I think people just don’t like being told what to do. Like, there are a lot of behaviors you can trace back to someone just being personally aggrieved that they ought to change anything.
That said, if anyone else is reading, the em dash is a clue that you use to diagnose with—you don’t have to stop using it.
Oh, so you just dislike computers in general then. You’re like a computer hater.
Would you?
It is an imaginary friend for crazy people. And it’s only $99, if you want one.
It’s also my choice not to shoot bleach down my urethra, and uh, yeah, I think I won’t do that.
You wanna explain this stupid thing, then?
https://youtu.be/O_Q1hoEhfk4
Knowing how to be abrasive is a very useful social skill, I think.
I saw a YouTube video from this guy who just liked to yap and tell stories. He was friends with a trans man, though I don’t think he knew at the time. Probably figured it out at some point, but it never changed their relationship. They were just best buds.
Well anyway, this trans man passed away, and the youtuber went to his funeral. The guy’s deadname was all over the memorial display. They’d prettied him up to look more feminine. Even clothed his body in a dress, I think. People gave eulogies about her memory, her significance, her this, her that.
The youtuber (and this was all before he was even on youtube, by the way) finally had his turn to go up and give a eulogy. He went up and said a few words about his friend, and then absolutely laid into these people for their callousness; for barely understanding who this guy, the deceased, even was; for amending his history and mourning only the parts of him they could actually stomach. And then he left. Not much point in staying in the service after that.
Being able to do things like that, though, requires some emotional strength. It’s a skill you have to practice. That youtuber wasn’t the only one there who felt that way, but he was the only one to say anything.
But do you expect different results when doing that? I think the point of that would be to get the same result every time.
Caves of Qud uses water as currency. I think it explains this by making all of its characters weirdo radiation freakazoids that can teleport and fly around and stuff.
Yeah, they do. You never heard of a crime of opportunity?
Why do you lock your doors at night? You know that anyone who wants to get in can just rake the god damn lock, right? Most people don’t want to get into your house, and the ones who do will be able to enter anyway, so what pathology drives you to waste your time like this?
I’m gonna ramble a bit because I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking:
Emotional intelligence comes from understanding what you’re feeling, when, and why. A lot of people, particularly those who never introspect, skip this step, or maybe don’t even know how to do it.
A lot of therapy ultimately comes down to helping a person navigate the disagreements between the values they supposedly hold and the actions they actually take (or alternatively, the things that have happened to them). You can’t really navigate (I use “can’t” somewhat loosely) the dissonance between these two things without knowing what your mind (shame, frustration, jealousy) is telling you.
To intellectualize your feelings is to distance yourself from them by remaining cold and logical. So, it would be fine, naturally, if something traumatic happened, but it never actually made you feel angry. You could just mozy on with your life, I suppose. It would be another thing entirely if it did anger you greatly, and instead of processing that anger, you just went right to funeral scheduling or other busy work—stuff that solves the problem but not your problem, you know? This is the kind of thing that gets people to explode on Thanksgiving over their uncle not passing the salt fast enough or something.
I’m aware the quoted person agrees with me. I’m responding to a common public sentiment.
We don’t learn that math because it [isn’t] practical for adult life
I love this argument because it’s like a guy who catches and eats raw fish saying that we don’t need fire. Like, man, you’re not even trying to use it, though.
I’m speaking particularly of chat emotes. I still see it all the time, but it may vary by channel.
More or less, yes. It’s the satisfaction that comes from power.
The main ingredients of fascism are fear (urgency) and a desire to reclaim a power once held, like in a birthright sense. A result of this is that the power they hold now is a result of the fear they’ve fostered, which means they quite literally cannot survive people becoming unafraid. There must always be a group of people to hate, even amongst each other, or the kingdom they’ve built vanishes.
To be fair, I tend to think most people on lemmy are old enough to remember You’re The Man Now Dog and think of Twitch as that site their son uses. They don’t really know either.
Pepe is actually a reclaimed racist meme. Most of this 4chan racism about the frog is from 2016 or so. If you’re ever on twitch, you’ll see it all over the place because it’s a huge part of their culture.
Authoritarians, which are not unrelated to racism, if left alone, will start stripping rights from each other. In a spherical cow sense, they can’t really bond with each other because they fundamentally hate other people, like as a concept. This is also sorta why their social media sites never take off.
I think there does come a point where stupidity and malice are basically the same thing.