! agree

! gamer

!agree

Doesn't that remove agency?

It's weirdly racist.

i could be argued that yes, they did

^This

Not everyone has athletic prowess

I'm pretty sure Maxine Waters is the Necromancer from Diablo III controlling hordes of NPCs

You should come to California 😉

WUUUUUUUUTTT

But...I like milk...but I'm brown(ish)

I'm trying to formulate a thought around that milk story and I...I just can't...

Fries are EXTREMELY racist

how do you not know this?

I like eating fries while drinking milk

Gross AND Racist. It's an 2-for in offputting

That is super true

Fries+Frosty = The Business

All of my colleagues believe all of this is a hot bowl of stupid. And my boss is an Indian woman

Is there any way to get something to Tim? Because this is nuts.

https://twitter.com/lumberjett/status/1090289112714625024

I'm seeing this more and more that LearnToCode is code language for death threats

a lot of it coming from the Chapo Boys

Prager is -ok- if you do your own cross referencing

I find they give you about half the story

I disagree with you a bit. Everyone who does evil is evil because evil means intent. People can do bad things for good reasons, but Evil is Evil

I agree

I mean to say that "evil things" != horrible things

Based on pure observation from watching my kids and my nieces and nephews, I agree with the idea that it's about 70% nature and about 30% nurture. You're born with a certain set of software that governs how you'll deal with incoming stimulus. The nature part is how that software is fine tuned

Now obviously, that can change depending on the magnitude of the nature and it can completely override the software but I think for a majority of cases it holds

again, more of a general observation but you can see, event at 1 year old, how kids will deal with environmental stimulus

I think the ratio could be different for different people. I'm thinking on average is a 60/40 or 70/30 split

having worked in psycho-social oncology, there is SOOOO much guess work going on in psychology today

that's why I added stimulus of a certain magnitude

like reinstalling the operating system

a lot of people can't accept that

I think once you can make certain acceptances, you can actually use it to your advantage

I know I am the way I am and most likely, that isn't going to change barring some radical event. So instead, I try and focus on analyzing why I behave the way I do and how I react and adjust my environment accordingly

It really helped me deal with crippling insomnia

<-- I feel you

oh, I hate the sins of my father and I hate more that I started down that path myself without realizing it.

this is going to sound really dumb, but for me, attending Church really helped. I'm REALLY not saying it's for everyone, but making myself beholden to a group greater than myself, even voluntarily, has helped me deal on a day to day

yes, that's it exactly

it doesn't have to be Church

just structure, responsibility, support, etc

I think everyone does

But only as much as they can handle; maybe a tad more for growth. Otherwise you risk breaking them

haha no worries

^

Reminds me of Hogfather: You have to start out learning to believe the little lies...so you can believe the big ones

I can see that

Religion from a philosophical, societal and traditional standpoint can actually be rather unifying and centering for a lot of people. The problem is when people take it to either a dogmatic end or worse commit atrocities in the name of said Religion

but that's any philosophy

see social justice

this is very true

very open minded of you in 2019

I was an Atheist/Agnostic up until about a year ago

@yearspastmatter hahahaha

he's into Cosmology (not the hairdresser stuff)

he's about as kooky as it comes

well, it's the same thing. They're dogmatic about it

there's a term that I liked. It was Ignostic I think it was.

Basically it's this: Can the existence of God be tested for positively or negatively? No. Then the question is irrelevant move on

Ohhhh yeah

I had this exact conversation with a group recently. The removal of religion in such a haphazard manner has left a philosophical hole in our society

but we didn't do anything to replace it with anything good

so people fill it with whatever nonsense they can glom onto

not really. When you force change at a pace faster than society can naturally accept without making an effort to mitigate what you just did you wind up with this kind of thing

Like societies tend to get more progressive as they age, but in the last twenty or so years, it's accelerated to the point that we're making progress faster than society at large can absorb

so things are getting weird

like running down a steep hill at full speed

at a certain point you're going to lose it and eat shit. Yes you're going fast and moving forward, but you also risk face planting it

I have morals, but I agree with you @.Not Sean . I try to steer my arguments toward the logical vs the moral

@Der Kommissar really? damn, that's messed up

Wow

Ugh...I was almost kicked out of school after Columbine

Same. Nothing like being a 3.83 student with an excellent record and community service and then being hauled multiple times into the office with a Sheriff and the snap on his gun undone because I wore a trench coat

DUDE ME TOO

right?!

The back half of my senior year was hell because of Columbine

Nice wall

I would have gone with steel slats, but that's just me <_<

j/k what'd you use though?

I'm assuming it's the white brick one

is it actually brick or a veneer of some sort?

ohh, I think I know what you mean

looks good

yeap

My neighbor is from a communist country

came here in the 80s. Listening to her talk about kids here wanting communism is hilarious. If you ever want to to see an old lady curse in like 2 or 3 different languages...

damn

I haven't had a chance to follow the case since he announced it. Any hope?

TRIGGERED!!!!

That upside down W is racist dogwhisting

cool