i find the push to read theory quite annoying tbf, it makes me feel like i need to pass a test to care about others. to be a leftist all you need is your own brain and empathy at the basis. yeah it’s good to suppliment that with sources but it’s really not that necessary, just be kind - everything else will come later

from my understanding praxis in leftie circles just means– practice, as opposed to theory. so doing stuff aligned with leftist thinking instead of just thinking

and where is the galaxy taking us then?

embrace of the whimsy :)

important note:

placebo is caused by a strong belief, even if logically you know it’s not real it can still work

but

you first need the strong belief. how do you get such a strong belief? with a ritual of course. not necessarily one with bubbling cauldrons during the full moon (though if you believe in that kind of magic that’d work as well) but one that has you going to a place you associate with health, and talking to a person in a special outfit that you believe will fix you, then going to a secondary health place, and getting the health potion pills from someone in a special outfit. also called - going to a doctor and picking up meds from a pharmacy.

this entire process sets up the right environment for strongly believing you’re going to feel better now, and then the sugar pills supercharged with placebo will work like magic.

they will also work if at some point either the doctor or the pharmacist whispers to you “btw that’s just placebo”. that’s because the belief you’ve already established is much stronger than your logic

but if you just go out and buy tictacs at a gas station then chant to yourself “this will cure my headache this will cure my headache” it won’t work, because you didn’t have an opportunity to establish any emotional belief about them ie. you didn’t manage to convince the emotional part of your brain that it’ll work

this is also why homeopathy, essential oils, charging crystals, and other purely belief bases approaches work despite the thing itself not doing anything. the rituals surrounding those things simply manage to build a strong enough belief that causes the placebo effect

the same is true for the opposite - nocebo - if you strongly believe something is going to make you feel bad - it’s going to

the archetype you’re looking for is “Anti-hero”. a kind of hero with grey morals and questionable ethics - but whose actions still have a mostly positive result

typically - a hero will try to rehabilitate a criminal first, throw them in prison second, and only kill if they’ve exhausted all other options. killing is usually shown as something that the hero struggles with greatly

an anti-hero will often skip the “when will murder be my only option?” ethical dilemma regular heroes have and go straight to the killing. in their stories casual killing is either shown as normal, or serves as a plot point that’ll come back to haunt them later (“i killed that man without thinking, but now he turned out to be innocent”)

this is not the only difference between the two of course, but i don’t want to type an essay

yes :)

well you see, there’s science next to the meme. just like in the words “science meme” science is next to the meme there too, therefore, science meme

/s

it blew my tiny mind when i found out that there are multiple dwarf planets in long solar orbits in our system

they might be small and enjoy solitude but why are we forgetting about them???

and now apparently there’s also a dwarf planet in the inner solar system that nobody talks about??? rude

fire hot -> fire bad! if fire bad, need to cover word to not summon fire!

just having a bouncer at the door reduces the number of minors significantly. Same way a sticker saying “this area is monitored” will reduce crime in the area, even if no camera is in sight.

should a bouncer actually check people’s IDs? yeah, that’d be nice. but a bouncer that just stands there and does fuck all is much better than no bouncer at all

honestly, i don’t really do hate, it’s not an emotion that gets invoked in me easily, nor does it last long. instead of hate i feel a mixture of pity, sadness, fear, and hope for a better tomorrow, and sometimes i run dangerously low on hope

don’t get me wrong, i don’t want the status quo back, i just want to feel hopeful for the future again :(

don’t mind me either way tbf, i’m romanticising the past when the world was barely any better than now, i was simply more ignorant of what was going on around me. i’m aware of this, i don’t indulge in that feeing too often, but sometimes i do

i just want to have hope again :(

i thought that once trump eventually gets exposed as a vile monster, people would turn away from him… and though some have, it’s nowhere near as big of paradigm shift as i imagined would happen :(

can we like… go back to subtle fascism please?

it obliterates my faith in humanity that if this was a fictional story it’d be described as “worldbuidling but the only tool you have is a sledgehammer” and yet that guy still has people that support him???

looks to me like someone just kept their phone’s camera on whatever default settings it came with and one of those settings happened to be an “enhancing” algorithm that makes a generic image “better” but give it two overlapping patterns and it gets a stroke

edit: upon further examination, there’s a keyhole at the bottom of the door, it’s just AI, ugh

this is the “relatable and funny online lingo”, nobody actually talks like that

that looks like we’re running out of gold

eh, not everyone will get the meaning the first time they encounter a new usage, but if it makes sense to most people it’ll be used more

survivorship bias - those who have uninstalled, are not bitching about windows anymore