7am vs. 4pm, same day 3 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Looks like Central Europe lol, I have the same experience here in Czechia
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Ah yes a fair fight 3 comments
I will smother your unique challenges with love and affect, dear one 5 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Right? Oh I'm so relieved that someone agrees, I fully expected the opposite because it just seems like the kind of thing people would get offended by. Most people have kids because they want to, and that's it. I personally don't want kids, and if I wanted to raise a kid I'd choose adoption. Yet people always treat me like a total freak of nature. "What do you mean you don't want to bring a child into this utterly broken overpopulated world? Preposterous!" Any justification for having a biological kid instead of adopting is usually "because I want to, and I want it to be MY kid" which is just selfish and very confident of people to think that their genes are so great they must be spread. Now i wouldn't call for policy action in that regard because it sort of seems like a slippery slope towards eugenics, but maybe it'd be nice to see a shift in discourse, so that adoption isn't always treated like the very last resort.
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I will smother your unique challenges with love and affect, dear one 5 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
That's so heartwarming.
This is definitely an unpopular opinion but tbh I find it kinda... selfish? To scoff at adoption and make a kid when there are so many kids in need of a home. Like, what makes your genes so special that they need to be spread instead of giving your home to a kid that needs it? Yes, yes, biological drive to procreate etc. but humans have been able to achieve what we've achieved only by cooperating so we might as well help people that need it, no?
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This is definitely an unpopular opinion but tbh I find it kinda... selfish? To scoff at adoption and make a kid when there are so many kids in need of a home. Like, what makes your genes so special that they need to be spread instead of giving your home to a kid that needs it? Yes, yes, biological drive to procreate etc. but humans have been able to achieve what we've achieved only by cooperating so we might as well help people that need it, no?
Fuc u 4 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
I guess I'm more of a pessimist because I think one almost never has the "full story" and as a result is hardly capable of making a truly objective decision, but that's arguing philosophy, and I do strongly agree that objectivity is much more likely to be thrown out the window if it's in a matter one is emotionally involved in.
It is true that nowadays the "facts over feelings" crowd is mostly right wing, but anyone who takes time to think about what they say will realize that it's just window dressing and that their actual argumentation is just as feelings based, if not more, than left wingers'. "Two genders", "free speech but legal punishment for flag burning", "we're all about the cold hard facts but don't offend my religious sensibilities" etc. Again, not that left wingers are significantly less emotional in their arguments, but at least they don't pretend to be.
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It is true that nowadays the "facts over feelings" crowd is mostly right wing, but anyone who takes time to think about what they say will realize that it's just window dressing and that their actual argumentation is just as feelings based, if not more, than left wingers'. "Two genders", "free speech but legal punishment for flag burning", "we're all about the cold hard facts but don't offend my religious sensibilities" etc. Again, not that left wingers are significantly less emotional in their arguments, but at least they don't pretend to be.
Fuc u 4 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Feelings have always overruled facts, and to pretend otherwise is delusional. There is no such thing as a prelapsarian perfect world where everything was driven by facts. I like Ricky but the implication of his statement, that feelings overruling facts is a somewhat recent development and not something that existed since the dawn of mankind, is fucking mental. We all are driven by emotions, we have biases we are not even aware of, we twist facts to suit our feelings and it has never been and probably never will be the other way around. Sorry to be all doom and gloom but I'm not enough of an optimist to believe humans are capable of objective factual thinking.
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So tired your eyelids burn 27 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
We have Macs at work :( but yeah I do have a blue light filter app on my personal tablet that I use for studying
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So tired your eyelids burn 27 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
I've been thinking of getting myself some blue light blocking glasses because my eyes burn when I stare into the computer screen for 8 hours a day at work. And then I come home and stare into it again bc I gotta study for my exams.
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Contraindicated 17 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Honestly, my parents would sometimes smack me but I don't even remember it, I have much worse memories from my dad yelling at me, saying really mean shit about how useless I am and all that (he's got a very short temper). To this day I get a panic attack when someone raises their voice at me, but I don't care all that much about a kid getting a light slap for acting like an asshole.
That's in my opinion the only reason for ever slapping a kid. When they do something wrong, first you explain why it's wrong, why it might harm other people or be bad for the kid, etc. Then, inevitably, the kid will test your limits and act like an asshole anyway, that's just what they do sometimes. That's when you give them a light smack. Not a full on spanking, just a slap to remind them that they won't get away with acting like an asshole, and that actions have consequences. I see too many parents these days not doing anything when their kid is an asshole to strangers and that's imo wrong too.
That's in my opinion the only reason for ever slapping a kid. When they do something wrong, first you explain why it's wrong, why it might harm other people or be bad for the kid, etc. Then, inevitably, the kid will test your limits and act like an asshole anyway, that's just what they do sometimes. That's when you give them a light smack. Not a full on spanking, just a slap to remind them that they won't get away with acting like an asshole, and that actions have consequences. I see too many parents these days not doing anything when their kid is an asshole to strangers and that's imo wrong too.
This was the first ever design of Voldemort, which I find far more terrifying 7 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Oh I know what he reminds me of now! I originally wrote shark because it was the closest thing I thought of at the time but now I clicked on the post again and I was like "he looks like a f-cking moray"
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Step step step 1 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
Tbh trying to dodge people who don't understand social distancing while trying to get all your groceries is a workout by itself.
I mean admittedly I don't have to social distance too hard since I had covid recently and I'm immune for some time now, but still, I don't want to be that idiot who breathes down other people's necks despite having the 2m marks under my feet.
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I mean admittedly I don't have to social distance too hard since I had covid recently and I'm immune for some time now, but still, I don't want to be that idiot who breathes down other people's necks despite having the 2m marks under my feet.
The evolution of the idiot .. 3 comments
It wasn't just a fashion statement 10 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
It's hard to read tone from a Twitter post obviously but it seemed like a joke to me, playing on the stereotype of the southern racist redneck rather than condemning every Trump supporter as such. But what do I know, I don't have a Twitter so I can't go and ask Travis personally.
It wasn't just a fashion statement 10 comments
It wasn't just a fashion statement 10 comments
ewqua
· 3 years ago
There were a ton of arrests after each riot. So no, they didn't "get away with it".
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