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Ugly In The Morning posted:Whenever someone asks me how I’m doing while I’m in the middle of some frustrating and pointless task I always say I’m “rockin’ it like Sisyphus” which is something I think I picked up from a Clutch song ages ago. Sisyphus, syphilis, close enough.
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existing is pretty cool, ngl - though it's kinda sad at times as well. overall i rate existing at around 7.5 out of 10 at the moment, which is fairly neat however, circumstances are different for each and every person, and stuff like chronic pain and disease and being a civilian in a war zone and so on can drastically reduce the quailty of one's existense. so i'd never dunk on anyone for being nihilistic or generally not being satisfied with the quality of their existance, especially if the factors contributing to that dissatisfaction are outside of their control
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May 21, 2021 18:20
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Manager Hoyden posted:The goon style of self deprecating humor is a thinly veiled cry for help. They are secretly hoping someone dms them and tell them they're special and everything's gonna be okay. You mean you don't have that happen? Also, the idea that "life has meaning it's just that I can't find it" is one that hits a lot of folks.
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May 21, 2021 18:45
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I think life has meaning (sometimes it's what we bring to the party, sometimes it's the party that's already started without us), but that meaning is not necessarily always a comfort. Still, an abundance of troubles and pain aside, life's pretty okay at times and I'd like to continue it for a while yet.
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May 21, 2021 19:28
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Life definitely has meaning. Reproduction. The survival of your species and domination and complete use of all the resources of the planet you live on in hopes to be advanced enough to move on and consume the next in a bid to populate the whole galaxy before the heat death of the universe. That's it. Organic life was a mistake.
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May 21, 2021 19:37
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Guyver posted:Life definitely has meaning. Reproduction. The survival of your species and domination and complete use of all the resources of the planet you live on in hopes to be advanced enough to move on and consume the next in a bid to populate the whole galaxy before the heat death of the universe. If the first bit is true the last sentence is stupid 'humanity is the virus!!!' edgelord posting. If there's no purpose, then it's no more a mistake for organic life to use the resources than it is for a black hole or a supernova or whatever to do so.
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May 21, 2021 19:50
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Obviously silicon based life would do a better job of it.
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May 21, 2021 20:11
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Organic life is pretty awesome actually A bunch of stupid rocks never made red dead redemption or huffy bikes
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May 21, 2021 20:13
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That took what 3.5 billion years. I'd bet the rocky bois could get a rdr out in two.
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May 21, 2021 20:16
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If rocks are so smart why haven't they evolved into monkeys yet? Checkmate atheists
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May 21, 2021 20:18
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Living things can't be made out of silicon. Silicon is a metal. How would that even work?! What would be their blood? Sand? gently caress on outta here with this nonsense!
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May 21, 2021 20:22
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May 21, 2021 20:22
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Holding a "not my ancestor" sign but it has a picture of a rock
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May 21, 2021 20:22
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Rocks go to hell
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May 21, 2021 20:35
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docbeard posted:I think life has meaning (sometimes it's what we bring to the party, sometimes it's the party that's already started without us), but that meaning is not necessarily always a comfort. I would disagree on two points. I believe the old line that "whoever has found a why to live can bear almost any how" holds true in a lot of instances. And I'd say that life, and the world in general, just is. The problem being that that isn't good enough. Things should be better than how they are and instead of accepting it there should be some way of making the world better every day in some manner. It's just that knowing what that is or how it works is tricky for everyone.
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May 22, 2021 00:47
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The zune remains a better music player than anything I own. Why drain my phone battery by playing music when i can just fire up the ol' reliable zune. It has a nicer UI too.
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May 22, 2021 02:19
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Josef bugman posted:I would disagree on two points. I believe the old line that "whoever has found a why to live can bear almost any how" holds true in a lot of instances. While I agree we should make life better for everybody I wonder in your specific case, Bugman, how much of your specific “the world isn’t good enough” world view is created by depression
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May 22, 2021 02:57
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Life, humanity, etc. is pretty terrible, on like a philosophical level. Bunch of carbon accidents competing on who can kill the world first. However once you accept that life is suffering, and probably not real either, on some days you can enjoy it. *as I am now, woken up after eating rear end and getting drunk, posting on SA and drinking some more doverhog has a new favorite as of 03:18 on May 22, 2021 |
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May 22, 2021 03:15
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Sansa Clip + rockbox was the absolute GOAT of MP3 players. Tiny, battery lasted forever, and as tough as a gameboy. I miss that fucker so much
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May 22, 2021 04:47
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thetoughestbean posted:While I agree we should make life better for everybody I wonder in your specific case, Bugman, how much of your specific “the world isn’t good enough” world view is created by depression Eh, the belief that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way things are is not limited to just depressive folks. Otherwise every social movement could be described as resulting from mental health.
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May 22, 2021 08:19
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yeah I eat rear end posted:The zune remains a better music player than anything I own. Why drain my phone battery by playing music when i can just fire up the ol' reliable zune. It has a nicer UI too. My brother has one, he's the only one I know who ever did, and it still works fine.
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May 22, 2021 12:38
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Did he ever squirt anyone with it?
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May 22, 2021 12:39
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Josef bugman posted:Eh, the belief that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way things are is not limited to just depressive folks. Otherwise every social movement could be described as resulting from mental health. I guess it’s a matter of how you express it. Your posts remind me a lot of when I’m in a major depressive phase
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May 22, 2021 12:42
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It really depends on if by “the way things are” you mean “the way society is organized” or “the way existence works/conscious life/etc” Successful social movements get there by an innate love of and hope for life, not from NOTHING MATTERS FACE TO BLOODSHED
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May 22, 2021 12:57
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It really depends on what you mean by “success”.
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May 22, 2021 13:05
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Guyver posted:That took what 3.5 billion years. I'd bet the rocky bois could get a rdr out in two. If they want to really impress me, they could make an RDR that was fun.
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May 22, 2021 13:08
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It really depends on if by “the way things are” you mean “the way society is organized” or “the way existence works/conscious life/etc” It can be a bit of both. The idea that societal structures being changed can change the way we think about the world. I do think that existence itself can/will eventually need to be subjected to the same critique. The fact that we have such difficulty with "knowing" things is a big one, plus the fundamental separateness of people from each other. Platystemon posted:It really depends on what you mean by “success”. This is also a fair point.
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May 22, 2021 13:29
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Platystemon posted:It really depends on what you mean by “success”. Call the Bolshevik Revolution resulting in Stalin a success if you want, it wasn’t born out of a nihilistic goon worldview that existence is misery.
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May 22, 2021 13:31
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yeah I eat rear end posted:The zune remains a better music player than anything I own. Why drain my phone battery by playing music when i can just fire up the ol' reliable zune. It has a nicer UI too. I had a Zune HD. Still the best gadget I ever bought. Ipods were garbage in comparison, but marketing > all. They discontinued it all in favour of Windows phone lmfao. Although in fairness, MP3 players were p much doomed.
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May 22, 2021 13:43
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I had a "translator" with a black and white screen and bunch of phrases for all the languages of Europe. It was lost somewhere after the company went bankrupt, parents divorced, and never traveled to any of those countries until much later.  Maybe rock based life would have done better.
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May 22, 2021 14:00
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a movie's runtime should be prominently displayed on the cover
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May 22, 2021 15:16
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Robobot posted:Living things can't be made out of silicon. Silicon is a metal. How would that even work?! What would be their blood? Sand? gently caress on outta here with this nonsense! Silicon is very much not a metal, like it’s literally one space down from carbon on the periodic table and nowhere near the left at all. God dammit. It’s got 4 unpaired valence electrons just like carbon does!
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May 22, 2021 15:42
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Nice try chief, but take a look at this: That's metal. If it's shiny and hard it's metal... unless it's some kind of wood, obviously, but silicon is definitely not wood and I will die on that hill.
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May 22, 2021 15:47
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Robobot posted:Nice try chief, but take a look at this: Pull that poo poo into a wire or have it conduct electricity. Ain’t happening. 
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May 22, 2021 15:50
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Pull that poo poo into a wire or have it conduct electricity. Ain’t happening. https://techiescientist.com/does-silicon-conduct-electricity/ quote:
It’s actually a metalloid!
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May 22, 2021 15:56
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Silicon is very much not a metal, like it’s literally one space down from carbon on the periodic table and nowhere near the left at all. God dammit. It’s got 4 unpaired valence electrons just like carbon does! Any element heavier than helium is a metal. Ask any astronomer.
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May 22, 2021 16:18
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Robobot posted:Nice try chief, but take a look at this:
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May 22, 2021 17:00
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Car Guys are worse than Gun Guys. In an ideal world, gun hobbies can be practiced with complete safety. In an ideal world, there will be 0 cars and the only reason to ever use one is to get from A to B in your nerdy little fuel efficient liberalmobile. Cars and their industry are actively destroying the planet for everyone by existing. Their widespread use encourages gentrification and further contributes to societal and climate problems. Also cars kill more people violently than guns by an order of magnitude.
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May 22, 2021 19:33
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It really depends on if by “the way things are” you mean “the way society is organized” or “the way existence works/conscious life/etc” The key difference is here is “the world is fundamentally broken and there’s nothing we can do about it” vs “The world is fundamentally broken, let’s fix it”
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Not really understanding why goons start from the premise that the world sucks but okay
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