Notices by veff :trash: (veff@poa.st), page 2

@Dudebro @LukeAlmighty @KuteboiCoder Not disagreeing with that. Who are the predominant users of social media?

@KuteboiCoder @Dudebro @LukeAlmighty I would consider faggots and autists to be losers.

@LukeAlmighty @Dudebro @KuteboiCoder I suspect you're probably a social cretin or have major aspergers if you genuinely think moving all human interaction online was a good thing. You can celebrate the death of "the old world" for your lifetime, but the new world has brought about such a social upheaval that nobody is having kids. In 100 years either some form of equilibrium will be developed, or else a regression back to the old world.

@Dudebro @Griffith @LukeAlmighty @KuteboiCoder I'll also mention- although it will probably net me massive negative social credit- that a lot of "society" was founded on useful myths that kept us together. I had a relatively happy upbringing in my super-orthodox mormon family because we were an insular community which had shared values. When the Internet picked up popularity, it became obvious that the entire religion was founded on lies and deception, and that shattered all sense of community. I posit that the same thing happened to Christianity writ large and it wouldn't be nearly so destructive without the help of instant information propagation via the Internet.

@LukeAlmighty @Dudebro @KuteboiCoder I guess my point doesn't work when interacting with 100% true-and-honest autists. My life was significantly better before everyone got smartphones. I had Internet at home, but I specifically avoided getting a phone until... 2017? I didn't want the life of the online to destroy the life of meatspace, but eventually everyone else hooked up to it and there was nothing to be found online. If that went away, eventually everyone would have to crawl out of their room and be human again. I miss that.

@KuteboiCoder @LukeAlmighty Maybe in the immediate aftermath it would take a hit. Would you still be worse off years after the fact?

@KuteboiCoder @LukeAlmighty "Phone bad" is a gross caricaturizing of my point, but I'll roll with it. If the Internet were to disappear forever tomorrow, would social life and community become better or worse?

@LukeAlmighty The tenable solution is to become someone people want to hang out with. That's why I'm learning like 3 languages, practicing dancing and hiking and a whole host of hobbies. The more interesting your life is, the more people want to be a part of it.

In the past, you may have had to choose between someone you agree 50% with and someone you agree 80% with, and so you'd be friends with the 80%. It's your "best available friend."

Now with the Internet, you can choose to befriend the 80% agreeable irl guy, or you can befriend the 99% agreeable guy online. The 20% of disagreements irl feel completely intolerable, because you're not forced to cooperate for survival. This also contributes to strenuous familial relationships.

RT: https://poa.st/objects/a3cbbc29-f6ac-49c0-b525-3c072740149a

A friend is someone who'd rather spend his time with you than anything else. In the past, there really wasn't any other outlet to spend your time. Now, it's a valuable commodity targeted with precision and monetized by companies. By putting a price tag on time, you have millions of dollars spent trying to take it from you, and you can't get that time back.

Who do you think would win, some relatively pleasant person who wants quality time, or the latest million dollar attention grabber? That's why there are no friends beyond coworkers now.

@mischievoustomato @koropokkur @Griffith @BowsacNoodle @sickburnbro Not even sure this is true. Talk to normals on a personal level and they'll open up about how they're scared of the future, before dumping the worst take you've ever heard in your life. Truth is, they're just clueless about what's occurring around them.

Like imagine if you never made the connection between niggers and crime. Think about how different your perception is. Cities are dangerous, but you can't pinpoint why. You feel uneasy, but it's beyond your comprehension and trying to think about it brings cognitive dissonance.

Normies live in a lovecraftian horror novel.

Everyone seems to think a fascist gf would be awesome but I'd rather she just be normal.

I don't like religion-posting but it's almost 3AM so nobody will read it anyway so here's an excerpt from my diary circa April of this year:

I've been thinking about "natural law," not in the cringe enlightenment sense but rather defined as "the rules for continuation in nature" in a darwin-esque fashion and how it relates to religion. If a religion brings it's members to extinction (via death or deconversion), of what use was the religion? In 100 years nobody will practice it, and few will even know of it's existence. This is the course that I see Christianity on, if it isn't there already. Sure, you could say "but the cathedrals will stand tall as a testament" and while that may be true, they'll either be converted to mosques, converted to museums/tourist attractions like old aztec or shinto temples, or else used for "Christianity" that only resembles itself in aesthetic and not in practice or philosophy. All three of these have basically already happened and will continue to happen every passing day unless we realize that Christianity has parted ways with "natural law" and no longer lends itself towards it's own continuation.

I wish there was a better term for what I'm describing. It's somewhere between "natural law" and "mandate of heaven" but neither term is perfect.

@grey @vic @BowsacNoodle @TatsuyaIshida The reality is that many modern whites who identify as christians do not hold serious convictions towards a deity and are simply talking the talk to get the (dwindling) benefits that it still provides.

@WoodshopHandman @LouisConde bluegrass is blue otherwise it wouldn't be called that, sorry I don't make the rules