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"Ah yes, I'm sure a diver would just looove to be inhaling a lot of more-than-typical toxic smoke on a regular basis"

God, I feel like a good 1/3 of news stories are like that. We live in an absurd world.

What if someone is queer in the workplace, and the "opinions" are about them? Or racism?

Or, what about someone refusing to vaccinate, putting others at risk?

It's unlikely ads would bring in any significant amount of money from them se people, in that case.

Space exploration costs us a fraction of a fraction of our resources. All of our problems are mainly political ones.

More knowledge is always good. We do not know when or where or how it will come into use in the future. In addition to, yes, enticing our lives and culture. Possibly inspiring people to build a better future and to care.

For how much it costs, it's a far better use of our resources than a lot of other things we spend them on.

You inhale a lungful of rat poison. You're not able to immediately see what happened to the rats, though their squeaks have not abated.

Roll for constitution

..this isn't even a good argument to use against me, because I, quite literally, never say mean things to or about my friends because of pressure or competitions or whatever. Hell, I don't think I ever even talked mean about someone behind their back, even if they may deserve it for doing something bad. I probably am more deliberate and gentle with my words than I ought to sometimes.

And my point was responding to your hypothetical, calling your friend mean things as a joke and the other person understands that doesn't count as abuse.. because it's not meant to be taken seriously. And was not meant seriously in the moment either. You literally said "..out of friendship".

..not something I ever do, either. Seriously. I don't even get how being verbally abusive is human nature.

I think you and I have a very different definition of verbally abusive

This really showcases the perverse incentives of the profit motive, how it corrupts even what humans consider the most precious thing. And this is why I will never use a commercial dating app. It's FOSS or bust. I'll just make friends and find people other ways.

Even a subscription to a dating app very obviously shows where their incentives lie. How can a subscription ever work when the goal is to find someone.. and stop using the app? They are not incentivized to have people find someone. They are incentivized to keep people desperate. They are incentivized to not have them find anyone, and keep telling them "it's just chance! You'll find someone eventually! You don't want to die alone.. do you? You do not want to be a sad little loser without anyone.. do you? We even have these paid things to increase your chances...."

It's downright fucked up.

Not to even mention the whole gross things like having to "market yourself". Removing all of humanity from the experience and instead treating yourself like a fucking product.

And the truth is, in my experience.. it's really not that hard to meet people if you just work on becoming a better person (which isn't easy, to be fair, but necessary, especially since you will struggle with getting much out of love if you don't), and are actually getting out there. Just meeting new people and friends without much expectations. Whether it's on a friend's party, board game night at your university, or whatever interests you have. Because too often I think people just don't meet many new people in general, and just treat getting a partner like a goal, instead of forming new connections. Eventually you may meet someone you click with. After all, people of your preferred gender(s) are looking for others too.

How is it human nature when not every human acts like this?

I'm not one privy to throwing out slurs or being verbally abusive in stressful situations. And neither are most of my friends.

Eh, I don't know if that was much better, Churchill has quite the history with India..

At least Adam Savage is a good dude. He is actively running his YouTube channel, and often answers various questions including personal ones.

And I at least know that he has actively tweeted in support of LGBTQ+ rights. I highly doubt he would sell out for big oil.