Well, yeah. I guess society always has. But you took my use of “modern society” hyperbole as like, today’s modern society when I really meant modern society in the frame of reference of the people experiencing it at any given moment in history.

Checkmate, lemmy autist. Lol

Does he not speak of how organised and collectivist Bourgeois/Capitalists are seen as productive and good (because they’re rich) yet an organised and collectivist proletariat is unproductive and bad (because it makes the rich less rich). It’s fine for the rich to gather wealth and help eachother get rich but it’s not okay for the common person to help those around them rise to equal footing.

Where organised and collectivist = Quirky and Free-spirited;

Productive = Cool;

Good = Fun;

Unproductive = Uncool;

Bad = Unfun.

Modern society labels personality quirks and non-conformity as Cool and Fun when the person displaying those traits has money and status.

But have a poor person display the same and they’re weird, or odd, creepy or sad. Otherwise Uncool and Unfun.

Author’s note: I spent way to long typical out this shitpost.

I’m naming my E-Tool Dragula as we speak.

I want one. How much?

Sincerely, man who has dug way too many trenches.

I don’t think so. Unless maybe it was fully and instantly reversible at the request of the person in question. Maybe.

The moral implications for both sides are honestly incredibly horrific.

The chimera was the trapped, transformed and lobotomized soul of a mortal child… Having those experiments lead to the idolized cat girl form on the left still implies the capture and inhumane abuse of a human being’s essence forever trapped in a body that doesn’t match what their brain wants to be wired to.

Somehow this response became about trans rights. So no. I will not force human beings into cat girl bodies for the benefit of others.

Yeah… That’s just about the feelings and experiences I tend to have.

Well, I do have a diagnosis. I appreciate you providing the insightful take on the process though. I just thought this was another instance of me just being forgetful.

Hard to de-condition myself from thinking about myself in a neurotypical fashion and recognise my limitations are real.

Okay wait… Is this strictly an ADHD thing? I do this all the fucking time. Like, I go through this mind palace thing where I hunt down my every single action with that object and play “Where’s the stupid place I left my wallet this time?” In my brain.

But I don’t see where I put the wallet, just places I’ve been with the wallet until I’m in the right place and my brain clicks. Like walking through a doorway and remembering what I was going to do.

I figured I had to give it a fair shake and use it as a companion to Kapital. While I found Marx’s writing to be strongly focused on the philosophy I couldn’t help but shake the feeling throughout Imperialism that Lenin was trying to sell the reader something.

Which makes sense to me as it was published in pamphlets and the likes leading into the revolution.

Though that unshakeable feeling never went away it did confirm a lot of my feelings and thoughts on globalisation, wealth consolidation and so on.

Lenin didn’t get a faithful customer out of me but his writing certainly helped me understand some of my more authoritarian comrades. I don’t have to agree with people completely to stand beside them.

To be completely honest I don’t think Mein Kampf is worth the read and any other derivative that follow it are just worse takes like “The Turner Diaries”.

Turns out ethno-fascists don’t have anything to back them up except fear and hatred so their fiction tends to fall flat.

Thanks!

How did you find Rand’s take on relativism?

I’m quite young so I can only compare it to a few things. It felt to me to just be overwhelmingly “Fuck you, I got mine.” Which is… Interesting to say the least when you build your empire on the back of the workers.

Yeah, it just read like the angry rantings of a man left alone with hateful thoughts for too long. I can’t speak to the quality of German in it and I’m certain some translations make his writings seem academic but they all just fall flat if you take a few hours to read up on economics and policy in Europe around the time he wrote the book.

Just the angry rants of some dude who feels like he isn’t getting what he deserves. Some things never change. We just have podcasts for that now.

I’ve forced myself to read Mein Kampf, Atlas Shrugged, Imperialism by Lenin and various other political works from various philosophies. Do these count?

I’ve found many of them to be dry at best and abhorrent at worst (thanks Hitler).

None of them have changed my mind in drastic ways but have helped me understand the viewpoints of people I talk to.

Now the world will have to start reacting to Micro-Okra in the water? When will this end‽

May your blade chip and shatter.

The point I’m making is that a person who chronically overeats isn’t going to know when “enough is enough”. It’s incredibly easy for a person to overshoot their TDEE and end up gradually gaining weight while only eating until they’re full.

I say this as someone who works out 6 days a week, cycles 250km a week and works a fairly physical job. I probably eat close to 3500 calories a day just to maintain weight and I could still probably have some snacks.

If I wanted to lose weight and not count calories how would I do that? If I wanted to drop body fat and maintain muscle mass how would I do that without counting calories and macros?

Okay but like… What if I’m so used to eating a lot that I can pack down 3k cals in one go?

Mushroom

How me lose weight if no count food?