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Trying2KnowMyself [they/them, comrade/them]

@ Trying2KnowMyself @hexbear.net

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    (cw: misogyny) Conservative says his AI girlfriend dumped him after he berated her for being a “feminist”

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  • They almost certainly meant exactly what they said. Probably went something like:

    Editor: did you reach out for comment?

    Writer: not yet

    Editor: send them a DM

    Writer: ok, done

    Editor: any response?

    Writer: I only just sent it

    Editor: add it to the article and hit publish

  • NSFW

    (cw: misogyny) Conservative says his AI girlfriend dumped him after he berated her for being a “feminist”

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  • This is, uh, a better outcome than I was expecting?

  • Free Palestine & Long live the Islamic Republic of Iran

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  • Agreed, that’s a conclusion someone reaches as a result of their beliefs.

  • Free Palestine & Long live the Islamic Republic of Iran

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  • I think I agree, but I also feel like you’re saying something that’s going over my head.

  • Free Palestine & Long live the Islamic Republic of Iran

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  • I don’t think I’m saying that belief and non-belief in a given thing are the same - fundamentally they are opposites, but both are things that someone arrives at through a collection of beliefs that form their belief system.

  • Free Palestine & Long live the Islamic Republic of Iran

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  • Dawkins is certainly a prominent new atheist but the parallel I see is not with him specifically but the belief that atheism must be evangelized.

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  • This can be used to make anything into a belief system, then

    Yes, it can and does. I don’t think any single belief defines a person’s belief system, but each individual belief is a contribution to it.

    Your belief that there are no invisible unicorns (or at least none that are with you right now) doesn’t simultaneously require you to also believe that people who do believe in them are bad, though I wouldn’t say the same about believing that they’re wrong (unless we’re truly applying the “in the room with you right now” qualifier and they’re in a different room than you are or time has progressed).

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  • I'm not being intentionally difficult

    I’m not taking it that way!

    I assume we agree that in general, a belief is defined as “an acceptance that a statement is true” and while on the surface atheism seems to be nearly the opposite - a claim that many statements are false - we can we can easily reword any such claim to instead be an acceptance of truth. I believe that it’s true that there is no higher power and that when I die there is no aspect of my own consciousness which will continue to exist.

    There are additional beliefs that some atheists hold which make them insufferable, like the belief that atheism must be evangelized.

  • Free Palestine & Long live the Islamic Republic of Iran

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  • As an atheist, I’d personally argue that a lack of belief in certain things constitutes a system of beliefs still, and that there are multiple sects of atheism with differing beliefs. For example, there’s New Atheism, which seems to be what’s on display here, and which I certainly hope I’ve managed to rid myself of.

  • Free Palestine & Long live the Islamic Republic of Iran

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  • Free Palestine & Long live the Islamic Republic of Iran

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  • I can, yes.

  • :Hex-Jupiter:

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  • huh, I’ve never actually read the comm rules before today

  • Socialists don’t get migraines

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  • At least it was for a good cause

  • :Hex-Jupiter:

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  • I have felt that pain before

    2 mb is awfully big for an emoji though - downscaling that to ~120kb shouldn’t lose much detail at emoji sizes and is still probably much bigger than it needs to be

    Not that it helps with getting rate limited on uploads.

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  • Socialists don’t get migraines

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  • Stop sassing me while we’re giving us a headache

  • Socialists don’t get migraines

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  • Well, I wish y’all would stop, because I have a headache and now I know whose fault it is.

  • Gun-toting feds in ski masks swarm the ICE agent shooter's home to retrieve belongings as the house sits empty amid claims he has gone into hiding. [More inside]

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  • 'You would never find a nicer, kinder person,' the father added of his son. 'He's a committed, conservative Christian

  • When you're involved in so many wars, you need 6 different lists to document them all.

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  • I dunno, I feel like it could fit into either of the other categories depending on how I feel like arguing for it. At minimum, a civil war should make it red, and if I can get either the ongoing class war or the war on Christmas edited into any of those pages then yellow it is.