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  • DarkNightoftheSoultoArtificial Ignorance@lemmy.caOops, forgot one!
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    this is a nothing. the list it produces first is not exhaustive. there are no contradictions or falsehoods here, and what you observed in this post is barely ambiguous. humans may be categorized among the great apes, but are rarely referred to as such except in relation to the other great apes. Otherwise we tend to be extremely chauvanist and just call ourselves humans.

    this is like “what are animals”

    and it produces a list of birds and reptiles and fish and mammals but doesnt include humans. and then you ask “are humans always considered animals” and post a gottem.











  • I am doing well. I am carrying a 4.0 in school right now. It’s only 2 classes this semester at entry level stuff (english 1 and algebra) but still, it feels like quite an accomplishment going from weed-smoking bed-depression to this. I’m struggling sometimes remembering to take my morning dose which doesn’t help me very much on those days as you could imagine. I’ve developed something of a takeout addiction- I’m literally eating 90%+ of my meals out and almost not cooking for myself at all. It’s very, very financially painful, but I don’t have to cook or clean so my brain is just like, “eh, fuck it.” Those times when I do go out and get some groceries for myself my brain continues to throw the fuckits around and the produce just goes to rot. Still, 4.0 is pretty good.


  • I mean i dont have much to say but it was nice knowing it was there. when I started responding to these initially i was in kind of a rough spot, and now that I’m doing a lot better I guess I haven’t felt the need to seek it out when it wasnt showing up. And the reason it wasnt showing up, now im thinking about it, is that i never sort by subscribed anymore, which is really my fault.





  • “Dave Limp, the chief executive of one of my companies, Blue Origin, met with former president Donald Trump on the day of our announcement,” Bezos wrote. “I sighed when I found out, because I knew it would provide ammunition to those who would like to frame this as anything other than a principled decision. But the fact is, I didn’t know about the meeting beforehand. Even Limp didn’t know about it in advance; the meeting was scheduled quickly that morning. There is no connection between it and our decision on presidential endorsements, and any suggestion otherwise is false.”

    “Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, ‘I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.’ None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one,” Bezos wrote

    “Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?”



  • The fact that you only equate sex/nudity to porn reveals the problem.

    I took the trouble to delineate tasteful nudity, or sex that actually serves a purpose in the plot (your fine examples of drama or fear are great suggestions, though I worry about the encroachment of porn with a “fun sex scene”) from common smut.

    As for public life: the theater is a public place, my thought goes no further than that.

    Thinking back now, I can even empathize with some of your feelings here. In the abu dhabi branch of the louvre, there is an ancient marble statue of a man that stands twice my height if my memory serves. Its genitals have been roughly gouged out with chisels in stark contrast to the smooth curve of skin and cloth for the entire rest of the statue. It’s nauseating and disrespectful not just to the creator’s work and vision but to human dignity. I think me seeing that statue and feeling what I felt is something comparable to how you now feel. I’m not afraid of or ashamed of the human form or human sexuality, but these things have a time and a place and a respect due that is often not granted or even considered.

    So maybe im just watching the wrong movies. what not-porn movie are you watching that treats sex with the dignity and respect it deserves?