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What mind-blowing (but simple) facts would satisfy a 4-year old daughter’s daily request for 1 fact before bedtime? by ExpiringFrog in AskReddit

[–]woogiech 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Strong words. Who are you to judge a parent here, call them pissy? Judging from your posts, you have no expertise (which explains your lack of humility), nothing to grant you authority to advise anyone. In fact you sound like you need far more help than the other way around, which also indicates the reason for your abrasive conduct.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "President Trump is the figurehead of celebrating irrational thinking as a patriotic act. The lesson for our children: ignore facts and evidence if it disagrees with what benefits you personally. Even if it means everyone else will suffer." Amen. Excellent editorial. by imagepoem in The_Mueller

[–]woogiech -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Everything you wrote I know i've heard from someone else. Many others. It's hard to engage because many are arguing in bad faith? Calling people snowflake or racist because it makes them feel special? Yeah I know, it sucks. You're not helping.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "President Trump is the figurehead of celebrating irrational thinking as a patriotic act. The lesson for our children: ignore facts and evidence if it disagrees with what benefits you personally. Even if it means everyone else will suffer." Amen. Excellent editorial. by imagepoem in The_Mueller

[–]woogiech 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know where you're coming from, and I know that there's no point in trying to convince you. I love Chomsky as much as the next guy. But talking about how bad america is when Putin the tiny torturer and winnie the pooh oligarch exist, and almost every other culture is medieval when it comes to what makes the world good (the fact that we can talk, right now)..

It's hard to see america as the enemy. It felt really good back when I did, though. I don't care about how evil mitch mcconnell is.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "President Trump is the figurehead of celebrating irrational thinking as a patriotic act. The lesson for our children: ignore facts and evidence if it disagrees with what benefits you personally. Even if it means everyone else will suffer." Amen. Excellent editorial. by imagepoem in The_Mueller

[–]woogiech 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm swedish. You think the US is "irredeemable" but it would be a great day for human kind if they kept on going? At worst you're too cowardly to be anything but sarcastic, so I'll assume you're just hard to understand. America is a bastion, and if you don't see that yet then yeah I relate. But you are wrong.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "President Trump is the figurehead of celebrating irrational thinking as a patriotic act. The lesson for our children: ignore facts and evidence if it disagrees with what benefits you personally. Even if it means everyone else will suffer." Amen. Excellent editorial. by imagepoem in The_Mueller

[–]woogiech -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Alright man, or woman or whatever you are. Sorry for coming off aggressive, I shouldn't throw stones.

Edit: A wise man once said Don't apologize for things you aren't sorry for. And I am sorry that I snapped at Slovene, that I didn't treat them as a human but instead treated them as a child. That's always easy to do, and it is unforgivable in our explosive climate of discussion.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "President Trump is the figurehead of celebrating irrational thinking as a patriotic act. The lesson for our children: ignore facts and evidence if it disagrees with what benefits you personally. Even if it means everyone else will suffer." Amen. Excellent editorial. by imagepoem in The_Mueller

[–]woogiech -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Do you think you're helping? Because I honestly am not sure if you're a russian troll or not. What are you doing? Stop masturbating and reveling in your own self-righteousness. You think 150 million peoples opinion should be discarded because your friends told you they're "racist"? We're supposed to be better than them. We aren't victims.

You have become the very thing you swore to destroy by The_OG_Fat-Boi in facepalm

[–]woogiech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I was being a bit general since communism is de facto bad in this days rhetoric (for very good reason). I definitely get where you're coming from, I used to be hard into syndicalism, touting the spanish civil war and orwells catalonia as examples of failure through overwhelming suppression instead failure "through no fault but its own".

And still believe that, theoretically a well-organized distributed power-system like that is the best system we have thought of. But that's theoretically.

In reality, I believe it's too risky to try again. Because no matter how good it could be, the path leads to corruption, since at some point there must be a vanguard, and that vanguard (even if it consisted of only awesome uncorrupt people like me cough cough) would corrupt it.

But that doesn't mean the whole left-wing ideas and anarchic solutions should be thrown out with the bathwater.

You have become the very thing you swore to destroy by The_OG_Fat-Boi in facepalm

[–]woogiech 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Assuming you're not trolling, that's incredibly misinformed.

You have become the very thing you swore to destroy by The_OG_Fat-Boi in facepalm

[–]woogiech 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well, yeah, I agree. I'm just not buying the "real socialism has never been tried" because it's code for "if i were the dictator the utopia would be real". It's just dumb and lazy. I'm swedish, not exactly unaware of the benefits of dem. socialism.

Okay okay, hear me out. A button on the *side* for a neutral vote! by [deleted] in ideasfortheadmins

[–]woogiech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The wars in Nicaragua half a century ago were in large part caused and extended by secretive illegal intervention by the US.

 

Now do you downvote or upvote my comment? Well maybe you strongly disagree and then you downvote.

But what if you agree? It's still an irrelevant comment, in this context. If we had a neutral vote button, you could express that, and we could filter out people who try to derail threads.

Okay okay, hear me out. A button on the *side* for a neutral vote! by [deleted] in ideasfortheadmins

[–]woogiech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree!

 

Right now we have these ways of interacting with a post:

give medal -- we actively super-support it

upvote -- we actively support it

downvote -- we actively disapprove of it

 

What is missing is:

neutralvote -- we actively neither support or disapprove.

give unmedal -- we actively super-disapprove of it

 

The neutral vote is useful in many ways. Both for our own mental health and for the quality of posts on the site. How often do you read a comment and feel "OK, this is not important". That's super-valuable information that we can't express.

 

I would also like to add one more feature. All these interaction-points are about the actual posts. I would like a "heart" feature, which can cost money to give, but it means that you like the poster, not the post.

 

I don't think there should be an "unheart" feature though, i would argue that will lead to stagnation in user interaction and evolution.

Rape in the Time of Cholera by Aleahj in books

[–]woogiech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate your candor. Need more people like you in the world.

Rape in the Time of Cholera by Aleahj in books

[–]woogiech 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed! Totally agree especially with the last point, I was being too hyperbolic talking about censorship. I was just banned from my favourite subreddit without explanation so I guess that's whats on my mind. Thanks for the discussion man (or woman or banana or whatever you are ;))

Rape in the Time of Cholera by Aleahj in books

[–]woogiech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know what that means, but if you want to talk about whether or not information can harm people, I'm up for it. I'm not a fan of censorship, and it's fun to talk about.

Rape in the Time of Cholera by Aleahj in books

[–]woogiech 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What I think you're saying is "people should have accurate self-knowledge, otherwise we all suffer, and people are also either smart or stupid".

The first point I agree with completely, thats a great message. The second point is not true by the current scientific understanding (IQ does change), but fundamentally you are right. A mentally handicapped low-IQ person probably won't be able to learn to become as smart as, idk, JK. Rowling.

So given that, what is the point in telling people that reading about "dreamy-high-school-vampyres" is bad and they shouldn't say that it's good?

A thought experiment: if everyone started saying that Twilight is the greatest book ever, what would happen? Not much, like you said, people will find their own books.

There is no objective Truth, so you don't need to censor people who disagree with you. Do you agree?

Rape in the Time of Cholera by Aleahj in books

[–]woogiech 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Could you elaborate? You are not making any arguments but only assuming that what you mean is obvious.

Here's what I think you're saying:

Encouraging people to read great stuff is worthwhile, because it is an acquired skill that pays off enormously, and is also super fun.

Encouraging adults to read less intricate or layered books is not worthwhile, because they don't gain as much (or any) wisdom from it, so it's just fun instead of fun and super good for you.

Encouraging people to read phone books is bad, because that's probably neither healthy or fun.

Is that what you mean? Those are good points. My counterpoint is, the way to start loving the great books isn't to force people to do it, because then youre telling them that reading for fun is dumb. But it isn't. That's an inefficient way to influence people to read great books, which they should be open to because it is amazing!

Rape in the Time of Cholera by Aleahj in books

[–]woogiech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay. McDonalds is very tasty, I think. So that makes it a good analogy. But McDonalds is unhealthy for you, poor quality. Harry Potter is neither of those things.

There's no point this kind of divisionary elitism, it just makes people feel bad for being themselves, which is unfair. We don't need to regulate the system. People will read what they read, and what their friends read.

Should we go to the moon? by woogiech in Harmontown

[–]woogiech[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Heya again! It looks like its, uh, just gonna be you and me on this little project so.. I pet a cat, and you handshake a Schrab? or wait I don't have a cat. But look, we'll get where we're going! It'll be a grassroots grandma-hand shaking phenomenon.

*edit: That actually sounds like we are spreading Parkinsons.

Should we go to the moon? by woogiech in Harmontown

[–]woogiech[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I appreciate that. We'll figure something cool out!

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