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and what a simulation it is, to be sure!

the word 'just' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence

ORKS IS DA BIGGEST AND DA STRONGEST

list of things one or more of my cats enjoy: - sleeping on my arm - chasing feathers attached to strings - scratching the couch - sliding along the floor under the couch - sleeping on my lap - sitting in the same sunny spot every afternoon - sleeping on my chest - sliding along floor mats -...

i'm just gonna go back to this point: "the most minor of grievances with online discourse apparently being so life-shattering that you must spend hours per day for successive days hyper-fixating on them. just do something else and chill the fuck out"

my preference is that people actually just get on the same page, but i don't see how when you insist on just distorting both reality and the things that i'm saying. even after all this, you're still hammering on the exact same things that have been the same answers for months and expecting that...

i stated that i can see user activity as a mod. that's not denying that it's dropped, it means i'm aware of which users are or aren't making posts. it happens any time there's drama on the forum: people take a break. the way you conflate these two separate statements, and the way you regularly...

post activity dropping is to be expected post-drama i mean the thing that's hard to take seriously about all this is that no one actually messages any of the mods to say, "hey can we talk about this issue on the forum?" it's just a big public outrage all at once, with like a dozen...

fwiw, i don't agree that "it's funny coming from you" is a good response from a mod but strictly speaking, it is pretty funny coming from serac. wouldn't put it in a report, but as a user having seen serac's post history it does mystify me

all but one of you are still here, and kormak can come back and post if he wants. though it does look like 1 of these 4 people have indeed left. who are the other people alienated into inactivity?

which 4 users were bullied into leaving?

Having looked at ghost's spam, then the report, then the exchange that took place: - he was warned - he stopped after he got warned and won't be back if he does spam again - there's nothing all that coherent in his ramblings to say that he's making some ideological argument for killing people...

i tried modafinil for a few days didn't do enough for me to justify using it further

covid-19 technically a better name, have renamed other thread and will close this one for idk, tidiness i guess.

because that kind of perspective/mentality is the kind that makes lgbtq probably not want to interact with you in their communities in the first place you find them interesting because they're "uncommon", and think therefore they should feel like interacting with you? what if they just don't...

if i detected this kind of attitude or perspective, i wouldn't want to interact with you either

Global trends in temperature increase mean that the regional things that affect climate and cause heatwaves for example, are exacerbated and more severe than they otherwise would be. Moreover, climate change is not limited only to temperature changes as a result of greenhouse emissions...

@Grayman are you trolling?

unfortunately yeah it's a double edged sword the amount of area burned by the bushfires is crazy, basically an entire continent caught fire (and more still.to come in the coming months probably. not out of threat until later in March usually) and heavy downpour is set to pose another public...

the only reason you'd think greta's climate change activism makes her a demagogue would be that political decision-making is currently out of touch with ecological science on climate change and its effects. If calling for action based on science rather than corporate interest makes someone a...

Well Sam Harris is a neuroscientist so this is an area he's actually qualified in. He's pretty good at talking about mental states and ways to control them and avoid common pitfalls etc. Haven't done the 50 days thing myself but I'd shill for Sam Harris in at least this area too tbh

i mean climate change projections pretty comfortable estimate that the number of climate refugees will be will into 7 figures by 2050 if glacial melting continues at the rate it is now. not sure why you're so bitter about a teenage activist who happens to care about this in a thread about a...

many barriers to solutions are artificially imposed political barriers and bureaucracy though there are a number of robust economic concepts that show positive benefits across the board that are stonewalled to protect the interests of corporate lobbyists and their political ties it's not that...

@SlothfulGinger there's a lot of nurse-adjacent jobs you can get with a nursing qualification iirc not necessarily locked into a hospital gig. but yeah it's a pretty secure starting point for a career i guess.

Ideally through a representative candidate you'd be able to effectively impact legislative matters as a unified voice. Unionisation and public pressure would ideally protect against abuses and help to usher in paradigm shifts in legislative decision making. This worked for a while, when the...

there's actually quite a lot of women on this forum they tend to avoid these topics when as you say, people talk about them irrationally as if they operate on entirely inhuman concepts of logic. when people point out they don't they typically get backlash for it it's not the only topic it...

there's barely an emotional risk involved for casual sex anymore dating apps exist now

what a strange world we live in where men apparently don't realise that women are also incredibly horny much of the time and that 'incel' and difficulty dating isn't an exclusively male phenomenon people are very much exaggerating their own problems and extrapolating it to others who are...

Average Looking Man Who Dresses Nicely and Doesn't Do Anything Egregiously Stupid Finds Himself Having Lots of Sex News at 6

Hadn't seen this thread. Pretty regrettable outcome and pretty depressing to see how this has unfolded. He's likely being tortured for information in detention at the moment.

i don't think many relationships (platonic or romantic) follow a true dominant/submissive divide. few people are so linear and simplistic as to fall squarely into one category, though sure, those people do exist. @Inexorable Username if you're interested in reading about social dynamics pick up...

there's so many different contexts where power dynamics apply that it doesn't seem pertinent to apply a uniform label or to try and figure out 'dominance' based on hormones i think there's a lot of nuances in the power struggles of human interaction where people's general preferences can be...

ya pretty much

here in this thread men who regularly speak for women and regularly get told they wrong by women will once again repeat this process and then act petulant when they get mocked for it stay tuned for more comedy

here in this thread we will generalize large groups of people's preferences regardless of how inaccurately they may apply to many members of the group stay tuned to lose iq points

snails are like skeletons except their skeleton is on the outside of the skeleton and also they're not actually skeletons

actually women judge men by their serial number and use complex quantum algorithms to determine compatibility your utter confusion and frustration is not a bug, but a feature =)

We do see that.

Not really talking about sociological theory though. Talking plainly about the reported reasons for rape by perpetrators and how we assess what particular behaviours they engage in mean. From a reductionist point of view you could say that a lack of ability to fulfil a biological sex drive...

To be clear: no one is denying that there is a biological basis for emotions and motives. This is a phantom that you are working yourself up to argue against. What's being contested is the idea that it can be chalked up to 'horny'. All studies on behaviour of perpetrators of rape (that I've...

Reminder: 'Grayman' and 'The Grey Man' aren't the same person.

That's because it really is blaming the victim. There's quite a few levels of violence between inappropriate remarks or an isolated event of inappropriate contact without physical harm and actual rape. In certain contexts I might not condone but also not necessarily condemn the former as being...

She's asking you questions to determine the boundaries of what kind of discrimination you consider correct against religious people. There's nothing disrespectful in it. What you've said is that if someone's religious, you don't just think it's okay to discriminate against them but that they...

On one hand I think it's important to differentiate between institutionalized belief and individual belief. But it's proving harder and harder to even turn a blind-eye, let alone be forgiving of even individual beliefs when the current PM of our country and a number of our senior ministers are...

Yeah deforestation is also to blame for these problems. There's been over 11,000 signatures as of last year from scientists around the world to expand the definitions we use to refer to climate change beyond average surface temperatures because while important, undersells how important so many...

James Fenimore Cooper this time. I forget what I got last time.

@qtty @timid_rat Will fix tonight. Sorry for delay.

yesterday there was a misinformation attack (wierdest words to type in sequence) where a bunch of bot and troll accounts, but unfortunately also real people retweeted the idea of arson being the primary cause for the fires, based off a false interpretation of a police report ~200 people had...

At this point climate denial is not so much a political bias as it is outright conspiracy theory.