Sugar and the industrial farming system are literally poisoning the food supply and driving a epidemic of chronic disease globally
We have an ongoing decades long war against ‘big sugar’ here in Florida. They are decimating the land.
It really is insidious, the money is everywhere! I wish you the best in that fight.
Pick your cutoff age but it should be illegal to groom children into an organized religion. Frankly, since human brains are still developing until age 24-25 that would be my choice but 21 would be acceptable. “Let go and let god” is literally advocating for a trained lack of critical thinking skills.
Grooming is so gross, but it’s not like Christians are out there targeting children, right? That would be insane wouldn’t it, everyone?
https://www.cefonline.com/articles/teach-kids-articles/the-4-14-window/
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This “hydration” crap.
Up until the late 1970’s for approx 300,000 years of humans being around hydrated themselves just fine.
Long as there was water available one would drink when their body signaled them by getting thirsty (don’t care about exceptions to the rule where someone has a medical issue or if water was limited in high school, your a big person now). All of a sudden humans forgot to drink fluids?
Bullshit.
It’s just yet another scam the drink makers have perpetrated to get people to buy the various liquid products they sell.
Same, but skin hydration / moisturizing. That’s 300,000 years of human history without Aveeno. The skincare industry is a scam to sell product, and our skin works fine if you mostly leave it alone.
Your correct most beauty and skin care products are a scam. One of my favs is drown your hair in goop which is dead by the time it leaves the folicle.
People have been living longer and longer. If you want the same life span as our ancestors, then follow their diet.
One would think that all the medical breakthroughs would be what lengthens life. But that’s just me. Water is all dependent on whether it’s there or not. If it is, we will drink.
I’m sorry, what?
Can you expound please. Your input not clear.
You don’t need more protein, you need more fiber.
I don’t think humans deserve pets.
I always thought dogs need their human, as much as the human needs their dog. It’s a co-dependance, a mutual coping mechanism.
I’ve considered that it’s likely not ethical to have pets, but dogs at least have been bred over thousands of years to the point that they’ve become dependent on us.
It’s all our fault.
It is, but after “inheriting” two dogs (from my wife) and growing crazy attached to them I’m glad I was able to square the ethics. 😆
The stock market is a scam, value has become meaningless, and capitalism is a slow march to societal breakdown and revolution.
Lemmy is as much of a cesspool as Twitter, but left-tinted.
I have to upvote for being one of the few giving a good answer to the prompt, regardless of my lack of agreement.
Ah yes, “leftist” Lemmy where neopronouns are trolling, men are the most repressed and Rowling said nothing wrong. Sometimes I really hate this place…
I love Pineapple Pizza
I hope you mean chunks of pineapple on top of a pineapple sauce that is on top of either a pineapple slice, or (if you’re a wimp) a dough made with both pureed pineapples and pineapple juice
Because otherwise, it ain’t a real pineapple pizza, it’s just a pizza with pineapple on it, and that is for posers.
Real pineapple pizza for life, yo!
Addendum: the only wrong topping on a pizza is the one you personally don’t like.
I passionately agree
If it wasn’t for American gun owners, the fascists would have already destroyed us.
I think education should be demanding, so much so that we should all be fine with kids failing at it instead of blaming the school for it. I think grades should only and honestly reflect the level of understanding of each student on whatever they are supposed to be learning, not make them feel good about themselves.
The school should not be there to make the student feel ‘good’ or ‘understood’ (that’s the family’s job). School main purpose should be to make them smarter, which is something that demands practice and efforts, like anything.
Making them smarter means making them better equipped to deal with the real world, that is not a fairy tale kingdom filled with nice people and magical animals that will make them feel welcome and where they lived happily ever after.
Instead of lying to those kids, the school should help them prepare to become an adult person able to face a not-perfect world with a not perfect population, and teach them how to use their effing brains to solve any of the many problems they will face in their life (personal as well as professional)—and for that making them study their lessons, aka memorize stuff (even stupid shit one will never use again) and having to do their stupid homework, and get a failing grade when they don’t, is still the best and the simplest way to develop.
Kids that are being told they’re amazing perfect little creatures (they’re not), and that they should never have to break a sweat in school (they should) are being lied to. Even more sadly for them, compared to those other kids that are still encouraged to face that they’re aren’t perfect angels and that they should put in the work, every single day, all year long, they’re the ones being screwed up. Big.
Feel free to downvote as much as you want.
Aggresive leftifts confirm the right wing bias, creating an escalating dynamic.
The horseshoe theory seems to hold. The extremes of both political sides have more in common with eachother than with the people on the middle.
Yes extremists on both sides can be truly awful. Plus some people are just aggressive, it’s nasty to deal with and really aggravated things
some people are just aggressive
I’m starting to think that sadly they (were forced to?) carry more than they should
Being feminine often leads to better treatment in life. For example, the way I was treated during my military conscription was very different from how my peers were treated.
Being femine or just being attractive? Because the halo-effect definitely is real. As Pet Shop Boys said: you don’t need to be beautiful but it helps.
The mismanagement of housing in the West is an insurmountable failure that cannot be recovered from. American workers can never become competitive, and birth rate decline is a terminal cancer with no cure. The cost of living is artificial but there is no way to reset the suicide switch that is the atrocity of housing mismanagement in most Western countries.
Legislation.
Economic collapse.
As someone who’s slightly center-right, a significant number of my opinions are unpopular on this platform. But setting politics and social issues aside, I’d say the nuclear bomb of my unpopular opinions is my belief in determinism - and, by extension, my claim that free will is an illusion.
By that, I mean the idea that you could have done otherwise in a given situation is false. If we had a time machine and could replay a moment exactly as it was, you’d make the same choice every single time. Whatever caused you to make that decision the first time would cause you to do it again - without exception.
A related belief of mine is that the sense of self is also an illusion. To me, these are two sides of the same coin. By “self,” I mean the feeling that there’s a subject behind your face, looking out at the world. But that’s just brain chemistry. There’s no point in the brain where it all comes together - no central “you” making decisions. That’s why there’s no free will either - because there’s nothing making the decisions. They’re simply being made.
The illusion comes from the fact of consciousness. The fact of subjective experience. It feels like something to be you, from the inside. There’s qualia to your existence.
I’m sorry to say, but I find that thinking really scary!
Can’t it be used as an excuse everything? It wasn’t me it was everything that others did before. Oh, and there’s no me. There’s no you either! So don’t say that I hurt you, as that’s impossible!
Well, it does remove the justification for blame - there’s no one to blame - but it doesn’t excuse bad behavior. If someone hits another person and says, “I couldn’t help myself, I have no free will,” then while that statement may be factually correct, it still signals how they’re likely to behave in the future. So jailing them is reasonable - not as punishment, but to protect others.
It’s similar to when a bear wanders into a residential area and attacks someone. We don’t shoot the bear because we think it’s evil - it’s just a bear. We do it to protect innocent people.
Laws do work as a deterrent. Knowing that actions have consequences affects how people behave. Retroactively, you could argue it’s not fair to jail someone who couldn’t have acted differently, but if people catch on that there are no real consequences - that we’re just bluffing - then more people will start breaking those laws. That’s why we need to follow through with those “threats,” even if, philosophically, it doesn’t fully make sense.
Knowing that actions have consequences affects how people behave.
How? People are automatons programmed by laws? How are the laws made?
If you know that driving over a certain speed limit will increase your chance of getting a ticket, then you’re less likely to do so.
You can’t because you’ve no free will. Regardless of the law, the speed you’ll drive is the speed you’ll drive, no?
You’re thinking of a fatalistic universe, where the future is predetermined, rather than a deterministic one, where every action follows from a prior cause. It’s not that you choose to follow the speed limit out of free will - you simply don’t want to get into trouble, so you’re compelled to obey it. But even that want isn’t something you chose.
I figured out recently from Lemmy discussions that people have different concepts of what free will means. Humorously, one of them operates within a deterministic mindset, while the other points out the determinism.
Best analogy that I can think of at the moment is the difference between a drill press and a 4-axis CNC mill. The drill press has one degree of freedom, down and up. It’s locked in. The mill has 4 degrees of freedom, and it can run code that makes its behavior highly complex. For some people, that’s good enough: The mill has free will while the drill press does not.
The view of free will that recognizes determinism says that humans have innumerable degrees of freedom, so our behavior looks complex, but our conscious choice is just the various competing influences shaking out.
you simply don’t want to get into trouble
Why’s that?
The speed you’ll drive is the product of innumerable in-born and external influences (which include past experience). Laws would be useless if people had free will, actually. They work because of a deterrent effect; getting pulled over paying fines, and maybe going to jail feels bad. It’s the threat of feeling bad that makes laws an effective incentive, and we can’t change that emotional response.
If humans had free will, though, we could decide how we emotionally react to anything. We could decide to flip a switch in our minds so that jail is emotionally fulfilling and preferable to freedom. Then there’d be no way to punish anybody, and thus we could have no laws.
If humans had free will, though, we could decide how we emotionally react to anything. We could decide to flip a switch in our minds
Exactly! ❤️ That’s the trap that sadly keeps a person locked in his mind. The slave’s curse. And I’m sorry it’s happening to you. I’ve been there before, as well.
Know that you are more than the sum of your environment and history, good or bad. You can decide to do something, just because you like doing it. You might not even remember what you like doing. It can take a while to find out, but you’ll find it. And from there it will grow.
You’re not trapped, just hurt. 🌸
