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If you like that, it's from a larger series called The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo. It's all on YouTube and that skit is pretty representative of the series quality.

That's fair. In that case, with that reasoning, it seems less like you're being pessimistic and more like you're trying to be realistic. I would caution though, reality isn't ALL negative, though the neutrality and negativity inside of it can always be improved. Heck, even most positives in reality can often be improved.

Personally, I think the Olympics game tends to start when focus becomes too great on one specific aspect, which leads to what is essentially a one upmanship of situational comparison, but that's all I really wanted to poke at.

Thanks for the even response! Sometimes me phrasing stuff like that starts fights even though I only want to poke a little bit. In any case, I hope your day goes well!

Honestly, the only thing that registered for me was that Caleb didn't object to race being in the story until the second guy was brought up.

I don't think Freckles, the other character, was declaring a type preference though, I think they were just communicating the race of both guys as set dressing for the story ("you know how I like a little x" to me just sounds like a playful double down, but I really dont actually know, you do have a point here, but it seems ambiguous at best to me right now. I would have to ask the writers what they meant for me to be satisfied now haha good call out though!)

The only reason I posted it was because it seemed that Freckles was saying essentially the same thing as the person I was responding to. Race isn't a bad thing to include, it's only bad when you're being an asshole about it, essentially.

There's an old proverb I like about this: a person is smart but people are dumb.

People en masse tend to be dumber than they are apart. I think you're comparing yourself to the faceless masses. It's much more humbling to try comparing yourself to someone you respect (but don't do it as a "I'm not as good as them" thing, only do it as a "goals to maybe achieve one day" thing to avoid accidentally trashing your self esteem)

Side note: old proverb here means I think my dad said it once but I have no idea where it actually came from

That reminds me of this skit: https://youtu.be/GS10Rp8zLE0?si=Yq_zs-GmdJZZxD9v&t=10

"Stop complaining, pissant, it could be worse" - most abusive situations

The "it could be worse" Olympics is the game of the complacent. You may be complacent. Are you?

If this is alpha humor, it beats the almost totally nonsensical YouTube poops of Millenials for me. Just sensical enough to string along, nonsensical enough to be entertaining.

Whoever made this monstrosity did a great job lmao

Who the fuck are you to speak for me and who I support?

Speak for yourself, by yourself, dogmatic atheist.

You're free to not like it, and free to voice your opinion but you do not speak for atheists. Go ahead and keep your fears about granting any religion legitimacy through any twisty means, but don't be dogmatic about it and start telling other people what they do and do not support. You will be wrong every time, and deserving of every ridicule you get.

Yes, let's go die of exposure because there's a hole in the roof. Throw the whole house away just because there's glaring issues with it when there's no other viable choice in the vicinity.

What level of analogy do you need to understand that if you abandon the power you do have (ie minute nudge control of democratic establishment) you become irrelevant due to powerlessness?

To change what's acceptable, you shift what's considered acceptable, nip at the bits that are trying to stay with the old status quo, and repeat until you move the window to wherever you're trying to push it. That's how this works (if the window goes left for democrats, you would call that an "improvement"). Revolution is anomalous. Pushing for revolution and depending on the assumption of it happening leads to total powerlessness, which is less than what lefties have right now (right now I'd only call them mostly powerless).

You can't get away from dealing with the devil when Satan created the whole system in the first place.

I got a reason! It's because people are afraid meta is doing what Microsoft did to a much earlier project. The crux of that whole story is that Microsoft adopted the new tech, became the biggest player thus dominating the area, then, when they had full control of the tech they ended up shutting it down. Some people are convinced meta is going to do that to the fediverse.

This is vague and handwavy, I'm hoping someone actually knows the name of the project. It was early 90s I believe or maybe into the early 00s but it was before my time in the tech sphere of the internet.

You're still acting like a bitch. I hope you're not like this to your neighbors because they might shoot you AND your kids if shit hits the fan (but you have nothing to worry about... Right?).

Might be a bit contentious to say, but you're really bad at protecting your young's survival chances right now. Your selfishness actively endangers them even though this vector has no consequences right now. I hope you learn not to be an asshole to random people. It might impact more than just yourself. Granted I'm sure you're only like this because you're behind a keyboard, but if you said this to people in real life, I doubt you would have many reliable friends left.

Seems like we have a fundamental disagreement on what value is. I don't think society sets what's valuable and you appear to. I also noticed that we're drain swirling but that's likely around the fact that I do not view society as the standard to achieve. Society is a standard that should be guided, not lauded as the end all be all of what reality should be.

Society is not perfect, and it's social constructs, including money, are essentially bullshit, in my opinion. I think that's what we're likely getting caught in. Because I think money is overpowered bullshit, to me, it looks essentially the same exact thing but in different dressage as robux.

I'm likely off topic at this point, it happens. If this seems of no value to you, feel free to disengage. one of my issues is that I'll keep talking even when the conversation has veered way off lol I don't mean to waste your time in case that happens.

I guess all I'm trying to say is: you, in my opinion, put too much stock in what society currently is and not enough in what it could look like. The original comment kind of starts to get at what society could look like in a passive meme of a way. I'm personally not sure if society can work without a lubricant like money, but I saw a definition disagreement and jumped on it because that's what I do for fun.

What do you think about that assessment of the situation?