more money is not the goal of a long term relationship or at least, ought not be. I hope this person had other attractive qualities in addition to freeing you from working.

No I’m sorry, I’m just splitting hairs. You’re good.

Uhm… “Cognizance” can be revoked. Involuntary hospitalization is real. I lived it. It is allowed.

It’s entirely unprofitable to send a bill to a dead patient

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This person is one-upping you only to prove to themselves that their experience was justified, by making yours unjustified. I get defensive when someone brings up a workplace I struggled with. I think the perspective of the person that put your experience down as “not-real” is attacking your experience out of defense. It’s rude and ugly, but the alternative is that “warehouses” are Not bad to work in, or that you are better at working a warehouse than they were. It might be emotionally painful to consider those alternatives, and it’s much easier to make younger workers feel overly entitled.

Creators don’t have to be all-knowing. Also, because believing this reality is a simulation does not change the rules we live by, there is no difference between the life of a sim-denier and sim-believer. It’s not as if you’d be punished just for [redacted].

you don’t know me! I’m wrong about tons of stuff!

I’m somewhat of a medical professional.

Pass. Hard pass.

Thank you so much for this thoughtful response. I didn’t think about it that way. You made a very good point about local elections.

Look, I agree with you, but up to a point. I can barely navigate my own life and I’m responsible for yours? No thank you. I didn’t vote for Kang, I wasn’t gonna vote for Kodos, and I do not see how any result could possibly be my fault. The ancestors agreed to let fascism rise before I was a single cell in mom’s developing uterus. My state votes red, always, no matter what I do. I can’t afford to leave, but I believe I have never once had my interests represented by my vote. I’ll still vote, because it is my duty as a citizen. My choice or yours, we all get turd sandwiches.

Blame and bully me to death if you want, but isn’t there someone else more controlling, with more influence on the election who surprisingly is not subject to the same blame or bullying?

Sorry, I’ll get right on fixing that for you. I’m obviously responsible.

Edit: but honestly, is shaming me into voting going to make the system better or is it just to make you feel better about the broken system?

Yes the world was perfection before voter apathy

Why do the representatives of this place not reflect the wishes of their constituents?

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if you’re just complaining on Lemmy, that’s not political activism

You are both agreeing that the storm is bad yes, but you are communicating in a way that is generally assumptive and hurtful to an area of human beings who are affected by disaster

It would be really very nice if you could hesitate blaming them for this unnatural disaster until after this guy (and others) can get the water out of their houses.

I am sorry that you feel this way.

A movie you’re not going to share with your friends does not sound successful.

yo? Artificial puberty is a luxury. Artificial puberty can also be healthcare for some people, but again, healthcare is a luxury, and is not guaranteed.

People will always know themselves better than others do.

Sometimes yes? I bet some people think themselves to be “stable geniuses” when they’re clearly deluded creeps. I’m also reminded of The Yellow Wallpaper, Available to read here which depicts the internal struggle of a woman with her worsening mental illness. Her autonomy is stripped not only as married woman in the 1800’s, but as an ill person who is literally assumed to be incapable of making her own decisions. It is not only horrifying but phenomenologically significant, and socially relevant, I recommend this short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

We have the ability to sit every person down before puberty and talk them through what it entails, and then let them choose what exactly they want to go through.

I’m not sure this is true. We might be able to do this for first-world children whose parents have jobs and insurance.

I think it’s wonderful that you’re expressing yourself and trying to make a better world.