GONADS125 @ GONADS125 @lemmy.world

Abandoned this profile due to lemmy.world's federation with Threads. I have

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When I read a story about Buddhists religiously motivated murdering Muslims in India a while back, I realized that was 100% the truth. I'm not Buddhist, but I thought maybe that religion was safe from radicalization. Nope!

The only people being punished by this conflict are the civilians on both sides....

It was more than annexation. russia committed terrorist attacks, including downing MH17. They had a lot of actual conflict in Donbas, Luhansk, and the Eastern portion of Ukraine. [1]

And again, even if you want to unjustifiably exclude the russian conflict in Ukraine beginning in 2014, how is that different than what was happening in Syria?

In Syria, russia was using chemical weapons to force civilians hiding in rubble out into the street, where they would execute them. [2]

What you're guilty of is declinism, whether you want to believe it or not.

One could argue russia committed worse atrocities in Syria than they have been in Ukraine. But that coverage wasn't as popular in the media.

What you're doing is making assumptions based on your subjective perspective, not a factual representation of the world. Your view is very common, but not representative of reality. [3]

If any year ever feels like the worst, it’s mostly because our brains have a tendency to judge the present more harshly. Unfettered media consumption skews our perception, and it becomes easy to slide into unhealthy patterns of belief... the belief that civilization is on the decline is a tradition as old as civilization itself. Even Ancient Athenians complained in the fifth century B.C. that their democracy wasn’t what it used to be. These days, we call that belief “declinism,” or “decline bias.” [4]

Russia's invasion of Ukraine started in 2014, this Hamas attack is a bad one but nothing new, and china having territorial disputes in the South China Sea is most certainly par for the course.

Humans suck and none of this is really out of the ordinary. russia had been committing genocide in Syria and it just didn't get the attention Ukraine is.

This is all normal shitty human behavior that occurs all around the world every year.

You may want to read more than the headline..

It's much worse than it sounds.

In the article, it discusses young children and infants whose livers were severely affected by the toxicity. My first thought was "Why are people giving this to infants??"

No way it was a single cop executing him, with both hands and arms sustaining multiple gunshot wounds. That was a straight up firing squad execution....

That's the one!

I'm not happy with this development, but I'm slightly amused by the irony being that lemmy.ml is pro-china and has been moderated as such.

No I think it was 2011. Whatever the stable most streamlined release was before Office 365 rolled out.

I think of Word 2007. All downhill after that...

Edit: Or was it 2011? I can't even remember anymore..

After ejaculation, it still goes down.

That's the biggest part I was wondering about since it's basically a meme that men take it and last all night.

I've got great control over my pubococcygeus muscle as it is, and I'm fine with how hard I am and how long I last. Don't think I'll bother trying it unless I develop ED.

A good way to strengthen that muscle is to repeatedly stop and start your stream when urinating.

See, that's what I figured. I know it's extremely effective for ED, but figured it was mostly a meme about functional men taking it to have crazy sex.

Thanks for the response! Sounds like it might be a few more years off for me then. But I am continually more disgusted with windows.... Might make the switch sooner on that account.

Is it really a valid option for people outside the tech industry who don't know programming and who play PC games?

That's an honest question, not a snide question.

You say that, but I've jaywalked in front of cops countless times in different states and I've never had them so much as say anything to me.

I really don't think it's enforced very much. Then again, I am white..

What does a vasodilator do for men without ED? Does it make you stay hard after orgasm?

I always thought healthy men taking it was just a movie trope.

In my opinion, accepting that things are out of our control is a basic requirement of life, just as we have to accept the force of gravity exerted on us.

I think it's weird and some people have told me I'm crazy, but I tell myself "It'll all eventually work out, but maybe for the worst." I find getting hung-up on if something will resolve in my favor often hinders my ability to influence the situation, can cause self-fulfilling prophecies, and is often more distressing than when the negative outcome is reached.

I also consider our insignificance on a cosmic scale, and find a strange comfort in imagining that our problems are just as trivial and irrelevant as ants, and that I won't care when I'm dead anyway.

Finally, if you're experiencing any death anxiety, I've always found a great exercise to be imagining what it was like before you were born. Did you have any pain or fear? Did you wish desperately to be alive? No. You simply did not exist for billions of years, and that is the state in which we can expect to return. That doesn't sound so bad to me.

I've always found a strange comfort in cosmic insignificance.

I always liked Empire Earth...