vitadoden.bsky.social
What do you even write here? I left Twitter for my mental health, maybe?
Let's go with that for now. It's a decent bet this will never be touched again either way.
So I decided to edit it a little bit. Profile pic is drawn by myself.
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Ok, that's either you willfully misunderstanding what I mean by saying Private Citizen, or my severe lack of understanding American law.
Either way there's some miscommunication going on here - Intentional or not. Clock just struck 6 PM here and I cba to argue this anymore. Agree to disagere then.
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I realize now that I've widened the meaning of what I said far outside how what I described initially, but..
I'm not that crazy am I? What they are exposed to now simply cannot be healthy. The overall environment anyway. Sorry for the longass rambling. 🤐
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Shortened attention span, increased incidence of ADHD, information overload leading to behavior indicating smartphone addiction, "doomscrolling", disturbed sleeping patterns, earlier and earlier examples of increasing depression and self-harm. Internet bullying. /4
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Again, might just what I wanted to call "Old-man effect" when thinking about current culture. At least if we're talking brainrot I think it is certainly not a controversial take anymore to say that early internet access is harmful to a developing mind. I can't find a more logical conclusion /3
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But having said that.. At least those things had some.. I don't know. Substance. Or am I simply imagining that? Ok sure - They were meant to make us consume something, but there was some sort of story, it wasn't just weird bite-sized meta-level content with little to no narrative.. /2
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I mean... It sort of depends. It might just be a case of rosy retrospection where I've forgotten so much about the weirdest shi...
Ok, fine.
I just thought of at least 3 or 4 children's cartoons that were clearly simply indirect ads to force parents to buy action figures sort of. 1/
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I quite honestly am not as well-educated on this topic as I thought then. Could you point me to those historians then? Please don't read some sarcastic tone into my "voice" here, I promise you I am quite serious.
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Yeah.. I try my best to squash my inner grammar-fascist these days when it isn't super important, but that one.. eeesch it hurts my eyes. 😐
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Fair enough, perhaps I shouldn't have assumed. On that note it would be interesting to see a breakdown by country of the users here 🤔.
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How kind of him to visualize his own radicalisation in an easily understandable way.
Doesn't change the fact that he's a dangerous lunatic with too much money and not enough sense or a moral compass, but it's something.
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But either way, I hope I've managed to clarify my thinking about it all. Got some other stuff to do now, but it was nice talking to you there Your Holiness (finally fully read your bluesky handle just now hah)
Have a nice day, happy holidays and a happy new year friend.
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Yeah I suppose. I've pointed it out before, but I feel the urge to do so again. I'm not American so as a Swedish person I don't quite have that adverserial mindset towards insurance companies from an actual experience point of view, so perhaps that's why I'm not quite as eager to cheer this on.
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See my full answer. Individuals taking action of their own accord is more detrimental to a civilized society's functioning than a government doing so. As a soldier you are an extension of a governments policies. That doesn't mean it can't be wrong, but ideally it is less disruptive.
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Conflict is inevitable, between individuals and between groups of individuals (or nations if you will). I subscribe to the Clausewitz idea that war is diplomacy by other means, but only in so far as that it is a last resort. I wouldn't support many of the US actions, but that's another discussion.
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distributed amongst those commanding said military makes all the difference when considering a comparison to one individual killing another. Again, it's still killing but the justification and considerations taking place before makes it less chaotic and detrimental to civilized society. /2
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Being allowed to defend yourself and your own people against outside threats is a fundamental natural right. In order to do so effectively on the scale of a nation you need an organized military. In my mind the responsibility, moral or otherwise, for actions taken by that military as a whole when /1
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The issue is the fact that a private citizen has taken it upon himself to exact vigilante justice and ended someone's life. And people are celebrating that. From what I have learned I have no sympathy for the dead guy, but a society where people act like this is not one you want to live in.
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I can't ground that in something more philosophically precise than that it makes enough of a difference for me to be ok with it. I dunno, that's the best answer I can give you.
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Yes, but taking up arms to defend your fellow man and your country should it come under threat is in no way the same thing as deciding to end someone elses life as a private individual. Whoever dies is no less dead, but the individual soldier does not entirely decide on the action alone. 1/
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Quite a bleak take, but understandable I suspect. I'm Swedish myself, but I follow US politics a fair bit. And other news like this worms it's way in. I'm holding out hope personally that post-Trump you guys might finally give someone not quite as far as Bernie but further a long his lines a chance.
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To really iron out that we'd need to contextualize it more, but coming from different mental landscape as a Swede rather than American, joining the military is nowhere comparable. But we primarily use it for defense. Given the US post WWII military history I can see why you would feel different.
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Well.. yes? and? CEOs being fearful of being killed if their business-practices harm enough people - Is that the end-result you want? Or do you just mean that this is what this event will lead to.
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Yet at the same time you don't want one where corporate vampires profit as people are dying at their discretion but.. yeah..
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Yeah, knowing what little I know of the American Healthcare system (I'm Swedish) and it's effects for the everyday person I can absolutely understand that people want to cheer this on, but my point is mainly that a society where such things becomes routine is not one we all want.
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Yep, I hope that is the case and I agree with that sentiment. I'm flattered you would call me educated hehe :)
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Two things can be wrong at the same time. Whataboutism solves nothing. One has to do with predatory capitalism and the other involves what it takes to have a civil society we all want to live in. If you want to go back to a time where people could just go out and merc someone they didn't like 🤷♂️
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It depends on what you'd accept as proof. There is enough to suggest someone brought together a big group of people in a new religious movement, they traveled around, preached and were later executed by the romans. And those are non-Christian sources that are not part of the bible.
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So private citizens taking the law into their own hands and enacting vigilante justice against someone who they believe deserves to die is that same as joining a nation's military?
Whatever you're smoking, smoke less.
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Some companies and their management are arguably close to if not literally evil, but celebrating a murderer is still fucked.
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There is little to no debate among serious historians that Jesus existed. That's not to say there is none or that there is definitive proof, but to bring up his historical existance or lack thereof is.. well I'd call it silly, others might disagree.
His status as "son of God" is a different story.
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Reminds me of this rant I went on the other day in some Youtube comments. Not the exact same topic, but related.
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Decent... visual pun I guess?
That book in the middle is also kinda crap though. I mean it is vaguely interesting, but not much beyond that. Easily accessible pop-psychology at best. Probably comes off very condescending to say, but it's true regardless.
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I'm having an "old grumpy man"-moment at 36 thinking about how kids 10 years from now are going to say "oh you remember skibidi toilet? Yeah man, that shit was so good!"
Just.. no... It's somewhat creative, that's the best thing I can call it. Holy shit.. the brainrot is real and we're all doomed.
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Yeah that's a fair point. Relative to how China used to be I'm pretty convinced it's better these days, though things like terrible working conditions in sweatshops working for Shein/Temu is still a thing. But.. I'm also pretty convinced you can find industries like that more or less everywhere.
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Chinas human rights violations need to be considered though, the Uyghurs being the most well-known example. See "Human rights abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang" at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs
Regarding economy, I base my view of things primarily on commentators like Peter Zeihan.
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I'm still undecided on China. It is such a gigantic system and nation that changes and effects take a long time to show up and their demographics might not hold up for much longer. I'm aware of European countries, of which I am a part (Sweden). But time will tell. Sorry for the late reply.
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Love Pratchet. There's pretty much something in there for everyone
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I'd argue that hierarchies are necessary for large scale organisation and cooperation, but combined with ruthless predatory capitalism run amok and things like corporate lobbying they, like imperfectly implemented marxism, lead nowhere good.
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Healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry in the US is a dystopian hellscape, but... Yeah. Just don't try to fully implement those ideas 👆 large scale in society. History has pretty conclusively proven that it simply does not work long-term. We don't need any more well-intentioned dictatorships
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You're making it sound like she planned on going viral by descring blowjob technique when she ran into a random dude interviewing people in public.
I think you're giving her a bit more credit than evidence suggests she's owed.
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2 out of 3 isnt an awful record. Well. depends on the metrics of how you judge it I suppose, but... yeah.
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Figures. Well you guys' politics are always baffling to me. I'm Swedish so I don't have a particular Need to know a lot about it, but I'm fascinated and horrified in equal amounts these days.
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Right, but you're arguing about the semantic meaning, we both actually know what is being said. In other words, accurate communication is achieved, so what is the issue here exactly? You just want the gotcha moment? You can have it 🙂
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“People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.”
— Mark Twain
Words to live by, certainly when considering public libraries if your apartment is small
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Yeah.. it's a good thing I learned to compartmentalize as a problem-solving technique. If I were constantly at max empathy I would jump of a bridge. If ya'll can do it, more power to ya, but I would be overwhelmed way too quick.
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Fuck man that was way too real and relatable 😶
// Someone with sleep issues and bipolar disorder
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Fair enough. A discussion that could be had about this, but when I run it through in my head there's certain areas where both sides play a bit fast and lose with certain "truths".
Anyway, it was just a thought. The whole idea of Gerrymandering just fascinates me. That it's even allowed for one.
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I would be curious to see a survey of mobile-game players. I've no data or anything, but I would bet at least people my age there would be a lot more women who play those rather than console or PC
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Relative to the US politics side of it I'm sure you're correct though. At the very least I do not know enough American political history to say one way or the other.