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Serious question? The principle is called “opportunity cost”. Chilling out and touching grass is free - but you could also have spent that time working, producing stuff, learning or whatever. You have “lost out” on a potential benefit due to exactly how that time was spent.

The pro Russia part does.

Roger Waters put a damper on my enjoyment of Pink Floyd.

Wow, imagine calling out a fucker like that, how dare you.

There are some beautiful argument chains.

Doubt.

Hated every kind, had some actually great ones in Greece, now I can sorta kinda get behind black olives. Greens are still a bit too bitter for my preference.

Nah. The pattern is cool as hell though.

So don’t?

No, I just try to. My blocklist is like forty miles at this point

Edit: always entertaining to read rationalizations of “exposing myself to the constant depressing drudgery of political news coverage is like a moral imperative or some shit” btw

“The American dream” was socioeconomic mobility, that shit is for commies these days.

That is just every country, countries would hardly try to look worse than they are.

Scientists and other rationalists. If you wanted to be dramatic, their fight to save ourselves and the planet would be against the inertia of “common wisdom”, known bugs in human psychology, the resistance of wanting to disregard the unknown or unpleasant, everyone for whom the truth (to the best of our knowledge) is economically inconvenient with the considerable economic and societal power they wield.

They are not good odds, but it is correct against incorrect and often against malignantly incorrect, and they are all extremely formidable villains.

If you have a perfectly normal (non-pathological) lack of confidence then pretending to be confident may allegedly help you. A cynic could remark that that requires knowing what that looks like and being able to pull it off, while almost nobody offering that particular “advice” seems to feel a huge need to elaborate on it.

It’s a cliché.

That’s fair. Sounds like a very reasonable way to explain it to the kids’ parents, too, if you get the occasion.

Start handing out kazoos.

Can I non-jokingly ask why that’s such a big deal? If it’s all up in your grill I get it, or some stupid liability thing. Otherwise, there’s little enough joy in the world, what’s the harm?

Now the ducks colonize the moat and you have two attractions. You may or may not also need a third - a drawbridge - for your own access.

It’s not like that’s a worse metric than MBTI

Ooooh! No, my bad, I’ll have that fixed in a jiff now that you’ve pointed it out. Thanks!

Wouldn’t surprise me. If you’re not into ragebait, tankieism, linux smugness, the painful minutiae of corporations fucking everyone, US bullshit, or all of the above… this place is really pretty slow.

I only really browse “all” on this site and it does seem like fresh content trickles in at a fairly slow rate. At least part of that is that it needs to squeeze by what is now pages and pages of blocked communities just trying to avoid the doomposting.

I was not a huge fan of walking up several stories for everything, no.

Normally it’s just more inconvenient to do anything, like getting mail or groceries - slightly, but it does add up. When moving in or out or replacing furniture, anything like that, it’s suddenly very inconvenient.

On the bright side, I guess the extra exercise probably doesn’t hurt.