Have you ever seen boobs in real life?

[-] the_best_nerd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 137 points 2 weeks ago

believing yourself immune to suggestion is one of the greatest vulnerabilities against suggestion tbh

[-] the_best_nerd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago

...is that it's a capitalism metaphor?

[-] the_best_nerd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago

Funnily enough, empathy doesn't always apply to all other people! Many often learn to only utilize their empathy to gain social advantages by leveraging an understanding of others, or practice selective empathy in that they have functioning, typical, empathy - just only within their bubble. It's why some of them get uncomfortable when they're forced to perceive poor people in a more humanizing way - they have empathy, they're just choosing not utilize it in a way that benefits larger society. I feel I should also point out that a number of people fit the qualifications for being considered low-empathy, but are regarded as leading admirable lives by otherwise choosing to be good to their fellow human beings - James H Fallon comes to mind.

[-] the_best_nerd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago

"Sociopath" isn't even an official diagnosis anymore, and certain abusable positions also get noted for their tendency to have high-empathy people working in them - the levels of empathy, in the end, only determine the way the abuse comes through. Empathy is a tool like any other, and trying to insist that it's a thing that can define the goodness of a person is as absurd as any of the other times people have tried to associate a particular feature with some kind of moral position - not to mention how it only ends up harming marginalized demographics. The wealthy and powerful are not going to care if you deem them low-empathy monsters, but some people around you may feel less safe knowing that you associate low-empathy with evil.

[-] the_best_nerd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 5 months ago

oh golly, oh joy! i sure do love assigning all of the people i don't like into the same group of people with a mental disorder, thus perpetuating the artificial class divide of the mentally well versus the mentally ill! surely this will have no unintended consequences on swathes of the population who have that mental disorder or are otherwise considered disordered but are also "functional" enough to blend in with less-marginalized society!

[-] the_best_nerd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 months ago

Until I saw thia message, I entirely thought that this post was suggesting using a condom to choke oneself to death.

[-] the_best_nerd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 7 months ago

"kuno don' fuckin care" vibes

[-] the_best_nerd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago

i like how it implies that his balls act as a safe container for radioactive materials

[-] the_best_nerd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 9 months ago

Who argues tha they've changed? The problem is they never change.

good thing i'm learning godot instead lmao

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