Whats_your_reasoning @ Whats_your_reasoning @lemmy.world

In case you can't tell, I'm passionate about rationality and critical think

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I feel the same way, but about places that sell coffee having an obligation to provide a public bathroom.

Glares angrily at 7-11

He gets angry at being called out, then uses those victims' anecdotes as an excuse to express that anger without getting attacked for it. It's all calculated, one of many manipulation methods that bullies use.

I think the point is - scary threat isn't scary, because such people already feel the constant threat of poverty every day. Being regularly pumped full of cortisol over worries of simply surviving, there are no fucks left to give when additional threats are piled on.

I just came across this relevant article this morning.

"If vandalism involving Tesla vehicles continues to rise and doesn't go back down, we could see rates rise for comprehensive coverage in the future," he said.

Martin explained that when carried, vandalism is covered by the comprehensive portion of an auto policy. While vandalism claims typically don't increase insurance rates as much as collision claims, they can impact rates, she explained.

Martin added: "Since the recent rise in vandalism is focused on Teslas and not other make vehicles, drivers who carry Tesla Insurance may see a higher premium hike than those who have coverage with other carriers, since the risk of loss isn't as diversified."

because my offer (see in person, handle pickup myself).

It's been a long time since I've used any sort of online classifieds, and this line confused me. Do people expect stuff mailed nowadays or something? The last time I bought something through a local online seller was during Covid, and even then, with facemasks and sanitizers, I met up with the seller in-person (in a populated public location.)

Or is it still normal to personally pick up items that you inspect in-person with legit vendors, it's just scammers that expect something different?

You were downvoted for making assumptions about the person you were responding to. All they did was make a lamentful comment about the state of nature, and you came in accusing them of having (or being supportive of having?) a pesticided lawn with automatic sprinkler system. Then you seemed to doubledown on blaming everybody else of shirking personal responsibility, while avoiding giving a straight-forward answer to the simple question of if the "we" in your quote "we completely fucked up the environment" also applied to yourself.

Having the testee measure their own penis is prone to error.

To be fair, testicles aren't designed for that task.

Now I wonder if a cheetah would follow a laser pointer.

For those that don't recognize the reference, there's a book by Oliver Sacks entitled The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

It's a fantastic book and highly recommended if you're interested in neurology and the effects of brain injuries (especially of the right hemisphere.)

The downvotes prove your point. This topic needs more discussion, but most of the times when women bring this up, their comments get downvoted to hell. It's quite a "gotcha" for someone to ask to see "examples" when most of the examples we've come across or created will be buried or have since been deleted.

Alternative question - for those that don't believe this is an issue, when is the last time you came across a post on Lemmy that is specifically for/about women or women's issues (especially one posted from a woman's perspective)? Or even better, go ahead and make such a post. Watch how fast the downvotes come.

I expect this comment to be downvoted the same way as the parent comment was, the same way that past posts I've made and read about women's issues have been downvoted on Lemmy. If men want this place to be inclusive for women, they have to do their part to support us - not downvoting our concerns, simply because they don't experience the same issues, is the absolute bare minimum. Otherwise, why would we keep posting/commenting about our issues when doing so invites a downvote cascade?

As someone from the U.S., it seems like that concept has practically disappeared from the country. The nuances of civil debate, including the acknowledgement of differing opinions as valid, don't exist in most of our popular media (both traditional and social.) We've been conditioned to react to things immediately and intensely using our emotions instead. There has been a slide toward this state for decades, but it's come to the point where a lot of people genuinely struggle with separating "thing they personally disagree with/don't like" from "thing that shouldn't be said/heard/shared."

(Not saying that's the case with OP, just that it's definitely a thing that's been going on.)

Had those missing voters participated in good faith in 2024, Trump would not be president today.

The problem with this argument is that it ignores the effects of Covid-19. A not-insignificant number of people who voted in 2020 didn’t vote in 2024 because they had died since then. I did the math once, and it’s buried somewhere in my comment history (I’m at work at the end of my break. I’ll look for it when I’m able to.)

EDIT: Found the comment where I did the math. In the end, over 716,000 people died of Covid in the United States between 2020 and Dec 2024 (the time that comment was written, and the closest I could find date-wise at the time.)

I don't know about OP. I went to a public school on the eastern seaboard and we certainly weren't taught "Spain Spanish." The pronunciations and pronouns we were taught would've been very different if that were the case.

If any specific dialect was taught in those classrooms, it would've been because a teacher spoke that dialect natively. All of our teachers were either non-native Spanish speakers, or from somewhere in Central or South America. Maybe OP had teachers from Europe?

If there were regional differences for vocabulary, we were told about them. For example, for the English word "bus," we were taught that "autobus," "guagua," and "camion" all work but in different countries/regions. To be clear, we weren't expected to remember all the variations, but we were informed that they exist.

you should absolutely rely on friends or family for help.

Aw, I wish. There are two types of people in my family. The first type is people who also have ADHD (unmedicated, at that) and/or autism. The second type is people who believe the first type are jUsT bEiNg LaZy.

There is no in-between.

I agree with applying healthy skepticism to any and all stories. At the same time, I can't blame a recent Reddit refugee for not fully trusting Lemmy yet. They don't know the environment here. It makes sense for someone to be apprehensive about repeating a thing that just got them banned somewhere else.

But I hope OP feels comfortable enough here to share their story some day.

That's perfect. The more aliases, the better

The door is located after you click your username in the upper-right corner, and choose "Settings" from the drop-down. Scroll to the bottom of the page. On the left, in red, is a button to delete your account.

I'm not sure what really happens after that, though - I've never gone out that door. IIRC a deletion can take time, since various servers have to sync that information.

-Takes a bong hit-

So in a way, a recently-deleted account continues to exist across the Fediverse for a while. It is temporarily trapped to this plane of existence, until it can complete its final mission (deleting itself) across every corner of its known Fediverse. Then, and only then, can an account truly experience deletion.

-Passes to the left-

Common reported feelings include: elephant sitting on my chest (overlapping symptom between heart attack and panic attack)

This is such an apt description. There is absolutely a metaphorical elephant sitting on top of all of us.

Anyone else think chocolate is great? I love to eat the rich, dark kind for dessert. It's a delightful way to end a meal.

Here's a fun trick to stop using Reddit - simply install and use a VPN.

Just like that, Reddit blocks itself for you!