prior day give you momentum and confidence to keep going?
Another thing to consider is, where do you get your self validation? So, like, were you raised with an internal focus or an external focus? Do you give your best effort and attention working toward your own approval and satisfaction, or do you work toward the approval of others?
As a kid, was it instilled in you that you were inadequate, lacking, or behind your peers in some way? If so, I expect you will spend the rest of your life feeling that way. And when things happen that contradict that, like even when you donate great job on something, if that doesn’t match watch was instilled in you, you experience cognitive dissonance, and your brain literally stops you from counting your successess and strengths, because it’s uncomfortable to think of yourself as adequate and complete.
- Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana? 2 months ago:
Read the book Sythentic Panics.
Talks all about this with wave after wave of synthetic drug scares. LSD, ecstasy, GHB, etc. All follow basically an identical pattern starting with a moral panic by mainly religious shitheels and corporate media.
- Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana? 2 months ago:
To add to what others have said, white sheriff in Texas popularized the term Marijuana in English language, as an intentional strategy to Mexicanize cannabis use, which they thought would cause communism or something.
- Comment on Asking a girl out for comic book store date? 3 months ago:
This is the way. Maybe add in “I was thinking of going there and shop for [comic store merch], and maybe getting one of the famous [food items] they make a few doors down at [food establishment].”
Maybe she says no. Great! You can then mentally break up with whatever image of the two of you that you had in your mind, and go ask the next person. And if only one in ten says yes, that’s great.
She’s probably going to say yes and be super excited.
- Comment on Are humans the only animal that wipes things off? 5 months ago:
My dog would like a word.
- Comment on Kids with conservative parents are happier 5 months ago:
Nah it’s really just that conservatives are morons, too stupid to see how fucked things are. They are born asleep and they die asleep, living their entire life bouncing from one distraction to the next.
- Comment on Kids with conservative parents are happier 5 months ago:
I read it. Yeah no kidding, conservatives don’t take their kids for treatment for mental health problems. I’m sure their kids are a lot less stressed, they live in a world full of hope where the impending climate catastrophe is just a liberal hoax and where mass political violence is seen as a good thing. They are morons. They are ignorant, of course they are happy, they don’t have to face their problems because they are so gullible they don’t realize there is one.
Just another thing to make liberals sad, is how dumb conservatives and their idiot kids are.
- Comment on Kids with conservative parents are happier 5 months ago:
Yeah ignorance is bliss.
- Comment on what has worked for you to stop getting angry thinking about people who hurt you? 5 months ago:
Okay, it’s not for everyone. Maybe will help OP, maybe not.
- Comment on what has worked for you to stop getting angry thinking about people who hurt you? 5 months ago:
Try some self parenting. If you were four years old, what would you want the best parent to say to you if they learned that you were thinking of this?
Said another way, what would you tell your kid if they were dwelling on something like this?
When I first got going in law I had a judge lay into me one day and I left there questioning all my life choices. I realized the dude didn’t know but a small part of my life, was not and could not make any real judgments about who or what I am, and the guy is probably an asshole to his family and his kids hate him.
- Comment on What can a thorough sleep study reveal about a person's sleep and well-being? 5 months ago:
Do you snore?
- Comment on This page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read. 6 months ago:
Look in your left hand.
- Comment on This page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read. 6 months ago:
I see it. “There are” and “they are” are different sentences with slightly different meanings. Writing this way is correct and j thknknupull find someone in older children’s books and even adult books. Tolkien wrote often in this way that sounds clunky to the modern ear. I read a lot of old stuff so to me it sounds more familiar and correct even.
- Comment on This page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read. 6 months ago:
Yeah, okay, clever. All different brands and configurations.
- Comment on This page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read. 6 months ago:
I love those videos omg.
- Comment on This page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read. 6 months ago:
This is the only post in the entire thread attempting to parse the grammar.
It feels wrong because as you pointed out, as text, the pronoun “they” has no antecedent. Who are they?
But there is a picture, too. That’s them!
It’s not just type, it’s typography. You have to analyze the grammar of something like one page of a picture book or a movie poster or advert in its context.
- Comment on This page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read. 6 months ago:
They are different.
- Comment on Whats the difference between cheap and expensive modern TVs? 6 months ago:
NT670U
- Comment on Whats the difference between cheap and expensive modern TVs? 6 months ago:
I won’t buy an internet ready TV. My newest screen is a hospitality screen from Samsung. It’s designed to be hardwired to a network and so doesn’t have any bloatware or telemetrics.
- Comment on Whats the difference between cheap and expensive modern TVs? 6 months ago:
Durability. Look into the difference between consumer grade LCDs and hospitality grade displays.
- Comment on Is it safe to use pans with peeling nonstick coating? 7 months ago:
Holy shit. Had no idea.
- Comment on Is it safe to use pans with peeling nonstick coating? 7 months ago:
What does parrots have to do with cookware?