Jerkface (any/all)

lisp makes my brain relax

It’s every hour, not every month. It’s a considerable expense to have a human do that 12-16 times a day.

Union protection? ;-)

That human is taking a job away from a tele-presence droid.

Humans didn’t become effective hunters until after we started using technology. We’re not evolved for hunting. We have the biology of herbivores, for crying out loud! The more meat we eat, the younger we die and the more diseases we experience. [1] [2] We’re evolved for running, sweating, speaking, and eating starches.

Inducing consumption of meat, and corrupting people’s scientific understanding of our natural history and biological needs, is exactly one of the goals of contemporary capital.

New music is surviving. Of course it will survive. Music is an expression of our humanity.

Thriving? I think not. When was the last time you went to a bar and people just starting singing and playing folk music? When was the last time you even heard of that happening? Once it wasn’t weird, it was normal.

Music is dead because it has been elevated to something that is performed by the few and consumed by the many, instead of something that we all live together.

Okay, but that’s not what “ok, boomer” means. It’s not about the cycle of generations. It is specifically about calling out people who are critical of the consequences of poverty experienced by younger generations, without acknowledging that poverty itself, or Boomers’ responsibility for creating that poverty. “ok, boomer” is what you say when someone tells you that to get a good job, you just need a strong work ethic, a firm handshake, and the willingness to walk up to the manager and ask for a job.

Whatever you eat, something has died for it. Yes, even plants.

Okay? So what? That’s irrelevant, and I think you know that. I think you are just trying to distract yourself from processing ideas and feelings that are inconvenient for you.

No one is against the death of any living creature. That’s a ridiculous straw-man.

You cannot be cruel to a plant. You cannot commit violence against a plant. You cannot commit atrocity against a plant. These are things you do every time you buy an egg. Plants DON’T HAVE EXPERIENCES. The experiences of animals are real and matter.

It’s funny how plants rights advocates only seem to exist in the presence of people appealing for compassion to animals. Funny, transparent, and pathetic.

Do you know why people don’t have empathy for animals? Because they are cowards. Experiencing the feelings of creatures that you abuse so heartlessly HURTS more than you are even willing to understand. So you just block it all out and pretend it isn’t even happening. You make stupid little arguments that ignore the point, just to distract yourself from thinking about that very point. It doesn’t matter that you’re making the same arguments that have been refuted a million times before, because you are not interested in engaging in good faith, you just need a distraction.

From your own fucking cruelty and violence. Never allowing yourself to even consider that you can JUST STOP being cruel and violent. Because then you’d have to admit to yourself that you’ve been manipulated into being a monster all your life.

Who here derives joy from such a thing??

heyyyyyy now. don’t make fun of people’s appearance. because it’s not just their feelings you hurt, but also my shorts-wearing ass.

Oooohhhhhh LOOTERS. I’m like, “wow did they fuck up loiterers”

Having to explain what a text editor is and what a text file is to grown-ass adults has become a recurring waking nightmare. Trying to explain the difference between a Word document and a text file? Fucking FORGET it.

soldering was an expected norm of PC building

There has never been an IBM PC-compatible that expected soldering of its user in order to function. Maybe if you wanted to upgrade the RAM on your motherboard prior to inline memory modules, but that’s hardly an end-user task, you’d take it to a technician to do that.

UBI now

Fine, use DVI.

that’s not what that means. not even close.

How many eggs do you have to eat before thoughts of the violence and cruelty you are committing impinge upon your consciousness?

Psychological theory advances every year, but we don’t get more resistant. Not only do we all have basically the same brain, but our culture is gradually shaped to prevent us from having unprofitable ideas, like that mercy and compassion are values that area genuinely important to cultivate.

I was exposed to “Indian leg wresting” in gym class like 35-40 years ago

I mean, they are half right. The music industry is eating itself. Back catalog is outperforming new releases year after year because new music is dead.