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Etterra@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics?4·7 个月前Maybe, but not much of one. Honestly anyone supporting or protecting them is almost as bad as being them. Some technical terms would be sheltering, aiding, and abetting.
Etterra@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I don't have a purpose in life and feel like a robot. This cannot be good for my mental health, but I don't know how or what to change. How do I change?252·7 个月前Nobody has a purpose in life. Belief that life has a purpose is a creationist delusion created to try and comprehend and apply order to what is intrinsically chaotic and random, and to fight the anxiety that their fears induce.
Your options are to choose one of the following:
- Acceptance. You can accept that life is meaningless and that it’s okay. This one’s my preference.
- Denial. You can deny life’s meaninglessness and seek to find or create a purpose for yourself. This can range from something as simple as a hobby to as life changing as having a family or advocating for a cause.
- Embrasure. Revel in the chaos and express yourself through it, doing whatever you want without thought it care. This is best exemplified by the fictional character of the Joker.
- Oppression. Take up religion to crush understanding of reality and replace it with a delusion of supernaturally defined purpose. This is probably the most commonly used option, frequently forced upon people during childhood.
- Opposition. Attempt to fight the reality or mask the effects of meaninglessness through other means, such as direct therapy, chemical dependency (not recommended), talking with friends/family, or through other methods not previously mentioned.
Understanding one’s place in the universe (insignificant, irrelevant, and temporary speck) is important to having an accurate impression of ones existence. Whether one can accept that and what one do with that understanding is unique to the individual.
I hope that helps - good luck.
The true War on Christmas is fight in solidarity with Halloween and Thanksgiving in an effort to push Christmas back over the November/December border. It’s a just and noble war, one which I both advocate and fight in.
Etterra@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What are examples of things that would get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances of Lemmy?216·7 个月前Apparently not advocating for spreading knowledge of jury nullification. Lemmy.World is (mostly) banning it and now I need to find a new instance because I consider that to be the endorsement of our (American) government’s system of “bend over and take it.”
Etterra@lemmy.worldto TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•E.M.H. - Enhanced Monday Humor?4·7 个月前He’s too afraid to ask her. I would be too.
Etterra@lemmy.worldto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Eating less meat ‘like taking 8m cars off road’1·7 个月前Don’t forget cruise ships and power plants in countries that either lack emissions control or bribe their way out of them.
Etterra@lemmy.worldto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL Most chewing gum is made of Plastic.English8·7 个月前How else are you supposed to get your daily dose of Vitamin P?
Etterra@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting taken into custody after being recognized at McDonald’s277·7 个月前It would be a shame if the person who sold out were publicly identified. Hopefully that will never ever happen.
Etterra@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting taken into custody after being recognized at McDonald’s998·7 个月前Correction: random person who vaguely resembles images of a person in a similar jacket in unrelated images of alleged shooter selected as a sacrificial lamb by the incarceration industrial complex out of fear of the populace.
FTFY
Etterra@lemmy.worldto Work Reform@lemmy.world•Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey181·7 个月前Wow, that’s not bullshit in the slightest. Is it legal to do this there? I mean it’s technically illegal here in America but employers can always come up with a bullshit excuse. Worse, if you live in San “at will” state, they can fire you with NO reason.
This isn’t “news.” We all knew this already.
Etterra@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Russian bases in Syria threatened by insurgent advance, say Moscow's war bloggersEnglish4·7 个月前Sucks to be Russian. Still. Again.
Motherfucker of you’re gonna charge me $3,000 per day, I’m keeping the bed.
Etterra@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Syrian government appears to have fallen in stunning end to 50-year rule of Assad family7·7 个月前That was damn fast, I didn’t think they’d hit Damascus this week.
Etterra@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you had the choice to be born would you have been born?81·7 个月前Oh fuck no. For my entire life I’ve resented having to be alive. You try being a suicidally inclined 7 year old and see how you like it. The fact that it’s impossible to ask someone if they want to be born is enough for me to never want to have kids, always had been. Forcing existence and cognizance on a human being is unspeakably fucking cruel.
Etterra@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?8·7 个月前What murderer? There’s an alleged person who allegedly may or may not have allegedly done something that allegedly resulted in the alleged death of that CEO. Allegedly.
Unfortunately this is America, and as members of Congress have publicly stated, there’s just nothing we can do about domestic gun violence. So even if an alleged person allegedly committed an alleged crime with a firearm, the system’s hands are tied.
Oh well. Anyway I’m gonna go eat some cake, since it’s all I have.
Etterra@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•US to start nationwide testing for H5N1 flu virus in milk supply2·7 个月前They’re gonna have to thanks to Jackass McKenedy, if no other reason.
I believe it’s a witch hunt in search of a scapegoat. I can’t wait until they provide a “voluntary confession” from the poor bastard. The system will do anything to ensure the continuation of the system.