FabledAepitaph @ FabledAepitaph @lemmy.world

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Pressuring children into a belief system that has no basis in reality, which preaches subservience and lack of modern reason, is antithetical to societal advancement. We need to explore the stars, not the preacher's pants.

If a child finds religion on their own, then cool. But if an adult needs to send them to weekly indoctrination sessions, then that's child abuse and manipulation.

Has Israel been the bad guy the entire time, or just as of a few months ago?

I spend a lot of time on Lemmy, sorted by Top>Day or whatever, which seems to provide mostly fresh stuff every morning. I'm on Telegram being an attention whore in my local art community/fandom/convention planning spaces. I browse art on websites, and Google like a madman in relation to my broken project car that I'm trying to restore. I am big into Outer Wilds, and was spending a lot of time on that up until recently. YouTube for offroad recovery videos (Trail Mater and Matt's Offroad Recovery), which is silly because I don't like offloading. It is fun to see the physics/mechanical aspect of how big truck recoveries work

I like to work with artists from Europe, so sometimes I spend inordinate amounts of time trying to track people down on Russian Google/Facebook (Yandex/VK) haha

Whenever I "ghost" someone, it's usually because the friendship isn't working for me, or it didn't turn out to be what I thought it was. I put "ghost" in quotes because I don't really block people, I'll just stop initiating and then put the onus on them to maintain the relationship for a bit until I feel better about it.

So far, none of them have really cared enough to pick up the slack, so blocking them wasn't really necessary. Good moves on my part I guess.

I'm from Oklahoma, and although it is an unfortunate place socially and politically, it's pretty decent geographically and geologically. It is very flat around most of the state which is kind of boring, but it has some pretty great landscapes when you go looking for them. The biomes range from pine forest and rolling hills in the southeast, to prairie flatland/grasslands across the center of the state, to almost desert highlands in the northwest.

There are "mountains", but they're so old that they've been eroded basically flat, down to their granite cores--one of the contributing factors to Oklahoma' flatness, no doubt (not to mention it used to be under the sea, which is where our petroleum comes from). There are a few mesas and butes to the northwest, which stand out among the desert high plains, composed largely of red clay dirt and vibrant, sparkling gypsum/selenite/quartz cap rock.

Check out the "Glass Mountains". The thick layer of mineral deposit atop the these mesa structures would have been deposited during a great epoch of evaporation, increasing the concentration of minerals in the inland sea so greatly that they had no choice but to fall oit of solution--pretty wild.

There's also some sand dunes, but the ones in Colorado are way cooler.

Anyways.

I perused the comments and didn't see anyone mention this. The term "engineer" is regulated by every state in the US. I doubt they had Tinder in mind, but calling yourself an "engineer" without having a Professional Engineer license is illegal, at least when it comes to offering professional engineering services. It's a protected title so that schools and bridges don't get built by scammers--at least that was the intention. I can legally call myself an Engineer!

Just go get your license, and you should be golden lol.

I think you're right. Just gonna have to keep fighting the good fight. I guess lol

I've been active. Any time I share an opinion that isn't in-step with the crowd, I get bombarded by people defending the status quo, insulting me, and telling me that I'm wrong because "just look at the downvotes" which is a hilarious metric.

I got banned from the Vegan community for suggesting that meat was deeply ingrained in our behavior from a cultural perspective, and simply messaging to other people that animals were alive and conscious wasn't going to cut it if they wanted to reduce meat consumption.

I also tried to convince people that rubbing BLM/anti-"all lives matter" rhetoric in conservatives faces wasn't going to convince them to support our movements, and the whole thing devolved into everyone throwing insults out, and not one person could ever explain why I was wrong.

Maybe becoming active on Lemmy isn't a great thing lmao

Why would God send wildfires to Texas when they're so close to fulfilling God's holy desire to ban Trans people and turn women into birth slaves?

You know you've won a discussion when the other person has resorted to calling you stupid, because they can't think of anything worhwhile to say. That's the best indicator that you've lost.

I love it.

Lmao. So, you're saying that conservatives are onboard with the whole BLM/minority rights thing, and that people are getting their message across no biggie? Grow up.

Do you want a peer reviewed paper proving that conservatives don't agree with non-conservatives? Hilarious.

Truth isn't determined by popular vote. Just because nobody likes it, doesn't mean it isn't true or that it isn't valid. They may also be downvoting because they don't like my tone, and not because I'm wrong. Besides, this is all just stupid infighting--OP's tonedeafness is shared by a broad group of left-leaning people and is splayed across the news media.

When it comes to convincing right-leaning people, their sentiment is doing legitimate harm to our movement. And at the end of the day, if people refuse to acknowledge my message because of my tone, they're the ones suffering. Conservatives really experience no downside by ignoring us, because they are happy to be classless, bigoted fools. So basically: suck it up and accept it, or continue to be ignored. Whatever.

This happens every time I throw out an opinion that's even slightly controversial on Lemmy. Eventually, people realize they're wrong and they can't give me an actual counter point. So they resort to basically what's happening now, which is derailing the conversation by refusing to elaborate when I ask in good faith what they mean. This time, it's some apparent irony that they won't explain, probably because it doesn't even exist. Maybe the person doesn't respond because they are afraid I'll just dismantle their point again.

I mean, I can go back and reread all of messages from the mass of dissenters and try to to rationalize whatever "irony" it is they're talking about, but irony is subjective. And now were left with this permanent internet monument where nobody was able to actually throw out any counter arguments with real substance to them. So I guess I win?

Also, who are the people that they think are "pushing gender reassignment" on children? I've never seen it, but I would guess that would fall under child abuse if it were indeed happening. Child abuse is already illegal, so what's going on these last couple years? Wouldn't the team of doctors and presumably at least one psychologist visit catch on to something funny happening after meeting with someone who is being forced into a gender change?

They absolutely would, and the whole forced transgender thing is "fake news" as they call it. I'd guess maybe it happened once, and the Conservatives latched on to it as the next hot topic to piss their cult off with. And here we are.

People deserve the right to live their lives as they feel appropriate, and doubly so when it's not hurting anybody else. Wish they'd just leave my transgender homies alone.

You don't know, do you? You made the comment, so you back it up.

And which irony is that?

Andrew Prahlow - Travelers

"I'm not going to work to improve my skills or my arguments, and will instead continue to fail". Whatever you want to do, lol

Because I'm already on your side, and you're still annoying. Good luck convincing anyone who actually disagrees with you, which is the only thing that matters.

Tone policing! Hahaha. That's a hilarious concept. Fuck your tone policing-policing, then, lmao.