There’s a big difference between unchallenging and childish. Don’t conflate the two.
Top chef is unchallenging, Sesame Street (R.I.P) is for children. An adult watching Top Chef can turn their brain off and chill, a non-mentally disabled adult watching Sesame Street (for themselves, not with kids) is childish.
It’s not about reading level. If someone has a low reading level due to disability, they should enjoy what they can, and if it’s not disability just reading anything will eventually fix that. It’s about the content. If someone is capable of understanding adult content and chooses to surround themselves with childish themes they are pathetic man/woman/person-babies.
It’s not about easy or unchallenging. I’m not sitting here only reading great literature or things filled with purple prose using sat vocab words. Around 70% of what I read is sci-fi/fantasy and I read A LOT, so my quality bar has to drop pretty low to keep me occupied in between the really good stuff. Again, it’s about adult vs. childish themes.
I’m sorry, but I feel like you’re being a little disingenuous here. I don’t think you need me to write an essay differentiating between various types of media. I think you know exactly what I mean when I mention people that refuse to grow up and continue to consume childish media well into adulthood.
Not my intention. I used those extreme examples to make the point that shaming is not necessarily bad. Obviously, an adult that has a child’s mind, not due to a disability but because they refuse to grow, is more of a grey area where people can disagree if shaming is warranted. I find it pathetic and repellant, some others apparently disagree. Some of those may be well adjusted adults, but some of them may benefit from looking in the mirror I’m holding up
Yes, and? Shame is useful. When I feel ashamed of something it leads to reflection and hopefully personal growth. Fear those incapable of shame.
Shaming isn’t necessarily bad. Shame fascists, abusers, bigots, the ultra wealthy, etc. I would guess that you agree with doing that. We just disagree if adults refusing to grow is shame worthy.
With all that stretching and leaping you must be limber as fuck.
I would never stop anyone from doing anything that didn’t harm someone else. But I will judge the fuck out of them. Disney adults, children’s book readers, broneys, etc. are children’s minds in adults bodies. If it’s because of a disability, good for them, they should enjoy life in whichever way suits them. If not, it’s pathetic and they should seek help with their personal growth.
That’s not really gatekeeping. Maybe gatekeeping a fully emotionally developed adult? But that’s a bit of a stretch too. You can’t just throw around buzzwords and expect it to mean anything. And you definitely can’t be expected to be taken seriously.
Maybe if you put down the YA and read something age appropriate you’d get a better feel for adult interactions.
Ageist is a bit of a stretch. Maybe ableist since an adult reading children’s books is a sign of developmental disability.
Corey Feldman is the reason I don’t believe the accusations against MJ. What that kid went through is horrific and predators can smell prey a mile away. If Michael was abusing kids there is no way he would have missed that one, Corey would have been an easy target after what they did to him. But Corey comes out and tries to shine a light on the things that are happening and specifically says that Michael never did anything inappropriate.
Yup, cures my hiccups. Lay back over something so mouth to stomach is reverse inclined, as close to vertical as I can get. Then take several swallows of water. Either one mouthful that I took before I laid back swallowed a little at a time, or several sips from a straw after laying back.
I think you’re kind of burying the lede here brah.
Ok, I’ll be the one to ask. Why?
Oh, absolutely. They’re living in the future over there, if you’ve got the money to enjoy it. The next century+ probably belongs to them. I would never dispute that. I only take issue with calling them anything other than something like crony capitalism despite the name of the party in charge. If I died right now and was told I was going to be reincarnated but unfortunately I would be born poor and was given a choice of where to go, China would be near the bottom of my list of developed nations. But if I was told I was going to be born rich, China would be near the top. I love visiting China.
It’s like that with all the bullshit extremely wealthy people and corporations get up to. Every now and then they throw the book at one (Martha Stewart, Purdue Pharma) then pretend like they solved the problem allowing the innumerable other people/corporations to continue pulling bullshit. It’s like when China every few years trots out some rich person or powerful politician and nails them for tax evasion or corruption in a show trial then goes back to pretending to be socialist like they aren’t a neolib paradise with awful wealth inequality and crony capitalism.
First, I think you commented on the wrong post.
Second, no.
A grift requires suckers. You can’t buy low and sell high with insider info unless someone else is buying high and selling low (it’s more complicated, I know, don’t get pedantic).
The only people whose voices matter when it comes to investigating this are the very wealthy. Right now the very wealthy are in on the grift. The suckers are regular people managing their nest egg.
When regular retail investors finally figure this out en masse, realize they can’t beat the insiders, and start just letting their shit ride in index trackers and other passively managed funds focused on long term growth and asset protection, the insiders will need new suckers and the circle of those in on the grift will have to shrink.
When the wealthy start seeing losses due to their fund managers being out of the loop, then we’ll finally start seeing some real investigations.
How long will that take? I don’t know but don’t hold your breath.
So you’re doing their job for them, dragging out a rarely used definition and trying to pretend it’s the “common use of those words”? Or are you their alt?
The only “common use of those words” is what the captain posted. I have never heard that term used in any context outside of someone that holds a position, political or otherwise, that will be gone soon, either from term limits, because they lost or didn’t run in the last election, or got fired/replaced/quit, but the new person isn’t in the position yet.
You used it wrong. You can learn from the person that responded to you or you can double down and try to invoke a little-to-never used definition, but everyone will know you just used it wrong.
Youth. Just saying time is basically asking for some monkey’s paw shit.
Holy shit, it’s real‽ I saw this in another comm and thought it was a fake shitpost.
Lol, says the person who just can’t stop digging and keeps responding.
Well, I suppose it’s a good thing for you that you seem impervious to growth and admitting you’re wrong. Straw manning, moving the goal posts, and attacking the source is a good start for a tool box of skills used to resist any self reflection, I’m sure you’ve got a lot more in there.
How much time do you think this takes? What you’re saying isn’t exactly deep and thought provoking. 30 seconds to bang out a response when a little notification interrupts me catching up on the news isn’t much. I couldn’t have spent more than five minutes on this thread altogether, and 90 seconds on you tops.