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  • How about transitioning to a woman, then marrying their female best friend? I feel like that would at least be slightly less gay

  • It's because of women hating all men of course.

  • It does indeed work on Firefox mobile with tampermonkey. I should know, I implemented this and am using it that way mostly :D Don't like many of the apps.

  • I use this on the Android Firefox browser :D didn't like the apps at the time I made this, that's why I made sure that it's compatible with mobile Firefox as well.

  • I am one with everything, so by speaking about myself, I speak about the whole of reality. Checkmate!

  • Everyone is a woman on this blessed day!

  • Makes me think the same. I personally believe that no, the concept in the sense that "anything can change and could theoretically happen" doesn't exist, but... I also believe it doesn't really matter either. If there is free will, then anything can happen, if there is no free will, then not anything can happen and it is determined, but since we currently can't predict the future and determine what's going to happen, both situations have the exact same outcomes.

    For me, most of these philosophical questions that are (currently) not definitively answerable I liked to ponder for a bit, but dismiss relatively quickly. I don't really care if there is a free will or not, if there is any meaning to anything or not, basically whatever. What I care about is the current situation as far as I can discern it, and my actions that I want to take in the current moment based on that. My biology determines that and I just let it happen.

  • I've never said that anyone "should" have that much control. In fact I literally said almost no one can do it. The controversial thing is me even suggesting that it is possible.

  • Yeah but you can not suffer and still act to get out of the situation is what I'm saying.

  • See :D told ya it's unpopular. Yeah, it's "victim blaming" essentially. You might not believe me, but I have been a victim most of my life in many situations. I also have or have had mental disorders.

    In the end, you can only control yourself. And so while it is of course not my fault if I am being abused or whatever (it's the fault of the abuser) it is actually very much my fault if I don't find ways to remove myself from that situation. Of course, every situation is different. The difficulty of "fixing" it, and how to do it, massively differs. But in almost all situations, "suffering" only makes it less likely you'll get out of it. If you feel too bad, most people are more likely to feel powerless, to not think clearly, to be defeatist and so on.

    Life literally always has challenges, things that make you feel bad. No matter how good of a situation someone has, you'll always find people that are miserable in that situation. I'm saying you can actually be fine with your situation, whatever it is.

  • I mean yeah, that's who I meant with "people"

  • Obviously, yep. We are all victims of our circumstances and if you never get in contact with this concept or are not in a mental situation to want to believe it to be true, you're pretty much out of luck.

  • If someone betrays you - you can either be upset at this, feel terrible for a long time

    Or you can be thankful for them showing their true colors, thankful for the opportunity to enhance your people-reading skills, i.e. learn how to prevent this better (or identify that it simply happens sometimes, even with good prevention skills), perform the correct consequences (i.e. cutting them out of your life, minimizing your dependence on them), and then move on with the new state of life.

    I'm not saying one won't feel bad at first - but there's no reason to continue with that past the initial automatic reaction, how fast you can "move on" depends on how good you are at this. After handling the situation properly, there's no reason to continue to feel bad, feeling bad about it is just a motivator to do something about it, if there's nothing to do anymore, there's no reason to feel bad anymore.

    You can extend the same line of thinking to literally anything - you get fired from your job, you go hungry, you suffer some debilitating injury/sickness, you get put in a concentration camp due to be executed ("Man's search for meaning" is an example of this).

    Which interpretation is this, and what is the other one?

  • You can change your (psychological) reaction to everything. All psychological suffering is chosen by yourself and can be stopped if you choose not to suffer.

    Of course this is simple, not easy. Almost no one can do it.

    Most people I meet don't believe this and hate that I'm saying this.

  • Good, more people should buy bicycles

  • With all the interdependence we built up that's hard to remove and would take decades, it's kinda sensible to hope it can weather a few years of stupidity. It's not entirely unreasonable to hope that after people seeing the first shitshow, it wouldn't happen again.

  • You can't really. Only solution for me was to just not work 5 days a week. If you have a good job now... likely 3/5ths, so 3 days a week, will also make you able to support yourself.

  • They are "actual" though, if you care about comments :)