SubstantialFrivolity
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SubstantialFrivolity
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19hr ago
I do wonder what went astray that there's so much unabashed religiosity in my rat-adjacent fora.
Nothing "went astray". There is no conflict at all between rational thinking and being religious.
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21hr ago
In addition to what others have said about how the rules do in fact require you to be civil, I would encourage you to make use of the block function. I have a handful of users blocked (including the one you were responding to) because I find them to be toxic posters who almost exclusively make hateful posts about how terrible their outgroup is. I have no interest in reading that shit, so I blocked them. It makes the experience of participating in this site far more pleasant for me, and you may find it does the same.
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1d ago
"Could care less" and misuse of "literally" also make no grammatical sense. The former is especially egregious, as it means almost nothing as stated. Knowing that someone could care less only tells me that he cares a nonzero amount, but it could be anywhere from "almost completely unimportant" to "the most important thing in his life".
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1d ago
None of those things you listed are correct. Popular use does not make something correct, it means that a lot of people speak the language badly because they don't care enough to learn.
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1d ago
That is correct. "Reined in" as one would control a horse.
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3d ago
None of what you said is incorrect. And yet, it is a fact that people do indeed go into medicine for the idealized reason to wish to help others. You say you can't imagine it, so presumably you would never do that, but that doesn't change that there exist people who don't see it the way you do and would choose medicine no matter how much or little it paid.
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3d ago
I am legit mad about the push to change perfectly good terms of art just because of the theoretical offense someone might take. It's completely retarded, and those who pushed for such changes should be kicked out of the industry.
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3d ago
"Asian-American, please."
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3d ago
Not everyone does things for money. Plenty of people get into medicine because they genuinely want to help others.
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4d ago
At least until the humans give up and start accepting LLM judgements as infallible. Given the progress of the idiocracy, we'll probably witness it in our lifetimes.
People do that right now. Granted, smart people don't do that (even the most enthusiastic AI supporter on this site will acknowledge that they are fallible), but there do exist people who just blindly listen to the LLM without considering the possibility that it's spouting nonsense.
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5d ago
I'm 41. I drink, but something like two drinks a year, which my exasperated doctor once told me counts as "not drinking" for medical purposes. I don't have a moral precept against it or anything, I just don't enjoy drinking very much so I don't do it. Just as well because, like @ToaKraka I don't need an alcohol addiction to go with my rather severe sugar addiction.
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7d ago
Very well, I can accept that compromise. Kill away, my good man.
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7d ago
First of all, you can't prevent the creation of Zombie because then Bad Wolves wouldn't have been able to cover it in 2018, a cover which is better than the original. And also, if you killed Dolores O'Riordan, we wouldn't have Linger, and I can't abide such an outcome.
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11d ago
Seconded. I pay for it and it's worth every penny. It's the only thing I've found which is on par with how Google used to be.
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11d ago
My brother in Christ (hey, finally I get to say that in seriousness): you aren't puny at all! You are a part of the body of Christ (broken as it is due to human stubbornness) just as much as the Orthodox or Catholics (my sect) are, and the Church wouldn't be the same without you.
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12d ago
Yes. If you just handed it off to an AI and did a cursory quality check, you didn't build shit. I immediately lose interest when someone says "I built" (insert software here) and it turns out it was Claude.
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12d ago
But why do genocidal aliens name their ship Truth and Reconciliation?
Because it sounds badass and vaguely religious. That's really all there is to it.
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12d ago
Fanatical purifiers is the term you're looking for, I believe.
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14d ago
These still required specialist knowledge, and specialist equipment, to actually use (AOL did try their best though).
Not really. My decidedly not computer specialist parents (they are farmers) figured it out just fine, as did most other families I knew at the time. The tech behind dialup Internet may not have been something they fully understood, but just using it was by no means specialist knowledge.
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14d ago
There's nothing you can do imo. When you talk every day, some conversations are going to be pretty uninteresting. And that's perfectly ok! My wife and I don't have deep, interesting conversations every day or even every week, but that's just a normal part of having a relationship that close.
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15d ago
Yeah, that's fair. Fortunately, when my parents tried to talk to me about their marriage woes I was in my twenties so I had more ability to push back. I sympathize that you had to deal with that from a young age; I know it couldn't have been easy.
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15d ago
Is that a bad thing?
Yes it is, for men at least. Some set of norms are going to rule, and it might not be yours, but men are suffocated by the current norms of society. At the very least, even if feminine norms are to be those dominant in our society, we need to not shame men for behaving amongst themselves as men.
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15d ago
It's totally normal. I'm not an anxious person at all but nature, but I was a nervous wreck on my wedding day. I joked to my groomsmen that I was going to hop out the window and flee, to which my brother said "You've come too far for that. Our job as your groomsmen at this point is to save you from yourself if needed." Thankfully I listened to him and calmed down, but I was pretty scared from the sheer weight of the day.
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15d ago
my parents were miserably married and I got to see that up front and personal because my mom saw me as her confidante.
That's tough. I'm sorry to hear that. I've had the same thing with my parents a bit, and have had to gently remind them that I (as a very not neutral party) can't really be there for them as a shoulder to cry on when they have issues with each other.
Yeah, that tendency does exist. And if that's where @Chi_Wara is coming from, then he will certainly be disappointed in that desire. Hopefully, though, he will be ok with merely not having to wade through racist posts even if they still exist.
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