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[–] flerp@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yep, the whole thing was projection. You're complaining about toxicity in comments and yet you are exuding toxicity with every word.

Maybe instead of stopping reading, you should actually read and respond to it honestly instead of deflecting back into ad hominem attacks. If you are able to actually put forth an explanation defending your position instead of attacking me, then we could have a discussion about it. What was snide about that comment? What strawman did I make? As it stands, you're just doing what you're blaming everyone else of doing.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The bridge on the left is the same bridge and has the same wooden flooring. It might just be hard for you to see in the shadows.

You are getting downvoted for saying it isn’t the same bridge in both pictures.

Point out the "snide" in this. They asked a question and this comment answered their question honestly. You can attack me and insult me all you like (which funnily enough makes you the hypocrite considering I did not attack you and you're the one who was complaining about attacking comments) but it won't change the fact the the original commenter here that you're defending got upset and defensive about a decent comment honestly answering their question. Maybe you should check your own reading comprehension before going after that of others.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee -1 points 6 months ago (5 children)

You're giving them too much credit. Yeah it would be nice if online discussions could be more civil but the "snide" comments mentioned were not worth getting upset about and one of them wasn't even snide at all but actually helpful and genuinely answering the question to which they responded defensively and playing the victim. That kind of victim mentality to actually helpful comments that maybe the original commenter didn't want to hear and editing to whine about downvotes is just as annoying as moderately uncivil comments.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

OK but that is not what threads like this are about, that's just post hoc justification for emotional responses

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

I don't really have an answer to that, it is an interesting question. For me personally I don't hold any attachment or feelings to the bodies of the deceased. When I die I'm getting one of those mushroom suits that decomposes you and quickly returns you to nature. But some people are much more attached to the bodies of the deceased whether for spiritual reasons or otherwise and I can't really speak for them. Would eating the euthanized pets cause suffering to their previous owners, I really have no answer for that, I assume there would be some people who would suffer from that and some who wouldn't mind. The quality of the meat I think would be very low though considering it would mostly be very senior animals with many health issues.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you're joking but I have seen people say this seriously so I'll respond seriously. Determining which conscious beings to inflict pain and suffering onto based on characteristics they were born with through no choice of their own is pretty shitty.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It's not sort of like that though because the practicality of the matter is that humans have to eat to survive but they don't have to genocide to survive. Reducing suffering as much as possible being the goal rather than eliminating it completely is not a new concept in philosophy considering eliminating suffering completely is impossible.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sorry to hear about that it sounds very hard.

It definitely wasn't as easy as it might have sounded and I was very lucky to have been given a second chance where I was able to focus on these things.

But one of the biggest lessons I have learned along the way is that those people who say give it 100% are not for me. The only way I can get anywhere is to give it 5-10% today and then just keep trying to do 5-10% everyday. Eventually that 5-10% becomes 20, 30, etc. until I get in a nice rhythm whereas if I started by pushing myself to 100% on day one I would never do anything on day two. Not trying to say it's what's right for everyone or that it would work for you, but I wish you the best, it's a hard path.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sent to a shelter when his owner became homeless. That's the thing that scares me the most for my cat. She's so sensitive and scared of everything except for me it would break her little heart.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Routine. I do the same thing at the same time each day with special days where I do the more rare tasks that aren't daily. It's great for executive dysfunction because I don't even have to think about it, when it's that time I do that thing. It took a while to get here and of course there are bad times where I'm off my routine, but I started slow doing a little bit each day and built to this. It's crazy to see where I'm at with a lot of difficult tasks vs. where I started and that progress only helps to reinforce the routine.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

People say birds are dinosaurs because every living thing is in every clade of it's ancestors which means they are dinosaurs. They're also a lot of other things from all of the other clades so they're not saying that birds are just dinosaurs, but that they are part of Dinosauria and every other clade of their ancestors and so too will all of their descendants be.

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