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thechadwick

@ thechadwick @lemmy.world

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    What's the point of living for someone like me?

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  • Yeah..

    Life's fulfillment is in many ways measured in the quality of your relationships. Frankly, if you want to make meaningful relationships, you need to be the kind of fellow you or a regular person would want to be around.

    You can't really be a different person and you shouldn't try. Instead you need to be the best version of yourself you can be. The one who listens well, or does nice things for others without expecting a reward. You have some positive instincts in there somewhere, but if you indulge selfishness, it will drowned out any of the positive aspects immediately.

    Don't do this attention seeking bs. If you want help, get help. The world is full of others seeking connections and you'll break the hearts of family if you take the way way out. Maybe that's what you want? Have an impact just by inflicting harm? I hope not, that's what bad people do.

    Get into bird watching or any other hobby. There's tons of poor, interesting, people with deeply filling lives out there. You're not uniquely suffering I'm afraid. Just pittying yourself.

  • Passionate

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  • Hey! Nobody post anything TrickDacy's seen online before! WT actual F guys!? Don't you know he's seen this already!? FFS!

  • Anyone know what happened to open source ecology?

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  • Thank you for the reply! I posted and then had an unexpected travel commitment come up that pulled me away from Lemmy, but thrilled to have someone with direct involvement jump in.

    I couldn't agree more, and it seems to me that OSE and Lemmy make a perfect match. Can't wait to check out the wiki and thank you again for the reply! Hope you guys get flooded with support and keep carrying the project forward. What a great mission statement and purpose.

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    thechadwick @lemmy.world

    Anyone know what happened to open source ecology?

    www.opensourceecology.org

  • Why do people say "Catholics and Christians" in (USA) when Catholics are also Christians, as if they refer to it as a different religion.

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  • With all due respect, this is not reflective of the protestant revival movement in the US in the 1800s. The second awakening was absolutely a bunch of rival interpretations of the word claiming they were right b/c (insert reason here).

    I probably should have been more specific in my original reply but when we're taking about US "Catholics aren't Christians" that's 100 percent the origin of the trope. I can't speak to the Irish version but I'd challenge anyone about it in the US. That's why we needed an Ecumenism movement in the first place after all.

  • Why do people say "Catholics and Christians" in (USA) when Catholics are also Christians, as if they refer to it as a different religion.

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  • There's plenty of great commentary here about why Christianity is divided up into different sects, but I think you're primarily interested in the narcissism of small differences. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differences)

    Basically, if you've read about Dr. Suess' Starbellied Sneeches, you get the idea. Human brains are exceptional pattern recognition machines, and when a society is so homogenously Christian then those small differences become the cleavages along which identities form. That leads to things like Catholic / Christian divisions and the formation of the best joke in The Guardian history:

    Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"

    He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"

    He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"

    Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.

    https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/sep/29/comedy.religion

  • What's the name of the fallacy where someone appeals to different circumstances that don't currently apply in order to justify something?

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  • The "if my grandma had wheels, she would have been a bicycle" fallacy.

    https://youtu.be/A-RfHC91Ewc

    Whata you say make-a no sense! False equivalence

  • so be cool rule

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  • Oooph, this meme is a heart breaker.

    Clean it up OP. Find Jesus!

  • Follow me for more linux tips and tricks

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  • Why would you exit vim tho? Are you being forced under duress or something?

  • What discontinued foods do you miss?

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  • これはロスなの？

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  • そうだぜ、ロスだなー。

  • The umblilical cord is a baby's power cord until they are ready for wireless charging (breastfeeding)

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  • It's all solar energy too. Just a matter of how many degrees of separation really.

  • Damn Linux Users

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  • You've just made a bootloop for life!

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    thechadwick @lemmy.world

    Election rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    thechadwick @lemmy.world

    Americrule

  • Friendly appealing blimp rule

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  • Guess the asshole part of that depends on whether you're a Kuwaiti or Republican Guard..

    G. W.'s round 2 (electric boogaloo) version was an entirely different exercise in absurdity. Bush 41's war was not really comparable.

  • Rule

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  • Better call her then.

    I mean, it's right on the sign.

  • Governor of the Russia's Kaliningrad Blames Philosopher Immanuel Kant for Ukraine War

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  • Remember the time Kant's categorical imperative massed hundreds of thousands of troops for a "training exercise" along the border of a sovereign neighbor state, loudly protesting concerns it was preparing for a ground invasion?

    Then when it did invade that neighbor, on the most cynically pretextual grounds imaginable, and began a wholesale slaughter of innocent men, women, and children?

    Remember when Kant did that?

    Nobody else does either, but it will be a generational memory for Russia to live down now. Hope the good governor gets cancer of the anus talking that kind of shit.

  • Finland votes: Stubb wins presidency

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  • Trade you for an 80 years gaff machine or an almost 80 year old criminal game show host wannabe Hitler? Two for any one of your neo-liberals, but you have to take both..

    *Edit: (existential sigh of constant anxiety)

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    What's the dumbest thing you thought as an adult that you recently learned was wrong?

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  • Perfection.

  • Programming: The Horror Game

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  • Just have to delete the system32 directory. That gets rid of the changed settings the fastest.

  • What's a good and non patronising way to help my neighbour out

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  • Another post mentioned just giving cash anonymously and I think that's easily the best option. You would almost certainly have access to their mailbox if it's a suburban stand alone type? If not, an unmarked envelope under the door, with cash, would preserve plausible distance from making the neighbor feel like they have to decline out of etiquette.

    Don't think about it more, they clearly need the help if they mentioned it, and if you can help without feeling the impact just do so without strings or direct attribution. They'll suspect it, and can if they approach you in genuine thanks if they want, then you're able to be gracious about accepting, or simply act surprised and happy that such a nice thing happened if not.

    I've had people clearly embarrassed at the grocery checkout take a 50$ bill I claimed fell out of their pocket before several times. Preserves their dignity even if it's just a pretext for helping. Puts the ball in their court at least. "Hey man, I don't know what to say but it's not mine. Pay it forward for someone who needs help if it's not yours" is the worst that's ever gone for me before. Nobody likes being a charity case.

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    Forgot about Dr(ul)e