existentialdetective

423 pts · September 15, 2022


Sounds like the definition of "stooping to their level"

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and encourage you to Google the definition of “reparations”.

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Oh no. Not again.

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I think it’s probably also 0.7 per 100K with no percentage. 0.7% of any number would be the same ratio, so either the % or the K is superfluous.

2 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Sounds like the kind of argument an educated PROFESSOR would make!

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My observation is that it’s never about improving lives but always about making the lives of others (anyone not white and male) worse by comparison.

2 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Your first sentence made me laugh. I know you mean there’s not just one “the Church”, but pretty much every version of “the Church” is a monolithic entity in its own right.

2 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 3

The Devil You Know in Bed

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

It sounds again like ill-informed people. I’m not trying to belittle folks, but what you’ve described is no different to evangelical protestants saying Catholics aren’t real christians. Identity is a factor for sure, but often it’s a conflation of ethnic, cultural and religious identities, too.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Whoever told you Catholics aren’t Christian was ill-informed. And I’m guessing probably a non-Catholic Christian getting some mileage out of the ‘no true Scotsman’ fallacy.

2 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 0

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Sorry, therapy in a nutshell not psychology.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You don’t owe the world anything and the world doesn’t owe you anything. Knowing that intellectually can be remarkably freeing. But *feeling* it is different and might be a sign of burnout and/or depression. There are things you can do - if a therapist is something you can afford then it might be good. There’s also a lot of free resources and even YouTube videos. I like psychology in a nutshell and healthygamerGG.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ah good to know cheers

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also reading that they made $1.2b in *profit* just from the movies. They’ll have made a lot of money besides that.

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

Sorry what’s the different between revenue and income? Do you mean revenue vs *profit*?

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

What a stunning revelation and valuable contribution to the debate. I surrender.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

It’s possible your Google results are different to mine, which are far more ambiguous. Suffice it to say that I think you probably say “January 1st” because that’s how you write it rather than the other way around.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Google it for yourself if you’re curious rather than asking random people on the internet to give you their best guess.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Not *nothing* but yes inflation counts for a substantial portion of it.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

That’s not why Americans write it that way. And it’s not a good reason to continue doing it, either.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 18

It doesn’t apply at the individual level. It’s more likely that *someone* in the world will be killed by a vending machine than a shark. But not a specific person. Eg as someone who lives inland and doesn’t like the beach I’m at even less risk of shark attack.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I assume the building is a narrow triangle and you can’t see the next side of it because it’s just that narrow.

2 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

Probably BMW.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Terrible, terrible analogy. Really just absurdly bad.

2 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

Wait til you find out about concentration of shipping through the Red Sea, too. It’s because it’s the shortest sea-going distance between high concentrations of humans. It’s efficient… in peacetime.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*laughs in Old Gods*

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0