You are likely scanning my profile and history because I said something in a tone that made you feel funny or angry. This is called being reactionary. You can overcome it.
I would take this over the obvious rage-bait and bullshit people pump out in vast volumes every day to get people to click on their channel, to see their ads, to buy their health-sludge, or to retweet for “engagement.”
At least this is just a conversation starter and no watermarks to someone’s essential-oil and vaccine-alternative supplements.
They are great. There’s a subtle art to them that I think few people really grasp.
Okay I invite you to block me because again, a lot of people are going to be making dark jokes right now because it’s how we cope. I didn’t want any of this and I can’t stop it.
That is indeed the dark humor, if you can’t handle it, it’s a rough time to be reading the internet at all, most of us can’t do much other than laugh through the tears. If you want to just pick a fight, you won’t find it here and I suggest you use that energy for something more productive.
I demand to know what country is still trapped in the dark ages. They need to be freedom’d
The use of commas instead of periods to denote fractions is making me want to harm someone.
They were largely warm-blooded like birbs.
Nope, not doing line by line contentious essay shit, I’m not doing this at all. Bye.
It’s an opinion, sure, I stand by it, but it’s not an emotional or hyperbolic term, so the impression of “intensity” you’re getting is kinda weird.
A: it’s a joke calm down.
How are you reading “not calm” in any of this?
I mean, the meme here is satire, no idea what it originally was supposed to be, someone slapped on the message about atheists for a joke.
But yeah, broadly it IS accurate to how conservatives feel about the kinds of families we want, the kinds of pets we want, the kinds of food we eat, the clothes we wear, etc. Every change to that normalized order terrifies them, it’s in the name.
Feeling afraid of change is fine. Most of us have those kinds of feelings, most of us are going to have wary responses to the unfamiliar. But the conservative base in the US in particular have the worst combination in the world, which is fear of change plus stupidity, so they fall prey to any story supplied to them about what exactly they’re scared of and give it no actual thought. All feelings, no thinking.
There were so many dinosaurs across so much of the globe for so many millions of years, that there was undoubtedly some species of raptors and related dinosaurs who were absolutely fluffy and chubby and look nothing like we imagine them to look from their bones.
Look at one of those speciality breed chickens that look like floofy mops, compared with an average chicken skeleton and you get an idea just how little we actually know and how wrong we might be about the distant past.
We absolutely could have domesticated raptors. Dogs are more than capable of eating us, and once in a while actually do just that, but that doesn’t stop us from spending more on their special diets and cute sweaters than we do on our human children.
A wild raptor? Probably not, if you’ve ever had chickens you know how vicious they can turn suddenly. But you also know how affectionate and loyal they can be. A few generations of selective breeding and you will have the ultimate protection animal. Jurassic Park’s representation of them being like fucking Alien and being horrific killing machines with brains designed for unlocking cages is likely a huge exaggeration of what kind of nuanced and intelligent and complicated creatures they were.
I’ve had wolves, they make terrible pets, but even dedicated predators have a measure of deep loyalty and love for their family unit.
Nah, it looks great but it’s totally unwieldly and may in fact be dry-rotted out and may shatter if you actually try to use it to hammer the ground to send that imaginary Earth Shockwave towards your enemies. That would be pretty embarassing.
Which were you more jealous of?
Racism AND capitalism.
The “single family home” was barely a concept before American development early last century. For the majority of human history, people dwelled together, raised families together, stayed together and supported each other their whole lives.
It was the housing industry making these “neighborhoods of the future” that started pushing the idea of moving out at 18 and getting a home on your steel-mill salary of $10 per week, and then it became shameful to still live with your family past a certain age. Forcing so many Americans into a role of being a sole-provider for an entire household as wages have dropped and house prices have soared, and we all still keep “investing” into homes in suburbia despite nobody feeling fulfilled in these cul-de-sac lives, and both parents of children having to work 6 days a week or more just to afford to sleep there.
Everyone’s problem with the sea shells was that you wouldn’t be able to clean yourself properly when you imagine physically using them.
That’s… not the joke. Holy shit have people over-thought the three shells. It’s not supposed to make sense or have a physical utility that you can imagine. THAT IS THE JOKE.
User above was kind of right that it reflected an anxiety about change to personal habits for “environmentalism” and other things that were happening at the time like people pushing for saving water in the bathroom.
Probably right.
I’m half a century old or so, I’ve seen the cycles the US goes through and the world broadly. I know that the pendulum always swings, and sometimes it swings further in one direction than another, but that just means the back-swing is going to go further and harder. But those are generally 20-year cycles or so, that’s how long it takes for a new generation who forgot everything about their childhood to take the reigns and start the cycle over.
The thing that we need to shake off our species though is the idea of an “end.”
Your laundry never ends. Washing the dishes never ends. You never exercise so much you don’t need to anymore. You will always be moving forward in time and through periods of change. Yes, this too shall pass… to be replaced by new things that will also pass.
If we could get better about managing our present moment we wouldn’t need to keep staring out for some imagined end-of-the-road where everything is fine and we’re suddenly happy again for some reason. While you’re staring out looking for that, your current life and opportunity to find peace is just rapidly slipping past.