It's basically an excuse to make humanity less inconsequential to the history of the universe than it really is. Instead of us being a toenail's edge on the calendar of time, we'd be the main event.
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
Just always feels more like quote tweeting ancient tweets of vile people for dunks to reveal they have always been vile doesn't really seem like a great use of anyone's time. But I'm also increasingly uninterested in the "look at this dead rat" kind of tweet sharing. Unless the rat had an incredibly weird death, then maybe show me. But this is whole thing has been like shaking a mousetrap at me with a dead rat and telling me to be surprised.
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There's 7 billion humans and like 10 quintillion insects on this planet nobody is significant there's just degrees of narcissism.
Why would the earth being flat make any person's pathetic tiny life any less insignificant
Flat Earth theory is also tied up in geocentrism. The entire model demands that the sun and moon revolve around the earth. Or I suppose revolve wouldn't be the correct term but you get the idea. Also a lot of flat-earthers are hardcore fundamentalists. Somebody mentioned that Dan Olson talking to these people was told to "pray on it" when discussing a "failed" experiment. That's what it's really about.
it's "about" in group/out group behaviour, it just stands out because the qualifying belief for the in group is so starkly opposed to what everyone else knows/the bare facts of reality
the thing about lording the fact people are being hypocritical about something over them rather than actually engage with why their views are shitty is that you find yourself in positions like "actually, it is good for people to suffer indefinitely with with a slow burn terminal illness" for 45 likes from strangers
who is saying this
Everybody who is making fun of Mandel for pulling the plug on life support for her mom.
Can we at least try to make this thread about interesting/unique/important events and not a replacement level talking head with a dead mom.
Like if we're gonna make the whole thread just getting mad at current events at least make it fun, the thread was better and more informative when it was just a live Musk twitter feed since at least he's important and dead mom over here isn't.
Twitter's entire paradigm is making things seem more important than they are
Marty: The future, it's where you're going? Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
the thing about lording the fact people are being hypocritical about something over them rather than actually engage with why their views are shitty is that you find yourself in positions like "actually, it is good for people to suffer indefinitely with with a slow burn terminal illness" for 45 likes from strangers
who is saying this
Everybody who is making fun of Mandel for pulling the plug on life support for her mom.
seems like making fun of a "pro-life" advocate for not holding to that shitty standard when it's inconvenient for herself is not an endorsement of that standard.
Mandel's mom literally risked her own life to have her — and Mandel still saw fit to chastise her for being pro-choice.
Mandel wasn't at all wrong to end her mom's life given her "extreme" situation. It's too bad she's quick to ascribe expediency to the hard choices of others
even in the case that people have problems with a 16 year old euthanizing her mother, I think that's probably around the systemic issues of a child making that choice in an ableist world which devalues the lives of disabled and chronically ill people because their "quality of life" is not worth keeping them alive. not whatever strawman this is.
We went over this in a previous version of this thread or earlier in this one. When you make fun of somebody you disagree with for their choices you are also condemning people you agree with for making that choice. If you want to call her a hypocrite and explain that reasoning it's fine, but a lot of people don't want to be on life support and in pain when there is no real chance from recover and that was probably the right choice to make, although not one a fucking sixteen year old should be making. And if you're going to dunk on somebody it's got to at least be funny like the fact that Danzig replied to her with that remark.
Twitter's entire paradigm is making things seem more important than they are
Which is part of the major reason algorithmic social media is terrible and why this thread doesn't need to recreate the conflict-generating "for you" feed everybody says to avoid.
Can we at least try to make this thread about interesting/unique/important events and not a replacement level talking head with a dead mom.
Like if we're gonna make the whole thread just getting mad at current events at least make it fun, the thread was better and more informative when it was just a live Musk twitter feed since at least he's important and dead mom over here isn't.
It's a thread about Twitter, it's never really going to be a good time, is it?
Can we at least try to make this thread about interesting/unique/important events and not a replacement level talking head with a dead mom.
Like if we're gonna make the whole thread just getting mad at current events at least make it fun, the thread was better and more informative when it was just a live Musk twitter feed since at least he's important and dead mom over here isn't.
It's a thread about Twitter, it's never really going to be a good time, is it?
Well yeah, but my point was that we already had a decree to not just dump random shitty Elon takes and we've "solved" that by making the thread much worse on average.
the thing about lording the fact people are being hypocritical about something over them rather than actually engage with why their views are shitty is that you find yourself in positions like "actually, it is good for people to suffer indefinitely with with a slow burn terminal illness" for 45 likes from strangers
who is saying this
Everybody who is making fun of Mandel for pulling the plug on life support for her mom.
seems like making fun of a "pro-life" advocate for not holding to that shitty standard when it's inconvenient for herself is not an endorsement of that standard.
Mandel's mom literally risked her own life to have her — and Mandel still saw fit to chastise her for being pro-choice.
Mandel wasn't at all wrong to end her mom's life given her "extreme" situation. It's too bad she's quick to ascribe expediency to the hard choices of others
even in the case that people have problems with a 16 year old euthanizing her mother, I think that's probably around the systemic issues of a child making that choice in an ableist world which devalues the lives of disabled and chronically ill people because their "quality of life" is not worth keeping them alive. not whatever strawman this is.
We went over this in a previous version of this thread or earlier in this one. When you make fun of somebody you disagree with for their choices you are also condemning people you agree with for making that choice. If you want to call her a hypocrite and explain that reasoning it's fine, but a lot of people don't want to be on life support and in pain when there is no real chance from recover and that was probably the right choice to make, although not one a fucking sixteen year old should be making. And if you're going to dunk on somebody it's got to at least be funny like the fact that Danzig replied to her with that remark.
the thing about lording the fact people are being hypocritical about something over them rather than actually engage with why their views are shitty is that you find yourself in positions like "actually, it is good for people to suffer indefinitely with with a slow burn terminal illness" for 45 likes from strangers
who is saying this
Everybody who is making fun of Mandel for pulling the plug on life support for her mom.
seems like making fun of a "pro-life" advocate for not holding to that shitty standard when it's inconvenient for herself is not an endorsement of that standard.
Mandel's mom literally risked her own life to have her — and Mandel still saw fit to chastise her for being pro-choice.
Mandel wasn't at all wrong to end her mom's life given her "extreme" situation. It's too bad she's quick to ascribe expediency to the hard choices of others
even in the case that people have problems with a 16 year old euthanizing her mother, I think that's probably around the systemic issues of a child making that choice in an ableist world which devalues the lives of disabled and chronically ill people because their "quality of life" is not worth keeping them alive. not whatever strawman this is.
We went over this in a previous version of this thread or earlier in this one. When you make fun of somebody you disagree with for their choices you are also condemning people you agree with for making that choice. If you want to call her a hypocrite and explain that reasoning it's fine, but a lot of people don't want to be on life support and in pain when there is no real chance from recover and that was probably the right choice to make, although not one a fucking sixteen year old should be making. And if you're going to dunk on somebody it's got to at least be funny like the fact that Danzig replied to her with that remark.
Why would the earth being flat make any person's pathetic tiny life any less insignificant
It's not the Earth being flat that is the actual crux of the belief for Flat Earthers.
It's that there is a Shadowy Cabal that is controlling everything behind the scenes for nefarious purposes, and one of the things they do is tell us that the Earth isn't flat.
Why would the earth being flat make any person's pathetic tiny life any less insignificant
It's not the Earth being flat that is the actual crux of the belief for Flat Earthers.
It's that there is a Shadowy Cabal that is controlling everything behind the scenes for nefarious purposes, and one of the things they do is tell us that the Earth isn't flat.
Yeah Flat Earth is absolutely an anti-Semitic belief structure
Learning that pretty much every conspiracy theory has its roots in anti-semitism made them a lot less fun to read up on and investigate as a weird thing I know a bunch about.
Learning that pretty much every conspiracy theory has its roots in anti-semitism made them a lot less fun to read up on and investigate as a weird thing I know a bunch about.
Which is too bad because flat earth in particular is a lot of fun. Just as a "how would this work" point of view.
Learning that pretty much every conspiracy theory has its roots in anti-semitism made them a lot less fun to read up on and investigate as a weird thing I know a bunch about.
Which is too bad because flat earth in particular is a lot of fun. Just as a "how would this work" point of view.
Flat Earth is the weirdest to me because I still don't understand what the point of lying that the Earth is round is doing for anybody, except for globe manufacturers.
Learning that pretty much every conspiracy theory has its roots in anti-semitism made them a lot less fun to read up on and investigate as a weird thing I know a bunch about.
Which is too bad because flat earth in particular is a lot of fun. Just as a "how would this work" point of view.
Flat Earth is the weirdest to me because I still don't understand what the point of lying that the Earth is round is doing for anybody, except for globe manufacturers.
Conspiracy theories can offer purpose and a sense of clarity.
learning how truly insignificant I really am was a huge weight off my shoulders, tbh
I quite frequently think
edit: and that's bad, shouldn't have left the ocean
The older I get the more accepting I am of my own insignificant life and I love it.
Do I matter in the grand scheme of the cosmos? Absolutely not, so the least I can do is try to be nice and welcoming.
Unless your a Nazi.
I spent a fair amount of time training myself to not needlessly correct people’s grammar because it was a stupid, obnoxious habit I had picked up from working in copywriting and editing, so by god, I will not take the bait for a grammar nazi joke here.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
Learning that pretty much every conspiracy theory has its roots in anti-semitism made them a lot less fun to read up on and investigate as a weird thing I know a bunch about.
Which is too bad because flat earth in particular is a lot of fun. Just as a "how would this work" point of view.
Flat Earth is the weirdest to me because I still don't understand what the point of lying that the Earth is round is doing for anybody, except for globe manufacturers.
The older I get the more accepting I am of my own insignificant life and I love it.
Do I matter in the grand scheme of the cosmos? Absolutely not, so the least I can do is try to be nice and welcoming.
What I was going to write before I draft'd myself was that my grandfather died in 2007, and my grandmother in 2019.
I've had the occasional gloomy thought about the concept of being remembered. Now there's my dad and my aunt, and in my generation a cousin and my sister (not a big family on that side).
How long are people remembered? And in the end, does it really matter? We three grandchildren will probably be the last ones with actual memories of our grandparents.
I'm generally fine with that. We have our handful of decades, we're hopefully remembered for another decade or two, and then we're gone. That's just life to me.
Learning that pretty much every conspiracy theory has its roots in anti-semitism made them a lot less fun to read up on and investigate as a weird thing I know a bunch about.
Even the theories that didn't start out that way tend to get co-opted/infected by antisemitism e.g. the Illuminati.
The older I get the more accepting I am of my own insignificant life and I love it.
Do I matter in the grand scheme of the cosmos? Absolutely not, so the least I can do is try to be nice and welcoming.
What I was going to write before I draft'd myself was that my grandfather died in 2007, and my grandmother in 2019.
I've had the occasional gloomy thought about the concept of being remembered. Now there's my dad and my aunt, and in my generation a cousin and my sister (not a big family on that side).
How long are people remembered? And in the end, does it really matter? We three grandchildren will probably be the last ones with actual memories of our grandparents.
I'm generally fine with that. We have our handful of decades, we're hopefully remembered for another decade or two, and then we're gone. That's just life to me.
Unless you're this kind of person.
We are just going through the whole end of life stuff and I think I'm gonna do organ donation followed by cremation because why the hell do I need some headstone somewhere?
The older I get the more accepting I am of my own insignificant life and I love it.
Do I matter in the grand scheme of the cosmos? Absolutely not, so the least I can do is try to be nice and welcoming.
What I was going to write before I draft'd myself was that my grandfather died in 2007, and my grandmother in 2019.
I've had the occasional gloomy thought about the concept of being remembered. Now there's my dad and my aunt, and in my generation a cousin and my sister (not a big family on that side).
How long are people remembered? And in the end, does it really matter? We three grandchildren will probably be the last ones with actual memories of our grandparents.
I'm generally fine with that. We have our handful of decades, we're hopefully remembered for another decade or two, and then we're gone. That's just life to me.
Unless you're this kind of person.
We are just going through the whole end of life stuff and I think I'm gonna do organ donation followed by cremation because why the hell do I need some headstone somewhere?
But your followers need a place to congregate to pray and burn offerings!
"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
I've always heard your grave is for the living, sometimes people need a place to grieve your loss.
I've got high hopes of building a nice park bench (approximately seven feet long with none of that anti homeless people shit, so someone can sleep there) with a little plaque on it or something.
I also got some literature about donating my body to the local medical school. Let some idiot resident practice on me and maybe they learn something that prevents them from killing a patient later in their career.
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it doesn't have to make sense, it's crazy
Flat Earth theory is also tied up in geocentrism. The entire model demands that the sun and moon revolve around the earth. Or I suppose revolve wouldn't be the correct term but you get the idea. Also a lot of flat-earthers are hardcore fundamentalists. Somebody mentioned that Dan Olson talking to these people was told to "pray on it" when discussing a "failed" experiment. That's what it's really about.
Everybody who is making fun of Mandel for pulling the plug on life support for her mom.
{Twitter, Everybody's doing it. }{Writing and Story Blog}
Like if we're gonna make the whole thread just getting mad at current events at least make it fun, the thread was better and more informative when it was just a live Musk twitter feed since at least he's important and dead mom over here isn't.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
We went over this in a previous version of this thread or earlier in this one. When you make fun of somebody you disagree with for their choices you are also condemning people you agree with for making that choice. If you want to call her a hypocrite and explain that reasoning it's fine, but a lot of people don't want to be on life support and in pain when there is no real chance from recover and that was probably the right choice to make, although not one a fucking sixteen year old should be making. And if you're going to dunk on somebody it's got to at least be funny like the fact that Danzig replied to her with that remark.
{Twitter, Everybody's doing it. }{Writing and Story Blog}
Which is part of the major reason algorithmic social media is terrible and why this thread doesn't need to recreate the conflict-generating "for you" feed everybody says to avoid.
It's a thread about Twitter, it's never really going to be a good time, is it?
Well yeah, but my point was that we already had a decree to not just dump random shitty Elon takes and we've "solved" that by making the thread much worse on average.
This is just grim and distasteful. Its not funny. Maybe she's a total shit but fucking what? Come on.
It's funny because Danzig responded to her, and honestly he might be sincere about that. I'm honestly not sure.
Also his biggest song is called 'Mother.'
{Twitter, Everybody's doing it. }{Writing and Story Blog}
It's not the Earth being flat that is the actual crux of the belief for Flat Earthers.
It's that there is a Shadowy Cabal that is controlling everything behind the scenes for nefarious purposes, and one of the things they do is tell us that the Earth isn't flat.
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Yeah Flat Earth is absolutely an anti-Semitic belief structure
{Twitter, Everybody's doing it. }{Writing and Story Blog}
Which is too bad because flat earth in particular is a lot of fun. Just as a "how would this work" point of view.
Flat Earth is the weirdest to me because I still don't understand what the point of lying that the Earth is round is doing for anybody, except for globe manufacturers.
{Twitter, Everybody's doing it. }{Writing and Story Blog}
Conspiracy theories can offer purpose and a sense of clarity.
Also there's mental illness.
I quite frequently think
edit: and that's bad, shouldn't have left the ocean
The older I get the more accepting I am of my own insignificant life and I love it.
Do I matter in the grand scheme of the cosmos? Absolutely not, so the least I can do is try to be nice and welcoming.
Unless you're a Nazi.
I spent a fair amount of time training myself to not needlessly correct people’s grammar because it was a stupid, obnoxious habit I had picked up from working in copywriting and editing, so by god, I will not take the bait for a grammar nazi joke here.
look, globe sellers have a hard life
if they want to start a worldwide anti-Semitic conspiracy to control the minds of humans and make their jobs a little easier, who can blame them?
What I was going to write before I draft'd myself was that my grandfather died in 2007, and my grandmother in 2019.
I've had the occasional gloomy thought about the concept of being remembered. Now there's my dad and my aunt, and in my generation a cousin and my sister (not a big family on that side).
How long are people remembered? And in the end, does it really matter? We three grandchildren will probably be the last ones with actual memories of our grandparents.
I'm generally fine with that. We have our handful of decades, we're hopefully remembered for another decade or two, and then we're gone. That's just life to me.
Unless you're this kind of person.
literally just put the barest effort into QCing this shit, I'm begging you
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Even the theories that didn't start out that way tend to get co-opted/infected by antisemitism e.g. the Illuminati.
We are just going through the whole end of life stuff and I think I'm gonna do organ donation followed by cremation because why the hell do I need some headstone somewhere?
But your followers need a place to congregate to pray and burn offerings!
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I've got high hopes of building a nice park bench (approximately seven feet long with none of that anti homeless people shit, so someone can sleep there) with a little plaque on it or something.
I also got some literature about donating my body to the local medical school. Let some idiot resident practice on me and maybe they learn something that prevents them from killing a patient later in their career.