They’re smug about it? Thatmakes zero sense. I feel like you aren’t telling the full truth here.

If what you say is true though, they definitely have some kind of mental illness. You seem to despise them but ultimately they did not choose to exist, you brought them into the world.

Its consciousness, not conscience. Conscience is specifically one’s moral awareness.

Also its closer to 4 billion years.

That said, I understand her anger about stupid people. And people who slut shame can die in a fire.

I am of three minds on this issue.

The purely rational side, knowing that “evil” doesn’t really exist and there is no such thing as free will so hating people doesn’t really make sense.

The bitterly angry side, despite knowing its irrational finding pleasurable catharsis in visceral hatred of a majority of people because they’ve demonstrated that in so far that its possible to deserve anything, they’ve demonstrated they deserve my hatred. And that relating to such people is incredibly difficult and that I cannot be honest with them in person about how I feel without becoming a pariah.

And finally, the despairingly lonely side seeking a life worth living, wanting to forgive them all for my own sanity’s sake. Not wanting to accept that I’m surrounded by awful and petulantly stupid people and constantly trying to find a reason to believe that I am not… and failing. To embrace this part would be delusion or hypocrisy and yet I really want to.

Why not foster hope through science? Religion is unneeded for that.

Plus, if the situation was hopeless scientifically, the kid would be better off accepting reality than to endlessly hope for something that will never come. Just build with what he can instead of daydreaming about what can’t be.

Spiritually I get it. Though I do invite people over to my apartment a lot and have anxiety so I’m a “bare minimum to not get comments about lack of furnishing and decor” kind of minimalist.

I still need a proper TV stand and couch though. And I do get comments for having the big screen tv on the floor and just a bunch of chairs instead of a couch, only two cushioned chairs too. Foam mattress on the floor though with plenty of pillows and blankets. I need a rug too, basic linoleum flooring gets kinda chilly.

Balancing that versus maintaining a healthy bank account is difficult though with the amount I make and the location making my rent kinda steep (I like being able to bar hop via walking)

I meant executives in general, not specifically at my workplace. There is only 1 person with the title “Executive” and shes generally pretty decent.

My immediate boss is the Youth (After School) Program Director and they don’t have true executive powers, they just have basic supervisory powers.

I will say, before the Youth Director was hired though, we all generally operated fairly autonomously and without issue, things went smoothly. Since my boss was hired, two separate youth counselors quit, one because her hours were cut (One of the few decisions I found pretty dumb by the executive director) and another specifically because she found my immediate bosses decision making actively hampered the quality of our program and she wasn’t working there for the money.

I was once told I should apply for my bosses position and at the time I found the idea completely unattractive. I now regret not applying given who has ended up there.

I work at a tiny 10 person non-profit. I am by far the most computer literate person here by an order of magnitude, given my completely wasted software engineering degree. I offered in my downtime at work to fix a bunch of laptops used by our kids in the after school program that were malfunctioning in some way or another.

I was told to stick to my job description by our Executive Director, and that they’d contact an external IT person to deal with it. I’m an Admin Assistant, which TBH kind of means I wear many hats anyway so my job description is very broad…

So here I am, twiddling my thumbs, posting on Lemmy instead.

Its not only giant corporations. Its infected every modern manager/executive brain. And I want to say, the executive director at my work I consider “one of the good executives”. At least by comparison.

(My immediate superior I like… less. She’ll do something wrong, I’ll try to fix it, and I’ll get reprimanded for trying to fix it.)

I feel like the downward trend after the peak is accelerated if you are specifically studying philosophy.

Dumb only if you are jumping to conclusions about how unattractive you are. (Likely)

Smart if you somehow have empirical data (not just vibes) demonstrating your innate and unavoidable unattractiveness AND find horniness -> masturbation a net negative experience. (sad but understandable)

EDIT: Though also consider prostitutes, VR porn, or once they become available, convincing sex robots.

He is doing the right thing if only because he is preventing a child from playing Roblox.

He’d be a hero if he gave him a copy of Minecraft (or really almost any non-F2P game) to play instead.

You mean like Pirates?

People want a yes or no so they can generate their own hallucinated string based on it. The returned string is just trying to get ahead of that.

I’d argue that’s not completely true because in that case why not just watch porn or why watch non-sexy video game streamers who also get plenty of viewers?

I do think you are partially correct though in a way that makes it a little more depressing, I think a lot of viewers see a cute girl playing video games specifically as a combination they like so they can fantasize about specifically having a “gamer girlfriend”. But if they like that, then they’re also there for the gameplay or will inevitably get at least a little invested in it as they watch.

I don’t watch sports either. That said, that’s not a bad point, I suppose if I got into it I theoretically could watch and enjoy competitive games. Not the same as streamers playing singleplayer games though.

I don’t understand watching any video game streams. It just makes me want to play video games myself, why would I spoil video games by watching someone else play it?

I have always been too poor until recently to really afford that until now and I’m not in my 20’s unfortunately.

I’ve been stuck in rural/suburban hell for most of my life because it was what I could afford. I could split a house with roommates easily for cheap rent. And I went to a nerdy sausage fest of a college (before I realized I was bi). I’ll admit I’m trying to make up for lost time now. I feel like I would of had more fun had I done this in my 20’s… but whatever, late is better than never I guess.

TBH, the city I’m going to move to is kind of small as well. Hopefully I can maybe move to a bigger one at some point if I can get a job in a big city someday, but with this economy I think it might be a while.

Yeah it kind of is. Thing is though its almost easy to avoid rightwingers for me, they don’t seem to hit spots I frequent. Men or women.

I can pretty easily look past it mostly if someone is religious (though I may engage in light ribbing because I’m an atheist).

I did have one woman try and uh… “fix” me and my atheism at a bar. She was one of those neopagan “heretic” type crystal people. It was a strange experience trying to discern what the hell she was talking about. She seemed convinced that I understood her religious rhetoric but she was on some kind of advanced reading. She had me hold a crystal she kept in her bag. Admittedly we did not end up going to bed together… She was painfully hot and I was legitimately intimidated by how hot she was and how crazy she seemed.

I kind of hope I see her again because at the very least it was kind of interesting talking to her. Then again IDK I’ll probably continue to be intimidated and nothing romantic is likely to happen between us.

That said, I never really got one-night stands as a thing. If I connected with someone enough for sex, I was typically getting along well enough for friendship.

Admittedly, in my case I may be overstating the one night stand nature. I see see most of these women every once in a while out and about and they’re still friendly. However I’d not describe us as friends but more like friendly acquaintances that once had sex who sparsely see each other out in the wild. I’ve not had the chance to get in another major conversation with them and walk to a place after (I don’t live in town but I have an agreement with a friend), so maybe something more might come about but probably not. I think they knew that we did not have much in common and we were just bored and horny.

I think once I move back into town in a month or two this might change. I’ll end up seeing the same faces more often and maybe something can develop out of that more easily. Right now I commute to work, every blue moon hit a local place after work. There might not be enough frequency for solid friendship.

I date/have sex with who I’m physically attracted to. Otherwise I’m OK if we just stay (non-sexual) friends. Us having stuff in common doesn’t make me horny for them or want to romance them.

If we have nothing in common because of an age gap, then the sexual relationship becomes a reason to learn about them. As long as we agree with each other on politics.

That said I have no expectations, admittedly atm all I’ve been getting is one night stands every once in a while and I’d like deeper relationships (I’m poly). But fuck maybe I just wont get one. shrugs I’ll just keep trying until I get one.

What if you like having sex with your friends?