Majorllama

I went through a big prodigy phase in my teens (still listen often). I once had the house to myself so I loaded up the backyard surround sound system (living with some rich friends at the time, we did not have backyard surround sound money) with 6 CDs of prodigy. Got really stoned and then floated around in the pool with their small dog on my lap for hours. Probably one of the best single days of my life. Just pure glorious relaxation. Leisure on a level I have been chasing for the rest of my life lol.

Yeah but you would have to convince Virginians to live closer to one place instead of being scattered to the wind across their state lol.

The secret is having a over a third of your country living within a few kilometers of your largest city and more than half the country live within a few kilometers of the capitol and largest city.

It is nearly the exact same size as Virginia and shares almost exactly the same population. They just have the majority of their citizens living in or around two cities that aren't that far from each other (hour and half drive or less than an hour by train between the two cities).

God dammit I find this so fucking hilarious. Every time a Republican wins you'll inevitably see an article talking about California is to leave. And on the flip side every time we get a Democrat in office fuckin Texas starts bitching and tryna leave.

I'm not going to say it'll never happen, but I would be willing to bet all the 7 dollars I have to my name that it's not gonna happen.

You know what. You are right. I should not be using hivemind and echo chamber interchangeably.

That was not an accurate word for what I was talking about. Some of the people I interact with around here are absolutely part of a hivemind but for the majority it would be more accurate to describe them as willingly/purposely staying in an echo chamber or bubble as you stated.

My apologies for not listening carefully when you said that a few comments back.

When you're talking to people you can sorta start to tell after awhile if they are arguing their points from their own beliefs or if they are just repeating what they have heard or been told by others around them.

You want me to say Ideological Purity instead of hivemind? We both know what I'm talking about when I say hivemind. Does the fact that you are willingly participating in a hivemind yourself potentially bother you? Is that your issue with that word? What word would you use to describe a group of people that all think exactly the same and they downvote or block anyone who doesn't think those exact same things? Please tell me what term you would use to describe that group of individuals.

Except for the rest of that comment which you cropped out where I go on to explain what I was blaming the management for. Because itnwas the women. Specifically the minority women who sat around doing the easiest jobs at any given time because the racist and sexist management allowed them to do so if they would play along with his creepy bullshit.

I'm not even "tall" by most peoples standards (5'11") and I will offer assistance if I can see a short person clearly struggling with something too high for them lol.

I said "Fuck Costco and DEI bullshit". Please point to where I blamed women or minorities for either of those things.

...except I'm not pushing my way of thinking on anyone else? Nor will I stop speaking to them simply because we disagree on something.

I have never gone "well you're in a hivemind so I'm gonna ignore you". I do call out people who mindlessly repeat the same things as everyone else in their circles without taking any time to have their own critical thoughts about the things themselves.

I think there is value in telling people they are inside of an echo chamber because occasionally they take a step back and realize that they are. It's rare but I see happen from time to time. I am willing to eat downvotes from the "hivemind" or whatever you want to call it if it means that something I said causes someone else to realize they are in a bubble and they start thinking for themselves or seek out other views to see where they actually fall on things. I've pulled several friends out of alt right dude bro circles over the last few years who were drowning in that particular tar pit of garbage.

Yeah I worked for a prestigious hospital years back, but through a contracting company so I couldn't even get medical from the hospital I worked at.

Eventually I got coverted over to an actual employee of the hospital, but I still couldn't afford their coverage because I wasn't making enough at the time lol.

Our medical industry is so fucked.