Ookami38 @ Ookami38 @sh.itjust.works

Posts

3

Comments

1,209

Joined

2 yr. ago

We still have our bread and digital circuses. But the GOP is rapidly eroding our digital circuses, so it's becoming easier and easier to pull away and live in the real world. They're authors of their own misery, eventually.

Did you understand what they said? Great! They did perfectly fine then. Waste less energies.

Why do you think they have time to sleep?

Well how about that. It's also my birthday. Happy birthday, Leni

It's as likely your top 30 or so pages are AI generated, paid results, SEO optimized shit, etc that's just as unsavory. No one says you can't verify information, and probably should anyway, be it one search result verifying another, a bunch of commenters verifying each other, or verifying the two against each other.

Fuckin right lol? Why else do we exist, socially, if not to share cool shit with each other? Be it knowledge, a cool cat pic, a song you wrote, or eventually genetic material, arguably the "point" of sexual reproduction, maybe even life. I think now more than ever we should be hesitant to telling anyone to outsource any of that part of humanity to our AI overlords.

"just Google it" has always been a shitty reply. People are asking for your opinion because they want opinions from people, not some nameless site/author/whatever. Even if you're just regurgitating information, it's coming from a PERSON not a random article. Never mind the reliability of the source. Heavens forbid that we social creatures social about a thing for a bit.

One more time, for the commenters in the back!

Morality and religion are the same in society, broadly speaking. Any of the myriad interviews with a non-religious person being asked how they derive morality without religion is telling enough for that.

Can I get a comic credit??

If you had asked me 10 years ago, it'd be a firm "atheist". A year ago, "agnostic". Today, I don't identify with a religion, but I think there's a lot of interesting things within them. Given a charitable interpretation of any of them's texts, as well as looking at the parts where a large number of religious systems agree you can arrive at some pretty profound pieces of wisdom.

I don't necessarily think these things tell us much about our origin, or what happens after death, or speak to any kind of deity. What they do speak a lot on is the human condition. What we value, what themes and motifs speak to us.

I don't really like the terms "religion" and "religious". To me, those are the organized, preachy kinds of almost-cults most of us here have problems with. I prefer referring to my own personal beliefs as spirituality. Where the two differ, in my mind, is that religion is found externally. Someone converts you, or you're born into it. Spirituality is found through self-reflection. Some of the self reflection processes involves talking to and learning from others, but it ultimately comes back to a deeply individual assimilation of this new knowledge with the unique lived experiences you've had.

Yeaaaah that upward mobility isn't a feature of the system, it's a bug, and they're working on patching it constantly.

It's never been easier to be a billionaire. It's never been harder to be a millionaire.

Point being it's a last resort. I've lost all other options, may as well at least get someone there to ID the body or somesuch.

I get that, and I don't disagree, but my point is that the venn diagram of "shoots up schools" and "shoots up political targets" don't really overlap. Kids don't kill people for political reasons, they kill because they're in pain. Yes, they have a "better" target but that target isn't causing them active daily suffering.

One day, when I'm in actually GOOD shape, and have a bit more grey.

Assuming it's school attendants themselves, then they probably don't have a direct reason to shoot up anywhere but their school. Maybe their home. Their school is probably the thing that's causing them direct issues in their life, it's where their anger is aimed, and people don't often consider better options when they're that level of angry. I just don't really see these two things having enough overlap for that to be a thing.

Obviously, it's a very different scenario when it's not someone who's enrolled at the school. That's a level of dysfunction that I can't even begin to look at the world through the lens of. I don't think that kind of dysfunction is the one to take suggestions of better places to shoot up, though.

Joining a sword fighting gym. Absolutely fantastic community, and while I'm currently laying in a hot tub to soothe my absolutely dead legs, I'm definitively in the best shape I've been in in my adult life.

Implying management is human work?

To be fair, aren't almost all school shootings done by attendants of the school? At least all the ones that have stuck in my brain are ones committed by current or previous students of the school they shot. And I can't think of how to verify that either way this morning. In those cases, though, it's probably not entirely political, but personal.

I feel like someone should compile a list of suspects (read: denied claims) and read them off loudly at every memorial event for him.