Interesting question and I wish I could help, but that’s just too abstract for me to say anything concrete about it.
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I second this motion for a cuteness break:
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Taking offense at offense doesn’t solve or negate the original issue, but it can deflect away from it and add complexity. Both can be addressed, but focusing on one at a time is a good rule of thumb. There are effective communication stategies which can be employed in these kinds of situations. Focusing on the consequences, not the intentions is one of them.
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Pvnish? Ah, so that’s how they spelled “pwn” in the olden times.
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remember when you could fit in a shoe…with two of your friends?
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A shout-out to the big cats:
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Unrelated but now apropos
Everyone: please flag comments such as the above.
This personal hostility is unwelcome. We all know the type: guys who have no idea they come across more like seething YouTube ranters than professors of logical excellence. Don’t do it, don’t put up with it.
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Are PRN dosages of cuteness still OK?
I would hope so.
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This personal adorableness is welcome. We all know the type: fluffy little creatures who have no idea they come across more like cuddly bundles of joy than the end result of billions of years of natural selection in a ruthless and violent universe. Do it, and put up with it.
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you get next turn
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I often feel like this. And then I remember that the Soviet Union had a whole apparatus for repressing people who did not think in a correct Marxist-Leninist fashion, from gulags to psychiatric hospitals. And on the other side, Joe McCarthy.
In the absence of a deity who provides us with properly validated textbooks, it’s easy to perceive, say, CERN on the one hand and Scientology on the other and say that one is obviously science that works and the other is a very profitable scam (but only say it in Germany, of course.) But there are probably a lot of scientists and engineers in CERN who are substance abusers, perpetrators of domestic violence, depressed, sociopathic or autistic spectrum. So far, scientific medicine isn’t really having that much success with treating these conditions; better than nothing but not successful like penicillin was originally.
If “bad thinking” helps those people to function better, then it has some value.
Mind you, I don’t always practice what I preach. But what annoys me immensely, for instance, is people who visit India for a couple of weeks and come back with completely false ideas about Hinduism or Buddhism. I do ask that people who want to function in alternative belief systems at least get them right in the first place.
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It was at night, but I was also in a dark room with dilated pupils- so I wasn’t aware of how dark it was.
That said, this line of discussion has been reminding me of a comic that I couldn’t find… until now.
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That’s a Mad Max reference by way of (was it?) Strange Brew from faaaaar out in left field.
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