NaibofTabr

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[–] NaibofTabr 75 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It does not matter at all who the person asking the question is, how old they are, or whether they're asking in good faith or not. You answer the question for the sake of the audience who will read it. Answering the question is an opportunity to demonstrate understanding, inclusiveness, and compassion. Even if you suspect that the person asking is doing so in bad faith, there is no downside to responding as if they were doing so in good faith, whereas attacking them for asking the question is all downside.

If you're feeling frustrated and suspicious and you don't have the patience for it in the moment, then do not engage. You'll only do harm, to yourself, to them, and to anyone else who reads the discussion.

[–] NaibofTabr 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It is abusive. They react exactly the same way an abusive partner does when you try to leave the relationship.

Also, if an individual person collected and compiled data on another person's activities the way they do, we would call that person a stalker. But somehow a massive corporation doing it is OK.

[–] NaibofTabr 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Even if it's just Earth, if we assume there is a degree of randomness in species assignment then you've got decent odds of reincarnating as an ant:

We conservatively estimate total abundance of ground-dwelling ants at over 3 × 10^15^ and estimate the number of all ants on Earth to be almost 20 × 10^15^ individuals. 1

And of course, massively high odds of being a bacteria. There are probably ~40 trillion bacteria living just in your body right now:

They estimate that the range of bacterial cells goes from about 30 to 50 trillion in each individual. 2

[–] NaibofTabr 6 points 5 months ago

Granpa always wants excitement
He'll try anything new
So he made some homemade bungie cords
He would've been eighty-two!

[–] NaibofTabr 48 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Seriously though, her Wikipedia page is ridiculous. When the hell did she have time to raise children?

[–] NaibofTabr 4 points 5 months ago

"recidence"?

[–] NaibofTabr 5 points 5 months ago

Ooh, that's gotta hurt!

[–] NaibofTabr -5 points 5 months ago

You must be fun at parties.

[–] NaibofTabr 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Right, that would be the kind of "collective action" that I mentioned... it doesn't have anything to do with preventing nations from going to war with each other... the UN doesn't have that kind of authority and never did.

[–] NaibofTabr 1 points 5 months ago

Oh yes, I'm aware. I still think it's funny enough to share with players who haven't heard it before.

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