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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Ohh, that’s clever. It took me a moment.

Arrive at work.

Coworker asks, "How are you?"

I respond, "Well, I'm here."

Coworker nods knowingly.

In an apparent attempt to ignite the culture wars and further discredit the FAA, Trump falsely claimed that the agency’s website lists individuals with “hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism” as “qualified” applicants for the air controller position, CBS News reported.

Wait. Wait...

and dwarfism

Okay. Everything in his claim is wholesale made up, but what could possibly be wrong with an air traffic controller having dwarfism? There is nothing inherent about that condition that should preclude a person from being able to do this job. Many ATC coordinate flights traveling through Class A airspace, which is way up in the stratosphere, using computers. They might need a higher seat or something to reach the controls, but that's it.

Trump genuinely thinks air traffic controllers just stare out windows all day, doesn't he? And because he says this, now ignorant people will be imagining that their plane is coordinated by a little person in a tower, standing on their tippy toes.

Republicans have been working toward this current result for years - sowing doubt in journalism, disenfranchising voters that they know are unlikely to vote for them, stacking courts so they can counter the inevitable legal pushback. Democrats failed to stop this, but blaming them for these issues is disingenuous - they didn't design this mess.

You're in a car heading toward a cliff, complaining that nobody has pulled the emergency brake. Yet the driver, whose foot is firmly planted on the accelerator, who fights anybody else who tries to touch the controls, is absolved of responsibility.

To clarify - the "driver" isn't merely Trump, but the result of the practices stated in the first paragraph. Any suitable puppet would have worked. The system has been rigged, and it isn't the Democrats who did it.

Same story for me. I never used the mobile apps or modded any community, I just don’t want to contribute to a site that’s hostile to the creators and users that made it successful in the first place. I imagine there are a lot of ordinary users like us that came here for the same reasons.

So much for ending emails with a simple “thank you” at the end. Damn offensive pronouns.

It's also worth noting that at the time, Samaritans were seen as an enemy. "To the Jews, a Samaritan was more revolting than a Gentile (pagan); Samaritans were half-breeds who defiled the true religion."

So when it was written that a good Samaritan was an example of a neighbor, it was more impactful than the phrase implies today. Part of the point was to say that even those perceived as "enemies" are ordinary people that should be treated with the same dignity and care given to one's own tribe.

Considering how long it can take kids to both use a tissue properly and dispose of it properly, that can happen within the first hour at a daycare center.

I recently ordered some parts for an e-vape online. At the payment page it asked for a tip. I was in disbelief. (I didn't take a screenshot, but in retrospect I should have.)

No services rendered, no food being made, nobody personally delivering it to my house. But it still wanted a tip, with the explanation that it was "to support our team!"

Where to even begin...

The fact that you're thinking about others' perspectives at all is a good sign. Sometimes, when I can't understand the mindset of someone toxic and I get frustrated, I take a step back and consider what would happen if I did start thinking like them. The fact that it's difficult to imagine goes to show that I'm wired against certain shitty mindsets. It sounds like you are, too.

In trying to understand others, you're showing more thought and empathy than a lot of people bother to practice. It's frustrating and can be confusing at times, but you're not broken for being unable to view things through the eyes of someone that doesn't care about doing the right thing.

Anyone else remember Neopets? They had a filter that was extreme and multilingual. I can't count how many times I'd write a friendly message, the filter would block it, and I would end up editing chunks of text trying to avoid whatever word or series of letters the filter thought was inappropriate. Sometimes it'd be a few letters embedded in another word (like "associate" being banned for the letters a s s.) But sometimes, I was truly stumped. The only explanation I can think of is that some letters in English words matched up to swears in other languages.

Anyway, fun fact - I met my first boyfriend through that site. We decided to see how dirty we could talk while still getting messages past the filter. We used innuendos, slang, and other turns of phrase with each other just to see what we could get away with.

In the end, all that filter did was make us more creative at communicating forbidden topics. Whoops ¯_ (ツ)_/¯

The Road* to El Dorado. Close!

Also, thank you, I never realized DreamWorks' non-3D catalogue was so small.

This needs to be its own post, if it isn't already.

There are a lot of Teslas near where I live. A lot.

But today I found myself behind a Nissan Leaf. I got to thinking, "So many people praise Tesla's electric system and say they still prefer it over hybrids due to its environmental impact. But giving money to Musk means enabling untold damage to society, and his alliance with right-wingers guarantees that his presence will make this environment worse." I mean, if he spent his time in Trump's inner circle convincing them that electric cars are better, that would be fantastic. But no. We all know that's not going to happen. He definitely has the power to make a positive impact on the world, but he won't.

I still haven’t gotten back on Adderall. I need to get an EKG before I can get back on it, but I don’t have a primary physician to perform it for me. Which means I have to make another few dozen phone calls to get a PP, then schedule the EKG, then wait for my next psych appointment, then hope that Adderall will even be available when the prescription finally get into my hands.

Also, hello fellow queer woman! At least we’re not alone.

I know people, including members of my family, who’ve had a much worse time getting off of SSRIs than they did than people have getting off heroin

Uhh, yeah, because stopping a medication intended to alleviate depression tends to... you know, bring back someone's depressive symptoms.

Classic - someone who's never taken SSRIs, thinking SSRIs are a magic mood lifter, akin to taking a hit of heroin. SSRIs don't work like that. Their effects are subtle, and all they do is enable me emotional stability. I was briefly off SSRIs for a few months last year (link to my post about reacquiring my psych meds.) This guy has no idea what he's about to stir up. SSRIs are the only thing keeping me from throwing everything in my life away and accepting that if I'm going to die miserably, I might as well do something crazy to take down the system with me.

That huge raise cost of living adjustment (that doesn't even make up for wage lost through inflation.)

aliens and predator

With the way this year is starting, I wouldn't be surprised if even they show up.

It already got overshadowed this year by him and his Nazi friend.

I hope this doesn’t come out the wrong way, but I’m curious what AI would be able to do to solve these issues? There are a lot of ways I could see it being used to make plans or ideas, but ultimately wouldn’t people need to trust AI and give it power over our decisions?

Even if AI weren’t plagued with human biases, it’s hard to imagine people agreeing to trust it. People barely trust each other, and we’d have to trust those who program AI not to manipulate it in their own favor.