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  • Yes, but I think it is more meaningful to compliment things which are the result of effort, or a long series of decisions. Compliment someone’s muscles when they’ve been making the effort to work out for a couple months. Compliment someone’s cooking ability if they spend a lot of time cooking and practicing that art. Compliment someone’s hair if they clearly put effort into making it look good.



  • Kacarott@aussie.zonetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldNorway José!
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    3 days ago

    That seems an odd definition to me, to my knowledge all other definitions of ideologies depend only on ones own beliefs or values, not upon ones physical possessions or life situation. What else would you call a poor person who fervently believes that capitalism is the best system for the world? If Bezos suffered some catastrophic business collapse and went broke, would he suddenly no longer be a capitalist?

    Edit: also I thought the traditional name for those who own capital is “bourgeoisie”?




  • When I was a kid we had a couple dogs at different points, who were exactly like this, run at any chance.

    Then I came to Germany, and the culture here (as compared to my family at least) is that they take walking the dog very seriously, like multiple times a day, every day. I was not used to this at all, but I haven’t heard of dogs ever just running away since I’ve been here.

    So it could just be that my dog-owning friends here are just very good trainers, but it seems like giving dogs lots and lots of opportunities to get outside, exercise and explore makes them a lot less likely to try escape on their own


  • Mate have you considered that it’s possible for people to have different opinions about a movie than you, without them being brainwashed by the internet?

    Have you considered that media/art is highly subjective and that even if a movie was internationally adored, it would still be valid for someone to not like the movie, and criticise it?

    I’m all for a lively debate over the qualities of certain media, but your main point seems to be ‘you just don’t like it because you can’t think for yourself’, which is just a bullshit argument. It feels very similar to “you just don’t believe in my god because you haven’t prayed enough” or “you just don’t like pickles because you can’t cook well enough”.







  • It is insulting because it downplays the theory to the point of “to believe this would be absurd and stupid” which obviously has implications for its believers.

    Imagine an atheist stated: “I am an atheist because intelligent design boils down to: if you leave your room empty for 6000 years, a magic fairy will appear and create the Taj Mahal”. Can you see how this is not only just an outright false statement, but also making a mockery of those who believe?