BringMeTheDiscoKing @ Bleach7297 @lemmy.ca

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You may have meant this more of an expression of shock, regardless it is good to think about the question. Hope you don't mind if I run with it for the general discussion.

Babies and children have an innate desire to learn, which can be nourished or beaten down. If it's beaten down long enough, "Ignorant" may become that child's preferred state as they get older, for reasons of domestic safety and social norms.

This lack of respect for knowledge and the accompanying lack of knowledge makes things that are outside someone's worldview threatening. They respond as if it was a threat and the cycle continues.

It is supposed to be the job of schools to rescue children from that cycle, by providing them with a space where they can be curious and not have to worry about a bigoted family member coming down on them. Sometimes they succeed but I think more often they don't, especially in areas where bigotry is rampant and/or where schools are underfunded or beholden to antisocial policies and laws.

I'm on a long bus ride, hence the exposition :)

If you aren't the customer, you are the product. Congrats on being monetized and kinda sorta immortalized as a series of weights.

Is it a line from Yee's latest tune?

I used to be able to do that. This post is making me feel old.

Sleep apnea, bad shoulders, bad back. I'm all about the rotisserie!

But he ABSOLUTELY supports the speech he supports!

It was enough of a dumpster fire before it got all musky. After it got the preputial gland the edgelords became MOR and there was no arguing past their mechanical circle jerk of atavism.

I am activated, mind.

Bigots are bigots are bigots

You look weak. I recommend you drink some 36% cream. It will give you energy and you won't need that exercise nonsense.

I'm about the chocolate rain

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In all seriousness, though, a crown corp grocery makes a certain kind of sense if the private chains are driven by profit to the detriment of a large portion of the public.

But newspapers do that all the time.

Happy to shop and donate to my local SPCA/Sally Ann

I'm not sure I understand. Are you suggesting the globe shouldn't be reporting on this?

How far have you sent your vertical mouse flying off the desk?

I know you've done it. Right after you typed that thing and went to click that button.

Life is hard for vertical mice.

"Magic until it's not" basically sums up the whole Apple user experience.

Not really. You just know really awful conservatives.

A distressing number of people seem to have inhibition problems.

A further distressing number are narcissists.

We shouldn't be surprised though, that's exactly how they were programmed. The more it became acceptable to pander to our baser instincts, the more profitable it became and the more profit driven concerns did it. The more screen time we had in our upbringing (back when we called it 'tv') the more likely we are to have taken on the programming of exceptionalism and decide that what's good for everyone isn't what's good for us.

I don't necessarily think it was planned that way, but the people who thought that it might be the result were relegated to the fringe.