zero_spelled_with_an_ecks @ zero_spelled_with_an_ecks @programming.dev

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You've been hit by

You've been struck by

A smooth salmonid

Monterey Bay Aquarium is so fun. They have a presence on YouTube and have things like Krill Wave Radio

Never is.

And I'm saying people don't act like that via the example of the pandemic. I understand the definition but think it's unrealistic to expect people to act like that. Does that make sense to you? From this end it seems like you're the lost one so I'm not quite sure how to clarify what I've said.

Ok, that definition does not define how people acted during the pandemic either. Some people were even actively harming others.

If I told you [documented facts]

Those things are true, but I wouldn't go so far as to say because some claims are true that any and all claims have merit.

Also, you should reread the boy who cried wolf. The point isn't that the wolf is real, the point is people won't put up with bullshit.

I ended up more left after a few years on Reddit because as I saw how many ideas were expressed and challenged and had my own ideas tested, the conclusions I came to pointed in that direction over and over.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_United_States is accessible, though I had to stop a bunch to just give myself time for the "damn, that's fucked up" to pass pretty much every chapter.

I don't really need to listen to people that think there are microchips in the vaccines, for example. Lots of ideas aren't worth considering. There's nothing noble about having no standards.

I used to be an Ayn Rand libertarian minarchist when I was a teenager. There's a bunch of reasons I disagree with it now, but the utter failure of people's butthead behavior during the pandemic is just the latest things that you'd have to completely ignore to maintain egotistical altruism is something that can be relied on in the real world. Not really interested in a discussion about it; I've had all of them long ago and I don't think we'd have anything to budge the other person.

None of your opinions are anything I really disagree with except the guns. You claim elitists turn you off but claim you know better than everybody. Your antagonism towards nearly everybody is why I wouldn't like you, not your opinions. Maybe there are others like that that you blame differences of opinion for why you're not in their lives anymore.

No, I did not assume. I read the part where you said you spent your entire life as a Democrat. That's the past tense which means you no longer are.

Nobody kicked you out. You got upset when somebody pushed back. Just like now.

What opinion of yours got challenged enough that you left? Let's hear it so we know if it's bad enough to deserve whatever you got or you were unjustly maligned.

...be shown the door when we disagreed on one or two things.

Did your girlfriend break up with you over that tiny little issue of believing she deserves bodily autonomy?

Go ahead, tell us the tragic story of how the Democrats forced you to change sides not because of the issues that haven't changed, but because your feelings got hurt.

They don't do that weird alpha thing that humans do, so they've got that as a pro.

Yeah, but nobody plays those.

I'm sorta in the third category. It used to taste like soap. Then I purposefully ate it a handful of times. Something flipped in my perception of it and now I like it. I read the soap thing is genetic, but I think what happened to me is more like the compounds that are shared between smelly feet and cheese where the context defines how the scent is interpreted. I'm very sensitive to some flavors. I've only had pine nuts that didn't taste rancid once in my life and that rancid flavor gets stuck in my mouth for hours. Truffle oil just tastes like mold. But Bleu cheeses taste fine. Taste and its interpretation is complex.

How often are you reinstalling your OS? Maybe that's where your frustration should go.

The time of the French press has passed. It's time for the percolator ( 16 years ago anyway).

solving puzzle after puzzle

That about sums it up for me. Figuring something out lets out the good brain chems. The opposite sucks, though, getting stuck on something, especially when it's something small that I was just too tunnel visioned to see.

Vizio.