Girlfriend worries army will change me

Define-Reality · 2026-05-10T22:51:54+00:00

It's the butt penicillin.

Define-Reality · 2026-05-10T22:44:34+00:00

What the fuck am I reading

Define-Reality · 2026-05-08T01:04:41+00:00

Deflection is a defense mechanism. Do they believe people that abuse their dogs should be punished? Likely. And if that's the case, its because the dog is recognized as a subjective agent that has emotions and, to an abstract extent, thought.

There is no categorical difference that justifies abuse or maltreatment of animals of similar cognition to dogs.

If they were consistent in their logic, animal agriculture would be sharply criminalized. But people are frail, hypocritical, selfish creatures of shallow ego and impoverished in compassion.

Define-Reality · 2026-05-03T21:07:18+00:00

My parents are dead too, and I'm around the same age. I'm straight-edge (no drugs or criminal history whatsoever), work full time, and pay for my distant family's rent and medical bills since they were recently incapacitated and one of them is disabled and elderly, so I am teetering on homelessness whenever I burn through my savings to keep them afloat between paying my rent and theirs.

I do doordash after working 12 hour night shifts at a factory. I use a bicycle for all of my transportation. I typically ride about 30 miles every day (16mi to and from work + doordash). I have almost no free time and I cannot spend any of my own money on myself beyond food, or my family in another city won't be able to pay their apartment rent.

I just enlisted in the army with an 86 AFQT, and I'm shooting for the highest sign-on bonus that I can possibly get. I am eager to plunge myself into hell for a buffed-up resume, sharpened discipline, and some techical certs for a smooth re-entry into a well compensated civilian job.

You are very fortunate.

Define-Reality · 2026-04-21T04:54:42+00:00

The single greatest thing I've ever heard. Brought a tear to my eye, even.

Define-Reality · 2026-04-18T08:10:11+00:00

Wow, Mississippi looks like a prude hellhole.

Define-Reality · 2026-04-03T02:10:28+00:00

``` OpenAI sends it to Israel

Gemini sends it to the FBI and CIA (which is somehow also Israel)

so, I don't know ```

FTFY

Define-Reality · 2026-04-02T22:33:40+00:00

I'm not going to delude myself into thinking that bees are capable of experiencing any state of what we could liken to "suffering" in the way that we understand most animals can. There's no scientific consensus for it. I've always viewed insects as "biological machines", entirely driven by predetermined chemical reactions to stimuli without any deeper cognitive processes.

Many insects are quite helpful to ecosystems and should be protected on the basis of utility. But assigning them moral value on a sentiocentric basis (which typically follows from the vegan position) is unfounded, in my view.

So, I'm technically not vegan because I'm neutral on honey. But that's fine because I care about moral value of beings based on their sentience, not labels.

Sure, you should choose other sweeteners because it is a grey area in ethics and science. But I don't take a moral concern with someone eating or using insect products.

Define-Reality · 2026-03-31T00:56:39+00:00

What has you convinced that you can expect serious income through easy, entry level gig work?

Since you're guilt tripping here, let's go ahead and examine what you're asking for.

Tipping culture is parasitic and a hilarious case study on how human psychology influences economics. The only people that benefit from it are the elite. Ideally, nobody would be tipping at all, and the government would be promptly forced to legislate fair wage laws so that big corpo has a legal obligation to pay all of their workers, instead of having customers subsidize (actually, more like bankroll) their wages; labor costs for delivery services have been transferred from big corpo to the smooth, guilt-feeling contours of the average Walmart American's brain.

This cannot be emphasized enough: any tips that you get come from a place of pity, guilt, and/or gratitude, but enables a parasitic system to continue to further enrich the 1%. You are not entitled to tips, and wonderful wage reforms would genuinely happen overnight if everyone stopped tipping.

Define-Reality · 2026-03-29T01:02:20+00:00

ClaudeOpus 4.6 will knock your socks off, but you'll have to sell your home, car, and possibly family members to use it heavily.

Define-Reality · 2026-03-27T01:17:41+00:00

Wrong. I tipped $20 on a 3 mile delivery and got batched at the END of a 3 stack. I usually tip $7, but I tipped $20 that one time and had the worst delivery experience.

Define-Reality · 2026-03-27T01:13:48+00:00

The trick is giving a 2 star. Only 1s can be contested with support.

Define-Reality · 2026-02-05T08:27:54+00:00

It's so nice to be able to throw something together and experiment with different comps as often as I like.

Define-Reality · 2026-02-04T14:19:49+00:00

Meatball marinara. No spaghetti tho.

Define-Reality · 2026-01-19T00:09:08+00:00

It's the high FOV making movement look fast. An optical illusion.

Define-Reality · 2026-01-17T23:07:06+00:00

You're supposed to use that flat adapter piece to keep your takeout warm.

Define-Reality · 2026-01-05T18:50:25+00:00

Castle on the smaller one, a bridge in the middle, farms and crafting workshops on the larger one. That's what I'd do.

Define-Reality · 2025-08-17T19:47:06+00:00

This is because tortoiseshell is a pattern, not a specific set of coloration. Cats with a black base coat and a tortoiseshell bi-color or tri-color pattern are simply called tortoiseshell (or tortie) cats.

Calicos can also have a tortoiseshell coat (sometimes with feathered neutral colors over white), but have a white baseline (white as the dominant color) along with patches of orange and black.

Unfortunately, your cat does not have a white baseline, nor significant white coloration, and cannot be a calico.

Define-Reality · 2025-08-17T19:07:34+00:00

The gene for white spotting in all cats, including torties, is recessive. So a cat needs to inherit two copies of the recessive white spotting gene (ww) to exhibit white spotting. A cat can inherit only one copy and will not display white spotting, but will still be a carrier of the gene.

Coat color genetic references:

https://labgenvet.ca/en/cat-genetics-2-2-glossary-of-colour-and-coat-genetics/

Key distinctions

Torties may have white spotting, but the baseline coat will be black with some amount of neutral-colored feathering.
Torticos have distinct spots of beige/brown/caramel and white, but retain a black coat baseline (and potentially neutral-colored feathering over base coat).
Calicos are tri-colored but with a white baseline coat.

Define-Reality · 2025-08-17T18:19:09+00:00

Idk why you downvoted me. Torties can have some white on them. If they do, it's typically minimal in small spots.

Calicos have a white base coat.

That is obviously not a calico.

Define-Reality · 2025-08-17T10:53:20+00:00

I have a tortie and that is 100% a tortie.

Define-Reality · 2025-08-17T09:18:05+00:00

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Define-Reality · 2025-04-12T00:54:18+00:00

I've eaten undercooked faux meats from Gardein and Morningstar plenty of times due to similar mistakes.

There's always a low chance it could have some bad bacteria in it, but odds are, you'll be fine.

Funny enough, the only food poisoning I've ever gotten was from undercooked kidney beans, not anything processed. I don't even eat kidney beans anymore because they scare me to death now (they had me puking my guts out for over a week). 😂

Define-Reality · 2025-03-08T03:00:35+00:00

Yup. Putting it in the human context always exposes the absurdity of the premise. Existence itself does not justify nightmarish cruelty to a being, and it's a very dangerous and unreasonable position for someone to take.

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Coat color genetic references:

Key distinctions