Unfortunately, that doesn’t work in general. It is easier to poison discussion than it is to convince people with arguments. One person screaming obscenities prevent an entire room of people from having a rational discussion. It’s an asymmetrical effort, it’s hard work to produce quality information, and it’s free to generate gigabytes of slanted information.

If you are a human being, there are many things you know are true, but you act as if they are not. We are not rational creatures, we are social creatures. We don’t respond to arguments, we respond to social cues. It is more important for an extremely social creature like a human to agree with their social group than to be objectively correct.

Not always. Sometimes, the whole system collapses, and then after a period of insecurity, we all enjoy a period of massive prosperity.

So many poor and working class Americans will see this and think, “Progress!”

If you are participating in the two party system, you’re either supporting or enabling fascism.

That’s not what I am talking about. I am talking about simple emotional dependence on your children for your own needs. That is a classic abusive inversion of the relationship.

Once you die, it’s over. Dead people don’t have interests. Making plans for when you are dead is even more irrational than convincing yourself that having children is a benefit to you or anyone else. All this stuff about fulfilling your ancestor’s legacy is romantic twaddle you use to confuse yourself.

Some people would say that attempting to reach your own self-fulfulment through your children is a form of child abuse. Certainly it can easily become abusive and I don’t think it’s a positive pattern to encourage.

Having a child aught not be about what you want or even what you need. That’s backwards, and it’s exactly the sort of lie we tell ourselves to try to post-hoc rationalize a decision that our bodies have made for us, and we want to believe we made for ourselves.

Human reproduction is the biggest con. The worst thing is, we’re the ones fooling ourselves.

It isn’t so much a front end as a privacy-enhancing proxy service. You can’t participate, you can only consume. If our governments are going to conduct their interactions with us on fucking Twitter, we need services like this. Or we need our states to stop neglecting our need for online infrastructure and punting to capital interests.

If they wanted your money, it would have been released as shareware.

sophistry

I think we do. I just think that the part of our mind that we identify with, the part that makes monkey chatter in your head and stitches everything together into a narrative you can understand, that part of your mind isn’t the part that makes decisions. It rationalizes decisions and tells itself that it made them, but it doesn’t have free will. But there is another part that does.

I got into Linux because BSD didn’t have enough hardware support.

Canned pulses are convenient but you can’t beat dry for price and quality! Obviously much less packaging and other waste, also

Behaving in a way that is ethical and preserves good health is completely alienating in our sick and cruel society.

I’m self-hosted. It would be nerve wracking if email wasn’t an anachronism.

I cut it on the winter solstice. I need something to get me through.

I cut my own hair once a year and then watch it change with the seasons

at least you take out innocent bystanders with you

Bending over and sticking out your ass is literally presenting of the vagina.

Bending over and sticking out your ass is literally NOT LORDISIS and only roughly resembles what your cited source describes as lordosis, which for example, specifies an involuntary response that lowers the chest to the ground.

I’m just going from the fucking source you provided. Feel free to provide another.

No. That is not lordosis. That is a simulation of lordosis. You are confusing a metaphor for the literal thing.