I really don’t want to Google this one. I finally stopped getting tired of California Dreaming

Do you live somewhere where growing is legal? How did you get started? I’m interested in self growing but idk where to start, and where I live it’s not exactly allowed

I’m still convinced that fat people just don’t have this feeling. Like when I eat too much, I legitimately feel sick. Stomach aches, neck and chest pain, nausea, lethargy, it’s awful. I’m on the borderline between healthy and overweight (even though I have basically no fat on my body). I have no idea how anyone functions while eating enough to gain and maintain all this weight. It’s completely insane to me

the charts are what people are actually listening to

But this statement by itself is incredibly disingenuous. Artists and record labels literally have to pay Spotify to get their songs to be played in the algorithm. Yes, it is technically what people are listening to but it’s actually almost always which record company decided to break open their wallet the most for that particular song.

The only reason anyone cares is because of post WW2 guilt and oil interests. There are other places on earth in nearly the exact same situation (two unsupportable regimes both claiming sovereignty over the same region and committing war crimes against each other) and no one cares about them, let alone even knowing what places I’m talking about, simply because there’s no oil involved. The answer is fundamentally the same as when you’re walking down the street and see two drunk guys hitting each other. You ignore them and keep walking. Some people just want to do bad things and there’s not really anything you can do to stop them. By getting involved you inherently are forced to choose sides and now are supporting someone who doesn’t deserve to be supported.

Tl;Dr of history of israel-palestine conflict:

Britain colonizes Palestine and makes it Israel

Israel recognizes this as kinda bullshit and willingly offers basically half the land to existing Palestinians and also offers full citizenship to any Palestinian who wishes to remain in what is now Israel.

Palestine refuses the deal, declares war on Israel

Israel kicks their ass, again offers a deal with less land

Palestine again says no, basically a cold war begins

Other Arab countries refuse to allow Palestinians to move there, also declare war on Israel and get their asses kicked

Terrorists begin attacking Israel from Palestine, especially from the West Bank

Those terrorists are elected to run Palestine in a free and fair election

Israel begins committing human rights violations against Palestinians

We’ve now been at this last stage for at least two decades, possibly longer but I can’t be bothered to fact check myself on the exact dates right now. And yes, this is absolutely as short as the TL;DR on this situation can get, I’m 100000% sure both sides will get upset about details I left out even in this longer story.

Acting like common slang is somehow incongruous with “philosophical” conversation and voicing that opinion is hilariously hypocritical. I urge you to consider what it is about that language that upsets you so much and take some time to work on it. I use common slang mostly because the point is obvious and using big words makes people feel like the speaker thinks they are above everyone they are speaking to. I wrote out that entire long ass sentence instead of saying you sound like a conceited jackass because I know you edge from unnecessarily long phrases.

That’s basically agnosticism. And it’s pretty common among intellectuals, historically speaking at least

Yes but I follow rules 1 & 2 so the fact that I don’t know how to start conversations with people doesn’t matter, I get so many matches that eventually someone will put up with my bs and I can get laid

Adding onto what OP said, housing prices have literally more than doubled in the past two years, and interest rates were at record lows during that time, especially in 2020

Nah, it was pretty obvious. It’s not his fault y’all are dumb as fuck. It happens! Just be happy you learned something today

It’s a mixed bag. Many of them focus too much on policing the rules as strictly as possible and lose sight of the spirit of the community. They are a necessary evil in my opinion, but they shouldn’t be appointed with zero accountability as they currently are. Elections and community votes to remove mods that abuse their power should be more common.

Using /s is utterly pointless and I can prove it, although I doubt you’ll read it.

If someone legitimately doesn’t get the joke, adding a /s won’t make it funny to them, at most all it will do is prevent them from replying with some kind of attack. So I guess if internet harassment from incompetent people that can’t read sarcasm actually affects your mental state, adding a /s is a decent band-aid replacement for the therapy you obviously require.

In most cases, the S is “necessary” because your joke wasn’t funny, and the S will not make it funny, it’ll just make people pity your lack of humor.

Lastly, in the case where people get the joke, as soon as they see the S they will no longer find the joke funny. It’s the equivalent of saying bazinga after every joke. It’s not funny, it’s just annoying, and it ruins the few times you actually manage to tell a good joke.

And feel free to keep shitflinging, I am neurodivergent and I don’t need morons like you self-ruining your jokes in the name of some random internet people with no social awareness.

I legitimately think reddit would be better if everyone who used the phrase “cake day” was permanently IP banned from the service. And hate subs aren’t really a reddit tradition, more a general Internet thing, but go off I guess. Also, fuck the S, it’s the second most unproductive and inane reddit tradition

Cake days were by far reddit’s most unproductive and inane tradition, they should’ve died long ago. I will personally see to it that every person wishing or attempting to wish a happy cake day is verbally harassed until they delete their account.

Sometimes you have to fucking do something. We can’t make big changes overnight. Start small. Organize soup kitchens in your community. Or a community garden. Or start holding party meetings and recruiting people to the cause. And stop making excuses for “leftist” murderers just because they’re “leftist”.

No, in uneducated American circles you would be correct but in actual political discourse a leftist is truly a leftist. A liberal is an American “leftist”.

We definitely have to stop calling communities subreddits though.