Swaus01
@Swaus01@piefed.social
- Comment on The internet seems to despise both the role of "Parents" and "Children"... 1 week ago:
It is, as there are definitely things you can infer about reality from it. In this case, ideas espoused on places like reddit are indicative of how certain sets of people (e.g left wing liberal millenials, who enjoy their computer time, and aren’t religious) feel towards children.
The things to bare in mind (which you hint at) are just: A) no matter how many people you see on the internet, it’s still a very very small fraction of real people in ththe world, or even in your own nation. And B) biased sampling - specific groups of people flock to certain sites, feel like eharing their views on the matter, feel strongly enough to share their views on it over and over again.
- Comment on The internet seems to despise both the role of "Parents" and "Children"... 1 week ago:
I saw a really interesting video on this recently, actually.
Daniel Mackler: An Analysis of People who don’t like children
He’s an ex-therapist. Video is pretty short. He posits that people who didn’t like who they were as children dislike children.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 1 week ago:
Society ;(
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I guess Reform is just really popular :c
Yep… and it really shouldn’t continue to be, because it actually has no plan or cohesive ideology, and is probably designed to fail, just like every other political project of Farage’s.
Reform is an entirely reactive party - since kicking Rupert Lowe out, farage has just repeatedly lifted policy from Lowe and his Restore party.
It would make more sense for the british right to put their support behind “Restore” or Labour to achieve their aims, in my opinion. Not sure what will happen but the latter of those seems unlikely, so i guess the Election map is going to look like a salad assortment next GE; a very very very split vote.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 weeks ago:
Honestly not that deep
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 weeks ago:
That’s so surprising to me. German efficiency at play
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t an argument byt a ponderance, and people can engage in one unhealthy thing but not another, without compromising their morals/belief system.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 weeks ago:
Interesting, i always thought sweet food “ruins appetite” just by raising your digestive system’s expectations
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 weeks ago:
Rare fact drop. I like this answer. Makes me want to eat more desserr from now on 😈
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 weeks ago:
That’s a good answer - eating it for the dopamone rather than the sugar or fat
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 weeks ago:
Thank you so much for the detailed answer which considers the entire scope of human history. Much insight into different cultures.
In the 80s it was rare to see people drinking water, except for “health food nuts”. It was far more common to see soft drinks/sodas. Over the years, society has become more accepting of drinking water.
This is very interesting to think about
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 weeks ago:
If food were just about cold, hard, logical choices based on nutrition alone, we’d all just eat Soylent Red and Yellow.
False.
Yes your principle is right though. I just wonder how the society evolved to like eating sugar as the last meal of the day
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 weeks ago:
Then perish.
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- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a long shot/hail mary but you could hope that the CIA will boot him out.
- Comment on Call off King's US state visit over Iran war, urge Lib Dems 3 weeks ago:
Think that would be a good idea. Also since his brother was arrested and we should be shunning the US government for not prosecuting any of their own over Epstein files.
Would honestly be mpre appropriate, though very dangerous, to do a state visit to iran or nother middke east country and pledge some aid.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure this poster keeps on creating new accounts just to spam hatred on religious people. Had various accounts doing this posting pattern with simalr names, i’m guessing we’ll be rooting through every single book of the bible. In order. See you again at “RevelationsIsForPedophiles”
OP you need healthier coping mechanisms. Not all religious people are evil and this methodokogy runs completely counter to presenting a reasoned argument against the belief systems you object to - i.e you don’t convince anyone new to your point of view you just intimidate people on the fringe of anti-religion sphere to jump on a bullying/harassment bandwagon.
- Comment on It is impossible to beat every (single-player; possible; human-made content) video game 4 weeks ago:
That’s just pure evil
- Comment on Nobody ever seems to point out when they make a right-side-up cake. 1 month ago:
Hah and then you add the other ingredients based on what ‘looks right,’ and voila, it ends up being a pound of everything anyway 😅
- Comment on Nobody ever seems to point out when they make a right-side-up cake. 1 month ago:
Wait but pound cake is specifically a pound of all ingredients, no?
- Comment on Starmer pulls Chagos bill after Trump backlash 2 months ago:
Yep indeed! And the least he could’ve done was tell them it wasn’t going ahead, instead of letting them stress about it for about a year or two.
- Comment on Starmer pulls Chagos bill after Trump backlash 2 months ago:
Wtf? Why now? Does he just do things and somehow funnel all the hate mail towards a spam email account which he only checks a week before said Reform is gonna go through?
And btw can anyone point me towards ANYTHING Starmer has proposed and actually followed through on? Despite having a megalithic majority he only backs down from proposals and does stuff the tories could have done anyway.
- Comment on News could use a reboot. 2 months ago:
My wife leaves MSNBC on just about all day long, and it’s rare she mentions anything I don’t already know about.
Exactly. That’s it in a nutshell.
- Comment on News could use a reboot. 2 months ago:
I think that would be a good idea. People clearly prefer to learn the news differently tk how they used to. You might say it’s gone through 3 stages
- Newspapers
- Radio and Television introduced, Newspapers still popular
- Internet makes Twitter/Reddit a more efficient way to locqte articles, and people don’t need to tune in tk scheduled news when they have YouTube videos, for instance.
One of my favourite news sources right now is TLDR news. ,aybe stuff like the BBC needs to get their programming more in-line with this, allowing people to select the stories they listen to qnd thus spend less time watching/ listening to the news.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 3 months ago:
If you think about it, people have probably elected to be killed by their families ( and friends!) loads of times throughout history.
spoiler
- old age
- mortal wounds / permanent disabilities
- evading capture by enemies
- escaping debt et cetera
- one less mouth to feed - Comment on Kemi Badenoch: Tories to scrap petrol ban if they win next election 3 months ago:
Well thank you for another reason not to vote Tory, Mrs Badenoch. As if it needed to be made any clearer.
- Comment on Best meal ever 4 months ago:
I guarantee you will still want to eat some bread later, and you’ll even thank your past self for making the bread
- Comment on If one were given the option to order a Stupid Cat or a Smart Cat, the vast majority would pick the Stupid Cat despite Stupid being bad. 4 months ago:
I think cats might actually die more from being smart, i.e adventurous, and straying to places where no cat has ventured before
- Comment on If one were given the option to order a Stupid Cat or a Smart Cat, the vast majority would pick the Stupid Cat despite Stupid being bad. 4 months ago:
I love smart cars
- Comment on Now is a great time to try an open mic, just print out some of the Epstein emails, find some good bits and read them into a microphone! 4 months ago:
I feel like never before in history has it been more evident that the super elite are not having fulfilling lives themselves.
For instance: recently, Elon was slandered by some writer saying he can’t appreciate art + movies properly, and since then he’s made a big show of commenting on all the “movies” pages on X-twitter.
So performative. Like Donald Trump’s behaviour rubbed off on him.
As for the others - Bezos and Zuckerberg and more - well, they just seem to be having an awkward time whenever in the public eye. They struggle to find uses for their time and money and end up sending pop stars to the moon and such.
It’s like you said - can you imagine how unfulfilled and disconnected from real life people like Jeffrey Epstein were, to decide their effort was best spent organising an industry of kidnapping, blackmail + sexual slavery? Either the man was a demon, or he was so profoundly impotent - emotionally and conventionally - that he only got his kicks from abusing minors.
It’s definitely a warning sign to anyone still playing the capitalist game.