Not really. It’s pretty good. Growth will just bring more bot wars. But I guess bot-immigration is just a permanent trait of the internet now.

Yes, similar to the web of trust, there exists a web of trust for people based on reputation. Journalistic integrity, openness, scrutiny; these are just a few of the things that go away when experts go away.

People who dedicate their lives to truth should be recognized as such, and those who lie should be recognized as well. Outsourcing your information gathering to “randoms” just means that you will be swayed by whoever can afford the best bot farm.

And if you think you are unswayable, you are the perfect target.

Follow those who express curiosity, welcome questioning, and conduct themselves in good faith. It’s an iterative process, you don’t have to resolve it in a day.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/americas-hidden-duopoly-2/

Listen to this then tell me what your choice is.

Just one of those days.

Omg you’re right. That means I can check Wikipedia, he is 82 years old.

Now please OP, update the image. For no one shall disrespect THA HAWWWWGGZ THAT’S RIGHT I WAS ONE THE WHOLE TIME CRAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN…

I agree with the comedy image.

The only thing worse than the squalor of addiction is the unearned confidence of people with glasses.

Yeah but how old is red face white hair man.

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I’m going to use “you” a lot in this post but know I’m using the global definition, I’m not directly addressing you.

Right, but you must realize that is your perception and not reality.

If you’ll allow me to take some liberties and use you as an example :

They are asking you to change your perception of them.
You are asking them to change/disregard their reality to conform to your existing perception.

One can be done, one cannot. They’ll still be what they are and now their way of defining themselves is forbidden, by who? Why? This path seems completely irrational.

And what value does your perception hold anyway? The meaning of every word, sound, and thought in your head is arbitrary, it’s all made up. So obviously language needs to be calibrated with reality from time to time.

Language has changed to such an extreme degree that you wouldn’t understand your own language 300, 1,000, 5,000 years ago. Why not be upset about that? Seems kinda silly to start a movement to rollback english to 1724, eh?

That is how I feel about those who oppose groups of people seeking to better define themselves. “I don’t feel what they describe, they’ve organized millions of people who claim to feel the same way to fuck with me, I’m mad!”

TLDR, it’s logical for language to change and people to carve out niches. Humans aren’t born male and female only, so it seems silly to puritanically declare that because of an ancient understanding of humans, we should ignore modern biology.

From a post I made earlier this month, the intersex population in the United States alone would comprise 10% of the population of Nebraska. These are people born, quite literally, between gender. Non-binary.

Mos def, thanks for the link.

I cannot think of a case where that doesn’t work, lol. Perfect.

に！に！に！

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ね (ne).

Because it’s a cool way to end a sentence in Japanese.

そのいえは大きいですね。
so-no-i-e-wa-oo-ki-i-de-su-ne.
That house is big ね。
That house is big isn’t it.

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I like drawings of flowers as well, I understand this is popular among Yakuza, and I have my own supply of JNCOs. That’s it, I’m joining the Yakuza.

You should have stolen their gender and held it hostage.

I like this. It’s exactly right.

One of the reasons I value autistic traits, literally everything seems arbitrary to me.

The invisible fabric of society that everyone seems to revere appears to me as a heavy suffocating blanket with no rhyme or reason.

Idk, or maybe I’m an egotistical know it all. Always gotta leave room for being wrong.

Doing
I’m watching Travelers on Netflix after getting back from leg day at the gym. About to eat some pressure cooked chicken (tikki masala and tapatío as simmer sauce).

Rather
I suppose I’d rather be watching Travelers on Netflix after getting back from the gym… earlier, while stoned and hanging out with someone I was dating, but dating apps are the poo.

Haha, 11p for me, not much variation available this time of night.

Good show so far for SciFi lovers. Reminds me a bit of Fringe for some reason tho the storylines are nothing alike.