yeah I appreciate this meme. one could say the fellowship did all this awful shit, but because the struggle was viewed as good vs evil, it’s all permissible
so you’re arguing with someone who says it’s a matter of perspective by saying “nuh uh, id say my perspective is ____” hmmmm
why are people so uncomfortable with the reality that judgments exist only in the mind and not the world? that doesn’t make them less important. quit over valuing the real!
Oh of course I have my opinions! I’m only human. But where does “badness” actually exist in the world? It only exists in our judgments. Everyone on earth could agree that he’s bad, but that doesn’t actually mean anything on its own. It comes with social consequences, but those also come from our judgments. There’s nothing in the world that says that Ted Bundy is bad. There’s also nothing that says he is tall or short or smelly or kind. The universe is utterly indifferent to such things.
This is not a wishy-washy relativism argument. It’s actually quite the opposite. I am stating that social constructs like these judgments are actually so powerful that major parts of human experience are products of human minds. It’s just that the universe is just so fundamentally, radically indifferent to them.
At the end of the day, Lord of the Rings is about a bunch of people fighting and dying. It’s the meanings that we attach to those narratives that give it its glory. And it’s fun to see this meme flip it on its head. Poor orcs!
I know older titles are usually the topic in this community but a lot of the popular f2p games are getting pretty old now too, and if you’re like me you’ve been curious about some of them and even pleasantly surprised now and again....
Just like migrating from Reddit to Lemmy it’s the same as migrating from Windows to Linux, there’s shortcomings and learning curve and the more I use Lemmy the more I hate about Windows, because unlike reddit Lemmy is open source and open source softwares communities is more popular than proprietary communities and people...
switched is wrong. should be “made me switch” where ‘made’ gets the past tense.
also, using obscure onomatopoetic words like “ooky” while teaching ESL is generally not that helpful lol. how is op supposed to know that it conveys a gross feeling? looks like a typo for ‘okay’. that shit ain’t gonna be in any dictionary they look up
I have seen a lot of stories online of people getting things stuck in there and doctors having to remove it, even items like cucumbers. I get that an item with a highly irregular shape could get stuck. But if it’s something long and rounded, why can people not just poop it out? Is it because the item isn’t soft enough?
Good lookin’ all around except I’d dispute this claim:
(beyond the fact that they subjected the mice to their experiments for a full year, which is much longer than most people tend to vape when using it for smoking cessation)
At Bella’s Hacienda Ranch, a brothel on the outskirts of the rural Nevada truckstop town of Wells, a half-priced special for adult male virgins this May has gone off with a bang....
an argument against regulating sex work is that it would place government control on what we do with it bodies
That’s also happening with banning it, of course, but I’m not sure if the jump we necessarily want is legalization plus regulation. Just a thought, no stance yet
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
in mental health, yes actually, a surprisingly large amt of people look to me to be the expert. it’s often just as challenging to help someone see that they’re the expert on themselves.
you’d expect a lot of tiktok diagnoses and bizarro pseudo science attitudes, and while those do come up, they aren’t that prevalent. and it’s usually a symptom of something, i.e. someone with paranoid/grandiose delusions preaching med noncompliance.
I dont encounter anyone who thinks my work is just a joke, but plenty who believe I cant help them and they’re better off on their own
A glorified terrorist group (lemmy.world)
What free2play game are you currently hooked on?
I know older titles are usually the topic in this community but a lot of the popular f2p games are getting pretty old now too, and if you’re like me you’ve been curious about some of them and even pleasantly surprised now and again....
Using Lemmy make me hate Windows (or any proprietary softwares) and finally make me fully switched to Linux
Just like migrating from Reddit to Lemmy it’s the same as migrating from Windows to Linux, there’s shortcomings and learning curve and the more I use Lemmy the more I hate about Windows, because unlike reddit Lemmy is open source and open source softwares communities is more popular than proprietary communities and people...
PlayStation exec predicts focus will ‘shift from graphics to immersive narratives’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)
18+ How do things get stuck in the anus?
I have seen a lot of stories online of people getting things stuck in there and doctors having to remove it, even items like cucumbers. I get that an item with a highly irregular shape could get stuck. But if it’s something long and rounded, why can people not just poop it out? Is it because the item isn’t soft enough?
xkcd #2935: Ocean Loop (imgs.xkcd.com)
xkcd.com/2935...
It seems like a lot... (lemmy.world)
How to unfilter keyword?
I accidentally added something to the filtered keyword list and i dont see a way to remove it....
feeling old now? (lemmy.ml)
Map of the Midwest and its territories (lemmy.world)
a 320 year old elf marries an 80 year old human: Is the elf robbing the cradle, or the grave?
Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? (lemmy.world)
playboi rule (lemmy.eco.br)
‘More like therapists’: adult virgins turn to Nevada brothels for sex – and healing (www.theguardian.com)
At Bella’s Hacienda Ranch, a brothel on the outskirts of the rural Nevada truckstop town of Wells, a half-priced special for adult male virgins this May has gone off with a bang....
What's our stance on sex work? (lemmy.world)
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Uh oh the new AC character is woke (lemmy.world)
Nvm that Yasuke was a real person.
They went in for shoes and were forced to leave gay married! (lemmy.world)
Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....