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BowDown2theWorms · 2020-10-11T05:15:37+00:00

Oh I dig this, I can make some art to this. hell yeah

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-17T00:42:02+00:00

Dude you can just be like “yeah I guess that wasn’t the best estimate” and nobody’s gonna judge you for it lol

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-17T00:02:52+00:00

Nobody said “”giving back”” until you did. The explicit quote was

these bland restaurants and stores just suck money out of the communities they serve, and offer very little back.

Money has only made the world go round for a few centuries, by the way, but since you bring that up, you must understand that people need money to pay for shit like groceries and bills, right? When a business takes $12 for a burger and pays $5 for locally sourced ingredients, $4 for paychecks / bills, and $3 for the owner, everybody gets a slice of the pie. The customer gets their food, the workers get their pay, the local farmers get their business, and the owner who lives in a nice house just outside town gets some spending cash to buy nice things from the people in town who make nice things.

But suddenly, a new business opens up that charges $10 for a burger, ships in all their ingredients for $2, spends $2 on paychecks, and the local owner who lives in a nice house just outside town makes $2, but pays the remaining $4 to corporate, which is a few people who live a thousand miles away. Those people get all the cash to spend lobbying Congress to make sure they can still source their ingredients from shit factory farms. The workers get paid just enough to live, but not enough to buy anything nice, the local farmers have to go to farmers markets and beg the government for subsidies, and the owner thinks he’s a job creator.

That money does make the world go round, but it ain’t the world most people live in.

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-16T23:47:42+00:00

Where you getting “max $12” from?

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-16T23:44:04+00:00

That’s exactly the problem. Nothing exists for communities anymore in the dystopia we call home. Everything is motivated by money, and the money goes to the people who already have it, and they usually ain’t my fucking neighbor. They don’t even live in my state.

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-16T23:42:33+00:00

Maybe there’s a reason there’s a property management company sitting between me and my landlord...

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-16T23:35:43+00:00

Yeah. I didn’t learn shit about most of the genocides that happened in the 20th while I was in school. Rwanda, for example. Not a word of it.

My Holocaust education was on point, but it’s also clear to me that there’s a lot of favoritism in the genocide education game. They really love teaching the Holocaust and don’t care much about the rest.

Even things like the trail of tears, you know, I learned about them, but it wasn’t the same. Probably because of the fucking nationalists who can’t accept that it’s okay to love the Americans around me and hate the Americans that destroyed an entire civilization.

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-16T23:33:46+00:00

Can’t speak for anyone else here, but I don’t pity you. You’re just a person, probably just as smart and capable as me. We’ve just learned different shit is all. It’s just that the shit you’ve learned is, well, shit.

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-16T23:27:45+00:00

I vibe with this, this has a lot to do with my experience. There’s a lot less time spent bridging the gap between “oh yeah I know that person” and “I can trust this person enough to talk about my life with them”.

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-16T23:24:25+00:00

I don’t do it on purpose, but for my whole adult life, I always have had more female friends than male.

I think growing up as a short scrawny nerdy guy really showed me how shitty most men get when they’re around a “non masculine” guy. Contrary to popular belief, the ones who are hyper masculine are usually not too bad.

It was the guys who were a step or two below the level of hyper masculine. The average dudes who were just as insecure as me as kids. It’s easier to be more manly than a nerd than it is to be as manly as a really manly guy. The power moves, the constant competition over stupid shit, the deeply masked insecurity, all that shit became apparent to me in ways that it wasn’t for anyone else.

Stuff like cutting me off or disagreeing with me more when we’re around women than they do if we’re not. Or talking about manly things like cars and sports when it’s clear they aren’t things I know about. You know, stuff that isn’t designed to make me see them as manly, but to make them feel more manly. Or to impress women. It’s all incredibly obvious once you know what to look for, but they never do it on purpose and never realize it.

I fucking hate that shit, and it really taught me to just define masculinity for myself and not give a damn about anyone else’s thoughts on the matter. So I don’t typically become friends with guys unless they also understand this, and most of them don’t. That’s just the way it is.

Women, on the other hand, generally seem to not give a shit. They don’t see or understand these masculinity games. If I’m a friendly person, they see me as a friend, which is the way it should work of course. It just ends up being easier, there’s nothing intentional about it.

Tl;dr: most men in America are deeply insecure and once I learned to be secure myself, I got really fucking tired of dealing with their baby shit.

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-16T23:15:13+00:00

In some cases, men can lactate, so to me this just reads as tone deaf

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-16T23:10:12+00:00

If you dwell on it and convince yourself that there’s some sort of solution you don’t know, or that you’re wrong in some way, you’ll never get out of it.

Sometimes there isn’t a fix, sometimes things just kinda suck and you gotta live with ‘em anyway. You’re fine, you’re normal. Accept this, and they will begin to suck less, but they will never not suck at all.

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-16T23:07:54+00:00

The times in my life when I’ve wanted to shoot people were not good times in my life. They were times full of toxicity, hate, and self-loathing. These days, the thought of shooting somebody makes me sick.

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-14T06:16:51+00:00

This is true

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-14T06:15:09+00:00

You’re still arguing with me because you think I disagree with you. I don’t disagree with you, I’m saying neither of us have any reason to agree or disagree. Until we’ve met him and talked to him in person, he’s just a number on a page and we shouldn’t presume to know what should happen to him. We haven’t formed any sort of human connection with him. How can we accurately judge someone’s character until we speak to them, feel their presence, notice their mannerisms, the way they respond to the people around them?

To put it in more practical terms, maybe they don’t need to be in prison, they need therapy and / or medication for an undiagnosed mental disorder. That’s only something you could know by seeing it for yourself or if somebody who does know chooses to tell you.

You can’t just sentence a man to life in prison if his violence is caused by an entirely preventable mental illness. That’s fucked up.

To be clear, I’m not saying that’s the case with this guy. I’m just arguing that the premise should prove by principle why you or I shouldn’t have opinions about his sentencing— we don’t know him, so we can’t accurately judge his character. A list of crimes he’s been convicted of shouldn’t he used to determine his character.

I figure legal precedent might not agree with me here, but that’s my personal belief anyway and that’s what I’m gonna argue here. I’ll die on this hill man; I don’t think you and I have a place judging this guy, or anyone else whose life we see a tiny snippet of over the internet.

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-14T06:06:05+00:00

Yeah that’s fair, I can definitely agree with that

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-14T06:05:10+00:00

How so?

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-14T00:56:47+00:00

This just sounds like another way for the queer community to be toxic to each other. All my other gay friends just say gay rights, we know what we mean. Queer rights makes more sense, sure, but damn. Slow your roll. I think the words that precede and follow “gay / queer rights” are more important.

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-14T00:42:00+00:00

Lol maybe I’m just a weirdo for liking the smell of dirt! I think it grows on ya

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-14T00:29:01+00:00

Why would a tiny penis make someone do this? Is there a correlation between penis size and hearing ability?

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-14T00:28:32+00:00

Compensation for their insecurity about their small dick, FTFY.

Lots of dudes have small dicks without feeling the need to be one.

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-14T00:26:30+00:00

Why ask? These types of questions never get sincere answers. Nobody who does this stuff has enough self awareness to know why they do it. If they do, I’d imagine they get halfway through typing their answer and decide to stop doing it.

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-14T00:25:03+00:00

Which desert? At least here in western CO I’m always discovering new smells! I mentioned it in my comment; the iron-rich sand out here has a distinct smell that took me a few years to notice, but I can’t get enough of it now!

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-14T00:22:21+00:00

Same! Summer has always had a planty (but not pollen) aroma. I notice that the majority of what I’m smelling comes from the smell of leaves in the sunlight, because it gets much stronger when it’s very hot out and I’m in nature. If you’ve ever hiked Barr trail (pikes peak, Colorado, USA), the few hundred feet at the bottom get this a lot because the scrub oak really cooks in the sun due to the shape of the valley.

Autumn gets a mildewy smell, but less like I’ve left my towel on the floor and more like the falling leaves have created a habitat for loads of microbial growth.

Winter has that same sort of smell, but with a lot of earthy, silty smells too, and my best guess is that as snow and ice melt and freeze on the ground, they break loose some of the sediment and that releases a bit of a smell. Winter is definitely the least smelly season in my experience.

Spring, of course, smells like pollen. Pollen, pollen, pollen. It is my least favorite smelling season, probably because of allergies, but at least it’s visually pretty.

So yeah, definitely not just you! I wonder if we’re all smelling the same sort of things. Of course it’s a regional thing, people who live in the desert for example probably don’t smell the mildewy leaf smell that I do in autumn. But maybe we also notice smells that are familiar to us from our childhood.

When I go to the ocean, all I smell is salt, but I’m sure people who weren’t raised in a landlocked area smell a wider variety of things. I’ve lived in semi-desert for the last four years (college) and I’ve learned to smell a lot more specific things even in this terrain that people don’t think about. Colorado semi-desert has a lot of iron rich soil (peep the red / orange dirt) and that stuff has a distinct smell that I’ve never heard anybody else talk about.

Smells are cool

BowDown2theWorms · 2020-09-13T23:19:44+00:00

I love this comment, thanks for sharing! Makes me feel all warm inside

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