HenchmanNumber3

joined 2 years ago
[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

People don't want to be around others (the fear aspect), so they drive their own bubble around.

You say this like it's a bad thing. It doesn't have to be fear, it can just be preference. There are introverts and asocial people, neurodivergent people, people with social anxiety, and any number of other reasons that they don't have to justify to you as to why they would prefer not to be around a mass of other people. Social interaction in cities tends to be of an impersonal gesellschaft nature anyway, so it's not like you're missing out on a genuine social experience most of the time. It's fine to just interact with those you personally vet and invest in.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Famous sportsballer ages like every else. News at 11.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

The idea that random people pick a select few musicians to be inducted is just more artificial scarcity bullshit. It's not a legitimate institution if it can't recognize more people to give a wider breadth of exposure to the legacy of rock n roll. By inducted some, they pretend they have the authority to determine the legacy of rock n roll, but their snubs say more about their deficiencies than about those they snub.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is less of an issue if you judge everything that isn't first hand from a known friend or family member as suspect or at least just a waste of time. Facebook used to be a place to talk to people you knew in the real world. You could ignore anything they reposted and still engage with the actual examples of their own experiences that they posted. But now it's so flooded with ads and listicles and clickbait and video clips that it's not even worth trying to keep up with the people you actually know.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's still not stealing. It's plagiarism or fraud or any number of other terms, but stealing necessarily requires the deprivation of a limited, rivalrous thing, like money or property. You can't steal fame or exposure or credit, except poetically. And by that point, the word becomes so watered down that it's meaningless. You might as well say I'm stealing your life seconds at a time by writing this extra sentence.

The purpose of using the term stealing here is only to borrow the negative moral connotations of the term, but it doesn't communicate clearly what exactly is happening.

It's perfectly valid to say you consider it morally equivalent with theft, but it's not stealing.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

So, his glowing red weak spot is emotional trauma. Time to ask around in the castle where he grew up about stories from his childhood.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hated it when older people said this to me, so you probably won't appreciate my perspective now, but you have a vast amount of life ahead of you with a lot more information you can encounter that will contradict what you think you know for certain right now. And you'll encounter newer information after that that will contradict the previous new truths you felt so enlightened to recognize. You don't have to listen to me at all of course, but if you think you already know what you believe, you don't need to make a post here to discuss it. If you're not open to the thoughts of others, I wouldn't recommend wasting your time soliciting them. If you're just looking for affirmations of your pre-existing perspectives, a chatbot might be a better outlet.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'd recommend taking some sociology, anthropology, and political science courses in college if you'd like to delve deeper into these topics. There's a lot of scholarship out there on these issues to explore.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

Also you can't just make your own micronation wherever you want. It has to already exist.

This kind of makes the concept of a micronation useless. The point is that anyone can make their own nation with their own rules wherever they are or go. If you have to pick someone else's, then it's no different than picking someone else's recognized nation.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The lack of punctuation in the post text seems problematic.

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (8 children)

The original meanings of words change over time with usage. Though they have some overlap and some differences (Brazilians are considered Latino but not Hispanic and Spaniards are considered Hispanic but not Latino), the term Latino is generally replacing previous usage of Hispanic, though Latino is likely used more in urban and coastal regions of the US and Hispanic is likely used more in rural and landlocked regions. The usage of either term won't always be accurate and it will be an exonym used for people who don't call themselves by that term.

You're free to say, "I don't identify as Latino. I'm Mexican." Or "I'm Mexican American." if you're in the US. There will be surveys and polls and forms that won't have Mexican as a choice though since they use pan-ethnic or continental terms for wide groups of people for categorization purposes. Similar to the fact that white isn't an ethnicity or a scientific taxonomy. It's an arbitrary designation with historical, social and political baggage.

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