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"Everyone watches TV"

No

Your italics seem to be indicating an “appeal to incredulity”. But you don’t present any actual logical argument for why anyone should not believe it was leaked intentionally.

“ Not just coincidentally, “deaths of despair” — those caused by suicide, overdose and alcoholism — have surged to unprecedented levels among middle-aged men over the past 20 years.”

The vast majority of those suicides are coming from a specific “ethnic category”. But if you say which one, it makes you a domestic terrorist. What is the motivation to live in a world where you’re not even allowed to talk about what’s happening to you? We are living in idiocracy. Up is down, the only morally righteous thing to do is to cheer on censorship and beg for Patriot Act 2.0, 3.0 etc to be passed. Agreeability wrt the decrees of big brother is the only virtue.

If you don’t have kids you are going to die by getting abused by minimum wage nursing home employees who quite possibly have been brainwashed their entire lives by every large media company to believe that you are racist and evil because of your “ethnic category”. But if you get married, your wife can take everything from you, and big brother will lock you in a cage if you don't want to pay your ex wife to fuck some other guy in the house you bought that she now lives in. So why would an intelligent person get married?

And yet what is the national conversation about? It’s only about how all straight men of a particular “ethnic category” are racist and evil and they all need to focus on giving more to people in other “ethnic categories”. It’s a complete nightmare to anyone with a brain. It has nothing to do with anything that is going to lead to a better future. Race-based ideologies are a dead end. And nothing ever gets better. Epstein gets arrested, assassinated, and you have to listen to talking heads on news say he committed suicide year after year even though everybody knows its not true.

“ I never understood why people would want to take drugs to see the shit and live the suffering I have all my life but that's where we are...”

Maybe you just have no idea what you’re talking about and these drugs don’t produce an experience that resembles “schizoaffective Bipolar Disorder” in most people.

Paying rent falls under "your spending", so "stopping your spending" makes you homeless. Being homeless is not "nothing".

Having someone who is dependent on you definitely makes you important, whether that's kids or your dying grandmother or something else. But creating that dependency explicitly as a means to feel important is just weird.

"I have a hard time to see any relevance in a life without children anymore."

Consider the fact that Chinese slaves made everything you own, and are wearing. Isn't that worth caring about? Wouldn't it be "relevant" to try improve that situation?

In this person's mind, a person without kids who is trying to solve the problem of human slavery, is living an "irrelevant life". It goes to show you how stupid the average person is, including the average parent.

The most philanthropic thing he could do would be to go back in time and undo everything he's done in his life. Which is basically enrich himself at the expense of everyone else, causing trillions of hours of human lives to be wasted dealing with his broken dogshit product. Donating some money to some stupid organization with his name on it now doesn't make it better.

This book gets recommended a lot probably because it relates to the Holocaust, but it's worth pointing out that "Man’s Search for Meaning" describes itself as "a story". It's not a philosophical book. If you want, you can learn about the development of human thought over time. There is an entire history of philosophy.

"Siddhartha" or "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" might also relate to the meaning of life but they are also not philosophy books. They might be great books but you might be looking for something completely different.

What does it say about society that you can make $500K and feel like you haven't achieved much? A lot of the "work" people do probably isn't very helpful to most people, except maybe some rich person who owns (a part of) the company.

The web page you linked seems like it was written by someone who lives in a basement and has never logged off of Twitter.

“ We defined “prominent far-right figures/prominent far right talking points” posts as those that contain prominent far-right figures such as Ben Shapiro, Alex Jones…”

“ We defined “racist/white supremacist” posts as those which… support white supremacy by using white supremacist talking points such as “white pride” or “white lives matter.””

So do white lives not matter? Seems like whoever wrote this hates themselves and is racist.

That's like saying you enjoy buying lottery tickets because you like to fantasize about what you're going to do with all the money once you get it.

yes they do! i read this website for months before posting and then all my posts would always get deleted or deleted secretly. so i realized ive just been reading propaganda this whole time. i was gutted. feels like ive been lied to the entire time. you just naturally assume youre reading what people actually think. i wish there was a way to go back to the old internet where there wasnt massive amounts of money involved in policing peoples conversations

He left The Intercept because The Intercept wouldn't publish Glenn's story about Hunter Biden because you're not allowed to criticize Biden because TLAs want Biden. Greenwald obviously is mostly known for exposing the crimes of TLAs.

"Gender studies are a sociological study because there is no gender without some social structure enforcing it."

Everything is a social construct, right... Really heady, intelligent stuff. Extremely interesting. Mindblowing.

"Not all societies abide the gender binary."

There are also a lot of societies where women are considered inferior and don't have any rights.

Yes, I remember back in the day the girls would always try to come into the computer lab to play video games. My friends and I were always like, "GET OUT! WE HATE WOMEN!" Then they left. The girls wanted to learn how to code so badly, but we wouldn't let them. My friends and I were getting lots of sexual attention from women, but we thought that was boring, and preferred to spend our time alone on computers. The girls were having sex, but they thought it was boring, and wanted to learn to code instead, but my friends and I physically prevented them from entering the computer lab, using our strong muscles. My friends and I all had zero sex drive, and if we had any attention from the opposite sex we would have rejected it and continued to spend all our time on computers.

"What basic freedom are these companies trampling?"

Freedom of speech

What does this drivel even mean? Everyone likes to be paid. Everyone does not like to pay. Digital technology has eliminated media scarcity. Some people want to artificially create scarcity so that other people are forced to pay them. Fortunately it is pretty obvious to most people that there is no real advantage to anyone in society to artificially create this scarcity.

I think he’s saying that NFTs don’t matter, not that you don’t matter. You don’t need to get upset.

“ Whether that cultural habit is to reduce the incidence of inbreeding I've yet to find out, but it makes me wonder.”

That’s racist. “The only way these people are going to be able to stop fucking their cousins as if they come up with a naming system that makes it extremely clear who is related to who.” There are probably other explanations other than being inbred as to why they do this. Like how some people go by Junior or Senior. Do you think that’s to prevent inbreeding also?

“Of course, but that's not really related to what I said.”

You said sexuality is a “completely arbitrary and subjective social construct” and that “there's little point in trying to objectively categorize” it. Sex has been studied since animal husbandry existed. So what you said was obviously wrong.

The problem with framing this as a mental health crisis is that it implies the solution is in mental health services. Is there a mental health crisis in North Korea? No their lives are just terrible. Therapy isn’t going to help people in North Korea. Similarly the worse material conditions are in the West the more people are going to kill themselves. I think it’s about 200 a day in the US and it has been for many many years. The fact that this is not talked about on the news is an example of one of the negative material conditions in the West that result in worse health outcomes. It is depressing to live in a society where everything is controlled by rich people who torture the population, and the answer is not therapy or drugs.

"For me, it only "clicked" once I understood that gender and sexuality are completely arbitrary and subjective social constructs that try to describe a whole spectrum of multidimensional behaviors and (potentially repressed) feelings, so there's little point in trying to objectively categorize them - it's all about the subjective impression of the person themself"

Sex is a fundamental property of living organisms; it is not determined by thoughts or feelings.

Actually the opposite is true here; if you talk about certain data which is considered "bad", like crime statistics, your post will be shadowbanned because it's considered wrongthink (or as you might put it, "straight up racism"), just like Twitter.

Many people have learned that making your own engine from scratch is a bad idea if you want to make a game. Your takeaway that game development itself is somehow dysfunctional doesn't necessarily follow from this.

Ketamine is really interesting drug but let's be honest, the reason you're depressed is probably not because you haven't done enough ketamine. Yes it's fun to do drugs... Going to Six Flags with good friends would also probably make you less depressed for a couple of weeks. Why are we excited that now there's a way for rich people to do a fun drug in the most boring context possible? This feels like part 2 of microdosing LSD or psilocybin at your boring office job.

Is ketamine going to make it less depressing that you work in ad-tech? Why not also microdose magic mushrooms as you work in ad-tech? Why not buy from your local farmer's market as you work in ad-tech? Why not volunteer for a local organization in your free time while you work in ad-tech? The problem is that you work in ad-tech. No amount of microdosing or macrodosing LSD or mushrooms or ketamine is going to change the fact that you probably have no social skills and your life work in ad-tech is meaningless, and having slightly more money than the average prole and being able to afford drugs they can't isn't going to make you happy.

"Some brain cells don't churn as fast"

None of them "churn".

"The memory-of-a-memory thing"

That "isn't a thing".

"I don't remember the exact science"

You also have no idea what you're talking about.

"I do remember the metaphor I came up with (evidence in my favor!)"

I have no words.

"Remembering something is like pulling a note out of a cabinet."

Not really, no.

"lossy"

Please just stop.

"copying"

Memory is a "copying process"?

Please guys... please just stop.

OK? Is it my turn to say something irrelevant? Here goes: Elon Musk is worth $200 billion. Known fact. Or was.

"...human physical memory is only 7 years long. Thereafter there are only memories of memories, which often get twisted in the weirdest of ways."

I hate to be that guy, but... you have no idea what you're talking about.

appeal to incredulity. bravo!

“No more experimental than any other vaccine”

you are creating more vaccine hesitancy by saying this