[-] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

So maybe tell her... exactly this?

[-] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't really understand what the problem is from your text. Why exactly do you not want this? Seems like you like each other, seems like you wanna be together, the only obstacle is to figure out how to meet each other, which you don't seem to have talked about, neither here nor with her. Seems to me like that's the only thing that's missing, and travel is really not much of a problem this day and age.

So, what is the actual problem? Why do you not want this?

[-] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

My philosophy is: "if everyone behaved like I did, would we have any/this problem?" and if the answer is no, I'm fine.

The thing is that many people see injustice in the world and want to fix it now, which means forcing other people to not be assholes. But the problem with forcing other people to do/think something is that it doesn't generally work, at least not without causing a massive amount of suffering in the other direction. Everyone generally thinks they're the good guy of the story, no matter how much evil they do. They think the evil is necessary to stop other, more evil things.

Like for example, Israelis think that Muslims wanna wipe them out, and so it's only good to wipe these evildoers out first... And exactly the same thoughts happen in the other direction. At this point, it doesn't matter anymore who started it. Both sides wanna stop the other side from doing more evil, and this attempt to stop is creating more evil.

Doesn't have to be so severe though. Could just be parents forcing their child to eat their veggies. Eating their veggies is good, and so you might think the parent is doing the right thing of forcing their child to eat it. But, most often, all that happens is that the child will forever hate eating veggies and as soon as it's away from the parents, never eat veggies again. Until they turn adult and learn for themselves that eating veggies is good, and try to do it, but the trauma of being forced is hard to reverse.

And that example is our constant state of existence with basically everything.

Everyone wants to force everyone else to do/not do something, and even if one side is right, the action of forcefully trying to change someone else usually backfires in some way. Force doesn't need to be physical force btw, shame (mental pain) is also a kind of force.

I'm not saying you should turn the other cheek to everything. That force should never be stopped with force. I'm just saying that most of the time, you can't make other people change their ways. But you can always completely change your own ways. And if everyone did that, we'd actually have no problems anymore. But most of the time, people start trying to fix problems in others before they fixed their own, and that is almost a complete waste of energy.

Of course, that philosophy doesn't stop injustices from happening right now. But it gives a peace of mind in some way. If you are truly convinced that if everyone was like you, the world would be a nice place, then you can be content, at least with yourself.

Honestly, this is only part of the answer, there is more to answering your question fully, but I don't wanna write more right now. If you want to know more, let me know.

[-] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think it's a non-issue, because from context everyone will know if the instance or you are meant.

Should've maybe called the instance something different entirely if you didn't want that problem :D

[-] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

I mean you can just ventilate whenever you spill something.

The larger problem would be the entire water-based ecosystem.

[-] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And what is "a character" in this context? Like a character in a book or what?

[-] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

... what?

What are picrews, what is a sona, what is "my oc", what is meant with "my character"?

[-] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just don't use repacks like this, the original package is fine. Bandwidth is often free if you get a torrent, no need to save a few hundred MBs with ridiculously CPU intensive compression algorithms.

[-] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

I would indeed say nobody is the asshole here, but your girlfriend is very immature and lacks self-awareness.

People in general want status and wealth. Both are useful things to have in life, status gives you people to help you do what you want and wealth gives you resources to do what you want.

Your girlfriend wants those things and she doesn't feel like she got them, even though objectively, if you can sustain yourself without working, you're very wealthy. But it doesn't feel like that because you can probably barely sustain yourself, i.e. you can't go on cruises every 2 months and buy sports cars.

This is obviously a very materialistic and imo toxic worldview/desire, even though it's very pervasive throughout our society.

But the more specific thing imo here is how women's attraction works. This is not a universal thing, but most women are very attracted by ambition or drive, because it is a signal that you will be able to provide for a family. This is not a rational attraction, i.e. it doesn't matter if you're already rich and could potentially provide, the attraction for even more ambition as a character trait is still there.

Then what many women also want is a man to "follow". Maybe daddy issues. They want a man to look up to, one that is strong, smart, good, confident, ambitious, a leader. Most often more than themselves. That's why she says she can't work when you don't work. She wants you to remain in this "superior" attractive position, which wouldn't be the case if she worked and you didn't.

So in my opinion, she's essentially trying to make you more attractive to her so she can stay with you, because she likes you and how her life is set up. But she's unaware how toxic that is. She's unaware how her attraction works. She's extremely materialistic. She seems very entitled imo. I would say she's the asshole, but at the same time I can't quite blame her either, because all these things are very often what society tells you is good or happen very naturally, and you have to be exposed to certain ideas and do a lot of self-reflection to get away from this thinking.

It's up to you to figure out what to do here. I probably would tell her all these things and see how she reacts. I certainly wouldn't change anything I'm doing if I was in your position.

[-] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Neither sexism nor racism needs to be active hate towards someone. If you just absentmindedly select a white person for a job, you might not even be aware you did it nor do you need to hate the black applicant. Some biases are stealthily part of our psyche.

[-] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Eventually, yes. If everyone's needs are provided for, there is no requirement anymore to extract value from art, one can just make it and share it freely.

Copyright should be abolished.

[-] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Why is no one mentioning here that the business model shouldn't exist? If a copy can be made basically for free, there is no reason not to make it basically free. We should be providing everyone with the means to live regardless of their ability to sell stuff. If everyone was free to do whatever they please because their existence was provided for, people would still make media, because people love making things like that.

Of course that might mean that in the short term, while we don't do this, pirating might mean that some things stop existing. I'd be completely fine if all Hollywood movies and other shit disappeared overnight. Maybe then people would finally come to the understanding that our current model of doing things sucks.

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