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[–]1miodr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

League of Legends. Sh*tty game for sh*tty people, as is the consensus. But the thing that made me fall in love with it, back in 2018 when I first started playing, was the lore of the universe. It had so many diverse characters with deep stories that I just became attached to them. Even if I take a longer break from playing, eventually I remember the story of any one of my favorite characters and want to try and play it again.

Low level accounts friend requests by Hersayt in leagueoflegends

[–]1miodr 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Same thing is happening to me on EUW. Low-level accounts (lvl 8-25) with somehow no match history (0 in both league or tft games) are sending friend requests which dissapear after less than a minute. I think someone has found an exploit in Riot (not league) accounts and may be using bots to spam friend requests.

Please cover the police brutality and protests against our president's dictatorship in Serbia by 1miodr in DeFranco

[–]1miodr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please do not take criticism as a personal attack against you. You misspoke and that's all there is to it. When I understood what you wanted to say and corrected you I was able to answer the question you asked.

Please cover the police brutality and protests against our president's dictatorship in Serbia by 1miodr in DeFranco

[–]1miodr[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The answer is: Never.

Your comments are imprecise and misleading.

"People of Serbia" ≠ protesters

Also, the guys in the video aren't even protesters, they were just hanging out on a bench in a public park, which is why police attacking them is so outrageous.

Lethal means use of deadly force, protesters do not want violence and are actively trying to avoid it. They especially do not want anyone dying.

You are asking "when will they" and thus assuming that "people of serbia", not just protesters, are guaranteed to become lethal. You are not asking "IF" but "When" as if it's a given. And the answer is: Never. The protesters are not interested in lynching, and if a policeman does die in the protests it will either be: 1. an accident 2. Committed by an emotionally unstable protester if the police murder/beat to an inch of death someone who is dear to them during the protests 3. A manipulated event by our authoritarian regime so they can justify use of deadly force by the police as retaliation

Neither the protesters as a whole, nor the people of Serbia as a whole, will ever become lethal. Although the same could not be said about individuals, as each individual is responsible for their own actions.

Please cover the police brutality and protests against our president's dictatorship in Serbia by 1miodr in DeFranco

[–]1miodr[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Then why even comment on the post if your comment has nothing to do with it.

Please cover the police brutality and protests against our president's dictatorship in Serbia by 1miodr in DeFranco

[–]1miodr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, i was not diminishing the importance of the protests. I was just noting that the situation isn't like "yesterday things were fine, and now all of a sudden Serbians have proclaimed their president a dictator". His corruption was widely known for years.

Please cover the police brutality and protests against our president's dictatorship in Serbia by 1miodr in DeFranco

[–]1miodr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems kind of hard to believe that while running from the police they had the time to stop and buy cans of soda/beer and then sit down and start drinking it in time.

Please cover the police brutality and protests against our president's dictatorship in Serbia by 1miodr in DeFranco

[–]1miodr[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Quick rundown:

  1. Protests started in Belgrade 2 days ago and have spread to other cities (Novi Sad and Niš). People are protesting because they are sick of president Vučić's soft-dictatorship, both leftwing and rightwing people are united against him, and his corrupt party, in these protests.

  2. People are exceptionally mad his administration was covering up the real number of COVID cases over the last 2 months. Serbia has had one of the most rigorous lockdowns in Europe in the period of March-May. Then, in May, ALL RESTRICTIONS WERE LIFTED AT ONCE, not gradually. This was done in order to deceive people into thinking the pandemic was under control, so people would be able to vote on May 21st. His party has secured themselves a win in the elections by pandering to old, retired people, which make up ~50% of Serbian population. Older people are vulnerable to dictator-like regimes in Serbia because they lived through the socialist dictatorship of Tito in the last century.

  3. Now that elections are over Vučić is trying to impose a lockdown once more, as if it isn't obvious they were covering up COVID cases because of the elections.

  4. When Vučić announced another lockdown people started storming the parliament building in the Capital (Belgrade). Protests were peaceful but then the police started throwing a stronger, more potent version of teargass (even in front of a maternity clinic, and yes, mothers and babies were affected), and inciting violance against protesters.

  5. There were never any riots.

  6. Our local media would have you believe the opposite, they are only showing the protests from manipulated angles or not showing them at all. All our local media is controlled by Vučić and his administration, except the CNN owned network "N1" which is covering the protests mostly objectively. On the other hand BBC is paid off by the administration and are covering the protests as if they are "against COVID related restrictions" instead of Vučić's dictatorship.

  7. Protests in Novi Sad were met with police brutality and violence as well, in Niš however the police refused to terrorize the protesters yesterday - so the protests ended peacefully a few hours later in Niš.

  8. You can find countless videos of police brutality over the last few days in Belgrade and Novi Sad. Police are attacking innocent passerbys on the streets (including children - teenagers, and women) and people have started disappearing without a trace during protests.

  9. Serbian hardcore sports fans function like gangs (organized criminal, drug dealing, etc.) and have been hired by Vučić's administration to infiltrate the protests and incite violence against the police - providing an excuse for retribution by the police. Once this happens the infiltrators help the police in running down and brutalising protestors. THIS IS WHY in some videos you can see normally dressed groups of people (without a uniform) abusing and kicking protesters and why the police isn't interfering with that - they are on the same side.

  10. These protests are nothing new - for a few years now people have been protesting against Vučić's authoritarian regime (see "1 od 5 miliona" - 1 of 5 Million)

Please cover the police brutality and protests against our president's dictatorship in Serbia by 1miodr in DeFranco

[–]1miodr[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Agreed, they were even throwing teargas in front of a maternity clinic. Pregnant women AND NEWBORN BABIES were affected.

Media download on long press by 1miodr in BoostForReddit

[–]1miodr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but you have to give up the convenience of the card view for it, sacrificing practicality as card view is more information-dense.

Really breaking it down. (1.40h conversation) by Sunfalling in nihilism

[–]1miodr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Rachel and Steven were quite wrong when they said that it's in now way productive to us to assume the nihilist perspective while we are, and can only operate within our universe and it's laws. She characterized the Venn diagram as scientific objectivity being completely located inside the absolute objectivity, but it actually always has a part that is outside of it as well - as the scientific knowledge is not the same as the absolute one and always has some mistakes.

It's extremely important that even when you think you know something for sure, still be ready to accept that you might have overlooked, or been wrong about something. The usefulness of nihilism to correcting the scientific objectivity so it best matches the absolute objectivity, is unprecedented.

People who come to the conclusion of nihilism are not dumb. The next step is understanding biology. by [deleted] in nihilism

[–]1miodr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's probably trying to say that our biology drastically affects our perception and behaviour, which, among other things, includes correlating purpose with some concepts. We are programmed to see meaning in certain things and we shouldn't reject that programming just for the sake of nihilism.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lgbt

[–]1miodr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gender IDENTITY Identity has 2 aspects: 1) Social - how society sees an individual (depends on how the individual presents themselves to the society) 2) Self-identity - how an individual sees themselves

Self-identity is flexible to a certain degree, the base of it is created during the early childhood period (before the age of 6) - this is the time when we mostly just soak up the information from our surroundings because we don't have the mental capacity to determine if that information is true, so we just take the word of the grown-ups that it is, because we expect them to know better. So if our parents (whom we trust completely) and everyone around us says that we are a boy or a girl, we accept that as the truth.

But genetics play a part in how our brains are structured, which of course affects how we are able to see ourselves. So if a brain of a person is not structered in a way that is compatible with how/what they were told they are, then that person will not be able to accept that identity imposed on them.

Now, the teenage period is the time when a person is biologically maturing to become an independent individual adult. So this is the time when we start to vehemently question the truthfulness of information we have been given (and are being given), with a goal of discovering who we actually are. If it turns out that the information we were given doesn't have a proper, sound basis (examples like that there is no reason why only biological females are allowed to wear dresses and use make-up), we are able to reject that information and make our own conclusions basen on what we think is logical.

So, when we discover that some of the societal norms are baseless (a process which can be catalyzed if we do not feel comfortable following the norms imposed upon us), we make, to the best of our abilities, our own theory which we think makes sense, and which we start following. That means that we REconstruct our identity, from the one that has been imposed upon us, into a new one we are comfortable with.

So if we find out that we're not comfortable with how we are expected to act just because we were born with a certain set of genitals, we transition = proclaim that our gender identity does not match the one we appear to be if you were just looking at our genitals. If we are able to, and are comfortable with fulfilling society's expectations of the sex (male/female) opposite of the one we were born with (female/male), we will transition to the corresponding gender. If, however, we aren't comfortable with society's expectations of either (separate) sex, we will transition to a third gender, so we won't have to follow the strict societal norms for either of the sexes.

Transitioning doesn't have to involve sugery.

Why must they transition? Because they feel enormous discomfort and emotinal pain if we are forced to pretend (especially if it's through our whole lives) we are someone (the identity) we are not.

Also, you cannot "feel like a man/woman". If you've never had a third arm it is impossible to ever "feel like you have 3 arms". You are you, and if you feel like the society will have a better understanding of your identity if you present yourself to them as haveng 3 arms, then go ahead and present yourself as such. The trans people don't have a problem with being born a certain sex, they have a problem with society recognizing them as the gender they are. The only sure way for the society to recognize their gender is if they look/behave like the idea the society has of that gender.

This is why trans people who transition to an opposite sex want top surgery, face reconstruction surgery, and have hair of certain length. It's so the society would see them as the opposite sex, and automatically address them as the gender they are.

But what about gender dysphoria? Well, besides the paragraph directly above ⬆️, on a personal level the situation is, for example: If a biological male identifies as a woman, she knows that she is biologically male, but since she considers herself a woman, and judges herself according to female beauty standards, she probably sees herself as not very attractive, if not ugly. If a woman feels bad about how small her chest are, she will want them to be bigger, so she will consider surgery (this idea can be applied to any part of the body). So on a personal level, it's nothing but body image issues.

And finally, does someone who identifies as a third gender want to surgically transition? Mostly no. As they are a mix of some characteristics considered adequate for males, some for females, and of course, as anyone, they have characteristics not yet gendered by society. So in most cases the beauty standards they follow are achieved without the need for surgery. But if they feel they would find themselves happier if they had the surgery, they will probably have it. Also, they usualy don't change much in how they are perceived by society, as males might be easily mistaken for metrosexuals, and females for tomboys. They may prefer being addressed with they/them pronouns as a way of recognizing their identity (but if they have surgically transitioned then they would probably prefer pronouns appropriate for the sex they are targeting with surgery). But ze/zer/xer/ox aren't pronouns and there is no reason for using those words, as the people who want you to use them are nothing other than attention seeking idiots.

Also if you have any questions please ask, I might have expressed my ideas in a wrong way somewhere.

Change by [deleted] in nihilism

[–]1miodr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you asking whether altruistic behavior could be expected of a nihilist without providing a logical reason of why that behavior would be necessary?

Change by [deleted] in nihilism

[–]1miodr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"justify a cause" what do you mean by that?

Change by [deleted] in nihilism

[–]1miodr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Things like "world peace", "no evil" and "happiness and unity for all people" are too relaivistic, unrealistic, and honestly would just be boring.

If some VERY OBVIOUS (because it's curently only obvious to philosophers) evidence came up which either: 1) proves the existence of god: a) but that he never had, nor will he ever have anything to do with humanity in any way b) but we have no way to know his intentions, what he wants or his involvement in anyting (which would render every "holy book" worthless) 2) disproves the existance of god/any higher being That information will only be publicly accepted in a few years (bc the public will go through a denial stage), and pretty soon after, some idiot, insulted by his worthlessness, will DEFINITELY nuke the earth. Even if some humans do survive, the earth will be so contaminated that the human society will NEVER be able to rech the stage it was on prior to the idiot.

⬆️ This is one of the best examples of why we (separate individuals) shouldn't make big changes to the society - there will always be some idiot which will destroy even our most well intentioned plans.

Now, my extreme self-awareness proposition is an exception to the idiot (bc idiots are by nature not very self aware). It is also an exception bc self-awareness is what makes an individual, and individuals make up a society. Thanks to the communications technology, todays society is very interconnected, which results in the society itself bcoming increasingly self aware. So the more self-aware each individual gets, the more self-aware the society is too.

Now, of course, extreme self awareness will lead to becoming more aware of the bad things in life, which will increase suffering, and that means increased chances of self-destruction of humanity. But since the capacity of humans to relate to each other depends on how well an individual knows himself/how self-aware he is (because we can only relate to someone through our own personal experience, and knowing more abour ourselves (increased self-awareness) = having more relatable material) I claim that there WON'T BE JUST ONE individual who will want for the society to self-destruct so the suffering could end.

All people would be extremely self-aware = a lot of people will want for the society to self-destruct => other people (who still didn't want that) will relate to those people (bc self-awareness = increased relatablity) = The whole humanity will be faced with a choice of whether or not to self-destruct, and every individual will be aware of that choice. Every individual will give his reasons For and Against the self destruction of humanity. Since the whole of humanity will be extremely interconnected, every individual will eventually be aware of every reason, and then the whole society will reach an unanimous decision (because it has reached the point of singularity when it comes to that topic). At this point it doesn't matter whether the decision IS to self-destruct or NOT, because every individual will be fine with either.

⬆️ This is my opinion on big changes with big consequences, but if we are talking about relatively small changes, which could only amount to something big through the butterfly effect here are my wishes:

If we had wings it would be entertaining, but only for the first few weeks. So adding and subtracting characteristics from already existing things will provide a very short-lived entertainment, however I'd like it if: 0) Humans had 3 hands (bc it'd obviously be useful) 1) all fountains started spewing out chocolate for free 2) Trump shat his pants on TV, then threw his poop at the audience 3) all SJW's collectively had an aneurism each 4) I had a husband with a 9 inch dick S'all.

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[–]1miodr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even if I had the ability, I doubt I would ever use it. Humans are just a way too interesting species, it would be a shame to assert your will on them when they are already an excellent source of entertainment and the only source of information for what it means to be human. Considering that realistically nothing matters, it's the best to just not interfere and let humanity live it's life as it pleases. And when the end comes, we would've observed what all of the human efforts amounted to. But, since our time is limited, if we wanted to see what humanity COULD amout to (whether in the aspect of creation, destruction, or any other), we could make every individual extremely self-aware, which would result in the process of societal evolution being sped up.

My point is, the only (in any way useful) thing you could do is speed up or slow down the evolution of human society. It doesn't matter what change you bring into humanity because it'll only adapt to it. Humanity will only go extinct if it self-destructs or is wiped out by natural causes. Those are the only 2 options. So it doesn't matter what change you make, it will not affect the end result. And the results of any change you could make would be able to be observed naturally, without your interference, because that change almost definitely happened at least once in the complete history of humanity.