uphillbothways

joined 2 years ago
[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Oh yeah, I'll be back in a bit. Just realized I forgot something in my car..." They'll probably not even miss you. Just go home. I would. If anyone asks, you weren't feeling well. It's true.

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

Stop letting him. You don't owe him even an explanation. The nicest thing you could do for him would be to let him figure it out with as much time as he needs to do so. He hasn't listened thus far or had any appreciable or effective consequences that gave pause to or caused change in his behaviors. I think you probably know this and are just looking for confirmation.

Take yourself and your family back. Why let someone like that be a further influence?

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

That baby smell triggers oxytocin which acts similar to the reward chemicals someone might get from drugs but also kicks off tribalistic reactions in the human brain.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-smell-of-newborn-babies-triggers-the-same-reward-centers-as-drugs-58482/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3029708/

Baby smells get you high and promote warlike behavior and ethnocentrism.

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Except for the children of the rich. Those adult children we've somehow allowed to reign over us in the real world and torment us in modern actuality.

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Well, yeah. One of them has flavor.

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago

In the beginning, humans were dumb as fuck. They still are, but they used to be, too.

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't see an issue here.

  1. try to explain your downvotes, or, better yet, voice your disagreement and have a discussion without relying on downvotes to express yourself. Use your words.

  2. when you feel it necessary and that using your words isn't working, upvote/boost everyone but the person in question. Realize downvotes don't really do what you'd hoped and are a poor crutch and means of expression. Elevate what you do agree with. Worry less about what you don't.

  3. just don't care about internet points. As others have said and covered extensively.

Hopefully, what remains is that conversations are important. Having an outlet for undescribed/unformed/ambiguous disagreement/dissent really doesn't add anything to anything for anyone. Making a point or saying something correct is more valuable than shooting down those you find to be incorrect. And, ultimately, it's not just what you think that matters. The consensus of the group and the conversation that gets them there, the experience and the interchange and the community itself are all much more valuable than the destination of a single conversation.

Edit: (And, for the record, while I disagree with your assessment, I've boosted and upvoted your thread, because I think the conversations being had here are valuable and worth seeing by more people.)

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Shave your parts and buy a ghastly merkin for sexy times. Tell her you only wear it to reduce the chaffing. Then, bust out a gnarly fake beard and ask if she wants oral.

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

I read fiction for a certain amount of enjoyment, but also to prepare for conversation with people when it's required in the near future.

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Needs more dark souls.

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Gonna need a mobile BioShock port first, so they can Rapture while they Rapture or something.

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

People have been talking about reducing carbon output for a while and not doing it because the economics weren't there. Now, it's starting to happen because it's profitable. Solar and wind have become cheap.

It needed to happen sooner and could have been done better. But, idiots platforming idiots isn't really going to change this one way or another. I feel like these climate talks are primarily theatre. Probably always were. But in this case, that makes me hopeful. Why would we listen to a Saudi oil exec when we didn't listen much to scientists explaining the impacts for decades? The money talks and it's beginning to tell a slightly less hopeless story.

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/about-40-percent-of-the-worlds-power-generation-is-now-renewable

Today, I choose guarded optimism.

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