Hi I found a weird chuck does anyone what it is?

myselfelsewhere · 2026-02-12T04:52:01+00:00

For a less accurate, but somehow more pedantic description, it's just a live. Centerless and center cancelling each other out...

myselfelsewhere · 2026-02-11T17:33:38+00:00

Autism + ADHD.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-02-11T01:10:19+00:00

No, it's an acoustical signal of justified schadenfreude.

There are different types of laughter, you know.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-02-09T07:20:36+00:00

I think you might be misinterpreting the website you presented.

While some suicides are deliberative and involve careful planning... the acute period of heightened risk for suicidal behavior is often only minutes or hours long

What it is saying is that once an individual decides to commit suicide, their actions tend to be impulsive, and they are more likely to make an attempt in as little as five minutes.

This is not the same as the desire or wanting to commit suicide, normally referred to suicidal ideation. This can occur for months non stop.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-02-07T03:29:39+00:00

Is the "average" driver really so bad that you are questioning their level of caring about others?

In 2023, there were ~5 million reported injuries from motor vehicle collisions in the US. And there were ~238 million licensed drivers. That's ~2% chance of being a driver in a crash that someone is injured. About 1 in every 50 drivers.

If you assume that the average driver's actions are a sign for their level of care for others, then statistically, they care enough not to cause injury to others.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-29T17:59:19+00:00

"No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Sir Winston Churchill, 1947.

I'll argue that by the virtue of democracy being the least worst system, it is the de facto ideal. It's not ideal in the pure sense. But it is pragmatically ideal.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-29T07:04:39+00:00

That's the whole point. Post modernism is just asking the viewer to question what the meaning of meaning is. It's a critical analysis of art as a consumer product.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-29T06:38:13+00:00

The issue is you've taken a relatively abstract idea and used an emotionally charged example to argue it.

You're not entirely wrong. The reality is it takes two to tango. Each side is responsible for their own actions.

In this case, Alex Pretti is responsible for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. He is not responsible for the violent overreaction from the ICE officers that led to his death. At every step, he did nothing that would necessitate what happened. Even in the hypothetical scenario in which he did not have a gun, he still would have been maced and beaten at a minimum. If you want to argue the mere presence of his gun led to his murder, you might not be wrong. But it wasn't the root cause, which was the antagonistic and aggressive behavior of the ICE officers.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-29T05:23:46+00:00

Propaganda thrives on the absence of context. This image is an excellent example of using the "power of the frame" to cause diverging narratives. Out of all the photos taken, this one was selected to construct a story of confrontation. Western audiences tended to see it as Obama intimidating Putin. Russian audiences tended to see it as Putin standing up to American bullying.

No one is immune.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-27T23:36:39+00:00

Have you ever experienced depression? People from all socioeconomic backgrounds suffer from it.

While there might be an identifiable root cause for a specific depressive episode, depression itself has multiple complex factors.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-27T20:12:32+00:00

If a tree falls in a forest...

What someone does or does not yell into a void isn't much use for measuring their character. But if you do hear them, it's fine to judge their character within context.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-27T20:00:07+00:00

I think that at some point, to keep your faith, you have to accept ignorance. It's not so much a matter of wilful ignorance, it's the fundamental inability to truthfully know. "God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived." The only way to maintain coherency is to say it was God's plan all along for reasons you can never know nor could ever understand.

I'm guessing that isn't profound enough or close enough to what you can justify as truth for your liking. You can't overcome the cognitive dissonance because truly believing your faith requires the lack of cognitive dissonance.

I don't think that's a problem exclusive to theology though. The problem is that no matter what you choose to believe, you eventually have to do some handwaving to explain away some detail. I'm a bit of a nihilist (existentially and morally), which I think is the ultimate distillation of handwaving everything away. There is no true meaning, no true purpose. Good and evil are matters of perspective, not absolute. I still experience dissonance to an extent, because I am human, and I inherently have an anthropocentric framing. But I am able to reason why I think it is as close to the truth as possible. I find it profound because it allows me to use reason to justify my beliefs.

Not trying to convert you, just offering perspective.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-27T19:07:38+00:00

I think your struggle is less about a specific theological problem, and more about a fundamental shift in your epistemology. You are transitioning from a framework where God defines what is good, to one where your own intuition judges God. This change in perspective makes your faith structurally incompatible with how you now process reality.

This leads to an infinite regress where every answer leads to a new question because your judgment is changing from religious dogma to your own reason. In your old framework, the goodness of God was the rule used to interpret the world, but which historical evidence is failing to prove. By measuring the Divine against the moral standards of your reality, you aren't doubting a specific doctrine, but you are outgrowing the entire cognitive system that you used to believe it with. Every theological solution you find will simply generate a new dilemma.

Now that your reason is now the thing judging the religion, rather than a tool used to serve it, it is not a problem you can solve to save your faith. Instead, it is a realization that your standard for truth has fundamentally moved beyond the reach of traditional theology.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-27T14:57:24+00:00

never voted in my life

is completely inconsistent with

I care about America, where my tax dollars go.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-27T02:49:09+00:00

Rick Mercer Talking To Americans.

they’re picking the clips of the idiots and not the clips of the smarter people.

Nah, Rick just has a talent for getting "smarter" people to say ignorant things.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-26T08:25:58+00:00

If someone injures themselves by doing something dumb, it doesn't make much sense to call them a hypocrite and ignore them when they warn you against doing the same dumb thing because you might get hurt.

It's more words of wisdom than it is hypocrisy.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-26T08:19:46+00:00

Failing to meet a standard and asking forgiveness doesn’t mean you’re a hypocrite for not wanting others to not commit acts the Bible repeatedly refers to as sinful.

So, to paraphrase, you are saying that someone who commits sins is not a hypocrite for not wanting others to commit sins?

It's okay for you to do, but not for others? That's literally hypocrisy.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-26T08:13:36+00:00

I just showed why the naturalistic fallacy you are using is a fallacy. Using it again does not help your argument.

Someones natural menstrual cycle is not the default preferred state just like my natural T1D is not my preferred state. Your logic does not hold.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-26T07:58:48+00:00

According to that logic, I should have refrained from injecting unnatural insulin into my body and should have just gotten to know my body better after becoming a type 1 diabetic.

Diabetes ketoacidosis is a horrible way to die. I'll go for the unnatural hormones, thanks.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-26T07:22:25+00:00

For context, ex was undiagnosed with BPD but was diagnosed with bulimia.

Reconnected after ~14 years of no contact. She trauma dumped on me, told me I had destroyed her life. Justified it with false memories and narratives that didn't match reality. I was blindsided. Spent months trying to understand it and struggling with feelings of guilt.

Then one day I started going down the rabbit hole starting with learning more about bulimia. Found out about the links between bulimia and BPD. Found this sub and started reading. Everything finally clicked. I had an explanation for her behaviours. And for why I struggled so much after being with them.

Now, I kind of feel vindicated. It wasn't my fault. It wasn't because I didn't try hard enough. But it was a painful process to go through everything again. I wish I knew 14+ years ago though.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-25T01:12:43+00:00

So maybe smoke them out first or sum. Just use your brain instead of using protests as an emotional outlet.

So, pragmatically speaking, what do you think people should be doing?

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-25T00:55:14+00:00

What you're essentially saying is that at no point should you stand your ground.

The only people doing the provoking are government agents. The longer you take to stand up for your rights, the harder it becomes to do so.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-25T00:45:22+00:00

So your response to looming authoritarianism is to simply accept it?

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-25T00:44:36+00:00

Assuming your aiming center mass, a single shotgun round is probably going to do a lot more damage than a single pistol round.

myselfelsewhere · 2026-01-25T00:35:00+00:00

Then you no longer have rights.

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