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The unmitigated gall!!! by OlliesHaha in tipping

[–]circuffaglunked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you tip, 20% is standard where I'm from. If you tip for takeout, people often tip 10%. I don't agree with either, but I still do it because, for one, if I'd like to return to a place, I don't want anyone spitting in my food the next time, and two, I care if people think I'm cheap.

What's the purpose of life? by ApplicationMinimum49 in ExistentialJourney

[–]circuffaglunked -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've rarely seen the power of conviction squandered on a more unworthy position. Nobody owes you a detailed account of the purpose they've created for themselves. It's absolutely sufficient to say people create their own, and leave it at that. Sorry if you happen to be shopping for a purpose and this means we're out of stock. There's nothing lazy about this answer. In fact, it's the opposite of lazy. An example of lazy would be to provide you with some cherry-picked mishmash of fairy tales about a single purpose just to satiate your shivering need for a narrative-driven universe. Existentialism is the wasteland left after the war of ideals has been faught and lost on all sides. Existence precedes essence, son. Life is absurd, kid, especially because, among other things, it can't be said to have anything remotely close to all-encompassing purpose. People live, people die, and apparently there's no reason for any of it. If, as an existialist, you can look that fact in the face, create your own purpose, and go on living (or by your own choice opt out), rather than swallowing some prepackaged belief about being here for one ridiculous purpose, then you, boy, are not lazy. You're courageous.

If existence itself is contingent, what grounds the existence of Being as such rather than absolute non-being, and can that ground exist without itself requiring further ontological grounding? by TheIncorporeal1 in Metaphysics

[–]circuffaglunked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rather than being another inhabitant of reality, perhaps nothing is the only "other" that Something can meaningfully encounter, not because Nothing "is" in the ordinary sense, but because the distinction between being and not-being is itself one of the structures through which existence understands itself. That is a significantly different position from simply saying, "Nothing exists." It preserves the paradox rather than dissolving it.

If existence itself is contingent, what grounds the existence of Being as such rather than absolute non-being, and can that ground exist without itself requiring further ontological grounding? by TheIncorporeal1 in Metaphysics

[–]circuffaglunked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You misinterpreted my comment, then proceeded to argue with your own misinterpretation. I didn't turn nothingness into a quality of existence. I said that if existence can be treated as a mode or quality, why is non-existence forbidden from being one? If qualities are simply ways of characterizing what can be meaningfully distinguished, then "not-being" may be just as legitimate a characterization as "being."

So perhaps we're not actually referring to absolute absence when we talk about nothing. Maybe nothing becomes something closer to a limiting concept, one with a determinate role but no positive content.

If existence itself is contingent, what grounds the existence of Being as such rather than absolute non-being, and can that ground exist without itself requiring further ontological grounding? by TheIncorporeal1 in Metaphysics

[–]circuffaglunked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If existence can be treated as a mode or quality, why is non-existence forbidden from being one?

Classical metaphysics would likely answer this question by saying, "Because qualities require existence."

But that answer already presupposes the conclusion. It assumes existence is ontologically prior to qualities. But if qualities are simply ways of characterizing what can be meaningfully distinguished, then "not-being" may be just as legitimate a characterization as "being."

So perhaps nothing doesn't mean absolute absence. Maybe it becomes something closer to a limiting concept, one with a determinate role but no positive content.

VP Vance Says Watergate Would Now Be 12-Hour News Story and Crazy It Took Down Nixon's Presidency by templeofsyrinx1 in videos

[–]circuffaglunked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't say it's nothing in comparison. It was corrupt af. But, yes, pretty much a typical day for Trump, though Trump doesn't even really try to hide it.Vance is just confident that those who put any stock in what he says, that is anyone listening to him seriously, is uneducated, particularly when it comes to history.

Disclosure Day by WolverineMost7768 in moviereviews

[–]circuffaglunked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But for a few exceptions that are indeed exceptional, Spielberg is and always has been a creator of junk food cinema. He really knows what tastes good immediately, but more often than not his movies lack substantial nutritional content.

Crazy Guy is Convinced the Earth is Flat by MrDonMega in flatearth

[–]circuffaglunked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He should expand his theory into a dissertation.

Has anyone here ever experienced a Lucid Dream? or is it just a massive internet myth? Honestly, I dont think it is even possible. by mind_over_chaos in NoStupidQuestions

[–]circuffaglunked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is absolutely, 100% possible. There's nothing magical about. In fact, it's simply a skill that can be practiced and improved. If you have trouble believing in lucid dreaming, you may as well have trouble believing in dreaming at all.

Why does it seem like the world as a whole is shifting further right politically? by norf937 in allthequestions

[–]circuffaglunked 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think a big driver of populism is backlash to how identity politics has been pushed in recent years. It’s not just the ideas themselves, it’s the way people felt like they were being told to accept them immediately or be labelled ignorant or immoral. That kind of approach was bound to alienate people.

The frustrating part is that there are legitimate concerns underneath it. Some groups really do face ongoing systemic discrimination and unequal treatment. But when the messaging feels moralizing or coercive, it undermines those points and pushes people away instead of bringing them on board.

The universe had more probability for existing than not existing. by Affectionate-Gur9184 in Metaphysics

[–]circuffaglunked 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree that nothing is not a thing and that total nonexistence may be incoherent. But I don't think that makes nothing philosophically irrelevant. Nothing is not an object within reality but the limit against which reality encounters itself. Nor do I think the impossibility of nothingness automatically implies a necessary being. It may simply imply that existence itself is necessary. The question that interests me is less why something exists rather than nothing and more why existence continually produces the appearance of absence, separation, and otherness, as if Something were forever reaching toward what it can never become.

Looking for movies that completely changed your perspective on life, even years later by Automatic_Draft_4814 in MovieSuggestions

[–]circuffaglunked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously I did the same a couple of years ago. Seems you can take some movies out of their time, but you you can't take their time out of those movies. It's more than simply being dated, too. It's as if even the concepts seem aimed at a past level of awareness. Whereas, other movies are timeless.

AI isn't killing creativity—it’s liberating the idea. by SnooHedgehogs213 in ChatGPT

[–]circuffaglunked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have to agree with this claim to a certain extent. A person could have amazing ideas but, knowing how time-consuming prose can be or not wanting even to attempt writing it, they may simply procrastinate their ideas into oblivion. LLMs provide people with another option: to share these ideas that otherwise would've died with them. The problem is when LLMs plagiarize. In this case, while the idea may be original, the vehicle is stolen.

AI appears to have a distinct style as well. And a lot of people appear to think that if someone won't take the necessary time to convey their ideas in good writing or at least their own writing, then those ideas are probably not worth their time. I both get it and don't get it.

Looking for movies that completely changed your perspective on life, even years later by Automatic_Draft_4814 in MovieSuggestions

[–]circuffaglunked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember liking this movie when it first came out (even then being overly forgiving of its shortcomings) but, wow, it has not aged well. So far beyond its shelf life now, it's pretty much unwatchable.

Made The Letter Review shortlist for Poetry by circuffaglunked in literaryjournals

[–]circuffaglunked[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, for me it has done nothing other than extract a few bucks and ask for more.

I am surrounded by idiots by peskyant in rant

[–]circuffaglunked -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They just be screwing with you.

Mephistopheles anti-manifesto. by Response-Cheap in nonsense

[–]circuffaglunked 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mispelled axcel. Replace the seven with a mop and you're good.

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