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American women learning from Lysistrata by a national transitioning of gender.

I dont respect any abrahamic religion

~ Christopher Hitchens, explaining why we should invade Iraq

You’re going to get called a Chinese bot account for this

Oh wait. That’s capitalism.

No no no. That’s Communism, because of the big government.

Under capitalism everyone can do their own research and the smartest, strongest, bestest ones become the leaders through hard work. Then they become famous due to their natural animal magnetism, solve all of the problems, and spend their golden years pumping out hundreds of babies so that their righteous seed forms the foundation for the next generation.

Under communism, everyone gets tricked into thinking they’re equal, which defies natural law. Government gets too big and destroys productivity. And then the trickster evil communists make all the babies. But those babies are weak, so the civilization fails.

That’s why only the whitest civilizations are capitalist.

No. Go big or go home.

Please don’t tell Robespierre

I’ve seen your posting history. Being this horny is political.

Damn. Beginning to think race might be some kind of socio-economic construct used to mystify material conditions of the proletariat.

CCP incel

Can’t count the number of times I’ve seen “You’re a secret agent of an enemy government!” in a shit flinging fight between two assholes on Reddit Lemmy.

However, during school most people have their ability to recognize patterns at all severely diminished due to “gotcha” questions on tests, questions that specifically are designed to catch you out using pattern recognition.

The joke of that technique is these questions become a pattern unto themselves. Despite middling grades in high school, I aced a number of standardized tests in large part because the “bullshit” gotcha questions stuck out like sore thumbs to me.

This trains the person to not trust their pattern recognition

Again, I throw back to the person listening for conversational queues in the banging of their washing machine.

You shouldn’t trust pattern recognition on its face. It’s deceptively easy to pick out a false signal in white noise.

There’s more to be said on this, with certain schools (particularly religious or highly ideological academic settings) focusing on uncritical acceptance of official dogma or a state-designated axiomatic understanding of a certain subject. But that goes above and beyond teaching people not to trust their pattern recognition skills.

The scarf has higher requirements for precision and a more constant overhead than a one-off giant summon.

I mean, there’s a scarf.

And then there’s a scarf

You could make them go “oof” on the summon if you added a requirement that the lava properly flow along the ground and interact with all characters near the event.

I think the better question is “How many polygons do you want and what do you want them to do?”

Can’t not read that in his voice.

~ Unironic Steven Crowder

Wait, but if the second part is true then… omg, I’m gay.

Oh no. Are you telling me that only Sony products will have this feature? Damn, sucks. Now what will I do?

If it is publicly-traded, it will be enshittified.

Well, thank goodness Elon Musk took Twitter private, amirite?

It always just strikes me as immaturity. People with a physiological demand for sex reaching for what they can’t have in polite society, then letting out their rage and humiliation on people lower than them on the pole, because they never learned how to process their emotions.

In my experience, having grown up in an upper-middle class neighborhood with a mixed bag of people who all went different directions…

It’s not the lack of a conscience that makes you rich. It’s the wealth that degrades your morality.

“I’m going to be an asshole in order to get rich” has not - in my experience - produced my success. I know plenty of shitheads who squandered their family fortunes and ended up doing shit work for shit pay. On the flip side, a few friends and acquaintances who did go on to be successful turned increasingly toxic and miserable as their stars climbed.