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nifty , 7 days ago

Are you @ObviouslyNotBanana’s alt account?

nifty , 7 days ago

Counterpoint, they should and skate into meeeee

nifty , 7 days ago

That pigeon has such “why don’t you come here and stop me” energy

nifty , 7 days ago

How silly, don’t they know playing will just make them cuter!?

nifty , 7 days ago

The eradication of human sexuality from mass media culture is a clear sign of intense rot at the heart of our civilization

In what way though? We see all kinds of sexual and suggestive displays everywhere in media because “sex sells”. I guess you and the people up voting you don’t use Instagram, which is essentially what Twitter is now trying to emulate via this rule change.

How can such a fundamental element of thr human experience can be so conspicuously absent for almost all art and media.

But it’s not? Every visual form of art has some kind of sexualized content. Go literally anywhere (online or off) and it’s there. The reason why the more overt and pornographic content is behind NSFW is because it’s titillating. Experiencing prolonged bouts of arousal is mentally exhausting and often leads to depression or worsens it, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10813043/#:~:text=Specifically%2C%20a%20higher%20and%20hyperstable,3%2C7%2C8%5D.

It’s why looking at porn all day is not mentally relaxing, necessarily. Some people also find overt sexual displays distracting as all they want to do is focus without being stimulated into another direction. That said, there are plenty of video games, movies, art forms, music experiences which explore human sexuality. They’re fun because it’s stimulation at a time when you’re in the frame of mind for it.

I feel a lot of times when people talk about “something is like this” what they’re really saying “my experiences show that something is like this”, and that to me just indicates they need to broaden their experiences.

We’re missing sex positivity in modern US society with respect to women’s reproductive rights and acceptance of different sexual orientations or gender identities. We’re not missing sex or sexualized content.

nifty , 6 days ago

I am not misunderstanding it, heightened emotions = arousal, and sexual stimulation leads to heightened emotions

nifty , 6 days ago

I know :) I’ve done research in affective psychology. I was connecting the thread from arousal (in general) to sexual arousal. I think my follow up post shows that logic in a pithy one liner

nifty OP , 8 days ago

Clearly 😂

nifty , 9 days ago

Wow I could have gone my whole life without knowing these existed, thanks 🤢

nifty , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Life only comes from death.

No? The recombination of genetic material results in complex life forms. That’s why we have multicellular organisms. Heck, in fact mitochondrial DNA proves that humans have a symbiotic relationship with microbes. So I guess I’d say the quoted text above is an unqualified statement.

Besides all that, humans are the only living organism that we know of capable of probing the nature of reality and existence. So simply put, it’s okay for us to hold ourselves to higher standard than the “reptile” or “monkey” brain.

Imagine if there was a life form stronger or smarter than humans, what would you want to say to it? “Life only comes from death so eat me or abuse me”. We can and should do better.

nifty , 9 days ago

You can be the first input in such situation then, but I prefer that humans can show they’re capable of better discourse than “eat or be eaten”. That’s kinda limited and trite in light of our more developed cognitive abilities, honestly. Also, the universe is literally limitless, so we don’t need to think in terms of zero sum games or resource limitations 🤷‍♀️

Regarding inputs: Eating fruits and seeds doesn’t kill anything, in fact plants evolved tasty fruits so that they’d be eaten and propagate. Vegetables and fungi can be eaten without killing the organism. You can consume eggs and milk without abusing or killing the animal

nifty , 8 days ago

For the first para, I was responding to this

If it was a matter of survival, we would become an input.

I was responding to this for the second para

As far as we know the propagation of life requires the consumption of other life as inputs

The point being there are many ways to survive without consuming life. Fruits and seeds are not living things. Anyway, I think the main point I’d like to highlight is that there’s no need to think we’re constrained to a singular way of being for anything we do

nifty , 9 days ago

Those goddamn rulelitists shakes fist

nifty , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Shut. Yo. Mouth.

/jk

Edit love your meme OP, made me lol

nifty , 9 days ago

Cockerdoodles

nifty , 9 days ago

Cockatoos

nifty , 9 days ago

Just suck up to tyrant or despot, then they’ll let you get away with anything (within the borders of their state)

nifty , 9 days ago

Potato is great, I fucking love that veg

nifty , 10 days ago

Is this part of the blood brain barrier

nifty , 10 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Do you really need screen snapshot to do fine grained search though? It sounds like you’re describing Spotlight in some way https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(Apple)

nifty , 10 days ago

Sometimes you just gotta ya know

nifty , 10 days ago

🚫🍌

nifty , 9 days ago

Nah, Empathy Man would make sure the building is up to fire code and has fire escapes so the kid has less chances of getting stuck in that situation

nifty OP , 10 days ago

There are also AI poisoners for images and audio data

nifty , 10 days ago

That feeling when you like someone so much that you wish you knew them irl

Why can’t demon girls be real 😭

nifty , 10 days ago

Haha love it :)

nifty , 10 days ago

I have buns around my house, and I never tire of taking pics of them 🐇

nifty OP , 10 days ago

I thought their name adds extra spice to the joke lol

nifty OP , 10 days ago

Thank you! I was too lazy too look up the original. Salute 🫡

nifty OP , 10 days ago

Because they took forever to add a $1 tip to the total (as they indicate by saying it takes them a while to do the math)

nifty OP , 10 days ago

Right? If it’s grubhub or Ubereats I wouldn’t pick that customer again

nifty OP , 10 days ago

Supplementing income isn’t the only reason to tip, but I agree it’s easier when the service provider just includes a fixed service charge for whatever service rendered https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuity

nifty OP , 10 days ago

, i respect the grind and understand life is hard out there for people just trying to get by

Exactly, if appropriate I would tip someone even if they’re adequately paid by their employer. Though I think it would make more sense if the minimum wage is raised instead. I also get why some cultures dislike tipping, so I just treat it on a case by case basis

nifty OP , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Agreed, people got mad at me for suggesting literally the same hah ¯_ (ツ)_/¯

Edit: in their defense, I think they objected more to the idea that a delivery person should avoid anyone who doesn’t tip. I get why they’d feel that way, it’s understandable

nifty OP , 10 days ago

The peer pressure based donation for enabling corporate tax evasion is BS. It should be disallowed because all it’s doing is letting big corps not pay their due taxes

nifty OP , 10 days ago

In my experience, no one has ever pressured me for a tip. But again, that’s just me so I feel bad if you’ve experienced that

nifty , 11 days ago

a new version of “Clippy” and it’s just as helpful as the original.

And somehow infinitely less charming

nifty , 11 days ago

I had a good landlord, so they’re definitely out there. Mine didn’t raise my rent more than $50 in a decade of living there, and was pretty great and quick about repairs. I am sorry others have had the experience they’ve had, and I think it’s more to do with private equity buying real estate, or some kind of landlord with 10+ units etc. I think the mom/pop landlord with the odd house they rent out when their family isn’t using it are pretty chill. I am sure there are examples to prove me wrong though

nifty , 10 days ago

Nah he hired him to become a bear. All bears are just people in fur suits

nifty , 11 days ago

For your consideration, I submit Gren from Cowboy Bepop, who many would say is attractive

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4df32c44-efac-4289-a8ff-896ba084fe7b.jpeg

nifty , 11 days ago

I get it, I almost always create a male character bc it’s different from me irl. I think part of it is when you’re you 24/7 you just want to play as something not you

nifty , 12 days ago

Great now you can make stew

nifty , 13 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/71daf0a1-026b-4785-bbe2-96a1d72f3048.jpeg