I'd take back those words that have hurt you

That's good to know. One of my phones is a Samsung Galaxy S22 and I suspect something went on with that year - a phone shouldn't simply get hot in your hands merely while web browsing for a couple of minutes.

Every time my phone shuts off for running out of battery, it's due to Firefox for some stupid reason. Chrome is somehow worse though, just in different ways. Perhaps I should investigate other things like LibreWolf, but if it were clearly better than either, I think we all would have heard of that fact by now.

A choice to be? (If only it were that simple.)

And on top of all of that, one person wants to actively make it worse, just bc he gets to skim a bit from the top. We deserve our fate I suppose, when we refuse to see something even after it is painstakingly pointed out to us, but damned if I'm not still sad about it.:-(

By deregulation of what is allowed to be called "news", yeah. Though if we were that fragile to begin with... I wouldn't put all the blame onto him.

Reconstructionism in the American South also played a role, in papering over some of the differences that lead up to the war, rather than dealing with them in a forthright manner, see e.g. Nuremberg trials.

And ofc before that, people outright owned people as slaves, and even today the number of people who simply don't care in the slightest is extremely high.

i.e., we aren't so much suffering from something like cancer as we are something more akin to a genetic defect, which even predated the Constitution. That is not to say this was inevitable - we've had so very many opportunities to turn back from where we've been headed... But neither we, nor the Russian disinformation campaigns directed at us, seem to want that to happen.

I was going to mention some of that... but then I remembered that facts don't actually matter to them in the slightest so...

And that's the rub. One side is sending death threats and attempting kidnapping of the other, plus the whole storm the capitol thing, plus actively rooting to support not only Russia but Israel (tbf the other side is doing that too, at least the politicians even if not the voters) and even somehow North Fucking Korea, oh yeah and wanting to become fascist, while the other side... doesn't do most of those, at least to the same degree.

In WWII we fought fascism, but it went underground (cough Fox News cough) and now it's back all over again, and this time it looks to be winning. Both globally, and almost if not quite at home (it may not have "won" yet, but at best things seem to be tied, and remember that SCOTUS ruling that nobody seems to be talking about anymore...? yeah that's not exactly a resounding defeat of fascism or at least authoritarianism there, when you can kill your political opponents at will).

Sorry, looks like that image cut off only halfway through the word, what it meant to say was...:

Either all is well... or it's wearing the ring of power and all hell is about to break loose!

True... except she spake it, so...

The number of people who do not know that the America in the Golden Era (50-60s), for white people especially men, was fairly socialist, is extremely high.

Yes cause with his big strong hands he's definitely capable of that:-P.

- "conservatives" Republicans

Oh wait my bad that's 1 Thessalonians 5:21, oh well nobody seems to care.

Aminal says:

Or as many of his followers say, someone "smart"(er than them).

"Actually I prefer my mother's brother's sixth cousin's cleaning lady...

's friend's neighbor's dog. She gives me cookies sometimes."

Then nod faster?

Too high or... just right?

Waka-waka!

What if I cannot remember when my earliest memory is - how fucked am I then? :-P

Trump is not a free-loader though!? And now that I've planted that thought... can you remind me why not exactly - asking for a friend? :-P

Don't forgot #5 - or for some people this probably replaces #4 - "Oh well".:-P

No... only men are that dumb.

I'm kidding - of course it depends on the person, regardless of gender! :-P

It's fine to think it's weird. It's part of the process of growth (of ideas I mean, nothing to do with your own age). Continue to think about it though, and it won't be weird anymore. (I know... it sounds "weird" for me to say that?:-P)

And on the other side of that, you will find something MUCH better - that women are people, almost literally exactly like you are. Except not precisely bc duh differences exist -but also yes, just as there are short or tall or medium sized men, there are people who are men, and there are people who are women. And we all shit. 😂

You were lifting up women as being "special" somehow - which is part of the mystery, and girls literally play into that by attempting to hold back farts, belches, etc. (and guys do the same, getting high-paying jobs, driving sports cars, wearing toupets to cover bald spots, pretending to have confidence while hiding their true feelings, which is really quite damaging but that's the game and if you don't play then you absolutely lose, etc.) - but an even deeper mystery awaits on the other side of that, realizing just how equal they are, even despite how you had a crush on them. Like, that wasn't a doll that you liked, it was a person... who is full of so many more surprises and wonders (and farts and yes literal shit too, until it comes out and goes into the toilet:-). And I daresay that you would be quite incapable of loving a "person" so long as you continued to think of them as a "doll", but now that you realize this, you can actually, TRULY love someone.

Btw, don't be tempted to get too down over this. Some people have been married for years and years before they figure this out - not that "everyone poops", bc that you figure out quite quickly, you know?:-P - but bc life can get busy, and leave you not that much time to think (there's school, maybe college, maybe grad school, there's work, there's kids, it's all A LOT!), some people in the past could get quite far into a marriage without ever fully realizing the full impact of what this means; that women are full-on people too. So, if you have time to think, and the willingness to do so, think about it, and see where that takes you.:-) 😉

You can see for yourself that slinging accusations at others is only making it worse. In the real world, people have made all kinds of allowances for you (you didn't have to ask, they've done it since birth), but on the internet, nobody can see things like your age, your religion, what part of the world you are from, how sexually (in-)experienced you are, your privilege (wealth, class, etc.) status, and so much more. And here, people can be brutally honest, at least in sharing what they think of you (even if their own belief structures are themselves based on lies). TLDR: people downvote things that they "don't like", and upvote things that they "do like".

Your comment obviously does not match the "vibe" of !ShowerThoughts@lemmy.world... so, you did not predict that, but now you know - thus you are already smarter than you were just an hour before, or at least could be if you take the feedback to heart:-).

If you want more advice: hold fast to whatever principles you believe in - maybe Truth? perhaps Humility? do you perchance enjoy vindictiveness, or do you hate it, especially if it is done to you in reverse? Whatever those are, then there you go: you don't need me telling you what to do - you already know.

Btw, I hope my words also expose how you were being hypocritical in sharing your original thought. But if it will help I will lay it out more plainly & transparently: girls do something totally normal, but you (arbitrarily?) decide that it is "bad", so now "Women have been ruined for me" (it's your thought fine, but how do you think "women" feel after reading that?) - do you not see how that is exactly what others are doing to you right now (having decided that what you did is "bad", and now slinging insults at you - that part of this exchange you do not seem to enjoy quite as much?). This isn't even a religious principle, it's a foundational law of the entire universe - equivalent exchange, or whatever name you want to call it by - if you cannot receive something directed back at you, then perhaps do not dish it out at others in return? It is unkind, and what is more, it is not smart. Perhaps your family never taught you that - maybe they tried, or perhaps they did not know themselves - but now that you have heard this message, it is your choice what to do with it: either pay attention and learn, or reject it and continue to do whatever.

I... HOPE they were joking!? :-P

It helps to remember that girls are people. This video explains the secrets though (yes it's the infamous CollegeHumor skit, which apparently needs to make the rounds again:-P).

Pro-Tip: even guys that don't belch and fart and spit and pick their nose and scratch their balls or pits and stuff literally everywhere they go without holding back can also look just as classy too:-). Also, again even as a guy, consider wearing an undershirt to not show nipples.

It's not about girl vs. guy, it's about classy vs. not.

Don't argue back - just do whatever you want, but you asked the entire Fediverse and I answered.

Try assembly then - it'll freaking blow your mind!:-)

It also has a left arrow, i.e. it's a screenshot of an image.

Hrm... yeah not enough Meta. So here's a screenshot of us talking about the screenshot of the image.

Yeah the only way to kill a troll is to... just stop talking to/about them. They feed off the negativity of others - Elon likes it when people increase the stock price of his company, and allow him to sell the userbase to advertising firms, so every single word of this just makes the Musk all that much stronger. Every. Single. Word.

Similarly, that's how Brexit happened too.

Yes they is precisely it. Not to be confused with a Lego party (of blocks), or a Minecraft blocky party.

There's already no more black lung here and now - is this heaven meme?

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So long as you only count the white children of wealthy elite families, and don't count the white poors, especially black poors (for whom the test often fails to detect it) and indigenous peoples. :-(

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Come with us... we'll eat all the food everywhere else too.:-D

I hope he used the designated passing lane.:-)

Right... so is that "all" that EI is, another level below IQ, like physical safety is below either of those, or is it perhaps another half of the same rung on the ladder?

I don't know, maybe nobody does, maybe someone does and I just haven't heard it from them:-).

They are so extremely similar though - both involve a type of processing, both involve puzzle solving, and memory, and other shared components. It's just that one pertains to matters of the heart, and the other the brain.

And to my knowledge there isn't anything else like it to be a third, but neither can we seem to isolate a discussion about just one, without the other getting pulled in as well. Like to learn math (IQ), patience (EI) is required, while to avoid mistakes (EI), we have to first understand (IQ) what might happen. The dichotomy is everywhere we look, at least among matters pertaining to humanity.

I mean, if they left it, possibly went to Mastodon, that sounds wonderful to me:-).