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I think some rural people do things a lot of non rural people don't understand or identify with. Also, I worked with someone who had an adamant position that animals didn't have souls, so punishing people for animal abuse made no sense. When we brought up that animal abuse is a potential indicator for abuse of humans as sell, he said they should be consequence free until they hurt a human. He was also a "but if you don't worship God what's to stop you from doing bad things?" type.

Yeah, generally people like to take a small issue and blow it out of proportion. I've always liked Pineapple on Pizza, but I know some people who can't stand any sweet and salty mix. Similarly, I don't like coconut in sweet stuff, but I love it on its own and love it in savory foods.

I've definitely talked to women irl who dislike the word moist, from friends, coworkers, and family members. I don't recall any men getting disgusted with it irl, (except from that one meme) though I can imagine some uncomfortable situations (moist socks, moist undergarments, etc).

Sorta, it's also a mental image thing and a visceral reaction. Like fear of clowns or trypophobia, there are valid reasons for the visceral reaction (being moist in certain situations can be quit4 uncomfortable and in some rare situations causes at least minor irritation or injury), but usually don't apply for most circumstances. Clowns aren't dead people, and most bunch of tiny holes aren't insects or disease... well, maybe a lot of them are insects.

Visceral reactions are uncontrollable, so while it may be propped up a lot as a joke on the internet, I think it's a bit condescending to assume something that doesn't bother you doesn't actually bother some people for real.

Honestly, I'm a wonk, listening to an episode of KF right now, and that quote is so foreign to me because there's so many other clips I've heard more often. Does that make me a hipster if "freaking frogs gay" is too mainstream?

Me too, but class of 99, also 42.

Yeah, they probably were. I might be a bit more sensitive because I've seen people ruined by simple stuff like this, and algorithms that encorage going further down the shock, anger, and fear pipeline. I'm pretty adamant that people fact check instead of being shocked, as those moms and aunties might become future Ashli Babbitts. That of course could be just me paying more attention to that side of indoctrination, because I worry what harm it could cause.

Still, I was mostly engaging in an discussion that cherry picked stuff is dangerous even if people don't think it is. Plenty of people have been radicalized starting with jokes and minor misunderstandings that never got corrected. I try to at least steer people towards looking into things even occasionally on joke posts. It may be overreacting, but I remember a time where I was dumb enough to accept "Nice guys finish last" as a somewhat true joke.

When you aren't an expert, then you try to find answers by looking it up, as I explained. It isn't hard, and this one in particular is a common joke. On some subjects a simple search won't work as well, I'll grant you that. However you seemed hellbent on defending people jumping to conclusions without som3 due diligence. That's on the person. Misinformation spreads because lazy people want to go off of gut reactions and not even make sure the stuff they spread is true or a misunderstanding.

Why are you so invested in not even trying to fact check? Apologies if that isn't your point, because it sure feels like it.

Well, we don't really care about a natural emotion reaction in yout head. Once you start spreading it around and claiming something about it, then its a problem. If you just spread it as a "look at this weird thing I found, isn't it funny?" That's also fine. However, if you start spreading it like "can you believe this?" without checking into it, then you're either gullible to the point of the internet being dangerous for you, or you're complicit.

I dunno but every time I see it Konya wa Hurricane plays in my head.

I had a coworker catholic who both said that statement, and also argued animals had no souls, so no one should ever get in trouble for animal abuse. Along with his ridiculously heated response to any government involvement in Healthcare, and the way he got close to yelling when discussing these topics while also claiming he was just being logical, not emotional. Why yes he did call women emotional, how did you know?

People like him scare me, because it sounds like if he could use some religious context to say I didn't have a soul, he'd probably come to the same conclusion he did about dogs.

Part of the whole panic and cherry picking thing is also an important next step: refusal to do proper research. A simple web search would correctly show you that it's harmless. One might also find sources that claim it's actually satanic, but they'd find those in blogs, social media, or message boards, while legitimate and official sites would show the correct info.

It's up to the person to determine which one is correct. Most logical people would go with the simplest and least sensational definition being the correct one, while those with a conspiratorial mind view would ignore such common sense and choose to panic.

Looks like maybe a "soft top" style roof? Convertibles and some jeep style vehicles have them.

Or maybe another damaged car, not sure.

As doctor whatshisorherface said, the first percentage is just showing participant age group, as both lists add up to 100%.

Would they have? Tesla, Toyota (prius brake issue), Samsung (battery fires and iirc dryer issues) Ford (exploding pinto iirc) Sacklers (opiates) all have blood/injuries on their hands from mistakes, willful negligence, or outright corruption and they're all going strong.

Edit ah, I might be out of date on Perdue.

She's playing a collective of dumb antagonists, and Jeff may or may not be a collective of progressive thinking/experimenting people who were ignored throughout history despite their efforts.

I don't like em, but not to the level of gross. Pickles are gross for me, olives I can either move to the side or ignore as a mildly worse meal.

Plus plenty of us Americans mock that stuff too. In the state I live in, a man was killed by people loving guns like this because he was black while jogging. At the time, I was living in a city called White, GA. Down the street was a lumberyard that flew Confederate and Trump flags. I'm a person who since I was young loved exploring places in woods etc, but I'm rather terrified to do it in this day and area, especially with my skin color. A lot of us are trapped by circumstances here, so that comment felt more like a

"You complain about America, yet you live there. Curious." type of comment.

You have so much to learn about people who feed into the Satanic panic. Cherry picking is by definition how they get there. One of Alex Jones biggest boggiemen for years was a subsection of a law that allowed medical testing on troops, and he always ignores the very next section that states that it all requires informed consent. Then lies and act like people would have no idea.

During covid he found an exercise that tried to assume 4 different future scenarios that may come into play, and ignored the positive leaning ones or nuetralish ones and went straight for the heavily authoritarian exercise because it used a possible pandemic as a background setting, then claimed it was all planned out and proof Covid was a bioweapon attack.

People like this willfully ignore things that give context, and will often repackage it without the context anytime they can.

How do you know my name?

My younger sister has (in the past, quite a while ago, but still) gotten me a cease and desist during a visit and torrenting without a VPN, so I wouldn't say no way.