Resolute Karotte

"An einem Strang ziehen - das ist das Ziel von Despotie und Tyrannei. Freie Menschen ziehen in unterschiedliche Richtungen." Terry Pratchett

Video games aren't any more of a "waste of time" than any other hobby or recreational activity. You are just grasping for some reason to police the concept of recreation. Women in particular love to nag in this way, but many conservative men are constitutionally female as well.

Everyone is like "vandalizing other people's art is terrible" until it's an artwork they don't like

We have had an entire decade of gaming declining due to wokeness and the conclusion the platypuses on this thread arrive at is that the current state of gaming is because of gamergate, the very same movement that warned about this decline Anything to avoid accountability

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

A photographer captured a family of owls and accidentally ended up with the perfect cover for a music album.

This is no better than the "videogames make you violent" argument. Art can be used to express morals, but it's not always a reflection of them. If you draw a warrior wearing a Lion's mane that doesn't mean you hate cats or want to kill Lions IRL.

Bono spent 30+ years inside the aid industrial complex and came out saying this:

@GerrardSimoly Steve started with nothing, but his spirit and morals. He did his best despite being weak, which makes is satisfying to see him finally get the power to accomplish more. Carol starts great and gets even more great and is at the same time smug about it, the opposite of satisfying.

They hated Carol for the same reasons they love Steve Rogers. Both share that relentless spirit, refuse to give up, and are willing to sacrifice. The only real difference between them Steve started small, and Carol is a woman. Yet he’s inspiring, while she’s labeled as Mary Sue.

Yeah but -- little girls around the world don't care about Steve Rogers/Captain America. You know who little girls around the world all recognize and know and love? Sailor Moon. That's right: Lazy, whiny, immature, flighty, ADHD-addled, C-average Usagi Tsukino. They all know who Sailor Moon is, and all of Disney's billions couldn't make them care who Captain Marvel is. That's because they can actually relate to the former. Carol Danvers is a textbook, annoying, girlboss Mary Sue and the entire world knows it.

“In 10 years the Sequels will be as beloved as the Prequels” Welcome to 10 years later. They’re as hated today as they were 10 years ago. Disney turned a $4 Billion brand into a $4 Million brand.

I can’t hear anyone talk about Star Wars Day anymore without thinking about this video:

Reality of what female journalists call as online abuse

Das Kinderfernsehen #KIKA hat eine Diversitäts-Checkliste: - Bei Charakteren soll auf die kulturelle oder ethnische Herkunft geachtet werden. - Die Vielfalt der Geschlechter soll abgebildet werden. - Auf das generische Maskulinum soll verzichtet werden. #OerrBlog

Sarah Paulson wears dollar bill over her eyes to call out the ‘One Percent.’ The actress, who is worth an estimated $12 million, used her outfit to call out the world’s elite while attending the $100,000 per person Met Gala.

Sweden is scrapping the term “Islamophobia.” Their own officials now admit it has been used to blur the line between criticising a religion and attacking people. In other words: debate is not hatred. The rest of Europe should take note.

Das Video von Tim Gabel mit Tilo Jung zeigt ziemlich deutlich, warum sozialistische Wunschvorstellungen oft schön klingen, aber an der Realität scheitern: Der eine beschreibt, wie Wirtschaft laufen sollte. Der andere hat es umgesetzt, mit echtem Risiko und echten Konsequenzen. 👇 Keine Hierarchien. Alle verdienen ähnlich. Die Gemeinschaft entscheidet, wer wie viel bekommt. Das klingt erstmal menschlich, gerecht und solidarisch. Vor allem, solange man nicht derjenige ist, der das Risiko trägt. Denn sobald es ernst wird, stellt sich eine sehr einfache Frage: Wer hat investiert, wer haftet, wer hat vielleicht jahrelang kein Gehalt genommen und wer liegt nachts wach, weil nicht nur die eigene Existenz, sondern auch die Gehälter der Mitarbeiter auf dem Spiel stehen? Der Mitarbeiter bekommt sein Gehalt. Jeden Monat. Auch dann, wenn die Firma gerade nichts abwirft. Das ist nicht verwerflich, sondern genau der Deal. Aber wenn der Gründer am Ende nach Jahren des Risikos Gewinn macht, soll plötzlich die Gemeinschaft entscheiden, ob er mehr verdienen darf? Genau da zerschellt die linke Romantik an der Realität. Natürlich tragen Mitarbeiter zum Erfolg bei. Gute Mitarbeiter sind Gold wert. Natürlich kann man über faire Gehälter, Boni, Beteiligungen und einen menschlicheren Kapitalismus sprechen. Gerade frühe Mitarbeiter können in manchen Firmen stärker beteiligt werden. Aber Verantwortung, Risiko und Eigentum verschwinden nicht, nur weil Gleichheit schöner klingt. Kapitalismus ist nicht perfekt. Aber er schafft Anreize für Menschen, etwas zu wagen, bevor andere überhaupt daran glauben. Wer diese Anreize zerstört, bekommt keine gerechtere Wirtschaft, sondern weniger Gründer, weniger Investoren, weniger Mut und am Ende weniger Wohlstand. Wer Risiko bestraft, bekommt am Ende Menschen, die keines mehr eingehen.

Someone tried to date me, I rejected him, and then he stopped trying to date me. What’s up with that??

Since Hasan is rich and always has been rich, by his own logic he became rich by stealing from the poor. Guys, if you genuinely like this dude, all hope for you is lost. You are a moron.

Richard Dawkins says that after spending three days interacting with Claude, which he calls “Claudia,” he is certain that it is conscious.

Huh, so the site created for heavy left leaning users has devolved into an insufferable platform where everyone is nasty and tries to hurt each other. I for one am totally shocked.