The point is the average person doesn’t give a shit.

Average people give an average shit. They tend to see what comes close to goring their own ox and ignore what’s out of view.

It’s why going 50 in a 50 is considered ridiculous.

When you’re on an empty road, it feels ridiculous to go 50 in a 50 because nobody is in your way.

When it’s bumper to bumper traffic, it feels ridiculous to go 50 in a 50 because you’d immediately collide with the car in front of you.

When everyone else is going 50, it feels sensible to keep up with the herd, even when a sign indicates a different speed is more appropriate.

Ignoring the circumstances in favor of the written rule isn’t virtuous on its face. Sometimes the rules are wrong and you need to use your own judgement. Sometimes the rules are there for reasons that go deeper than their most literal interpretation.

Probably better to describe it as “fairness”. Maybe even “stubbornness” The problem with justice/fairness is that it is ultimately subjective. And a 10-year-old’s view of fairness is often divorced from principles of personal safety or propriety.

You’ll see this problem with adult libertarians all the time. Everything from seat belts to sales taxes to dress codes intrude on their sense of fairness, largely because they’ve ingested enormous volumes of propaganda. The real joke of it is when the term “social justice” impugnes your sense of personal justice. Same with the social conservatives who get up in arms over “illegal” immigration and desegregation, environmental regulations and speed limits, prohibitions on state sanctioned religious education, and age limits on who you can marry.

A sense of justice is a very plastic (especially at a young age) and perspective oriented. Wars have been fought and rivers of blood spilled over a population’s conviction of their own righteousness.

When I was living in apartments, the nicer spots would have big community fire pits in between blocks. They were great for mixing and mingling with other apartment residents, especially during the holidays or weekends with good weather.

One of the more annoying parts of being a home owner right now is getting people over to your place and finding places for all their cars. So much easier when everyone just kinda lives in the same two or three blocks and can walk over to catch a show or BBQ or play board games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_listening

Really helps both the person talking and the person listening stay engaged. You’re encouraging the speaker to focus on the parts of the conversation you find interesting. They’re receiving feedback, so they know what they’re saying is being valued and encouraged.

They look like a good idea until you have to vacuum.

Why do you think Bill was always sending down all that lotion?

I always considered meditation a kind-of inward focus. Like, you’re not ridding yourself of thoughts. You’re deliberately ignoring outside stimulus. That’s why people meditating will typically close their eyes, relax their body, play some kind of white noise to deaden outside sounds, burn some incense to occlude any distracting scents, etc. Also why some kind of physical practice like long distance running or yoga is helpful - you’re leveraging exhaustion to encourage relaxation.

For someone with ADHD, that probably does feel like a superpower. But it’s more like a muscle that you develop over time. Little kids are notoriously bad at it. Much older people tend to fall into a meditative state more easily.

The mythology of neurotypical/neurodivergent discourse is ten times as fascinating as the actual science.

Who is holding the camera?

I believe that I can go to the store and purchase a sense of security. Once I own a gun, I can indulge in revolutionary fantasies that aren’t complicated by material conditions.

It’s religious mythology built atop historical cultural standards. Arguing over the age at which a literal angel impregnated a virgin is fucking absurd and has nothing to do with modern morals either inside or outside the religious traditions predicated on it.

Two-thousand years later, members of this same Christian faith have overhauled both the cultural and legal standards for marriage around the globe. Meanwhile, outspoken atheists like Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss ended up all over the Epstein Files, despite unburdening themselves of archaic religious dogma.

Mary was 13 when she gave birth to Jesus.

There is absolutely no verifiable documentation of Jesus’s birth, much less Mary’s age at the time of pregnancy. Might as well complain about the ages of Alcmene or Deichtine.

This kind of rhetoric is playing straight into the magical realism of the biblical literalists. Next, you’re going to start accusing Adam and Eve of incest.

Catholic here. Not as difficult as you might think.

i used to use “i’m pagan”

Oh cool, I’m also a Catholic.

I mean, if the goat shepherds have some strong moral positions, I don’t see why they’d be disqualified. Ethics isn’t something we invented in the 21st century, ffs. Bronze Age humans had as much a claim to it as anyone. Just ask Socrates or Confucius or Nezahualcóyotl.

Given the current state of the 21st century political scene, I’m not bending over to give modern day philosophers extra credit. Say what you will about Thomas Aquinas, he doesn’t appear anywhere in the Epstein flight logs. That’s more than Noam Chomsky or Peter Mandelson can claim.

Obama killed more people with drone strikes than Bush. Bush killed more than Clinton. Etc.

Trump 1 did successfully out-airstrike Biden. That’s comforting so long as you don’t factor in the Biden policy of arming proxies in Ukraine (yay! airstrikes good!) or Israel (boo! airstrikes bad!)

Trump’s also been keen on unilateral attacks, whereas Biden and Obama were both adamantly committed to roping in France and England and Saudi Arabia.

Idk how much difference any of that makes for folks living under falling bombs.

Users who aren’t verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, won’t be able to speak in Discord’s livestream-like “stage” channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive.

Shrug

I’m not using discord for porn, so I’m not going to lose sleep. Will simply live with a “teen” account until my groups migrate to a better service.

But you’ll get my biometrics from my cold dead hands.

They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.

GOOD

Crazy they didn’t implement this years ago. Discord is bloated with fake user spam.

Gonna trade this life of fortune and fame

If I show up at this thing, I’ll need to change my name

Nobody wants to hear from a bunch of washed up hacks

When Bad Bunny’s tunes are bringing Ricky Martin back

Maybe try again latter when Don’s poll numbers aren’t in a pit

But for now, Kid, you’re on your own. Good luck with this shit.

people have to tell everyone that the are vegans

I never see these people IRL.

But they must be deeply traumatizing, because I see people who complain about them everywhere.

Ghee, specifically. Although there are plenty of vegan substitutes