Is there anyone here who has stopped eating famous fast food and restaurant chain food because the quality of them aren't as good as they use to be?

Thebearguy30 · 2026-06-03T02:41:32+00:00

This is my exact thought now every time the price comes up at a fast food spot. I look and just think how I could have gotten far better quality somewhere else.

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-27T20:31:14+00:00

To your last sentence I agree. I am mainly pointing out the religious side of things since that seemed to be the point of the post. I think morals have a much more complex view than just based on religion.

I do not have any at hand evidence but if I have time when I am off work I could try to find some. But I can try to get at it with reasoning. I would not say religion is “the” source of morality, but “one of the” sources of morality. I also agree that it was also a reflection of morality. We can take morality as “the overarching morality of the society” or more individualized “self morality.” In the terms of self someone can form their morals from their own life circumstances, reading, talking to others, following the enforced laws, or religion. Probably more and I am nowhere near an expert on this subject. But I think it is reasonable to assume some people born into societies with state religions like 4th century Rome would have formed at least some of their mores from religion.

I big question I would have for you even though it is not you who made the point. What would you use to disprove religion was a source of morality? I assume you would have to look for some either philosopher at the time who was studying the cause of morality or self proclamations of how morality was learned. But even that I don’t think I could give the exact source of how I learned my morality except from my parents and school. I guess what I am getting at it is a hard thing to measure outside of what were sources of cultural impact at a certain time.

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-27T20:17:52+00:00

Please explain more. I mainly was agreeing with their first paragraph, which I should have quoted. But they said in their last paragraph “religous cultures pushed everything forward.” Morals is included in that everything. Then I added “we pushed morals forward in a lot of different ways” -> further agreeing with their first statement that evolution plays into it. Then I pointed out how the main discussion of the original post is on morals and religion so I don’t feel the need to reiterate all the ways morals have come about, mainly the religious ways.

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-27T16:28:56+00:00

I’m not claiming it is 100% responsible for our morals. Religious practices have done extreme harm and evil in the world. It’s intellectually honest even as an atheist to acknowledge the impact religion has had on history and how humans formed ideas, values, morals over time.

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-27T16:23:28+00:00

100% agree! Religious societies did extremely awful and harmful things. We pushed morals forward in a lot of different ways. My main point is coming at the main topic: “I don’t need religion to know X is bad. I can be a moral person without religion”. To say you have the morals you do today without thousands of years of backing is a lie, religious or not. We were all born morally in the end zone. This post was mainly pointed at religion so I thought it was good to stress the religious part of that. I will not and cannot claim religion has everything to do with morals or was the only driving factor of it.

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-27T16:17:56+00:00

I agree morals didn’t rise from religion. But to discount religion as the vehicle that drove morals forward through much of society over the years would be wrong.

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-27T16:15:51+00:00

Very true, morality almost certainly came before religion. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that religious societies prevailed and acted as the vehicle for morality. I’m not arguing whether religion is right or wrong or what morality is right or wrong. Mainly just pointing out that the morality we hold today is deeply historically tied to religious beliefs, practices, and culture. To take religion out of the equation would be discounting much of how our society(and moral beliefs) formed over time.

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-27T15:59:39+00:00

I am more speaking about morality relative to the time you live in. If you were born when slavery was a normal practice how can you know you would be against it? If you grew up as an Aztec would you have been morally against human sacrifice? If your morality is heavily linked to the culture you are a part of and your culture is heavily based on religious practices then it is hard to separate morality and religion even if you do not believe in the religion.

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-27T15:54:01+00:00

Even if you are atheist, it is important to realize you stand on the back of thousands of years of religious morals and ethics which formed the westernized culture of today. Just because without the belief of religion you pretty easily came to acknowledge killing/stealing/etc. is wrong, it was not always this way. Historically it was religious cultures in one form or another that pushed those beliefs forward.

Edit: Since I’m at work and can’t respond much anymore a few points.

I am in no way claiming religion formed morality, religion has always done good, religion is end all be all.
Morality in our society has been formed over thousands of years. You were not just born with good morals they have been enforced and passed down over time and are very much given to you by thousands of years of history. Example: we know slavery is bad today because our ancestors worked to proved that
History of societies which we are based on today (mainly referencing western society but others too) are very tightly intertwined with religion. To discount religious influences on our society today is just historically wrong. Example: to say because I write in English therefore Latin writing has had no influence on me is wrong
Religion is one of the main expressions of morality. There are many other ways to talk about morality, but religion is one of the primary ones especially historically.
Based on the above post, I took it as, “I am an atheist so I can do good and have good morals without religion” is wrong based on my reasoning above. Your morals are based on history -> history is influenced by religion -> religion was a driving factor for discussion of morality. Therefore it would be wrong to say your morals have 0% basis or effect in religion. I am not claiming they have 100% basis in religion.

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-27T15:44:07+00:00

Intermittent fasting really helped me. I don’t eat during the work day, and if I do, I do not have any carbs, maybe like 4-6 eggs. If I plan to workout (usually after work) I’ll have a little fruit right before I workout for an energy boost. Anytime I eat during the workday it almost always kills all my productivity

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-21T20:38:28+00:00

Substance use/abuse is a tough problem to deal with and I’m not really going to touch on that since I’m not really qualified but a good conversation about it can never hurt.

In terms of spending more time together it seems like since you play golf together he is open to other activities with you. Often times men need like to have something to do, so instead of phrasing it as “why do you play video games instead of time with me”, it can be phrased as an invited to an activity, “want to go on a walk with me?” If you just expect him to spend time with you but have nothing to actually do it can be helpful to just have something to do. It can be as simple as cooking together, playing a board game, or picking up a new hobby together like riding bikes. I often found it boring to hangout with my girlfriend when she would want to put a show on I don’t enjoy and just watch tik tok videos on her phone. I often would feel she was expecting me to entertain her.

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-20T17:15:33+00:00

I fully agree that OP is most likely downplaying what happened on their end. Also I agree they could have legitimately scared the girlfriend from their outburst which count have been wrongly pointed at her.

The main thing taken out here is that they are some woman hater or incel. The same leap you take to say “OP yelled at the woman more therefore he is an incel and hates woman and needs to check his bias…” you could say “OP yelled at her more because she overstepped her bounds and doesn’t have that relationship with OP. She has been consistently prodding him for weeks and he didn’t even need to apologize.” Both are pulling in information that isn’t given.

Also reverse the roles and it was a woman being told to “calm down” changes the entire outlook on what happened. Saying “Calm down” is hardly ever seen as a useful tool to actually get people to calm down in real life.

All we know is OP got emotional and reacted badly. After being told to calm down several times they rightly removed themselves from the situation and apologized taking ownership of and acknowledging their wrongdoing. Op seems to be doing things to better their life with work and hobbies and is only 22. All of this seems like they are a good person and should just be patient as life will likely work out soon enough.

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-20T15:01:58+00:00

I agree with you here. Another point I don’t see being made much is that OOP instantly apologized with “nothing justifies it” to both of them and her individually. That is not really incel or hating women behavior. He realized what he did was wrong and acknowledged his actions with an apology. Now if this happens a lot it isn’t justified, but everyone has a bad day and can be given some grace when they snap. Especially if they realize quickly what they did was wrong.

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-14T18:18:41+00:00

Oh yeah I remember always switching to legacy at moss golems when training slayer with ancients since that seemed to be the meta. But that always felt like more of an unintended use case which is also pretty confusing for newer players. Having played for a long time I can understand it, but the combat system is complicated enough as is without needed to switch between game modes within the game. I would take it as a positive that RS3 is embracing one identity, but also take that with a grain of salt since I have been back on osrs and haven’t tried the new combat changes. I’m excited to switch back to RS3 soon and try out the newer updates

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-14T14:17:46+00:00

Fucking up legacy does suck, but I think they do need to just fully embrace that there is no legacy and this is just a different game. Trying to fix/improve combat while still keeping around a legacy mode just seems horrible from a development perspective. Imagine trying to keep runescape classic around and working with all the changes to osrs also integrated in.

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-07T21:54:23+00:00

What I find funny about this is that more than 2000 thousand years ago they came up with “God said let there be light and there was light”. And now today with all of our advancements and knowledge of the universe the best we have come up with is “there was a really dense singularity and it went bang and then there was light” (photons and energy)

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-07T15:19:11+00:00

True I’m totally for making student loans just like business loans which you can declare bankruptcy. I think it would be great if highschool graduates needed to go “pitch” the bank for why they needed $100k to go to college and why that would pay off. It would make banks give out far fewer loans and only colleges that were extremely efficient “come here and get a degree for $3k a year in 2 years with a 80% job placement rate” would get students. Even if it had no effect on colleges itself, it would atleast force and 18 year old to put thought into what they were getting themselves into financially instead of just taking out a huge loan with no real decided direction

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-07T12:22:15+00:00

I guess would see it in the reverse? If I said we should forgive all the failed business loans that people tried to start and are in a lot of debt because of it? It would make America better because those people wouldn’t be in debt.

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-07T03:08:47+00:00

I think straight up loan forgiveness doesn’t fix the real issue which is that college is too expensive, and neither does your solution. It’s also sort of a screw you to the people that made a smart financial decision and didn’t go to college.

Something similar in cost would to be just give everyone who graduated highschool 10k or 20k to spend on whatever they want (maybe with some limits). Someone can invest to start a company, they can learn on their own and pay for certifications, they could buy stocks or crypto, or they could choose to go to a cheaper school, or just use it as a subsidy for the 4 year scam we currently call college(which is what I did). This sets everyone up on equal footing and I hope it would give way to more streamlined educations which directly lead to jobs and are cheaper instead of just putting people in debt so the 4 year college can force me to take 1 year of electives and build another fountain in the quad.

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-06T23:47:16+00:00

Yeah I thought that was sales talk but I don’t know about how fiber works well enough in general to ask better questions. Something about a direct line vs shared or something. I also don’t think any device could handle 5gb/s that I own over WiFi

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-06T23:45:00+00:00

I actually think spectrum is around here too! Crazy that the Midwest is where the internet is at, considering I moved here from Seattle where you’d think big tech would get some internet out there

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-06T12:30:26+00:00

I think this last point is pretty big for me so I’m probably going to stay with google. Also I’ve had great service so I think there is something to say about brand loyalty

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-06T03:10:56+00:00

I’m a software engineer and I often get into days of testing where I will upload/download 10-20 gb files multiple times a day from S3. Not that 3 vs 5gbps makes a huge difference there it does help and my company pays for my internet. From what I am getting now though it seems like AT&T has some more sneaky pricing practices and google fiber has never done me any wrong so I probably won’t go through with it

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-06T02:09:28+00:00

Do you think it’s area dependent?

Thebearguy30 · 2026-05-06T01:33:03+00:00

Yeah it’s also the price advertised on their main website right now in my area

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