More educated people tend to understand and vale nuance.

An issue with understanding nuance is that you can use it to justify doing things that tend to favor yourself.

Veritasium is the puppet of an investment firm.

Your takeaway on IQ is accurate.

I dunno I’ve seen some bright rocks.

Or just his arms, but bears ain’t got no arms therefore you get no rights.

I’ve met more people who are proud sex workers then I have people who are proud fast food employees.

I think that perhaps you are letting your disgust for a person’s work color how you feel about the person. Do you feel the same about athletes and actors? They also “sell their bodies”.

Ok I worked at Walmart for 11 years does that mean my self worth is minimum wage? I don’t think so. My worth after I’m gone will be determined by the people who loved me and I honestly won’t care,what with me being dead and all.

If I thought I could make enough money from doing sex work your damn right I would and I would be more proud of that then my work at retail or a defense contractor or a member of the military.

Sex work is work and as long as everyone concents rock the fuck on.

I’m 55 and can honestly say I am more happy today then I have ever been in the past, not because of money or lots of friends but because I have learned a lot about myself in the last 10 years.

The problem will always be that companies and organizations will still use it as a primary communication platform, same issue with Twitter and face book, I have left all those platforms but still have sock puppet accounts so that I can access information that is difficult to find elsewhere. It’s kind of a never ending cycle.

We need a group of talented people who want to start making nonprofit social media platforms, but then maintain them in such a way that it attracts the companies, and organizations that currently use the for profit sites.

Lol I was going to say it sounds like all the AI shit that’s posted to the “today I fucked up” forums all it needed was a couple " I turned my phone off because it was blowing up" and oddly similar and unnecessarily given ages.

It’s probably because we tell kids about how dangerous scams are and all the problems that can occur, but we don’t teach ways to mitigate the issue when it does occur, the child was probably worried that all of their friends would fall for the scam and everyone would get in trouble, it honestly sounds like she was more concerned for her friends then she was about her discord account.

I’ve had adults act pretty much just like this, they are not well versed in how shit works but hear all the scary stories, so if things go a little wrong it is terrifying.

I did know a guy who very slowly over a couple years became Mormon, before they finally cut ties with me they had become insufferable, to the point of me loging into the game we played on an alt to see if they were online before I logged in with my main.

You should try hanging out with people who micro dose LDS. Listening to their shit makes me wanna sort my guns by mouth feel.

Honestly in my friend group I would rather explain in great detail my masterbation habits then tell them I watched HP. But then again I disliked the franchise before it was cool, I watched most of the first movie and it just felt like they were telling people “hey suck up all the abuse and be meek and one day you will be cool”

Here is a fictional scenario, you hit a tree at 30 miles and hour your 2026 Volvo is totaled.

Your dad hits a tree at 30 miles an hour in his 1970 chevy, you replace the windshield and hose it out and you can drive that chevy.

Hey felbane llm, should I get a face tattoo?

If buy “worked” you mean “caused me to not buy a product” then you are correct. I have no memory of ever buying a product because of an ad. In fact the ads I see are almost all for products I have no interest in. I get ads for fast food and I haven’t been to any restaurant in 10 years or so. I get ads for feminine hygiene products and I am male. I get ads in Spanish that I’m certain are for great products but I will never know because I don’t speak Spanish. I have even got an ad from a company that makes sand traps for off shore oil rigs.

To me ads feel like a person is trying to scam me it is the same feeling I get from door to door sales people and agresive sales people in general. The more I see an ad the less likely I am to hold positive feelings for the product.

I understand that I am nerodivergent and therefore my response to ads is atypical, but it is still my response.

I purposely “watch” ads because I think it’s funny that me doing it causes company’s to think they work and therefore spend more money, I cannot think of a single thing I bought because of an ad, sure some things I have learned about because of ads but if I bought the product it is because I researched the product and it fit with my expectations, most of the time I buy competitive products because my assessment process asigns negative points for ads that annoy me.

As a bipolar man,fuck him, sure the things we do and say are not entirely our fault but they are 100% our responsibility. If he wants to apologize and be forgiven he needs to put in the work, spend his money and time helping people, speak out about awareness and rebuild the respect.

His actions told bipolar people “hey don’t take your meds and you will get rich”

And told people “bipolar people are abusive nazis”

Saying "I’m sorry, give me money " should not be ok.

I reiterate fuck him.

Yep but instead of “name something a woman keeps in her purse” it’s “write my legal document” or “is it ok to lick a lamp socket”

My wife has an irrational fear of slugs, like completely locked up and shaking if she sees one. We have spent 20 years together trying to figure out where her phobia came from.

She is in therapy now and was talking through it with her therapist and the therapist asked “what do you fear will happen” my wife told her all the images that flash in her mind when she thinks about slugs. Turns out the therapist is a big horror movie fan and knew of a movie where those exact things happened.

Well about the time that the movie came out on VHS my wife was being watched by an abusive relative who liked to rent scary movies and force her to watch them.