I don’t have a backstory or lore, I have mental health issues and sleep debt.

My b, similar sounding username and it was just 2 days ago. I have been looking at other servers for about a year now, just lazy and slow.

We live in different countries. I left the US because it was driving me crazy, and my heart goes out to you since I know a lot of people feel that way but don’t have a viable exit strategy. I’ve put in a lot of work to stop participating in an empire of slavery and stolen land, moved back to the land of my grandparents (which has its own terrible history, perfect being the enemy of good as we all know).

I’m against all the buckets. The only bucket we’re all in is a gravity well, and we need to act like it if we’re not going to hate it every minute.

We talked about this over the weekend, you’re going to need new material. I browse all because I like weird shit.

Is this a fun conversation to have? I’m happy to talk about anything else if you are.

https://lemmy.world/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=New

An insane mess

I tend to cruise /all

Ah yes, the sheer prejudice of noticing how somebody acts and judging them for it. The audacity of remembering. I am truly a hypocrite.

Sorry you’re not used to people who read, I’m just trying to say I already thought you were an asshole before I talked to you.

Humans are situational. That’s what makes them interesting and worthwhile. Anything that is the same in every situation has no heart.

I tend to think that you really see what people are made of in a tight spot. In a nice situation, everyone finds it easy to be kind. But even those who rise to a challenge and show true heart only do so when they really believe it is an option. That is the point of having hope.

You have done that yourself. I stopped to chat with someone else who seems to be in a dark place mentally. You seem only to delight in your darkness. I have marked your tendencies before, and the judgment remains.

Are you only here to sneer? At least do so interestingly.

Everyone I’m close to knows about the prison industrial complex because we talk to each other. That’s how a few of us found out, by knowing people who are activated enough to look into these things and spread the word. As to the rest, I could hit you with a list of things and say “approach the world with intent to confirm this bias” and it would amount to the same thing.

Not being part of the problem takes work, it’s true, but wisdom is in knowing people are highly situational, neither inherently good or bad but often entirely unequipped for the world we’ve created or the heights we’ve grasped. We’re beings of brilliance and kindness but also complacency and disaster. Not evil, but we create many evil situations by accident and shortsightedness.

Feels almost like a non sequitur, even if not untrue. I know enough history to know that evil is banal, but that chiefly refers to people who stay silent, choose comfort over justice, and follow unethical orders. It’s taking things a ways further to say most people are mostly evil, don’t you think?

It feels so weird to pass by incredible filth on a daily basis, but then get taken aback by a worldview. You must have been through a lot, wish I could help somehow.

Thank god we now have a way to explain it to Disney adults I guess

You can never go back in time. Better to think of what ideals would be typified by a new revolutionary spirit.

Kingdom of Zeal, New Zealand? I didn’t think it was such a tremendous leap.

No it’s not, it just crashed out of the sky after that whole thing with the Mammon Machine.

It’s basically the only scenario I can see on the table where normality even has a chance to return in our lifetime. The military would have to clean house on both sides of the aisle though, force primaries for everything, and basically flush the toilet on the last 150 years of party politics.

Isotopes only have a “worst by” date unfortunately