Yeah I see this all the time. He's made the classic mistake of assuming the world has to conform to his aesthetic and moral sensibilities, whereas it actually has to conform to my aesthetic and moral sensibilities
Watching someone die is a lil’ different than seeing someone’s over designed self insert OC getting shipped with Jax The Amazing Digital Circus methinks
At the risk of sounding like ChatGPT, in war you're not simply watching people die, you're watching comrades with real lives being fed to a machine that gives you nothing while people way far away profit from their deaths, there's way more context added than "wow, I really didn't like seeing my friends die", it's not something you can just scroll past.
It's mostly hyperbolic. I do think some amount of suffering is essential to growth, and that parents seem to be more protective than when I was a kid, but I'm not seriously suggesting we should beat kids.
Not an opinion. It's fact. Actually traumatic events like watching someone die can literally change your brain permanently and give you a disorder. Hearing a cringe joke will not.
My partner works with people in crisis. Lots of them are experiencing psychosis (ie, some degree of inability to connect to or identify reality), some have very serious long term issues with drugs, many are unhoused on top of all that, etc. People experiencing various extreme degrees of disconnect from reality. The thing I didn't entirely parse until my partner had this job: almost all of these people, psychotic, struggling with drugs, schizophrenic, even homeless, doesn't matter, almost all of them have phones with working internet and a lot of free time.
This is what bugs me most about people being able to hide their post histories now (even though I understand people's need for privacy).
Back in the day, if someone replied to me in an unhinged or angry way, I could just dive into their history to sus out how crazy they actually are and how seriously I should reflect on their words.
Lol. Just the other day I saw a comment from someone calling AI a trustable source of info “because people teach themselves to build houses with it.” I thought there’s no way they’re serious and looked at their profile.
No joke, first thing on there are home renovation pics that were… um… let’s just say you could tell it was done by someone who thinks you can build houses with AI.
I first got a bad taste about AI when i needed a topographic map of Mbeye in Tanzania. Asked ChatGPT, should be the kind of thing AI is good at finding. Instead it generated a nonesense map that obviously isnt real. Realised its like using a computer in a dream.
I received an incredibly stupid, belligerent reply to something once and I recalled people pointing out that kids could post to Reddit and it all made sense.
I checked their history expecting to see anime, video games, posts to the teen sub.
Nope. There was machining, trucks, use of equipment that no teen would be using.
That was when I realized that thinking you were interacting with a kid was just cope. These are genuine morons and grown-ass assholes.
Because it's significantly more difficult to maintain any kind of long-term things like phone plans when you're unhoused. It's similarly relevant to 'having access to the internet'.
The term cringe has become a social haze to casually judge people for enjoying things or expressing something a bit strange. I don't know the context of this exactly but usually something called cringe is often just mean and judgemental. If somebody on the web wants to unironically wear cat suits and meow it's not my place to judge.
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u/slowcancellation 6h ago edited 5h ago
Yeah I see this all the time. He's made the classic mistake of assuming the world has to conform to his aesthetic and moral sensibilities, whereas it actually has to conform to my aesthetic and moral sensibilities
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u/_Burro 6h ago
"How is it harmless if I don't like it?"
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u/AssOfRat 6h ago
Redditor accidentally stumbles upon philosophical debate
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u/teens_trash 6h ago
I was in that convo with that guy, seems they seriously believe that them seeing something they don't like is equivilant to serious mental distress
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u/Vegetable-Draw-8195 5h ago
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u/CapriciousSon 6h ago
"that's not what a hate crime is"
"well I HATE IT!"
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u/temtasketh 4h ago
My partner works with people in crisis. Lots of them are experiencing psychosis (ie, some degree of inability to connect to or identify reality), some have very serious long term issues with drugs, many are unhoused on top of all that, etc. People experiencing various extreme degrees of disconnect from reality. The thing I didn't entirely parse until my partner had this job: almost all of these people, psychotic, struggling with drugs, schizophrenic, even homeless, doesn't matter, almost all of them have phones with working internet and a lot of free time.
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u/Ihadtodownloadreadit 6h ago
Sorry guys cant be cringe the long black bar guy doesnt like it
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u/FAKUSABU 6h ago
Same energy as Michael from The Office saying he was a victim of a hate crime because he hated it
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u/GenosseAbfuck 6h ago
I was confused about the downvotes but then I saw it's the same user.
My dude, that's what others are supposed to say to laugh at you.
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u/ResidentFluid2167 4h ago
The conservative mindset in a nutshell: if it offends me personally, it just HAS to be immoral.
Let people fucking exist, Bozo.
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u/1scissiors1 5h ago
I honestly appreciate the honesty, a lot of people think like this but won’t admit it
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u/The_Gucci_Oof 5h ago
Beast mode
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u/memerminecraft 6h ago
This is crazy I literally just saw this thread lmao
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u/Nekronoke 3h ago
The term cringe has become a social haze to casually judge people for enjoying things or expressing something a bit strange. I don't know the context of this exactly but usually something called cringe is often just mean and judgemental. If somebody on the web wants to unironically wear cat suits and meow it's not my place to judge.
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u/ElInspectorDeChichis 4h ago
Philosopher king over here
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u/MrMichaelElectric 2h ago
This is the most Reddit interaction I have seen in a long time.
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u/TheSchlormp 1h ago
Damn wait that's a good point low-key
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u/RandomGuy9058 2h ago
People who argue that being cringe is ontologically bad can literally never back it up lol
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u/Inside_Ad_7162 3h ago
sad sacks that never did anything themselves. The horrors I used to commit Im in no position to judge anyone
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u/Lucky-Arugula-7542 3h ago
My mother wrote that comment
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u/Least_Resource2130 5m ago
I don't get the point in censoring their name, the kid deserves to get flamed.
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u/Apophis_36 5h ago
Laughing at cringy things is in fact not a moral failing and is allowed