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HenchmanNumber3 ,

To be fair, that’s a false dilemma. Caring about Stonehenge doesn’t have to be compared to caring about fossil fuel reform. You can care about both or neither to any degree and they can be completely unrelated.

HenchmanNumber3 ,

I will not be fair, the publication isn’t. Why should I?

Because arguing dishonestly makes you look irrational and does their propaganda work for them.

but you are more likely to try to distance yourself from fossil fuel reform movements, and that’s all they need you to do to be successful.

Not really. This isn’t an effective form of protest or reform. Stunts like this allow articles like this to be written in the first place, but the stunts, even if written of with the highest of praise, are useless. Effective action would involve changing the minds of those who profit from fossil fuels the most and making it unprofitable for them to continue. You don’t need to convince people who care about world heritage sites or famous artwork. You need to convince the profiteers of industry and that won’t come from an appeal to emotion but from a threat to their financial well-being.

HenchmanNumber3 ,

It’s also possible to be a person who genuinely cares about classic art and the environment already. And it’s also possible to be a poor person with little to no power to influence the fossil fuel industry. Chiding people for not having the privilege of free time and minimal obligations to protest isn’t very productive. Again, change needs to happen at the top and it’s not going to be achieved through appeals to emotion or coercion via symbolic or actual threats to famous art or sites.

HenchmanNumber3 ,

Find a student at a university whose student accounts get access to jstor.

When you're writing a song, how do you know it isn't just a song you've heard before but don't recognise?

I’m currently in the process of writing a song. I’ve got a tune and I’m putting the lyrics together but I’m always concerned that any tune I think of might just be another song I’ve heard somewhere randomly that I don’t remember hearing....

HenchmanNumber3 ,

It might be similar to a song you’ve heard but you’re misremembering the notes of the existing song.

Maybe try playing it for an app that recognizes the song that’s playing and then listen to any songs it guesses might be the song.

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    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    Famous sportsballer ages like every else. News at 11.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    The idea that random people pick a select few musicians to be inducted is just more artificial scarcity bullshit. It’s not a legitimate institution if it can’t recognize more people to give a wider breadth of exposure to the legacy of rock n roll. By inducted some, they pretend they have the authority to determine the legacy of rock n roll, but their snubs say more about their deficiencies than about those they snub.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    It’s still not stealing. It’s plagiarism or fraud or any number of other terms, but stealing necessarily requires the deprivation of a limited, rivalrous thing, like money or property. You can’t steal fame or exposure or credit, except poetically. And by that point, the word becomes so watered down that it’s meaningless. You might as well say I’m stealing your life seconds at a time by writing this extra sentence.

    The purpose of using the term stealing here is only to borrow the negative moral connotations of the term, but it doesn’t communicate clearly what exactly is happening.

    It’s perfectly valid to say you consider it morally equivalent with theft, but it’s not stealing.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    This is less of an issue if you judge everything that isn’t first hand from a known friend or family member as suspect or at least just a waste of time. Facebook used to be a place to talk to people you knew in the real world. You could ignore anything they reposted and still engage with the actual examples of their own experiences that they posted. But now it’s so flooded with ads and listicles and clickbait and video clips that it’s not even worth trying to keep up with the people you actually know.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    The original meanings of words change over time with usage. Though they have some overlap and some differences (Brazilians are considered Latino but not Hispanic and Spaniards are considered Hispanic but not Latino), the term Latino is generally replacing previous usage of Hispanic, though Latino is likely used more in urban and coastal regions of the US and Hispanic is likely used more in rural and landlocked regions. The usage of either term won’t always be accurate and it will be an exonym used for people who don’t call themselves by that term.

    You’re free to say, “I don’t identify as Latino. I’m Mexican.” Or “I’m Mexican American.” if you’re in the US. There will be surveys and polls and forms that won’t have Mexican as a choice though since they use pan-ethnic or continental terms for wide groups of people for categorization purposes. Similar to the fact that white isn’t an ethnicity or a scientific taxonomy. It’s an arbitrary designation with historical, social and political baggage.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    I’d recommend taking some sociology, anthropology, and political science courses in college if you’d like to delve deeper into these topics. There’s a lot of scholarship out there on these issues to explore.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    I hated it when older people said this to me, so you probably won’t appreciate my perspective now, but you have a vast amount of life ahead of you with a lot more information you can encounter that will contradict what you think you know for certain right now. And you’ll encounter newer information after that that will contradict the previous new truths you felt so enlightened to recognize. You don’t have to listen to me at all of course, but if you think you already know what you believe, you don’t need to make a post here to discuss it. If you’re not open to the thoughts of others, I wouldn’t recommend wasting your time soliciting them. If you’re just looking for affirmations of your pre-existing perspectives, a chatbot might be a better outlet.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    The law’s section that bans books depicting sex acts from school libraries includes an exception for religious texts, like the Christian Bible.

    What a coincidence! My deeply held religious beliefs in a new religion I just made up holds all LGBTQ+ books as sacred religious texts…

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    I am deeply interested in the thoughts of billionaires who benefit from the incomparably greater amount of work other people perform to provide them with obscene amounts of wealth so they can find a comfortable balance between exploiting workers and flying in dick rockets for fun.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    If drug use while pregnant is child endangerment, then society should be indicted whenever a woman is denied all the prenatal care necessary to deliver a healthy baby regardless of her income or wealth, otherwise we’d be prosecuting people for being poor. Oh wait, we already do that in other scenarios! My bad. Carry on!

    Is there a name for downplaying your suffering because other people have bigger problems?

    I am looking for a term to describe the line of thinking that goes something like “I hate my work, I am sick all the time, I am depressed, I can’t find happiness. But I should be happy. Those problems don’t matter. All my problems are so insignificant, there are little. They’re just some stupid first world problems. I...

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    If you have to coin a phrase for it, I’d say something like comparative minimization rationalization.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    I sincerely appreciate that WSJ thinks their propaganda is so important that I’d want to pay to read it.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    Never try to do anything good because bad might inadvertently result from the action.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    This sounds like a walkaway hashtag comment.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    The Superman problem. Main sources of conflict tend to involve depowering, fighting another godlike, or threatening people they care about. Over and over again.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    It’s possible that they thought the first one didn’t post and kept trying. Sometimes you get a timeout error and return to the editable text with the post button again but the post already went through.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    You don’t have to like her music, but you have to respect her ability to sell her image and music.

    Actually this is a point of conflict for some of her fans. Some of my friends are swifties and they hate consumerism and high concert prices and collectibles and marketing that incentivize FOMO to spend more money. They jokingly call her their capitalist queen.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    I’m not saying I disagree with your position, but being a Trump supporter or anti-choice is a choice, whereas being LGBTQ isn’t, so the comparison isn’t of equal demographic descriptors.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    Did you respond to the wrong comment? If not, you read a lot into what little I said and much I wouldn’t have said, had I said more.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    The mom already caught a charge for it.

    HenchmanNumber3 ,

    even their title is creepy, Human Resources

    The only appropriate use of the term is when your cat is talking about you to other cats…

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