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  • That’s the thing I think I’ll die never understanding. I really don’t see the point of being on your death bed with plenty of leftovers.

    Some people have a really backwards understanding on the core philosophy of “being successful in life”. Like, he seems to lack the ability to grasp the literal meaning of that concept and so will always be doomed to fail at achieving anything with it. It just makes sense to understand he has a psychological deficit. I’d be empathetic if he weren’t such a catastrophic burden to everyone.






  • It’s concerning that people aren’t immediately picking up that it’s satire. After setting up for a zinger, here it comes…

    I placed my laptop on the table, opened a browser window to ChatGPT, and prepared to do what I do every single day in my actual scientific practice: type a prompt and receive a coherent, well-structured response that I would then lightly edit and present as my own thinking.

    It’s at exactly this point you should realise, laugh, and then immediately feel upset because Dr Simmons is making their point. The rest of the write up is them giving us an upsetting insight into the realities of a world they’re intimate with and show very valid concern for, just as we should now be after reading it.

    Then to top it off, I come read the comments to have a laugh and discuss it, but instead now I just feel extra gloomy about the rot of our thinking and discerning skills and how easy it is to just take advantage of this. Now I can’t stop thinking about how many users fall for misinformation and how many times each day if this is already the kind of thing breaking their acid tests.

    I now imagine some people’s pride will just default all that I just said to a superiority complex and that just makes things even more depressing.

    I don’t know if the writer intended this extra provocation, but bonus points. Or they’re reading the discourse around their write up is more about whether it’s satire or not and instead are now at a “I fucking give up on this world” point.





  • saltesc@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzA tragedy in one part
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    I did recently watch something showing how much older Americans look due to diet. Not like it’s necessarily a choice of bad diet, rather the options are awful all the way down to produce. There was no science to it, just interviews of Americans visiting other developed nations in Europe, Asia, and places like Australia. A recurring response of why was people pointed it to the “normal” food of the country they were visiting or moved to was higher quality and healthier.

    They revealed their ages and I was quite shocked. They all looked years older. Even the host I thought was around 40 to early 40s but was only 32 and apparently was normal for their age.

    I guess if that’s the society you live in, you would never realise it until you travelled.







  • Doesn’t exist. Free speech is not applicable to private sites and communities which are protected by constitutional laws, not bound by them.

    What you’re after is a website that has minimal to no moderation on political discourse. These tend not to exist because of the people they attract and the hot water the site owners can get into by the actions of those people.

    Your best bet is 4chan.

    Edit: Besides, it’d just be a slew of echo chamber vs echo chamber with few participants having an understanding or knowledge of politics—like, ‘what is free speech?’—beyond a philosophical top-layer, however everyone will see themself as an expert. This is 95% of online users that involve themselves in political topics, including most of Lemmy users.