I rarely buy stuff online and when I do it’s usually something I could buy locally too but I get it for cheaper from China.

And even if not, I’d rather be miserable on a cool bike.

When I was like three I watched the property maintenance dude plowing snow on our building’s front yard with a pickup truck and I thought that not only was it the coolest job in the world, but oh, how badly I wanted a truck like that too.

Fastforward 30 years and there I’m staring at one in the used cars parking lot at the local dealership realising it’s what I’ve always wanted and I can actually afford it too. Now I get to stare at it every single day because it’s mine. I even ended up starting my own business later so now it’s not only fun to drive and beatiful to look at but also useful.

I doubt it’s a real thing that has a name. I tried asking chatGPT about it and it said it’s called melodic masking / auditory masking but I didn’t really find any information that matches my experience.

It’s not that I don’t hear the vocals, I just struggle to register it as language. It just sounds more like yet another instrument.

No more than any other cable.

I like fast food. A steakhouse hamburger from Burger King is just as good, if not better than most hamburgers I’ve gotten from restaurants. On top of this I don’t need to wait 30 minutes to get it, I don’t need to deal with waiters and I can just leave when I’m done rather than wait for someone to bring a a check.

Personally, I never have my radio on in the car and I near-always back into parking slots.

If you can’t make an argument for your view using your own words, then I’m not interested in going any further with this.

I don’t know what the vast majority of songs I listen to are about. I have some genetic defect that makes it near impossible to hear lyrics. It all sounds like melody to me.

questioning morals of not endorsing genocide

That’s a somewhat skewed lens to view it through, as not everyone agrees that what we’re seeing is a genocide. I definitely don’t think it is. I’m open to hearing arguments to the contrary, but so far, everyone I’ve tried discussing it with either gets emotionally captured or doesn’t argue honestly and in good faith, so the discussion goes nowhere.

…is an absolute statement in itself.

What gets louder as it gets smaller?

A baby in a trash compactor.

Personally, I don’t see morals as entirely subjective.

I’d say that ‘worst possible misery for everyone’ is objectively bad and any attempt to move away from that is better.

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Do you apply this same logic to Gaza considering their leadership?

I haven’t ever needed to wait. I go in, hand them my ID, they cross my name off the list, hand me the ballot, I go to the booth and write a number, dude stamps it, I drop it to the box and I’m out. Takes about 3 minutes from when I step out of my car untill I’m back in again.

the assumption that their compliments are all or mostly insincere

I disagree that this is being claimed here. Stereotypes don’t imply that everyone, or almost everyone in that group is like that.

I hope people realise that simulation theory doesn’t actually imply that someone is actively micromanaging the simulation. The point of a simulation kind of is to just let it run and see what happens.

That user is on my blocklist so I haven’t seen their comment and I was asking you anyway.

incorrect stereotype

I’d argue it’s not, in fact, incorrect. Sure you can say it is but that doesn’t really prove anything. Stereotypes stem from reality.

if you swapped either or both of the characters in the comic out for men, it would no longer work as a joke.

Ofcourse it wouldn’t. It’s a stereotype about women. If you made the same joke about men it wouldn’t be funny because it would be completely made up. Equivalent joke about men would be two guys being nasty and talking shit to eachother but neither actually meaning it.

You still haven’t explained what’s deeply misogynistic about this cartoon. Or was that a joke too?