The consistency isn’t really the selling point, yeah. What made the books any good was the kind of whimsy of being suddenly thrown into a weird magical word that didn’t follow any understandable logic and was full of cool stuff and mysteries. That’s a great hook for kids! The first three books do that pretty well. After that…

would have been dangerous for him to suggest that God isn’t real at the time

This is just a personal opinion, but I think you can really see this in a lot of the western philosophers from the past centuries. A lot of the texts and ideas read like tiptoeing around it, like “haha yeah… sure god is real! despite all these things I’m saying that might suggest otherwise… but of course he’s real and these ideas actually support the conclusion! really!”

Zero sugar soda tastes 99% the same as regular

Unless you have hypersensitivities and can taste the sweeteners lmao. Though I have to say that most of regular sodas taste like chemicals too, so it’s not that different either way

My suggestion is always “suicide clinics”, where you can just walk in. That sounds absolutely horrid, but the point is to catch the people that can be saved by intervention. They take you in, and talk with you, go through medical history, then you have to wait some hours etc. and all that. And if you still wish to die and you’re not diagnosed with having some sort of episode, they just let you swallow some pills and then you get to lay on a bed and die.

That’d be way more efficient than just letting people jump from the rooftops and on the train tracks, would save people, would traumatize less people, would cause less suffering; would overall improve the situation. Of course that could be misused, and it would not catch all people. But I’d definitely prioritize getting less people splatter on the sidewalk anyway

That’s why I included the “pointed at right direction” lmao. A lot of people are jerks and that applies to all groups

Also do a small test patch somewhere on your skin and wait for at least a day. Shitty way to find you’re getting a reaction if you already spread it to larger areas

you need to go to work

As a side note, the usaian culture about work observed through internets is just… absolutely bonkers. Everyone is constantly complaining how terrible their jobs are, how they suck them dry emotionally, physically, financially - yet even if nukes were flying they’d probably still just meekly say they gotta go to work

Why do you say that, what’s the aim here? Why the condescending tone? Are you trying to spoil the fun others are having with this little story? Why??

it doesn’t matter who they vote for

I get the disengagement since I see it constantly online, but taking part in politics shouldn’t be only about who you vote for. It’s also about trying to affect what candidates you get, the boring groundwork that requires a lot of effort

I’ve never done any drugs (trauma from witnessing alcohol use as a child), but once I had a dream where I just suddenly died for a short moment without any connection to the dream I was having. Like, literally died, there was nothing, I just disappeared for a blink. Absolutely gone. I strongly believe had I not come back I would have just died in my sleep. I’ve never had that experience before or since, and it’s really hard to describe since you can’t really feel death, but that reminded me of it

Might also have something to do with many of us burgers tending to have a really strong sense of justice. Pointed at right direction that’s a powerful motivator to go against all perceived wrongs, in the autistic lacking self regulation way. Which can be quite extreme

Oh for sure, I made a very broad generalization there, to simplify the point. Just someone trying to live ethically and using only local products, but eating meat (hunted, organic, etc. locally small scale, animal suffering minimized and all that) could very well have a lesser ecological impact than someone being vegan but relying on imported soy etc. In my experience vegans are just the most likely to even think about this stuff since veganism usually goes further than just being about a diet, but that doesn’t mean all vegans do, or that a lot of non-vegans don’t.

And having the possibility to choose options based only on ethics and sustainability of course is a privilege a lot of people just don’t have

The thing is, these people can’t do anything by themselves, and AI won’t unclog their toilets. Making things hard enough for the common folk will bite your ass eventually - they need people to keep their cozy lives running, while pretending they don’t and can replace everyone. Good luck with getting that vibe-coded toilet unplugger working

Thanks for the explanation, that makes a lot more sense. I guess the two sides fighting -discourse just tends to dominate platforms like these online, which doesn’t exactly make people more patient either… Hopefully these aggressive online vibes don’t discourage too many people from taking part on the lower levels, since that really is the only real way to fix things (instead of fully breaking them)

Also just supporting bad agriculture in general, since pesticides kill crazy amounts of stuff, deforestation, giant monoculture fields suffocating native wildlife, producing the fertilizers unethically, transporting stuff half across the world needlessly… if you do anything the “optimize profits” -way things get shitty. All of these things apply to plant based diets as well, but vegans often focus on the whole chain of ethical and ecological problems whereas vegetarians tend to focus more to the personal level of things. So even what plant products they buy and consume might have some big differences in ecological impact and ethical concerns

Yeaah I needed to see a single hee hoo and I was done

I’m just a random outsider and this is besides the topic I guess - but what’s with this focus on voting only I keep seeing? You need to affect the candidates so you don’t have to choose between evils in the voting booth. Or is it impossible and USAs system so incurably busted already that only luiging all the people in power would work? But why argue only about voting in either case

Oh don’t forget the tankies pushing russian (and chinese) propaganda. I can never tell are they bots or useful idiots, but I always know when I hit the nail in the head when I criticize russian propaganda and get a lot of downvotes

Some are dumb as bricks though, as they’re all individuals. I know cat siblings where one was super smart, careful and fancy, and the other one an idiot, who also drooled and dropped from tables. This applies to dogs too: I’ve met ones with no thoughts behind their eyes, and then ones like my late doberman who could open locked doors if she felt like it

It could be argued that morality is a human construct and therefore must be subjective.

You can also jump straight to the top and argue it’s because the human experience itself is always subjective, since meat doesn’t seem to be very good at observing Reality. And then we get to cogito ergo sum and all that jazz