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I really wanted to like it, but it's already a right-wing cesspit. π€·ββοΈ Maaaaaybe it'll improve, now that it's public, but I don't have high hopes.
I know this place is just the opposite kind of echo chamber, but when the other option is being beaten over the head with transphobia and Maga shit, ehh, I'll take it.
Reality has a liberal bias.
Lemmy has a communist bias.
Classic Liberal, yes.
The reality that people manage to share with others, perhaps. I think peoples' inner worlds, internal feelings and emotions have likely shown changing trends of comprehension/awareness throughout our histories and likely through all of time. The nature of consciousness is far from deciphered, so it makes sense (to me) to interpret your reference to reality as the one that we all share, talk about, and know about thusfar (this is how I understood your definition of the term, when upvoting your sentimental statement)
Your actions are real.
Your thoughts are all in your head.
If actions depend on our thoughts, and we are capable of thinking about our actions... Where did I "begin" (the sequence of steps which must have occured in order for you to have existed in your present form and current context), and where will I "end" (cease to have any record of ever having existed)
They don't
"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather." - Bill Hicks
Oh OK, thanks for clearing that up for me. I didn't get the knews about that guy on acid, but that is good to know. I guess learning philosophy for fun was a stupid fucking idea in retrospect, but at least god is dead now, so I don't need to stress to much about my own feelings on the matter much anymore, considering that its all just illusions upon illusions. I'm more about the vibes these days anyway, as we all might eventually say.
Says you
Say who?
Quick, "you" turn
When decision
I you word
Forgive me, reasonable
Can I get that word salad with the dressing on the side?
Word salad is what βgenerativeβ ai does best.
People always talk about word salad like its a bad thing. Salad is good. Words must be the shitty part they are referencing, ig, idk. I see no way that two good things combined together could become a bad thing, but I always liked words so I don't ever know what the haters are talking about
I've read this six times and still have no idea what you're trying to say
Language sux, make new ones (words, I guess, is the unit of measure or base unit here, since I think creating whole new languages from scratch without accidentally just mapping out an old language you already know well onto a new linguistic [phonetic?] structure would be difficult for groups of people to do, especially if they all had some shared language that they knew and that most of their ideas that they have learned were taught to them in that language, while they were all trying to creatively conceive of a new language to use amongst each other, even if they set out with an intention to try to not copy or carry over much or any of the previous languages rules, structures, patterns, etc. ). all I really did was try to explain why I was reluctant to upvote based on the necessarily ambiguous definitions of two of the key words in the initial comment. "Reality" was the one I chose to reflect upon and rant about, rather than "liberal", because I think the attitude of trying to anthropomorphize a concept that none of us knows a perfect definition for, and there will likely be ongoing scientific and philosophical debate on the concept for centuries yet to come, is even more poetically dubious than claiming that all of existence somehow conforms to ones own personal expectation and not recognizing the dangers associated with various biases which might inform our current disposition towards concepts or issues which we have come to recently develop or consider within our working framework of understanding upon which we each may be standing for ourselves in order to maintain such an extracurricular style of dialogue.Β
Maybe put away the thesaurus.
If you attempt to slow down enough to touch grass, then try to tell a story describing that grass to someone who has never seen a living plant before, you might become frustrated at how little people care about grass when they don't know anything about plants yet
Try to let it go and practice radical acceptance. What else has the slightest chance of you finding happiness? Do with this message whatever you will.
I just realize this may be read as more of a mental health tip in this context/ in response to my love hate relationship for extra unnecessary over the top vocabulary, rather than as a personal attack or critique of the whole argument/perspective. Maybe it is time to set the ol thesaurus down for a while, practice learning body language or spirit speak for a while in the stead of the dialogues.Β
I don't even know what your argument or perspective is. Verbosity is not a virtue.
If that's the only alternative please stick with the word salads. It's easier to ignore someone who talks too much than someone who assumes they know what someone else is thinking because they blinked wrong.