BRRM BRRM OH WHAT A FEELING, JUMPING MAN 7 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Breeds!! Awesome.
Look, Google the company logo then find it on the front/back getting in/out of the car. There aren’t that many car companies. You’ll get to recognize the main handful of brands within a few weeks or months. Don’t do anything else.
Your brain will eventually notice *this* Honda/Toyota/Ford doesn’t look like the last one and discover why and start to build a file. Ah, Civics are smaller than Accords. Scions are boxy, different boxy than Prius or CRVs, though.
Just don’t force it or feel bad. It’s not an area of interest for you. Lots of people feel like that.
Shame or obligation can’t make your brain care about stuff. But it will pick up more if you put a request and small effort in, then leave it be. If you want to learn, you can. If you don’t, then don’t bother! It’s nbd either way.
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Look, Google the company logo then find it on the front/back getting in/out of the car. There aren’t that many car companies. You’ll get to recognize the main handful of brands within a few weeks or months. Don’t do anything else.
Your brain will eventually notice *this* Honda/Toyota/Ford doesn’t look like the last one and discover why and start to build a file. Ah, Civics are smaller than Accords. Scions are boxy, different boxy than Prius or CRVs, though.
Just don’t force it or feel bad. It’s not an area of interest for you. Lots of people feel like that.
Shame or obligation can’t make your brain care about stuff. But it will pick up more if you put a request and small effort in, then leave it be. If you want to learn, you can. If you don’t, then don’t bother! It’s nbd either way.
How nice of them 19 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Yeah. I hear that. It’s 75 paragraphs just that one sentence.
Im super annoying though, so: Polite means polished to smoothness. A decent working definition of good manners is kindness in all situations. Throwing a sheet over reality doesn’t make it smooth or polished and it’s not kind to anyone.
It’s not even kind to the shielded group. People are people. Teaching history with lies (of commission and omission) and distortion makes people delusional about what narratives are likely, and what they should expect. Teaching people how humans have been and what we’ve done is necessary for us to craft narratives outside our own experience. Otherwise, why bother taking school time to learn history? Except now the view of humans and society is wrong. Garbage teaching of reality in; garbage understanding of reality out.
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Im super annoying though, so: Polite means polished to smoothness. A decent working definition of good manners is kindness in all situations. Throwing a sheet over reality doesn’t make it smooth or polished and it’s not kind to anyone.
It’s not even kind to the shielded group. People are people. Teaching history with lies (of commission and omission) and distortion makes people delusional about what narratives are likely, and what they should expect. Teaching people how humans have been and what we’ve done is necessary for us to craft narratives outside our own experience. Otherwise, why bother taking school time to learn history? Except now the view of humans and society is wrong. Garbage teaching of reality in; garbage understanding of reality out.
White mode for the win 29 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
C’mon, it’s totally self-centered but we don’t mean the EARTH is dying when we say the Earth is dying. We mean it’s become less hospitable for our survival.
The planet will be fine. Millions of species on the planet will be fine, even if we have another event like you describe. Just not *our* species. Whatever the outcome for humans over the next two hundred years, most of us would rather not have the various forms of local and global upheaval that more extreme temperatures would cause.
But you’re right. Those who are only worried about the planet instead of humans can rest easy.
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The planet will be fine. Millions of species on the planet will be fine, even if we have another event like you describe. Just not *our* species. Whatever the outcome for humans over the next two hundred years, most of us would rather not have the various forms of local and global upheaval that more extreme temperatures would cause.
But you’re right. Those who are only worried about the planet instead of humans can rest easy.
How nice of them 19 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
It’s this type of reframing of history that has lead weak and stupid men to believe it’s their destiny to have a valued place is society. Then try to enforce it with violence when reality makes it clear they won’t be handed it. This is not benign.
You're a Harry wizard 15 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Nooooooo, adding future plot to this picture is the opposite of a good idea....
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Well I guess it does 1 comments
Who's with me =) 7 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Keanu doesn’t need an Oscar. Plus the required effort and subsequent party would probably just give him an existential crisis. It’s too big a disconnect, all that wanting and pushing in exchange for: bigger paydays, maybe more interesting roles, and bragging rights. He has enough of those things now. An Oscar doesn’t bestow anything he wants that he doesn’t have already.
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Squirrel-proof bird feeder 6 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
There are no squirrel-proof bird feeders. Just feeders the squirrels haven’t worked out quite yet, and ones they have.
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Shit man my uncle is left handed :( 9 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Unrelated sentences. But yes, being left handed is just an endless string of low- level annoyances and weird smudges or callouses.
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Dave on your right to be yourself 2 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Assuming you mean USA: To the extent of 0 inches! But it will continue to be problem until we start teaching history accurately, prosecuting transparently, and change the laws about access to guns.
The way US history is taught is so badly off - and the overrepresentation of a certain ‘type’ / group as the only and inevitable leaders so systemic - that you have to deprogram yourself and then learn on your own. The textbooks and teaching border on and sometimes are outright lies about how things were.
There is no excuse for not realizing this. There can be patience, however. What there can NOT be patience for is people trying to force a highly self-centered and disordered world view through violence, domestic terrorism, and abuse of institutionalized forms of power or authority.
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The way US history is taught is so badly off - and the overrepresentation of a certain ‘type’ / group as the only and inevitable leaders so systemic - that you have to deprogram yourself and then learn on your own. The textbooks and teaching border on and sometimes are outright lies about how things were.
There is no excuse for not realizing this. There can be patience, however. What there can NOT be patience for is people trying to force a highly self-centered and disordered world view through violence, domestic terrorism, and abuse of institutionalized forms of power or authority.
Long story short: Gf dumped me with no explanation, I had bought us tickets for Metallica 1 comments
Praise the sun 2 comments
That's 101% true 17 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
So annoying. You think you’re “special” for being judgmental about the females you see now instead of in the past? You’re not.
What really irritates me here is the implication that your unnecessary comments and judgemental attitude to women around you are magically a reaction to what women now “deserve”. No. Nope! 0%.
The trappings of particular female performances get your scorn because - wait for it - you look down on females.
This is not, was not, and will NEVER be about how females act. It has always been and will always be about how a person looks at someone else and decides with no reason or justification to have an unasked, unnecessary, and uninformed opinion on someone else. Specifically, a female someone else.
Look, don’t post things that say “I’m judgemental about women and also morally superior” and just expect everyone will let it slide. You’re being stupid too loudly. Tone it down.
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What really irritates me here is the implication that your unnecessary comments and judgemental attitude to women around you are magically a reaction to what women now “deserve”. No. Nope! 0%.
The trappings of particular female performances get your scorn because - wait for it - you look down on females.
This is not, was not, and will NEVER be about how females act. It has always been and will always be about how a person looks at someone else and decides with no reason or justification to have an unasked, unnecessary, and uninformed opinion on someone else. Specifically, a female someone else.
Look, don’t post things that say “I’m judgemental about women and also morally superior” and just expect everyone will let it slide. You’re being stupid too loudly. Tone it down.
Now all the incels will sue her, imagine the face of the judge during the entire procedure 7 comments
Stop hogging all the chicken jeez 2 comments
Movies these days 7 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
You have to put a multiple year pause between the last and next to last panel. But since that doesn’t happen, it’s not more special whining because it’s done by pictures.
It was the video games! 114 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Yeah, but ALSO, let’s get the assault rifle out of his hands. Then all that pent up anger can’t mow people down.
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Follow your dreams... 5 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Surely you’ve noticed The Blue Danube is the perfect song to practice form.
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And that’s IF you have almost no interest. You might learn the most common 10 to 40 cars within only a few years if you put occasional random short spurts of focus onto it.
(I haven’t, because I don’t have the interest. But I still kinda-sorta know a little bit anyway, because I drive a lot and am old. You probably subconsciously know more than you think.)