ogmios

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[–] ogmios 7 points 3 days ago

Way too many people treat life like a movie, where anything other than gripping emotional drama is just stumbled through with eyes glazed over.

[–] ogmios 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not like there are heavily armed ex-military cartels who rely upon the border to traffic drugs and humans, or anything.

[–] ogmios 4 points 3 days ago

I think of it like an oil slick on a pool of water. Very pretty, but absolutely zero depth. They indulge heavily in the aesthetic of a space sim, without actually having anything of substance tying it all together into something coherent.

[–] ogmios 1 points 3 days ago

Read as much as you like, so long as you don't mistake the words on a page for an accurate representation of the real world.

[–] ogmios -2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'd argue that you've just described one source of error, but it still furthers my point that allowing strangers to tell you what you're seeing and why will not result in providing you an accurate picture of reality, and potentially return a highly distorted one.

[–] ogmios -5 points 4 days ago (7 children)

it’s the job of the press to tell us what we’re seeing and why

That's a pretty dangerous way to approach other people. Journalists are just as capable of error or corruption as everyone else.

[–] ogmios 7 points 5 days ago

I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you.

Well not that shocked.

[–] ogmios 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Collective punishment

[–] ogmios 125 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Are ad blockers to blame?

Why do you make me hit you?

[–] ogmios 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The world's problems are absolutely born from a handful of personal choices that people make in their own lives. Made by people with more self control and willpower than you have.

If you intend to oppose them without even being capable of getting out of bed by your own volition, what exactly do you expect that you're going to accomplish?

[–] ogmios 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you can't do anything about what you actually have direct control over with no opposition, how on Earth do you expect to do anything about what you have no control over with immense opposition?

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