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@BussyKeaton lmao this makes me like her

Th ultimate expression of Woke: saying it's racist to call out obnoxious main character syndrome AND expecting everyone to know what a fucking zaghrouta is lol. That's obviously *extremely* distracting from the concert that everyone is there to enjoy.

@OzarkPath @bj_dan_m @ArtemisConsort @HiFromMichaelV An asteroid would wipe us out because it would make the environment I hospitable. The moon is already inhospitable. It's good to develop the tech, since it could help us stay here, but it's not like the moon is going to be easier to live on even in that scenario.

@bj_dan_m @ArtemisConsort @HiFromMichaelV We are one errant asteroid or lab leak away from human extinction. So, I’d argue that rapidly diversification of human habitat across the galaxy is pretty important. No?

Space exploration is great because it reveals the moral evil of the anti-colonialists. There are no indigenous humans on the moon. There is no life on the moon at all. Turns out they just hate progress. They hate knowledge and growth and beauty.

@hague_rw @Sharrif @IamGothPrincess @spiderblossoms @hbokujokiriya Yeah there are a lot of Americans

@Birdsbirdbird @Sharrif @IamGothPrincess @spiderblossoms @hbokujokiriya The 800+ people who have agreed with me before to differ

@hague_rw @Sharrif @IamGothPrincess @spiderblossoms @hbokujokiriya 'They could have made this less subtle if they wanted Americans to understand it'

@Sharrif @IamGothPrincess @spiderblossoms @hbokujokiriya I feel like the writers could have written up the suicide thing more if that's what they wanted viewers to take away. Paranoia/PTSD, sure. Got that one. The other's a leap.

@eigenrobot remember when ireland decided to outlaw nuclear energy bc of some music concerts?

ok apparently what's happening is prices are getting high enough to wreck low margin industries, and they're protesting by (checks notes) among other things blocking depots and refineries, causing cascading failures classic ireland

reports from ireland, saw someone else claiming irish army refusing orders classify as rumint rn (anyone have more information?) but its possible ireland might be approaching the entrance to the fun zone

@Romy_Holland does anyone think baby tasks are particularly hard? draining sure but I think the 'I don't know if I could handle that fears' generally relate to stuff much later on. I know plenty of parents feel - imo correctly - out of their depth handling eg a severely mentally ill teenager.

i feel like ppl without kids have the wrong idea about what parents mean when they say it’s hard. the hard part is that you have to do it every single day, but none of the tasks themselves are at all difficult, especially once you’re past the newborn stage. i would always much rather do whatever baby task is at hand than unload the dishwasher or clear up after dinner or vacuum the living room. changing a baby’s diaper isn’t hard or even unpleasant, it’s just harder than lying on the couch scrolling my phone and you’re not allowed to procrastinate it. i’ve heard ppl be like “i just don’t know if i could do it!” dude, of course you could do it. you think billions of ppl have done it, usually multiple times, but somehow it’s gonna be too hard for you? the full on mentally retarded girl who i grew up with has 4 kids. i think you can handle it.

@Beigerevenge I like it those guys seem nice

God I do hate radio 2 / older Gen X / ooh we used to go to raves but now we’re running a pop up coffee shop in Bristol & listening to Richard Osman podcasts culture

@thecollegehill @AndyMasley A fascinatingly incoherent chain of arguments.

@AndyMasley those stats are years old, but the giant increases in longtermism funding and "EA infrastructure" (aka recruitment) are exactly what i'm talking about and no you don't get to bring that because i've also been vegan for 10 years and individual impact is a red herring anyway

Every single person who says this has yet to show me how my energy usage stats are wrong. I write for a general audience and don't presume people like or agree with anything in EA.

@JohnsonBec32985 @resurrecti0ns Bouveresse's book Wittgenstein Reads Freud is good on this. He had critiques, but I don't think it's fair to frame him as someone who dismissed Freud wholesale like the OP appears to. He was critical of psychoanalysis the same way he was critical of philosophy.

@JohnsonBec32985 @resurrecti0ns Hard to do justice in short form but he did call himself a disciple of Freud and a lot of his criticisms were to do with the specific framing of psychoanalysis, rather than necessarily the fundamental insights, and he was more critical of Freud's followers than Freud himself...

one of the great things about psychoanalysis is that its opponents are invariably the dumbest people alive

@JohnsonBec32985 @resurrecti0ns Wittgenstein was not straightforwardly an opponent.

@resurrecti0ns Also Wittgenstein and DH Lawrence and Saul Bellow.......

@weveallbeenhad @cezthesocialist Do you understand how many people there are? How many accounts post things like that and what proportion of total young people does that represent? Since you're so sure it contradicts the stats presumably you have worked this out.

@cezthesocialist Using "spiteful cunts" suggests you don't believe your own claim that youth support policies for the old. The volume of posts from young people wanting state pensions scrapped, the right to vote stripped, or far worse wishing death on the elderly to die completely contradicts you

Young people overwhelmingly support policies that only benefit old people. Old people overwhelmingly oppose policies that benefit young people, and the entire economy, because they’re spiteful cunts. But remember its old people being bullied by lazy young people after their money

@HelloWo40063049 @mattyglesias You couldn't be further from the truth about psychoanalysis on this point. It has a huge amount to say about the innateness of human evil.

@mattyglesias People wondering how Hitler could've murdered 6 million people and everyone went along with it and oh look we can blame his parents phew at least we know people can't be born evil and people can be brainwashed to go along. the end We wanted reassurance of where evil came from

@SteveH1878 @FadaChristmas_ @BladeoftheS But this logic leads to a spiral of legislation that has other damaging consequences. People have to make tradeoffs. If your only criteria is protecting children and you accuse anyone who questions policies with that aim of callously disregarding lives, you get insanity.

@FadaChristmas_ @BladeoftheS So you think saying everyone dies in the end is ok then? Wouldn't those that died and their families have had another 20 years or so with each other if they hadn't been killed by neglect??

Are you really going to vote for this shit?

@PolitlcsUK @theipaper The building safety act *is* clumsy, though. Why does legislation put in place to protect the residents of modern cladded tower blocks apply to e.g. a 5 storey mansion block from the 1800s?

🚨 NEW: Reform UK's housing chief Simon Dudley says post-Grenfell safety regulations have gone too far "Everyone dies in the end. It’s just how you go, right? You can’t stop tragic things from happening. Fires do happen" [@theipaper]

@BreatheLesss unironically yes

Someone who hasn't read a single book in his life should start with Joyce's Ulysses. I'm certain they'll comprehend and enjoy it very much on their first go. No need to understand Homer or any of the other current, for that time, philosophical and historical tidbits. Just enjoy the words man!

@Entengummitiger @llallawg @Romy_Holland I don't think people who act like this are genuinely good, for the most part. I think more often they're conflict avoidant/passively trying to get reciprocative care/masochistic/etc But it's still true that when they attempt to change and be less passive(etc) this can happen.

@llallawg @Romy_Holland Overextended good people are exceedingly rare

i’ve known several people who became much worse versions of themselves and at the same time started saying things like “everyone’s upset because they’re used to my old patterns and it’s scary to them that i’m acting different now, but this is actually me being my best self.” this is interesting bc it allows them to dismiss any criticism/concerns as someone not understanding them or trying to hold them back. what i dont get is why this type of person is always of the instagram self-help archetype. if you’re really into personal growth, why construct a narrative that completely prevents you from getting helpful feedback from ppl close to you?

@tracewoodgrains always also seems to imply that of course we all understand that it is shameful and pathetic to be in need of such help, which I assume only a portion of those who say such things would openly admit to believing

@jordanticus I've seen practitioners reassure pts that the reason they have these thoughts *is bc* they care so deeply for their child. Which manages to both violate standard behavioural guidelines (don't offer reassurance) and to reinforce to the pt that their aggression is intolerable.

Here I'm going to explain the problem with treatment approaches that in some form endorse the idea that thoughts are meaningless or should be ignored (CBT, ACT, ERP). Let's say a patient has a thought of stabbing their newborn baby. It terrifies or disgusts them. They fear that this thought means they're going to actually harm their child, or they're going crazy and need to be locked up, or just that they're in fact a very bad person. We call it an "intrusive" thought because that's how it's experienced. Something "not me" is attacking "me". But where else could this thought be coming from except from "me"? But the patient doesn't really want to hurt their baby, so this thought is nonsensical and therefore meaningless, right? Or at least just ignore it, right? This is what CBT, ACT, and ERP tell us. And at first glance, this seems like a good way to think about it. In fact, some people are able to take a degree of comfort from the idea their thoughts are meaningless and they sometimes find their symptoms do lessen a bit: "Oh good, I'm actually not a bad or dangerous person." So what's so bad about this? If it helps, it helps, right? The problem is that the patient does continue to suffer in some form. Maybe the symptoms persist at a mild or moderate level. Maybe they come back later. Maybe they have intrusive thoughts about other things. Maybe they become depressed. Etc etc etc. Why do they continue to suffer? Because the thoughts actually do have meaning. Just because a thought isn't literally true, doesn't mean it's not symbolically true. Or carrying meaning in some form. Intrusive thoughts are parts of ourselves that we can't integrate into our conscious understanding of ourself, but it's still us and it comes back to haunt us in symbolic form and will continue to do so until we integrate it. So what could thoughts of harming a newborn baby mean? Here's a patient who maybe can't tolerate their own aggressive feelings towards people they also love. So no matter how much we present evidence that they'll not physically harm their child, this completely misses the mark of the true source of their suffering. We can't just treat the fever and ignore the underlying infection.

@Saffire2002_ @_glorianas Also Gail Dines, Ariel Levy. Female Chauvinist Pigs nailed this culture in 2005. The criticism was there if you wanted it.

@Saffire2002_ @_glorianas A lot of people did critique it at the time. You could have been reading I Blame The Patriarchy instead. You were free to seek out alternative voices.

you’re right i should go on tiktok right now and learn about how i need to quit my job and become a trad wife and hope my husband will forgive me for not being a virgin, given every generation of feminism is judged by what young women say online