Well I’m getting real tired of people who always bring up politics/discourse in everything when the politics/discourse only exists online…
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Things were steadily getting better but nah, I said fuck that and blew it all up this week. I was going to buy a gun this year for all the solo hiking I do, but now with all this and my mental state toward these guys, Ive held off lol.
I’m trying to be smart but a big part of me is tilting toward flying off the handle and doing some damage. I just need to keep hitting the gym and staying active.
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Do everything in your power to resist impulsive decisions right now. Set up mental flags in your Id that trigger your Ego to interrogate any violent thought as it arises. That gives you an instantaneous editing function—an internal circuit breaker—to curb those reactions before they escape. Because the outcome of violence is finite, irreversible, and destructive to your timeline.
I believe you’re meant for something greater than retribution. Direct that force into the disciplines that rebuild what’s been worn down—physical, mental, spiritual, emotional. Channel it into growth and recovery instead of collapse.
I am always available through phone/text if you need to talk these things through.
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The whole political beliefs giving people a false sense of superiority.
Newsflash some of it is subjective.
People are allowed to have different opinions.
Taqiyya meaning lying to advance an agenda
That and being provocative is for retards.
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War is the failure of politicians
Jesse ventura
Agreed
Isn’t the r word a slur?
What, retard?
No, it’s a completely normal term that’s been in the English language for hundreds of years. The fact that it’s been twisted into a slur is really fucking stupid, actually. It may be insulting to be called a retard, but so is being called “smelly” and that’s not a slur at all.
To retard something is to slow or halt it’s progression or progress. If somebody is retarded, they are (usually) mentally slowed by any number of factors.
It’s like society is acting like children half the time. Can’t say the “R-word!” or mummy and daddy won’t give me any icecream tonight! Oh, and words like “Faggot” (I’ve been called that one a lot, lol) it’s different - because the word’s actual meaning (a bundle of sticks) doesn’t align with the described noun (in this case, a person.)
Prove it’s not a slur then ;__;
That’s kinda what I just did.
It’s a term, not a slur.
Making fun of someone else or being antagonistic = slur
Insulting people who should know better = fair game
Pointing out the lack of better sense = fair game
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Ginger is a slur
So is nuct in america but in uk, australia, nz it isnt.
Slurs have a history attached to it, and what people find offensive and acceptable is somewhat subjective…
But..as for slur 1
Theres a history of historical injustice and antagonism towards a group of people..and the slur was invented to demean people and be derogatory as a way of imposing social superiority onto another group of people. And being that everyone is human, and are equal…the reason for such antagonism is unethical and without reason.
But then you have people doing fucked up ignorant ghetto shit behavior wise and engaging in criminal shenanigans for its own sake.
Then there are people who are functional people
Then theres entitled assholes with a false sense of superiority aka brats, boss babies, arrogant aristocrats
And if someone is a functional person and does the right thing and doesnt do people dirty nor engage in criminal shenanigans of which negatively impact their own life as well as the rest of the community then respect and praise…
But if its arrogant aristocrats or people doing fucked up ghetto shit and engaging in criminal shenanigans for its own sake…they made their own bed…
To be clear anyone from any demographic can be a functional person, arrogant aristocrat, or ghetto doing criminal shenanigans.
Slur 2
Something to do with gender privilege and the injustice of the patriarchy. Not really related but its a historical example, salem witch trials among other things…as for why its tolerated in other societies and not america i dont have the answer to that one…
As for slurs what is collectively agreed to be offensive depends…
Like wap…that has faded over time because italians nowadays for the most part dont really care if that word is used..
Not justifying the use of slurs…but the extremes of being politically correct is 1984 with newspeak…
That being said there should be a level of mutual respect. And sometimes its how you do or say things.
this is known as the difference between a word’s locutionary meaning (aka literal content) versus its illocutionary force (the speaker’s intended function), and the perlocutionary effect it has on the audience (those who hear/read it), within the time and space it is said. this means that language is not fixed and is in the “ear of the beholder”.
an example of an etymological fallacy is using the old “a bundle of sticks” explanation, as it has been the secondary/obsolete definition across most modern dictionaries for like a decade at least? and its derogatory meaning is accepted as the primary. It CAN be funny but good luck making it out of SF alive after saying it lol.
louis CK wrote a thing about that word in regards to comedy on his show years ago.
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Motherfucking goddamnit. I apparently grabbed cumin instead of cinnamon last night while prepping my morning oatmeal. Hell of a shock first thing in the morning.
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Cumin in oatmeal….lmao
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at least it wasn’t chinese five spice
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I’ve got two guitars at home, both of which I’ve posted in this thread, and I’ve been enjoying playing them for quite a while now… Nearly two years, or something? Anyway…
I was practicing last night and my mother walked in and listened for a bit. I told her about wanting to get a gig bag (y’know, just something cheap and simple to carry it around,) so that I could take it to friend’s places etc.
Now, admittedly - they’re not mine. I didn’t buy them for myself. They were gifted to me by my dad and uncle, but the prior has given up entirely on playing music, and the latter lives in Iran now, so I basically own them.
I was very rudely told that I’m not allowed to use them for anything other than playing at home, which is a load of horse shit to me. I get that damaging them would suck, but it’s such a waste just letting them rot away - and now I have to save up hundreds of dollars for a new one (I will be buying a Squire Stratocaster… Eventually.)
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There’s nothing wrong with getting something cheap / used just to lug around in the guitar department, too. Have the good ones for home use and something else to take on the go?
It’s funny that the only thing I have on hand is my brother’s broken guitar that only has 3 strings, and somehow in the absence of anything better, I’m thinking about how I might want to multisample it. Sometimes having less equates to more, weirdly.
That sucks. If they were rare vintage models, I could understand her concerns. While they are both looking and probably sounding good, I doubt an Epiphone Les Paul and a Yamaha acoustic would fetch much. But you said you were gifted these, so really they’re yours to do what you please with now.
With yesterday’s planned murder of Windows 10 and all the discussion around it, it’s been pointed out that in the transition from Win8 to Win10, the ‘My Computer’ icon was renamed ‘This PC’. Of course I knew that, I’ve clicked the damn thing enough, but the implication never occurred to me. The prescient irony of that renaming a decade ago holds a whole new meaning in the age of Windows 11, modern Microsoft, and current computing landscape.
I look forward to the day that the couple of Windows-only software packages I use get their shit together and offer Linux versions.
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