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  • So, I don’t know if there’s some kind of psychological phenomenon at play here — but it sounds like something very similar to a circumstance my mom went through (albeit, the stakes were much different).

    She used to smoke, and when she decided she wanted to have a kid (eventually me) she gave it up. What she told herself was that if she quit and wanted to start back up at 65, ok? Who cares, she’s already old at that point so it’s not like it’s worse than having smoked for the previous 45 years.

    Eventually never went back to them. She is actually repulsed by cigarettes now.

    I think what I take from that is my mom didn’t really give up cigarettes, at least not psychologically. In her mind she could go back at any time and there was no issue, she’d just go back to not smoking (and she didn’t even do that, she just quit). I wonder if maybe a similar thing happened to you here? You gave yourself a goal so far ahead in the future that you also gave yourself ample time to grow — even if that goal was inevitably death. It’s almost like sewerslide was your way of equalizing the playing field.

    Idk, I could be wrong — I’m glad you didn’t go through with it, though.










  • Jax@sh.itjust.workstoWholesome@reddthat.comYeah pretty much
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    18 days ago

    Exactly this, they have all the context they need and they’re still sitting here spinning about the post being about men (arbitrarily or not).

    The odd upvotes on their later comments are also odd. Very weird to be ratio’d so hard and then reverse that trend by making exactly 0 changes to your point. Could be bots




  • I see your point, however one could argue that just because we can do something doesn’t mean we should.

    For example, boats. Roughly 40% of all the oil produced goes straight into the bowels of boats that ship oil to other places. This abundance of oil allows you to experience things like being able to eat asparagus out of season.

    Does it make sense to be so inefficient? No, but we still do it because much like an alcoholic — we don’t know how else to be and people will literally die if the oil stops flowing. We’re seeing it now in real time.

    How does this connect to the music industry? Well, the ‘performance value’ you’re referring to is entirely propped up by the oil industry. Whether it’s trucks and buses to carry equipment across the country the artist plays in, or planes to carry those same people and equipment to other countries — it is all ultimately propped up by oil. Tons and tons of it, we aren’t even getting into all the plastic that ends up being sold as merch. Further still, we haven’t addressed all the oil that goes into making their equipment, buses, trucks, planes, etc. etc…

    So yeah, you can make the argument that the production value is simply superior for these big name artists. You are also tacitly expressing support for the very systems that are pushing for fascism worldwide — whether you accept reality or not.

    Like, of course I would like to see individuals like Eilish do more stuff like this. I’d also like the music industry to utterly collapse. I would much rather see the music industry collapse, actually.




  • Jax@sh.itjust.workstoComic Strips@lemmy.worldUntil it affects me
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    23 days ago

    For one thing I wasn’t the OC. For another, what the OC immediately pointed out is that women have been invading male only spaces for decades. In fact it was practically propagandized following the second World War, unless we’re conveniently forgetting about ‘Anything you can do I can do better! Anything you can do I can do best!’ .

    Literally, men’s only private clubs were almost sued out of existence because of women alleging discrimination (because they weren’t allowed in and the club catered to men first, god forbid).

    All of this to say, completely disregarding what men actually do in male spaces is thoughtless at best — misandry at worst. Truth be told, I don’t actually give a fuck if men or women have safe spaces — I don’t expect anything of value to come from either environment. I blocked the women’s only community immediately.