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Putting the share button on every post is pure evil on mobile. I’m scrolling and I accidentally hit it and it pops up and I’m wondering whether or not I just sent “fuck niggers and troons” to my boss via Slack.
 
Newly-grown grass and leaves is fantastic and soft. It looks so fresh and juicy. If I were an animal, I'd have eaten all of it.

Cut cheese. Melt cheese. Fry thick cheese. Add herbs and spices to cheese. Buy cheese. Add cheese as an ingredient. Eat cheese. Chew on cheese. Spread cheese.
 
More than 660 e-bike battery fires have erupted across the city since 2019, killing 28 New Yorkers and injuring 400 more.
 
I had to switch to a ThinkPad after experiencing processing issues with Kiwi Farms on my older PC. The problem wasn’t with the website, but with the device itself. I found that the ThinkPad performs best for image processing, reducing lag significantly and I can edit posts faster.

Has anyone else found ThinkPads to reduce lag when writing threads or really anything that is large, or is it just me? It might be device-dependent, but I experienced major issues with my older PC crashing while editing a specific thread. ThinkPad is faster, no issues.
 
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What is the percentage of people who actually "believe" in the weird things that people act like we all (should) believe?

As an example, back in the 90s when participation awards became a thing, I remember having discussions with other kids trying to figure out why. No one liked getting an participation award, it felt like an insult. "Everyone gets a memento" felt better than "Everyone gets an award", so we concluded the awards were to prevent boomer parents from having the meltdowns we'd all seen (I don't know how common those were among the GenX parents who came later). It didn't seem likely there was someone there who thought those with participation awards had actually won anything.
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Today I saw this interaction in the MtFs in Women's Sports thead:
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And it got me thinking about the same thing. What is the actual breakdown inside people's heads for "true believers" vs "People who are scared of backlash" vs "People who see this stuff and believe it to be real"? I know deep down there is a certain percentage of people who don't believe this shit, but who also choose to enforce these weird social behaviors because they're trying to make other people think it's normal, but who are those other people? Is it just literal children? How common are they?
 
AI's gotta be to the point where someone can recreate the English version of this song, right?


I hate dub songs, but I like this one and it's the best song in the series. All we have is a version with shitty voice acting over it.
 
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What is the percentage of people who actually "believe" in the weird things that people act like we all (should) believe?

As an example, back in the 90s when participation awards became a thing, I remember having discussions with other kids trying to figure out why. No one liked getting an participation award, it felt like an insult. "Everyone gets a memento" felt better than "Everyone gets an award", so we concluded the awards were to prevent boomer parents from having the meltdowns we'd all seen (I don't know how common those were among the GenX parents who came later). It didn't seem likely there was someone there who thought those with participation awards had actually won anything.
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Today I saw this interaction in the MtFs in Women's Sports thead:
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And it got me thinking about the same thing. What is the actual breakdown inside people's heads for "true believers" vs "People who are scared of backlash" vs "People who see this stuff and believe it to be real"? I know deep down there is a certain percentage of people who don't believe this shit, but who also choose to enforce these weird social behaviors because they're trying to make other people think it's normal, but who are those other people? Is it just literal children? How common are they?
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This is similar to what I’ve been calling the “everyone knows” problem.

We have standpoint, let's say it's "X causes Y". Technically speaking, this is an assumption, but it sounds logical enough so almost nobody questions it. Instead, they accept it as fact, operate under it, and then repeat it back to others to the point where “X causes Y” just becomes a thing which everyone knows.

And eventually it becomes so accepted as absolute fact that when somebody comes along and goes “but if X causes Y, then how did Y happen when X was not present?” or “but I used to do X all the time and Y never happened!”, it either gets chalked up as a fluke or some bizarre explanation gets concocted for it. Nobody ever asks “But wait, how do we actually know that X causes Y in the first place?”

Anyway, random thought on the subject of that second image:
What’s interesting is that on an individual basis, this exact behavior is widely considered to be abusive. Go into just about any support group and tell them that you’re afraid to break up with your significant other because they’ve threatened to slit their wrists if you ever leave, and you’ll have people coming out of the woodwork to reassure you that that’s weird, abusive behavior and that what they do to themselves is not your fault. But on a more generic, societal level, that same behavior is regarded in the complete opposite manner.

Similarly, note the phrasing “died by suicide” rather than “committed suicide”. It removes any sort of agency from the act, and changes suicide from something intentionally done to oneself, to being an act of circumstance that happens to them. Every media outlet phrases it this way now, presumably because it’s part of their style guide for how things are to be written. But notice how it’s spread to non-journalists, too.
 
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