I am all for children’s safety online, I really despise family bloggers/vloggers especially. You should definitely hide a child’s face. But there’s no point if it’s a newborn. They don’t need it for ‘privacy’ because all newborns look the same. A creeper in the world wouldn’t see any child and recognise them from their newborn photo.

This was inspired by another post I saw- someone asked "is it bad for a child to wear a shirt that says "without god I am nothing?" I think this slogan embodies one of the main issues in Christianity. It is-or at least can be-a very anti-life religion. At its extreme It entirely devalues life, raises ideals above life, and worships death. I suppose the Crucifixion is an appropriate symbol then. Looked at from this perspective, it appears as a nihilistic death cult.

Many Christians spend their entire lives looking forward to the next. Thats the same as looking forward to death, as there very well may be no after life. The entire narrative is essentially a denunciation of human potential. The mythos goes that "the world is fallen, and human nature is sinful". Its a really convenient narrative for elites, which is why conservatives latch onto it, but thats another topic for another day.

Christianity has nihilism baked into it. Its like a salesmen who invents a problem to sell a thing. Christians claim life is meaningless without their god, yet people found meaning before their god in life itself. Now that the product has been bought, by the majority of society, its become an addiction.

By elevating god to such a high level, it sets up the individual for a great fall. If god were merely a curious scientific question, and not an object of worship this wouldn't be an issue. For instance, its entirely reasonable for early humans to ask themselves "is there a god?" Its another thing entirely to tie all meaning to something like that, however.

For instance, I dont tie all of my existence to the big bang which is the source of all life, its just a fact thats interesting to me. Why cant god be like that? Would a god really want to be the sole source of meaning? I dont think so. But the Christian god does.

Many Christians cannot fathom a meaningful life without god. Love, art, beauty, recreation, all of it is pointless to them without god. And god is just an idea thats never been proven to exist. A person may or may not believe god exists, and theres nothing wrong with that. However, is it wise to elevate god to the primary source of meaning? No. Because then, if that source of meaning falters, your life becomes pointless.

And this fragile setup is a big cause of nihilism in our society. People are increasingly becoming disillusioned with it as knowledge advances. This creates a problem, one I've experienced first hand and found my way out of. When I abandoned Christianity as a youth, I too fell into nihilism and despair. It was not easy to construct new forms of meaning. I floundered for a long time. Drugs and mindless rebellion- as opposed to constructive rebellion- and misconstrued form of hedonism filled the void.

It took me a long time to find new values. I eventually found them in liberty, equality, solidarity; essentially egalitarianism and humanism. That, coupled with a compulsive need to create art and experience the beauty of nature. I can experience the sublime and the feeling of being a part of something bigger by engaging with the physical world. It doesn't even have to be somewhere particularly magnificent, though that helps. A simple blue sky is quite beautiful if you really look at it long enough with an empty mind, and to think of all sentient beings that lived and died just for me to see the sky. Its quite mind boggling.

But, many people dont get to that point. They sink further into the morass of drugs, alcohol, and or mindless consumerism. Capitalism throws gas on this existential fire because there is no community. Once the drugs stop feeling good, and you've bought all funko-pops you can buy, where else do you go but back into the cult? At least its a community. Its a sad cycle to see, and I cant blame people for going back. But, that doesn't mean a retreat is necessarily good.

Before Christianity, people still thought their lives had meaning outside of religion. As far as Ive read, in the pre-christian world religion was more of a means than end. You prayed to the gods or the ancestors to win a battle, or get better crops- and so religion ostensibly existed to further life. That and it fulfilled certain glitches of the mind.

Under Christianity the idea is inverted- life serves religion. I think people need to reverse this trend. Whatever ideology or religion we adopt should serve life, not the other way around.

God cant be the meaning of life. If god exists, then god should be merely be a fact, like the big bang. God could be a source of meaning, but one that enhances life. If god makes life better, then its useful. If not, then its useless. God or the big bang, it doesn't really matter- thats only the beginning of life. Its not the point of life.

Women who gets sexual satisfaction by being r@ped fantasy and getting degraded are as bad as the men who gets sexual stimulation from r@pe fantasy and doing the degradation.

You both are sick af!

The only public places where your kink or sexuality should be expressed are places that are expressly designated for that, such as BDSM/kink conventions, sex clubs, etc.

But your pet play bullshit doesn’t belong in the grocery store or the park. There are dozens if not hundreds of non-consenting people who are going to see you preforming a sexual activity when you bring your kink to those places. And yes, by preforming your kink you are preforming a sexual activity. Even if it’s just being on a leash.

Petplay is by far the worst offender bc petplay ppl seem to have 1,000 reasons as to why their kink specifically deserves to be allowed in public spaces where non-consenting individuals are made to be a part of their sex act. But this goes for any form of kink or activity that brings you sexual pleasure. It does not belong in public and you should be considered a sex offender for bringing in people who don’t consent to your bullshit.

There are non-private places where practicing kink is acceptable, online and in person. It’s totally fine to participate in fetish or kink culture there. But in random, non-designated spaces, there will be tons of people who do not want to participate in being a part of that activity, even as a bystander/onlooker. Just because you aren’t actively assaulting them, or forcing them to do sexual things to you, doesn’t mean they aren’t uncomfortable with the situation.

And it seems to be the same people who are all woke when it comes to consent (which isn’t a bad thing—consent needs to be discussed and taught to prevent purposeful or accidental breaches of consent) who suddenly feel the need to become incredibly defensive and call you things like “prude” or “homophobic” because you said that them wearing a buttplug furry tail while their partner walks them on a leash at the mall is most likely violating someone’s consent and inadvertently causing sexual harassment.

If you genuinely like someone, you shouldn't need a contract or a ring to prove it

I don’t understand marriage it feels like a mandatory script rather than a choice. People constantly ask 'Where's the ring?' as if a relationship is incomplete without a legal contract. If two people genuinely trust each other and choose to be together every day, why is a piece of paper seen as the ultimate proof”

I've noticed a pattern wherein the same people repeatedly wind up in these situations. There is a type of guy who repeatedly befriends women with romantic intentions, and a type of girl who repeatedly has guys do that to them. Sometimes the genders are reversed, obviously.

I don't mean to suggest men and women can't ever be friends. I have successfully formed friendships with women. But sometimes it's not meant to be, and people try to force it anyways.

I once had two friends trapped in such a relationship, and it annoyed me. I kept recommending the guy lose weight, be honest with her, etc, but he ignored such advice. Also, he admitted this had happened to him before previously.

This girl was extremely flirtatious by nature. I noticed another guy in her orbit under a similar spell. With my friend, I felt as though her flirtatiousness was a strategic part of her business relationship with him; the other guy seemed to be just for companionship.

I feel it would be better for everyone if they all just stayed away from each other. It has happened to me before that I could tell a girl I didn't like ultimately sought more than friendship with me, so I just avoided her. I didn't need her help with our university homework, nor emotional validation from her.

Conversely, I have liked a girl who did not reciprocate. I talked about it with them. In once case that ended the friendship; in another case, our friendship just kinda went on hiatus for a couple years, and now we're cool.

I am apart of Gen Z myself and I whole heartedly believe that our generation is full of snowflakes. For context I am a female who is a democrat, as well as a bisexual person. The only reason I'm putting that on here is because I don't want people to read this and automatically assume I'm some asshole who's in their 40's coming to shit on gen z, feminists, and the lgbtqia+.

Anyways, in this day and age our generation gets labeled as "snowflakes" a lot. When I first heard this term I didn't understand it, and thought it was just old people talking out of their ass. But now that I've taken a step back to look at our generation as a whole, they're right. We get too offended way too easily. It's so normalized for us to say "You're doing that because I'm of my gender." and "You're doing that because I'm [insert race]" or "You're homophobic." It's so common to see people using their gender, sexual identity and/or their race as leverage to prove a point. Like, no the store clerk isn't asking you to leave because they're homophobic, they're asking you to leave because you just shoved shit in your pocket.

With the sexism thing, yes misogyny is real and I have experienced it firsthand. But just because women have experienced sexism, doesn't mean that it makes it right for us to be sexist towards men. I've heard so many of my friends and other women say "Women are better than men." Which is so stupid, because those same people identify as feminists. Which, being a feminist means you believe all genders are equal. Just because you've encountered a man who is a piece of shit, doesn't mean all men are pieces of shit. Personally, I have recognized that one person or one group doesn't represent all people of that category and I think everybody in the world should live like that or else we're going to end up having more stereotypes than we do people.

Same thing for racism. People care way too much about their race nowadays. I think it's stupid to let your race identify you. Okay, you're Asian? You're also an artist, a dad, a husband, being Asian has nothing to do with who you are. I believe it's the same for African American people, Hispanic people, and any other race. You shouldn't identify yourself with your race, you should identify yourself with what kind of person you are and how you treat others.

All of that to say, I think as a whole we should all chill out a bit. Instead of viewing everything as some motivated passive aggressive comment that has something to do with whats in our pants, the color of our skin, or who we're attracted to, we should look at it as a rude comment. Not everything is motivated, some people are just assholes.

In my opinion I think tipping culture and tipping in general is linked to how Jim Crow and racism used to keep people of color down and economically poor , in no other country is tipping required or expected within; the culture or society and I think tipping culture in America especially in places in the south like Waffle House or Cracker Barrel lets companies get away with paying workers as little as $2 per hour and a lack of this being a example of the many things in America still unchanged due to racism and a system is a direct result of the lack of commonly available education when it comes to our history as a country

EDIT TO ADD : I’m not saying all tipping culture to this date is racist I am saying it’s rooted in racism especially in America and the lack of history being taught allows the cycle to keep repeating

My goal isn’t to abolish or stop tipping in general my goal is to bring into light my argument of where these systems in America come from and why they are still effect today a lot of people are okay with accepting things as they are without asking questions and it’s getting worse with ai and technology coming into play

DoorDash is the biggest offender. I’m supposed to set a tip before I received food? I remember tipping well for an order and it’s just some guy, and they don’t care, at all. And it’s subpar service on a good tip. That’s rightfully upsetting.

So you’re dammed all ways with the drivers. You don’t tip up front, good luck getting your order. You change the tip after because they were genuinely awful? It’s kind of scummy, even if it’s deserved.

No winning here. Tipping at a restaurant? Ok. Haircut? Fine. That makes sense. Doordashers are the lowest skilled with the most entitlement, and I’ll say it even though I drove for DoorDash during covid.

Cow meat is one of the worst foods one can eat. Its absolutely terrible for the environment, way worse than basically everything else. It is also one of the worst for your health also. Therefore, I think it only makes sense to eat it if someone really loves it, is passionate about it.

People who asks their steak well done, do not like steak. Otherwise they wouldnt ask it well done. It matches with experience, people I know who have well done steak, normally dont care much for steak.

I believe people should be more thoughtful about their consumer habits. I dont think its reasonable to ask everyone to stop eating beef, as good as it might be for the environment, I know it wont happen. But, if you really dont care for steak that much, to the point of having it well done, its better to just accept how nonsensical it is and stop eating it.

I for example, dont care much for fashion, so Im not gonna use fur clothings and etc. There are a lot of foods that I dont eat, not purely because they are unhealthy, but because I dont care enough for them to justify it. People who dont care much for steak, should do the same. Its actually even more important, as it has a high carbon footprint

edit: The environment shouldn’t have to suffer just because you’re pretending to enjoy steak.

It has come to my attention that carrying a pocket knife in some places is illegal and that most people would see it as a weapon. This was a little shocking to me as someone who lives in western Canada because it's very normal for people to carry knives here, even in cities. Any man/woman, especially dads, that value preparedness and self sufficiency have a knife clipped to their pocket for the world to see. My city has very little violent crime, probably because we have very little poverty besides homeless people. There aren't really any "bad neighborhoods" and people don't really get mugged/jumped.

Daily carrying a knife can be very useful. I could name at least 50 things I've used a knife for while out of my house, and I find myself using mine multiple times per month. Even though a lot of knife tasks can technically be done without a knife, the knife is far more convenient and produces better results. Conversely a knife can be used as a less convenient substitute for tools that might be too inconvenient to carry. Carrying a knife is extremely convenient, it's no worse than carrying your keys or wallet.

I recently discovered a large number of people from the UK and Australia who are shocked to hear about knife culture. I've seen hundreds of people who think it's insane to carry a knife, and told me I must live in a "nation where violence is normalized". If we're being honest here, knife violence in the UK wouldn't perceptibly change if any of those people started carrying one. I understand why someone from the UK might think that because of THEIR extreme rates of knife violence there, but I think they're putting the blame on the wrong thing, here's why.

1: Knife prohibition doesn't work. Knives are not guns. Most city dwellers do not own a gun, even if they legally can, because they don't have much use for them. Everyone who cooks owns a knife at home, and foldable pocket knives are too useful for work and such for the government to prohibit the entire population from purchasing them. Pocket knives are very easy to conceal, so unless the cops decide to regularly search everyone, they won't preemptively stop much knife violence.

2: Punishing non criminals for carrying a knife will have no effect on knife violence. The average chill person with no criminal record is highly unlikely to randomly start stabbing people. I know this because my city is mostly made up of these people and they don't stab eachother. Prohibiting people from carrying knives will only serve to reduce basic freedoms for 99% of people, while the people who are prone to stabbing will continue to carry knives. Even the type of person to get into a bar fight and impulsively stab someone likely doesn't care too much about the legality of carrying a pocket knife.

3: It's far more effective to focus resources on reducing poverty and mental illness. People only stab eachother because they have a reason to stab eachother. It doesn't just happen like god rolled a die 🎲 and it landed on your turn to be impaled by a random knife today. This is generally true for gun violence as well but not exactly the same situation + higher risk, see above.

Honestly, basically all the context is in the title, but before you tell me it's obvious, I'm referring to people who use "DON'T USE THE I, YOU'LL HURT POLAR BEARS" as a catch-all phrase on Tik tok

Look, I'm not going to get into the AI topic, because we all have our opinions and stuff like that, and this isn't a post to talk about AI, which I'm perfectly aware is bad and bs like that, And burn AI and blah blah blah, I'm not even going to talk about whether it's ethical to use it or not, because I don't have the balls to deal with... Certain comments

What I mean is, I only see people making noise about polar bears (There are between 22k and 31k bears left in the wild btw)

But I don't see people making a fuss about the vaquita marinas (There are between 7 and 10 vaquitas left in the wild)

Not even about the rhinoceroses of Sumatran (Fewer than 80 rhinoceroses)

Or even that Mahahual is in danger thanks to Royal Caribbean (which is going to build a park there, destroying ecosystems and killing native animals of the area, As far as I know)

Or even the ammonia plant in Mexico that is obviously destroying ecosystems and damaging everything

In some parts of latín américa some people even kill jaguars to make wallets! WALLETS

Take what I say with a grain of salt, as it's information I find on the internet, and we know the internet isn't always reliable.

So why do we only protest about polar bears and not see the bigger picture that there are animals that need equal or more help/Visibility?

I haven't seen any English-speaking TikTokers talking about this, nor people making copypastas on TikTok saying "LET'S SAVE THE VAQUITAS MARINAS!" or "LET'S SAVE MAHAHUAL", I'm honestly glad that Spanish-speaking TikTokers at least talked about Perfect Day, because otherwise, nobody would have cared.

Or maybe I just haven't searched properly, or my searches only come back in Spanish, idk

There’s a billion different privileges they could have access to.

-Pretty privilege
-Height privelage
-Weight privilege
-Age privilege
-Wealth privilege
-etc

This is all to say that reducing the value of people’s opinions because of their skin colour or sex is pretty stupid (some would call it racist/sexist).

Because ultimately you can be white, or a male and still be less privileged than someone else.

These mods are pissy. A great convo with nearly 50 comments about punching down removed. Who runs this sub? Hot take. They suck.

If you look like a cis man and dress and talk and are employed as a cis man and have people listen to your opinions and shake your hand and take you seriously as a cis straight man you do not get to “but I’m queer nonbinary” in conversations about privilege and identity. It’s not fair to those of us who are actually second class citizens and don’t have a fucking choice in the matter.

Everyone is attracted based on physical attraction. There are other aspects that can add to it but the core mechanism of attraction is physical attraction.

Sapiosexuals are liars. No sapiosexual would sleep with a really ugly person just because they happen to be intelligent. But even if they would, it would be because they have a thing for ugly people.

Physical attraction is attraction. It's innate, it's the basis of sexuality and romantic love. People who say they don't care about looks, or worse, say anyone who is attracted to others based on physical features is a problematic fetishist - people who say these type of things are manipulative liars playing language games to subjugate naive and well-meaning people.

This may seem obvious to some but I see a lot of people getting this confused due to movies and quantam physics narratives.

Time doesn't exist as a force which affects reality. It is just a measurement. Time doesn't exist the same way centimeters, days or months don't exist. Its an abstract measurement with no physical expression. I think some people know this but there are many more who don't so thought I'd share.

The take is: Time doesn't exist as a physical force in reality. It is just a measurement.

I'm fairly traditional. Not everyone will see things my way and that's fine. For myself I live by a pretty important set of rules regarding women.

Be gentle. Be respectful. Listen to what they say. Let what they say give me pause and think. Don't restructure my entire life around bending over backwards for them.

Yes, if it's within my power to not make a woman uncomfortable with a small gesture that doesn't inconvenience me too much? Why not be a good person and do it.

No, if the inconvenience is too high, I won't. My life does not revolve around making women (or men) comfortable.

Women should have a reasonable expectation of safety in our society. Not attacked, harassed, and the like. No, society does not owe them the absolute feeling of safety in public spaces.

Example. I'm walking down a road. It's evening. A woman is walking in front of me. Do I go to the other side of the street? Maybe I do. Maybe I don't. My life does not revolve around making this woman comfortable. I weigh my inconvenience against discomfort. Maybe I do sometimes if I have energy left at the end of the day to care. Maybe I don't if I don't. Will she go and talk about 'the creepy guy who stalked her'? Maybe. I will never see her again. What do I care.

I listen to women. In person and online. If there's small adjustments I can make, I make them. If there's demands for big adjustments, I consider and don't always make them. That's life.

Same for dating (for you unmarried dudes that are afraid to approach). Some women online say 'don't approach, she's trying to have a good time'. Some women say 'a respectful approach is fine'. I fall in the latter camp. Approach. If she gives a no, back the fuck off. If she goes home and tells a story about 'the creepy guy who approached' what do you care? You're not going to see her again. Any women who say 'don't approach' ignore. You're looking for a partner and your entire life does not revolve around making women the most comfortable they can possibly be. A respectful approach with a 'back the fuck off' on a rejection is acceptable.

Life is discomfort.

Lets just think about it those people literally keep complaining whining how they need the latest open source os some weird jailbroken criminal phone constantly wine about id verification on sites like discord and reddit its quite obvious they got something really sus to hide anyoneo who is against this can be assumed to be either a criminal or planning to commit a crime and if you check their accounts its funny they often for example end up also talking on piracy subs and such so clearly they do something have to hide or they are underage and shouldnt be on the internet at all.

This evening, my university had an event with a guest speaker in our Department of Economics (of which I am an undergraduate student). While the guest speaker and the department chair were having a conversation on stage, naturally, the subject turned to the prevalence of AI/LLMs and the speaker began to refer to it as 'super intelligence.'

The first time it was said, it felt abrasive. I sat up in my chair a little bit.

Then the two of them just... kept saying it! And it kept bothering me!

I remember when Trump announced that he wanted people to start referring to AI/LLMs as 'super intelligence,' my only thought was "this is ridiculous, it sounds stupid, and nobody is going to do this." Why is this catching on with these evidently serious and successful people?

Don't need a conviction, just have to admit you're a pedophile

I've been seeing a lot of Chris Hansen vids. Some of the pedos have no remorse and are only upset they got caught. Others have deep shame about the desires that they can't control.

If someone is ashamed, knows they can't control themself and they will likely harm a child: they should be able to access assisted suicide.

"What about people who aren't pedos but just want to commit suicide?" ... and falsely admit to being a pedophile? I'm sure someone would that'd be tough to do for anyone though

Double dipping chips or i dunno veggies or something is fine i do not care. unless you have a cold sore but thats implied do not share mouth. Also it is not gross to pick your nose nor is it gross to eat it. love you goodnight.

Acne can look really cute and acne scars give off a sort of cool/mature/sexy vibe. Not like really bad cystic acne, because that hurts and if you're in pain then I just feel bad for you. On men and women equally. Like people spend money on blush to make their faces red acne already does that but people just cover it with foundation then go put the color back on top again lol.

I said this once and someone said it was pedophillic like adults don't get acne. yeah because everyone is trying their hardest to cover it up to take medicine to get rid of it duh you think acne is a teen thing. esp women get breakouts from cycles.

Like I saw a guy the other day and he had some on his forehead between the eyebrows and on his cheeks it was so cute like it just looked nice on his face and made it more recognizable. Especially people with more flat faces and less defined features I think it looks very good.

ok idk if my title makes sense, so for example—

commenting that a character dies in x movie, while the post was about y movie and the deaths in it.

this is fine, of course,…but they didn’t provide a warning and it was something I wanted to really watch but didn’t have access to. sucks knowing what character will die & completely ruins the twist of finding out authentically.

all in all, comment whatever about whatever, just for the love of everything on planet earth, say you’re gonna spoil it!!!! also lukewarm take bc I’ve seen many different perspectives on this. not sure which flair.

are the root causes of many stresses throughout society. When consumers have bought everything they feel they need, or have accumulated so much debt that their capacity to purchase new goods and services is limited, the wealthy naturally shift towards investing in areas where choosing to forgo a good or service brings substantial consequences. One of the areas where this phenomena is most pronounced is in rising health-care costs. As a result, a growing number of young people in this country aren't able to afford therapy, as the cost of a year's worth of talk therapy can now exceed the cost of college tuition. When you add in growing paranoia as a result of limited social interaction caused by young people always being in the 'shrimp posture' and staring at their phones, and social media algorithms that select for and promote agitative content, including boosting "influencers" who demonstrate clear signs of narcissistic and borderline personality disorders, which then leads to the normalization, acceptance and emulation of toxic behaviors both online and in real life, you end up with a society in collapse. Everything is interconnected.