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- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 2 days ago:
I’ve had pedestrians try to wave me to turn. It is as if they think are the only people on the road I have to consider. One got outright angry at me for not taking his gift with gratitude…there he was yelling at me, nearly being mowed down by a truck coming from an oncoming lane at a 3 way stop. And it still didn’t register to him the danger it would have been to himself and to me and the oncoming truck.
I like the idea of calling them would-be assassins even though assumes the general public are a whole lot smarter than they actually are.
- Comment on May 13, 1985 1 week ago:
a large segment had to admit that it obviously went very, very wrong.
I’m just imagining the conversation it took for such a chuckle fucker to knock off that racket. Like ok imagine it’s your baby in the building. walking a person through each scenario as a painful exercise.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I don’t hate people who are vegans.
I do hate the person who righteously yelled at me about eating meat while I was eating her vegan food at her house which she invited me to. And then proceeded to send me Facebook farm videos that were obviously staged. I worked on a farm… so when I corrected her what actually does happen on a farm Vs what these idiots were staging to get reactions, it was even more disgusting to me that she wasn’t doing any of this for the animals as she claimed but doing it so she could feel important. So she can fuck right off up a mountain.
So no:I don’t hate people who are vegans. I hate self involved, insincere shitheads.
That said yeah, we need to address commercial farming. It’s an issue. We need to cut down the meat products that are getting produced and stop creating diets that get capitalists richer. But also we need to be honest with what is actually happening. No, they do not give hormones to animals on farms. That practice was discontinued prior to the 1990s. We need to out assholes who spread this bullshit online, dampening the real issues as to why introducing more plant based food is necessary. We also have to keep plant based food healthy and not just inject it with sugar ,salt and fat creating the same health issues we had with consuming commercialized meat.
Also I think this is why vegan is a ruined word and why ‘plant-based’ is now becoming a substitute. To replace this damage that many of the self called vegans did that were just as much lying and cheating as the industry they so much hate. two wrongs do not make a right. So I’m all about the pivot away from that dumpster fire
- Comment on How do you know if you have a Habit? 3 weeks ago:
“Delete my belly” this is hilarious
- Comment on Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits 3 weeks ago:
First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks.
“The sheep want to jump in my mouth” Mr. Wolf claimed.
“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.”
Ohhhh. Just harming young adults. Totally Clean conscience there
- Comment on Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits 3 weeks ago:
Ok Republican Party needs to be removed from everywhere. This is beyond.
- Comment on Same as it ever was 5 weeks ago:
They should just build real houses to live in
- Comment on How do I stop wanting to be on a relationship? 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like what the op is trying to say is they just want to examine their own feelings a bit. Maybe it’s not about ‘fit’ but about personal growth.
- Comment on How do I stop wanting to be on a relationship? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t see any claim by OP that the relationship issue is from maintenance. Sounds like they want to examine themselves and their feelings a bit deeper.
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 1 month ago:
This, like any event, comes down to what the family does to keep a case going. There’s many cold cases that are now getting solved by family members rather than police.
There is no agency out there that will keep interest in an issue.
once the media is done with it(they have a super short attention span) and the police will spend all of a few weeks on most things it is the family that keep the interest going. They will pay out of pocket to get attention for it.
There’s even cases where family members that have investigated into commercial air craft incidents because they lost loved ones and helped solve cases on that.
Believe it or not there are people calling the police every day just to keep their attention on a missing person or murder, asking for new leads. These are family members.
Police will not do this on their own.
- Comment on I don't like what I've seen, man 2 months ago:
Meanwhile in todays day have consumer cars that burn as much fuel as a semi, large 4x4 child pedestrian killers driven by soccer moms, Proud boys aren’t that old and they are pretty racist and active, School shootings, ‘anxious’ gun nuts shooting little girls on their lawns and clowns running countries into a 3rd world state during pandemics and giving bailouts to capitalist billionaires who are of a millennial age which are the entire cause of the housing crisis while there should be more than enough living space. There shouldn’t even be homeless right now.
Complain all you want about boomers but millenials came in hot on the heels to make it far worse than any boomer did. They poured gallons of gasoline on that fire.
Fuck off with this ‘Z VS Boomer’ crap especially if you’re sitting here calling their music the best and listening to it.
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 2 months ago:
I wish people hated the brigading proudboys this much. They would be more deserving.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
While you do touch on the mechanics of thought-feeling triggers there is a lot to be said for how a person gets to a depressive state as a result.
I think you are being reductive in how you’re separating people and how they experience these sorts of thoughts.
Bad thoughts and sadness exists but that doesn’t mean every person experiencing it depressed.
Many people can have those thoughts and feelings as you say but function every day and may pause on the thought and feeling connected to it but respond or react in their own learned way and may move onto other things. They might experience it many times in a day. But just cuz they don’t sit down and cry on the sidewalk about it doesn’t mean they aren’t experiencing these thoughts or feelings.
Calling them obliviously happy assumes and predicts a lot about them as if they cannot experience sadness. This assumption is synonymous to how a person with bpd will decide ‘no one can experience feelings as strongly as I do’ where they misplace where the issue lies at how they react to the feelings they have. Not that the feeling is any different. They are overwhelmed by the feeling for a lot of reasons but that does not mean other people they compare themselves to do not experience the same feelings (triggers) they do.
This just serves to alienate people for self preservation to hold onto an illness as unique and defining themselves by it.
we can all experience these thoughts and feelings therefore I do not believe triggers to what may lead to depression make the entire story. The thought might be there, and the feeling to kick it off but a person who is prone to depressive states move into a darker area after that.
Depression can be hereditary where you have people who are more predisposed to the physical and encompassing depressive states which can trigger some other compound issues such as addictive personality disorders.
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Thoughts are another topic into themselves. And there is many ways a person can react or respond to them.
The habits as you point out, to see most challenges as a personal jab at their own performance I believe so much of this is trained. Just as much as it can be untrained
outofthefog.website/…/stinkin-thinkin-the-ten-for…
Comparing ourselves to others is pretty ingrained in society where we have bad habit sayings to reflect it more.
Eg: “be grateful you’re not that person”
Eg: reward and punishment system for teaching
Eg: using real life people as an example/idolizing
This teaches people to be in a constant competition with other people around them.
Then you have the people who just see that as a challenge regardless or don’t see it at all and capable to find joy and celebrate another persons success without a thought to their own performance. Whether it be from therapy or perhaps that is their predisposition. That doesn’t make them oblivious to the very thoughts and feelings that may be a trigger for someone else.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 2 months ago:
I worked in this culture. It’s very toxic. Stop trying to romanticize it. The moving ‘waiting’ was super on point on how it actually is.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 2 months ago:
Getting real sick of the customer holding the weight of being the financial planner for a business and the management getting by with no blame for wage stealing and shitty business practices in this circumstance.
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 2 months ago:
More than this. People from different countries with qualifications are often denied to transfer their qualifications. We are missing out in more than one area here.
- Comment on Brought to you by the vertical mouse gang 3 months ago:
I was remembering just now I used to have one but I gave up on it almost immediately after using irl Thanks for reminding me why I quickly moved on from vertical mouse.
- Comment on FCC to declare AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law 3 months ago:
Yes just reaffirming that it’s just another law not enforced.
- Comment on Fake news, fake penis... 3 months ago:
As did they.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 3 months ago:
Doesn’t men you tread on me.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 3 months ago:
don’t tell me what to do. That’s all.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 3 months ago:
Go huff farts.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 3 months ago:
What: representing minorities where they are ignored? No. You won’t silence me. All experiences matter. Even ones you don’t share in.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 3 months ago:
Representation matters. when people start speaking their experiences for application: Other experiences should count too. You don’t silence me just on unapproved alone.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 3 months ago:
The main trick is checking the seller. Certain ones are very reliable for used-but-good things like dvds/books. And you just use amazon for the shipping part.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 3 months ago:
They also halted doing returns when the product is faulty. I guess there was some sort of scam going on over Christmas where a bunch of shitheads claimed items didn’t arrive so they could get money back but it’s no reason for Amazon to take it out on legit customers when it’s a simple return entry. It’s like they suddenly forgot they were online and can simply remove a line of code to avoid the scam entirely.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 3 months ago:
Then stop with the public lecturing.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 3 months ago:
Must be nice if you can leave the house without need for concern while receiving home treatment for disease/injury and your local brick and mortars actually do hold the products you need.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 3 months ago:
you must live near a metropolis where you have multiple sources for products are already in your area because in many parts of the world amazon is supplying many things that are not sold at local brick and mortars.
- Comment on Please Joe... 3 months ago:
So you’re solution is to just make everything a sideshow cuz it worked once for a sideshow.