Adderbox76

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago

Not having children with my (now) ex-wife. Thankfully found out her true nature before that happened. I don't know what I'd do if I had to co-parent with her and deal with her on a regular basis. So I'm thankful I could just split our shit 50/50 and then forget I ever knew her.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Just to be the nihilist in the room, I honestly think that the point of no return for humanity occurred the moment we stepped down from the trees and started to evolve. And I'm not actually kidding.

I'm not an evolutionary expert, so I'm more than likely talking out of my ass, but I was an Archaeology Major with a focus on the Bronze Age Collapse and what I can tell you is this...

From a certain perspective, the same evolutionary traits that brought our species to this point, are the very same traits that will keep us from moving forward past it. Selfishness, resource hording, greed, the urge to continually expand at the expense of others. Fear of "others" outside of ones own community; all these things in some form were beneficial to growing from hunter gatherers to urban/agricultural societies. We needed organisation to build cities, so we created monarchies. We needed ways to control the growing population, so we created a fear of a deity.

We needed a reason to not allow too many people in to our society so that we didn't waste resources, so we created borders and the concept of "others" that aren't like us. Now, all of that has to get binned if we have any hope of getting past this point because the only way forward is as single planet, not petty nation states. But every single thing that brought us to this point prevents that from happening. It's ingrained in our very DNA, so to speak.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 20 points 9 months ago

The idiot man-child can "summon" as much as he wants, but they're sovereigns of another country and can't make them do shit if they don't feel like it.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

Awesome. Thanks!

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not to be a debbie downer here, but it's important to keep in mind that unless expressly stated otherwise, so-called discoveries that are only published in out-of-the-way (ie. not respected scientific journals) have usually not been peer reviewed or had their results replicated, which is the entire point of the scientific method.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago

I don't think the GOP was honestly expecting him to win.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

Lucid Reading?

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’m fortunate that I don’t struggle with food/weight.

I miss those days.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Who'd have thunk that 2000 years of conflict was all a misunderstanding about spelling...

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

then I’m so stuffed I feel sick

A lesson I learned too late in life, and will often still ignore is:

"Eat to fuel, not to fill."

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 22 points 9 months ago

I'm feeling very attacked right now.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

Point to a group that cannot defend itself and people will vote in your favor

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." -- Lyndon Johnson.

Still ultimately Conservative policy to this day.

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