I think it’s easy to associate adhering to values with being unkind (those values could easily exhibit kindness, depending on what they are).

I just don’t believe you’re unkind. If you were, your values wouldn’t tell you that we should shut down power to a neighborhood for a cat. You would just think something like ‘glad that’s not my problem’ and move on. I don’t think that people who are unkind are bothered by things like this, because again ‘not my problem’. You have made it your problem by caring, and are thus precluded from being unkind (in my opinion).

It is easy to choose not to care about anything, it is very hard to care about everything. I myself am dealing with having learned to turn my heart off to certain things. Things that would just be too overwhelming to carry.

A friend of mine died recently and it was incredibly shocking. He was much younger than me, I guess he was driving too fast on his bike. One of my first thoughts was that I could have been kinder to him. Maybe if I’d reached out more, stayed more consistent in his life, maybe he would have stayed more tempered.

We can’t know what will happen to us nor the people around us. We can only dictate our words and actions. I, however, am much less kind than you — I hope that those who can’t be bothered to exhibit the slightest bit of empathy are cursed to suffer in the ways they’ve been overtly willing to ignore. I hope they experience what it is to decay and have the world fade around them.

It would be poetic. Aneurotypicality is not an excuse for callousness.

If that’s you trying to be nice you need to get some therapy.

It is a sentiment that treats potential loss of life like rounding errors instead of tragedies (big and small).

Tolkien’s words live in my brain

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

So you genuinely don’t understand, ok got it.

pointing out the obvious

By pointing to a set of pages that elaborate on what you mean?

No, let’s exam what you did instead:

1. you demean me by suggesting I’m simply brainwashed because I disagree with you, further by suggesting I’m uneducated.

2. you backpedal like a child into ‘IDGAF’, seriously I had flashbacks to high school debates.

3. you reiterate that you think I’m somehow brainwashed by the CIA into thinking communism is bad (which isn’t even remotely what I said)

4. you more or less call me a fascist

I was wrong to communicate with you at all, you are an idiot child.

Right.

While I’m doing that, how about you look up burden of proof buddy?

You’ll figure it out.

No you’re just trying to suggest that a test can’t be pushed up because you hate cats.

Unless you genuinely just do not understand what they mean, which is likely.

It’s amazing because electrical grids are designed to be able to have sections shut down at any time. The intended purpose is literally to prevent a catastrophic shutdown.

Imagine suggesting that your suggestion is somehow more logical on the basis of 1) there’s a good likelihood you aren’t an electrical engineer and 2) that there’s some kind of genuine risk here (because apparently this guy thinks the whole lynchpin to the fucking grid happens to be this exact pole).

Dunning Kruger, at its finest. Glad to see you still have your head on straight.

Yeah you’ll need to be more accurate than ‘start with the FOIA section’ — right now I’m laughing at John Mulholland being paid $3k by the CIA to write a fucking ‘guide on trickery and deception’.

Unless you’re trying to say I’ve fallen for propaganda because they’re good at sleight of hand, at that point I can just direct my laughter in your direction.

It’s a thing, it’s just inaccurate — that doesn’t change the hard facts that both sides somehow find their way to differently flavored authoritarianism.

I’d like to remind everyone here that, while he was laying the groundwork for the current political climate of the U.S., he had 3 daughters and two wives. He’s old enough that the upper left part of his left leg is paralyzed due to polio.

We are seeing a resurgence of both polio and measles, thanks to men like this — who got to live full lives while fucking us all over.

Cheer for his death if you must, he has already won.

Modern sodas are certainly ultra processed.

Pine soda is, however, definitely soda. There might be a difference in the source of carbination (fermentation vs artifical carbonation) and the amount of sugar (fuckin berries n’ roots compared to the eldritch god that is High Fructose Corn Syrup).

A few things:

Words mean individual words

Correct, we have another word called ‘letters’. As it pertains to this instance, when you take the letters of the word ‘apple’ and rearrange them alphabetically — they are no longer a word. Unless you would accept aelpp as a spelling of apple.

2. I sincerely doubt this is the first time this child has seen the term alphabetical order, I would be inclined to think the child is a clever smartass depending on the individual.

3. Either way, the situation is very simple to handle without breaking the childs self esteem.

‘I totally understand why you came to the conclusion you did, and you did write the letters in alphabetical order! However, the instructions say to ‘write the words in alphabetical order’. Try again, I bet you’ll get 100%!’

The child is most likely just wrong. Teaching them to think critically about their failures is not a problem. Treating them as if failure is some pit they need to forever keep from falling into definitely is, and not helping the child learn to navigate failure is infinitely more detrimental.

Edit: Nothing is more aggravating than being challenged by bleeding hearts who don’t have enough blood left for their brains. Especially when I take the time to break down why their misplaced empathy is wasted only to receive zero response. Cowardly behavior, truly — children will be left anxiety ridden and logically broken if exposed to your methods.

Minimizing the drag coefficient is not worth someone potentially being trapped in a lithium fire after an accident.

Raping children is what you call ‘not perfect’?

No, simply no — try that comment again only do it without defending child rapists.

Write the following words in alphabetical order (the order that they appear in the alphabet).

This is not a neurodivergent solution, this is simply incorrect — the instructions are clear. You can try to rationalize why it somehow is correct, you are also wrong.

The child did not prove that they know what alphabetical order is, they proved that they know the alphabet.

This does not showcase intellect, it showcases a lack of critical thinking.

What an improvement, she’ll have had a few years to get used to her period!

I am being sarcastic.

BuT aGe Of CoNsEnT iS 13 iN jApAn!

Yeah it’s disgusting, these people should be banned from going anywhere within 5 miles of a school.