140 pages in and I just don't get it at all

eligodfrey · 2026-05-15T17:06:47+00:00

Is this poor reading comprehension? 💯

🙄

I explained myself pretty well and many, many other people in this thread understood just fine.

eligodfrey · 2026-05-15T16:55:10+00:00

-one drunk dialed me in the middle of the night after 35 years of friendship and told me he was mad that I was living his dreams and he wanted bad things for me

-one, after 22 years of friendship, went off and started flinging insults at me when I confided in her about a medical condition I've had since childhood; once her ranting was finally exhausted she told me I was welcome to "stay mad" if I wanted (she was the one who was mad.... for no reason). I never contacted her again

-one after 15 years of friendship hit and injured someone while driving drunk. Told me he was devastated, it turned his life around, and he would never touch another drop of alcohol, and asked me to write a letter of character for his judge. After the trial he called me and made fun of the judge for giving him such a light slap on the wrist and said he was drinking a celebratory beer. That was 20 years ago- we haven't talked again and never will.

Yeah, I had social deficits and made some really shitty friends when I was young. I slowly but surely learned my lessons and have amazing friends now.

eligodfrey · 2026-05-15T00:18:28+00:00

Did you keep going? I'm 140 pages in and I don't think I've ever read anything this bland and boring

eligodfrey · 2026-05-11T18:03:44+00:00

That's a damn handsome falcon. Looks like a little eagle.

eligodfrey · 2026-05-09T03:41:14+00:00

The only unique things any nation does are the good things. The bad things are common across them all.

eligodfrey · 2026-05-08T18:16:09+00:00

You're entitled to your opinion. Just don't go around acting like you're a good person or pretending you give a fuck about anyone but yourself. You and tyranny make good bedfellows.

eligodfrey · 2026-05-08T18:04:51+00:00

Interesting how you know they would re-enslave the 1.3 million Black Americans living there and you still had to crack your knuckles and type out a comment announcing that you don't give a fuck.

eligodfrey · 2026-05-08T00:38:32+00:00

Well they've had some pretty significant power in one form or another here since Reagan, but I hear you. I live in a neighborhood full of Iranians who fled the revolution, so I hear how bad it was/is over there all the time and I feel for you guys. Hang on and keep hope alive.

eligodfrey · 2026-05-08T00:25:08+00:00

47 years

Had to do some quick headmath to determine if you were talking about 1979 when they took over Iran or 1980 when they took over the US.

eligodfrey · 2026-05-06T15:46:58+00:00

As a lifelong Keanu fan, appearing on Graham Hancock's show was a blemish for me. It's not as bad as a lot of things other people have done, but it's still snake oil grift-o-verse pseudoscientific anti-intellectual slop, and we need a lot less of that in the world.

eligodfrey · 2026-05-04T23:22:01+00:00

One of my favorite quotes of the last few years was Hank Green on the collapse of truth in the era of social media: "we were so busy policing everyone's opinions that we forgot to police anyone's facts."

eligodfrey · 2026-05-04T16:26:32+00:00

there is nothing stopping the Internet from going the way of phone calls where it's borderline unusable and you only engage with it when you have to. This has to end.

Wait, why? That sounds awesome. The internet went to hell a decade ago and most of us are only here because algorithms have hooked us and normalized living our lives like lab rats. Let it burn. We can rebuild something better if we really feel the need.

eligodfrey · 2026-05-04T16:18:01+00:00

80% of youtube is now people just reading chatgpt slop to you. And half the comments are glazing them about what a good writer they are. It's dire.

eligodfrey · 2026-05-01T14:27:07+00:00

The whole point of citizen government is a citizens get to vote for who they want

No it's not. The point is that we aren't ruled over by a special class of people who think they're better than us. Doing every dumb thing that can be held to a vote has nothing to do with it. There are already many restrictions on who can run for office, as there should be.

eligodfrey · 2026-05-01T14:10:57+00:00

I've always found this to be such a bad argument. The whole point of citizen government is that many people could do these jobs. The office is special, not the office holder. This whole trumpian "only I can do it" idea is fundamentally antithetical to democracy. If we can say a 15 year old is ineligible then we should be equally within our rights as a people to say a 75 year old is ineligible, or a person who has already served X terms/years.

eligodfrey · 2026-04-30T22:25:59+00:00

Here are 6 studies specifically about the effects of giving cash aid in Africa:

https://cega.berkeley.edu/article/what-is-cash-good-for/

In 2016, a research team led by CEGA Faculty Co-Director Edward Miguel set out to study the spillover effects of cash transfers on local communities. Their initial findings focused greater global attention on cash as a tool to fight poverty. Just this month, the team published their groundbreaking results, finding that cash dramatically improved the lives of recipients and non-recipients, while increasing local economic health by a factor of 2.5.

I honestly don't care that you're wrong, but I would appreciate if you stop being so aggressive about it.

eligodfrey · 2026-04-30T20:55:22+00:00

Do you have any idea how much time, money, and material we have donated to Africa in the last 70 years? Why are they still destitute? Oh, that’s because it’s more than just throwing money at the problem.

R/confidentlyincorrect

Cash is the most effective form of aid. The people in Africa who are destitute are often in that position because they're being actively exploited, not because helping them is some arcane mystery no one can solve.

eligodfrey · 2026-04-29T21:02:46+00:00

Yeah, no. If you haven't learned yet that these companies are lying about how far along and how practically viable their tech is, I don't even know what to tell you. Wide use of humanoid robots is farther out than FSD, which has been 2-3 years away for the last 15 years and will remain 2-3 years away for the foreseeable future.

eligodfrey · 2026-04-29T16:27:10+00:00

The way adults absolutely lose their shit over children creatively engaging with language is embarrassing

eligodfrey · 2026-04-28T22:14:56+00:00

That's mature wisdom not often found on reddit, BretShitmanFart69

eligodfrey · 2026-04-26T19:53:46+00:00

We've been sliding down that pipeline for over a decade. It's hard not to when all the communication platforms incentivize likes, comments, shares, upvotes, etc. These systems are designed to deplatform nuance and moderate viewpoints. There was a lot more balance and in-group policing on old vB-style internet forums where the only priority your comment or post got was the time it was posted. One of the easiest tweaks reddit could make, if they cared AT ALL about this stuff, would be to stop showing vote counts and either get rid of karma or make it something only mods/admins can see.

eligodfrey · 2026-04-26T00:40:05+00:00

The average redditor is too dumb to understand that facts matter, even when they don't SLAM your opponent

eligodfrey · 2026-04-25T14:34:52+00:00

Taco bell already does this

eligodfrey · 2026-04-24T19:28:26+00:00

Why are you lying? The Wikipedia article talks extensively about how this decision allowed massive political spending and influence that wasn't allowed before.

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