I really enjoy people on the internet getting mad at large publications for posting about unimportant news on their social media. Just a cohort of twelve people getting mad every minute of every day, “sorry THIS is what you’re writing about”
I don’t understand the correction. Astronomy seems to connote the study of celestial bodies way more. How could cosmology possibly study 99.9999% of stuff and not 100%
Kinda makes us out to be cooler than we are I feel
The places life takes you… wow
i know you won't see this.... but please come back
a few days ago, my friend showed me an extension called "clearsky" and I found out that 1500 people block me on this website and i still feel SICK about it
we can come up with a new word, we can call people experiencing this problem "blonguses" or something. but then I think people would blame hate and belittle the blonguses
I think the issue is that people hate addicts, and not that addiction doesn't exist. We need a word to describe "compulsively seeking a harmful experience to the point where serious intervention is required for you to kick the habit." the word we generally use is addiction
I'm not an expert in the field, so don't know if other psychological mechanisms would be better suited to the task. I don't think "Casinos and other outfits get people addicted to gambling as an essential part of their business model" really does take the blame off corps, though
well I'd just say that part is the nasty part, rather than approaching reality under the belief that people aren't addicted to gambling, right
many addictions involve people manipulating other people. tobacco companies, alcohol companies, etc. I don't think I'm making a value statement here by saying gambling addiction exists. I'd suggest the issue here is how you're imagining addicts
Oh I see. I don’t think I’d like pedantically correct someone saying gambling is a scam, although it’s only one in a very broad definition of scam imo. The point I was making though is that gambling addiction exists and that most scams aren’t very much like gambling
Well clearly fine print doesn’t count right, the point is the people being scammed are deceived. I’m not sure what the second sentence means here, I think MLMs are scams
Sorry which mlm tells you that your odds of losing money are greater than your odds of making it? Don’t they, for the most part, sell themselves as good investments?
Every gambler knows the phrase “the house always wins,” but the adrenaline rush of winning punctuating the crushing experience of losing is, on its own, enough to hook them. That’s why it’s addiction-like. Because a harmful experience is pursued compulsively
There’s probably a lot of scams that basically work this way. The main difference is that every scam involves lying about potential upside, and that’s not true about gambling, which often relies on people not understanding stated or transparent probabilities
He was so uninterested in your house of representatives hot take :-(
RIP Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei he would have loved Hoppers
yes to be clear I wasn't saying I know why Cinderella's dad is rich. Though I'm not sure such an answer is available. We just know he is rich and goes to a fair at some point
I don't really know if it makes sense to call something other than Cinderella (the Brothers Grimm story) Cinderella. I mean that genuinely, I don't know if this sort of unifying Cinderella concept meaningfully exists. but I'm talkin Grimm and the media based on Grimm
It’s kind of interesting how capitalism and its myth of economic mobility is projected onto Cinderella, a story about the ultimate supremacy of true nobles over pretenders to the throne (the stepmother and sisters)
Like it’s not a story about how anyone can be worthy of the prince, but about how true nobility is a kind of genetic characteristic that will ultimately be clocked. And i never see anyone talking about this, to the point where I feel I must be wrong in saying it
One thing I think about all the time is that Cinderella is treated as a rags to riches story (I mean, this is what “Cinderella story” means), but the story makes clear that Cinderella is basically temporarily impoverished because of her father dying and stepmother taking over
One of the best lyrics ever is Paul Simon's, "And I believe these are the days of lasers in the jungle. Lasers in the jungle somewhere." And it just speaks so well to the decayed and arbitrary feeling of modern war. These psychotic wars of aggression are also basically anemic
it's wild to think that 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam. Imagine if 58,000 Americans died in Iran. In Iraq, America's least popular recent war, like 4,000 Americans died. We just do these insane things and it seems unthinkable that it would even scratch us, these days
There would be some comfort in it if other Americans were into the war and I was some kind of dissident intellectual voice. Instead everyone doesn’t want to be in the dumbass war and we’re just doing it anyway
You wake up each morning and think why are we in the dumb war
I just can’t believe we’re in some stupid asshole war for no reason
To me the fact that you basically can’t use the phone while charging it, and that it charges slower and is way more inefficient, makes it a SNOOZE
Wow I can put my phone on the “charging dock” and wake up to a charged phone. Wowie, you know. Geez Louise I can’t wait for that to be me
