My ~19 year old account was permabanned after three strikes that involved two upvotes of Luigi pictures and then— after seeing a vid of Trump falling asleep— saying he shouldn’t wake up.

Then my alt got a warning for “disparaging communities” after I said one of the two PDX subreddits started so they could talk shit about houseless people, which is a fact.

Three of those were flagged by AI, the last one— the warning— was a person flagging it and couldn’t be contested.

It’s gone to the dogs.

that’s my landlord’s problem 😎

I’m a millennial and had never heard of or seen Mr. Beast until he had that controversy around the same time he started launching shitty foods, which was enough for me to be like “don’t care for anything this guy’s involved with moving forward.” and have since then not even seen ads for anything he does except maybe once? before a Fallout episode.

They must have their targeted advertising on lock ‘cause I guess they got the message from my lack of interest that I’m not in his demographic and aren’t advertising to me.

Ghosts can harm people, but they also see and can access all of time and all universes at any given moment. Dying is like losing your bookmark in a near-infinite book; it’s hard to get back to your place.

Paired with that, things we consider to be horrible atrocities of our time or past are blips compared to unfathomable things that have yet to come.

Ghosts do kill people all the time in other dimensions, and sometimes in ours, but it’s always ruled as something like a stroke or aneurism or whatever.

I don’t believe any of this but like to think of excuses as thought experiments and have been talking out of my ass.

I know it’s quite the sidebar, but I sometimes think about if there’s any mental roadblocks we have in sciences or other understandings of things because we’ve named them something erroneously enough that our minds have a hard time undoing it, and “sunrise” and “sunset” were the words that made me originally think of this.

Like iirc there’s an emerging idea that our minds are not one consciousness but two minds in one brain a bit silod from one another; your thoughts come from one and actions from another, but it’s a hard idea to explore because it involves dissecting how we think of ourselves as one being/mind/consciousness.

There’s no berating here or superiority being touted. At least that is not my intention.

The entire point of the question was to provide an example of something that is understatedly more harmful to us than originally presented.

I said alcohol and it hasn’t a “net” positive; meaning whatever benefits people think it has is outweighed by the fact it may give you cancer. Your response— as I read it, as it met my statement with a smile— was dismissive of that because you’ve made friends.

I’m now just arguing that that positive benefit is not exclusive to alcohol and should not be in its “pro” column.

At no point have I meant to imply someone is better than others to abstain from it; however, perhaps this is an example to clarify what I think your point was that this is a negative of being sober or opting to not drink, is that you cannot make friends with some people because they will feel judged by your abstinence.

I did say I wouldn’t want to be friends with those people, but that’s more because I don’t enjoy the social pressure or situation in which someone else in my immediacy.is uncomfortable by my personal choice that only affects me.

It being unfalsifiable is the point because it meant to be a pendulum to your unfalsifiable original point that you’re thankful for alcohol because you see it as the reason you have the outcome in life that you did.

Many people have traveled and made friends, they did not need a carcinogen to do it, which nullifies it from being a positive exclusive to alcohol.

“Only the people who prayed lived” is an easy statement to make as the dead ones can’t speak for themselves.

“Alcohol is why I have friends” is understandably believed because you’ll never know the life you’d have had had you not drank it.

I get it’s the pillar of many cultures and a welcome one at that, but the fact it’s a proven carcinogen should not be dismissed, forgotten, or trivialized.

keyword is “net” – you made friends, but the health risks involved may considerably offset that benefit.

i’m sober and have made countless friends sans alcohol, many of them drink themselves; and if alcohol was a contingent on them being my friend, I’m not sure I’d want to be friends with them.

“Hey Copilot, what have Putin and Trump been exchanging emails about?”

Don’t be fooled: if RAM had the chance it would kill everyone and everything you’ve ever loved.

My criticism fucking sucks.

Destructive destructive criticism.

Yeah but that’s what makes it a fun thought experiment imo is thinking of how the simulation accounts for our reality.

If I’m a Sim in The Sims equivalent, my dying results in the exact same outcome it does in The Sims; my avatar is gone and not resurrectable (without mods).

Maybe the Mandela effect is when we’ve moved servers from one that had different DLC.

God/Jesus/all prophets was just the admin visiting.

Ghosts are bugs in the code only visible to some of us because we have the residual DLC files that weren’t properly removed.

We can’t see far into space because the draw distance is short.

Alcohol

iirc it’s a confirmed, 100% proven carcinogen and is a poison with zero net benefits.

Your dynamite is not placed in the correct areas for optimal destruction and would be better located on the support beams.

Worse in that I don’t have a house and probably never will.

Better in that I know more about how to treat my physical and mental health than they ever knew about theirs.

Worse in that I don’t have as much money as they had at my age.

Better in that I don’t need to worry about leaving money to anyone.

Three baps of the paw should do it.

Fandom would have those old moving pop up windows if they could/were still a thing.

“Except for your desire to be abducted by aliens. That’s a direct result, probably.”

“Oh the inhumanity!”