This is why I’m always a bit askance when presented with Atheism as some kind of enlightened philosophy.

Its not a philosophy, its a position on the existence of god.

is kinda simple-minded and divorced from any historical perspective on its face.

Its simple because its only a statement of belief in no god in the form of identification. A historical perspective is not needed to come to a conclusion as to whether people who believe in god are stupid or smart. You can also do that through thinking about their rationality or logical process for coming to those conclusions.

You’re casually dismissing whole intermediate strains of philosophical and literary development

If I wrote a philosophy or theology about how everything is made of bananas, and then for hundreds/thousands of years people argued about the nuances of my absurd and baseless belief system I think it’d be fair to dismiss it anyway. It doesn’t matter how much fan fiction is written about Musaceae-ology. You don’t have to read it, you can safely ignore it.

He was being a bad person the moment he thought “I hope she gets abused by her boyfriend.” No need to do research on the guy after that point.

That said, he’d only saying that because hes incredibly close to being depressed and in extreme self loathing in response to being rejected and trying to protect his his will to live via delusional projection and lashing out. “She’s the one with a problem not me. I’m great. She’s a piece of shit and deserves to suffer.”

People who don’t delude themselves about how great they are unfortunately usually don’t respond to rejection with “I need to improve myself” or “I’m just not his/her type I’ll find someone.” but with “I should kill myself, its hopeless. I’ll be romantically alone forever and I can’t take it.” and the sheer mortal terror of potentially thinking that way causes the delusional insulation and projection.

I’m bi (specifically polysexual, but that gets confusing because its less well known and I’m also polyamorous) and my attraction to specific genitals is roughly equal to body morphology and a cute face’s importance, but I’m simply way less less picky about them.

I wish I was just as non-picky about the body morphology and cute faces. My romantic life would probably have been way more fulfilling at this point if that had been the case.

I oscillate between wishing I was attracted to basically everyone with every possible kink (outside of the unethical options) and no attraction at all.

Perhaps I came off as too hostile. I read your comment and I thought it was potentially harmful and I’m incredibly depressed, so I wrote a hasty sniping response. I tend to think of things said as their effects in aggregate rather than the virtue of the person saying it.

I’m also bi and arguably aromantic. And intend to remain childfree.

Its a normative statement. It contributes to alienating people without wives or kids.

Asking me out is a step beyond complimenting my appearance though.

If they were so bold as to ask me out they weren’t afraid of coming off as creepy.

I consider it normative to suggest that such is “normal” and suggests not having a wife or kid(s) as “abnormal”. At least by implication.

No.

I mean it was pretty strongly implied but ok

I’ve had women ask me out who had literally never said a positive thing about my appearance a singular time before hand.

“Wife and a kid” = normal life.

hmmmm.

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Yeah this is unacceptable behavior. That said I think this is something that ought to be just explained to him because he might legitimately be a total dumbass.

That said I wish more restaurants were like Fuddruckers or Firehouse Subs and just let me grab my food from the counter myself once it was done. I don’t really want to pay someone to carry my food & drinks to me and be possibly insincerely nice to me to increase their tip or whatever.

For once I think I agree with Linux purists.

Fuck I might need a shower.

That’s not what the people who are gleeful about his impending death are downright cheering about. They’re gleeful because of their parasocial hatred of the man.

What you are talking about is an entirely different discussion. You are just shifting the goalposts.

I hate Biden because he had a major hand in letting Trump win, but I legitimately do not give a fuck that hes dying of cancer, pro or con. He is irrelevant now. And the people invested in this are experiencing their own derangement syndrome, only worse than most cases because Biden is no longer even president.

What if I don’t give a flying fuck about Biden? And I find both the people dancing about his nearing demise and the people clutching their pearls about that fucking stupid? There are almost certainly more important things of substance to place your energy into.

I’m so fucking tired.

Usually 3, sometimes 18 if its hot in my room. However, I’m considering switching to 5 & 20 as of late.

Expiration dates are useful, but they are not usually a hard end point to a food’s safety or edibility.

If the market is sufficiently competitive, yes, I trust corporations more than governments.

Competition naturally degrades over time as companies go out of business and consolidate. And capital interests fight tooth and nail against large monopolies being split back up. Its more or less a miracle that it’s ever happened at all and it would be naive to think it’ll ever happen again.

If the market is sufficiently competitive, yes, I trust corporations more than governments.

I don’t think that’s true. I think you’re making an assumption that the payer has an incentive to reduce costs, but I really don’t think that’s the case. What they do have is a lot of power over pricing, and while that could be used to force producers to reduce costs, it can also be used to shift costs onto taxpayers in exchange for favors from the companies providing the services.

Do you think a more direct “medical patient union” would work? Skipping a government intermediary?

socialized healthcare

I mean, I’d prefer socialized healthcare over single payer. Single payer for me is merely an acceptable middle ground. As would having a proper public option next to private care (though admittedly that would slowly erode from lobbying).