If only there were some sort of device that could be used to stop this from happening.. Wait a minute, there is! HEADPHONES!!

My mother and sister are my abusers. I remember seeing a Tumblr post about how great it is to have a sibling as you’ll “always have a friend”. I almost choked laughing at the naivety.

Yeah, but it sure made me FEEL better to help vote him out of office!

And being unatrractive woman makes you invisible.

The key part of this is "the way we currently are", and this is very true. You don't have to be a vegan to not participate in the cruelty of intensive factory farming. It is possible to eat genuinely ethically raised animal products where the animal had a happy life - it's just really expensive. Killing is not inherently cruel - subjecting an animal to pain and terror before it's killed is.

It doesn't, but it is a good indicator you might be.

This should be much higher.

Oh yeah, there are some shockingly evil kids out there. I've met a few.

Up to a certain point. If you have 100 million or 500 million, then it might not make much difference.

Not stuck in the echo chamber of fb groups

Some are even left

Most true for Americans, and to a lesser extent the other "western" countries. There were 1 billion people on the planet in 1800. In 1950, there were 2.53 billion, 1980 4.43 billion, 1999 6 billion, 2011, 7 billion, today we sit at 7.95 billion, and will reach 8 billion people by next year. We can't effectively sustain the human population now, 1/3rd of food production ends up wasted, while 1/4 of the global population doesn't have enough to eat because getting it everywhere is a logistical nightmare, and yet a large portion of the population continues to think the only way to solve the big problems of the world is to stay the course, continue unchecked expansion and hope that solutions will be born along with the rising population. We've been playing this game for 40 years with the climate, and we're almost out of time. Yet the mindset seems unchanged.

this could also apply to one's own parents or children.

But it's alright when I do it! 😁

Exactly. Just let people be. Maybe things will work out for them. Maybe it won't. At least they tried. This is a huge problem with long distance relationship communities. You could have one minor question, seeking a boost of optimism. Then people want more information about the relationship. They use that information against the op and base dooming "opinions", some irrelevant to the op's main issue, on their own past experiences that could have been much, much different of a situation. I don't even bring it up anymore. Don't need to.

They can't forget you if you're already forgotten.

Here's the thing, the planet is going to be fine, it's been around 4.5 billion years. It's the people who are F***ed

And their quota/hours/numbers mean much less to me than to them.

You can also hold anyone who causes those things accountable for it.

I don’t agree with this.

Religion is the worst invention humans have ever created.

Are you telling me my neon purple skin is the least interesting thing about me?? Oh well then.

Fun fact: social capitulation, a rare system used in some insignificant island nations and small Asian countries (tu mi au, xibi San ma) in which the basic necessities of survival are provided but to live comfortably you need to work. It’s an interesting system that seems to work well and I’d be willing to give it a try. An interesting blend of capitalism and socialism

But then who is better than the most best person?

This is part of my mail .sig: "You're not a sucker to have integrity and treat people with respect." - Barack Obama

If everyone around you is an a'hole, then you're the a'hole

I've dealt with people at work who tried so hard to get me upset. Like really reaching. There are people who will just try to get a reaction out of you, make you feel bad for doing your job, or even just being somewhere. What they really hate is calmness and positivity in their presence of negativity.

Curiosity is a major part of life. We need to have space to learn

I already know this.

Sometimes?!

SO many people need to understand this! For others' sake and for themselves as well.

Yes, more personal responsibility please!

Prayer does nothing without action

Yes in fact even religion says the same. In the Bhagavad Gita chapter 6 verse 5 says you yourself are responsible for your upliftment and you must take actions. Others can show you, but you have to do it. Reference: https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/6/verse/5

I was always taught that God helps those who help themselves-- and the answer to your prayers might very well be "No"

which god? there are some that believe in a god and are doing it for themselves to believers of other gods. and they are doing it very well because the others aren't retaliating.

You see, what people don't understand about God is that, God's not here to make your problems go away... God's has already shown you that you have what it takes to solve your own problems and have faith that you will have good results at the end of the day, he's not gonna come down... But having faith will help you in life. Faith is important, using God as a crutch to not act or do evil is stupid.

Here's a hard truth, religion has existed for as long as human beings have, and it's not going away.

god helps those who help themselves.

God helps those who help themselves. Right there in the Bible.

thats kinda a relief

Or some other vaccine / antibiotic-resistant pandemic. I think COVID has definitely demonstrated rather graphically what I've feared has happened to people over the course of the last 30 year though - people have become more selfish and more prone to f*cking each other over, even for something as simple as a toilet roll - and far more opinionated and entitled when presented with something relatively simple that they could do to prevent getting infected or spreading an infection (like wearing a mask)

Yes, I agree but I can take steps to minimize my impact.

So parents should just leave their newborns in the woods or something?

It's not that they don't want to hear it. It's that they were taught a GROSSLY different version of the story. Though some probably would prefer to keep believing that old lie.

But if being and looking groomed and neat makes you feel good and happy, go for it. Not everything is about others´ opinions.

Oh, thank god. I’m starting to wear out. They’d better replace me soon before one of my internal components breaks.