PostmodernPythia
@PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world
Sapient liberation now.
- Comment on Why the internet make it hard for people to self-promote 1 year ago:
I’m guessing OP means it’s harder now than before the corporate siloing of the social web, not harder than handing out business cards on the street.
- Comment on Does a food being like 'high in B6 vitamins' or whatever actually mean anything or make anyone feel tangibly different? 1 year ago:
I have the same mutations. In me they caused severe depression for almost 20 years. Started megadosing l-methylfolate, and I wanted to live again practically overnight. So yeah, it can def make you feel different.
- Comment on What is the ratio of women to men at Lemmy? 1 year ago:
People don’t generally change their gender on a whim, so that doesn’t make the info less useful. (Even if it did, trans people are like 2% of the population, so it would still apply for everyone else. Men and women have different perspectives and life experiences because the world treats them differently. Do you thing knowing the age, race, or country demographics would be pointless, too?
- Comment on Totalitarianism. What are the good things about it? 1 year ago:
Individuals don’t have to make their own decisions. A lot of people see that as a positive.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
An event isn’t an activity. And yes, if an event I loved turned into a meeting place for those people, I’d find a new event.
If Elon Musk and I both enjoyed cycling, for instance, fine. That doesn’t put me in the same space as him. Which is fundamentally different than going to a weeklong party he’s attending. Have your fun, just don’t pretend it’s revolutionary or creating a better world.
- Comment on Should I just quit urban and social life for a rural and lonely life? 1 year ago:
You said I know “fuck all” about therapy after reading and comprehending a comment where I said I’d spent years in therapy, and I’m the one with a reading comprehension problem? Sure, buddy.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
Who drowned?
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
Well, I guess we strongly disagree.
- Comment on Should I just quit urban and social life for a rural and lonely life? 1 year ago:
Clearly, you didn’t read my post. Hard to spend years in therapy and not know fuck-all about it. I never said don’t go to therapy. I said don’t expect miracles. Therapy is good, but it’s not a solution to structural issues.
- Comment on Should I just quit urban and social life for a rural and lonely life? 1 year ago:
That’s good and healthy. All I’m saying is that therapy won’t fix the problems underlying this. It can be useful in processing, but I’m tired of people acting like therapy will solve structural problems.
- Comment on Should I just quit urban and social life for a rural and lonely life? 1 year ago:
Therapy? As someone who’s benefited from years of therapy, therapy isn’t supposed to end rational responses when the world’s gone mad. I’m afraid far too many people confuse therapy with magic.
- Comment on [Hypothetical] What would have happened if the US Supreme Court had arbitrarily declared Donald J. Trump the winner of the 2020 US Presidential Election? Constitutional Crisis? 1 year ago:
Ok, but that’s not a useful statement. If you can arbitrarily change the rules or decide one person has the responsibility instead of another, you can decide the election without any direct involvement. And if they do that, I promise no one will give a shit whether it was direct. They didn’t directly stop abortion either, but birthing parents are still dying because doctors can’t help them. I guarantee their partners and orphaned kids dgaf if the Supreme Court did it directly.
- Comment on How does one resist getting into protracted arguments while still staying informed? 1 year ago:
Don’t. Frankly, I’ve stayed on top of the news for 20 years. The ideal of an informed citizenry comes from a time without a 24-hour news cycle, and a time before the US (if you’re here) was downgraded from a democracy to an enocracy. The only thing you’ll get from being informed 24-7 is unneeded stress. Look at a news website once or twice a week, that’s plenty informed for most purposes. (Within 6 months of a national election, maybe bump it up a little.) Don’t discuss controversial news online unless that’s fun for you. If I could follow my own advice, my mental health would be improved, honestly.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
I can’t debate a point with someone who either doesn’t know how words work or is deliberately arguing in bad faith. Have a good day.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
I meant poor as in pitiable, not as in impoverished. Don’t purposely misread my statements.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
Finally. Someone cleverer than me found a good way to put it. Burning Man fiddles while it’s everything else, ironically, that burns.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
Oh yeah. The poor, marginalized Burner community…🙄
Ffs.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
I love poor hippies. I hate when rich people pretend to be something they’re not and expect us to play along.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
When people have no power to improve their lives, and some of the people who do have that power suffer, a little schadenfreude is natural. Only the death gives me pause, personally.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
I actually think a lot is the opposite. If you think an event like this, attended by the likes of Bezos and Musk, is countercultural, or even “brings positivity into the world”, I have a beautiful bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. Of course most Burners have jobs, it’s a techbro’s dream. Plus, tickets are more expensive than they were in the old days, so real hippies can’t go. If people want to laugh at the suffering of rich people who cosplay as revolutionary, I’m generally ok with that. One big caveat: I’m very sorry someone died, and I don’t think mocking that’s cool, especially if we don’t know anything about them.
- Comment on What's good in small concentrations, but lethal in higher? What's a glaring red flag you're encroaching on a lethal concentration? 1 year ago:
I love nerds.
- Comment on Is there a title (Mr/Ms/Mrs) that is gender neutral? 1 year ago:
This is exactly my approach, except I usually use Cap’n.
- Comment on Is it possible for someone to "become gay" or were they always predisposed to it? 1 year ago:
Same sex attraction isn’t a choice, but if you’re asking whether one’s sexuality can change by itself over the course of a lifetime, the answer is yes, but it’s not very common. I was straight, but sometime in my early 30s, started being attracted to women as well. I was not “always bi,” as some people claim must be the case in these circumstances. I had interrogated my sexuality quite thoroughly in an open and accepting environment years ago and found I was straight. It just…changed.
- Comment on Do you think that there may be random internet posts from today that in the future may be seen on the same level as Plato or other great philosophers? 1 year ago:
Not if we don’t deal with climate change pronto, no.