I'm engaged in what B F Skinner called operant conditioning. It's such a simple psychological effect, it works on all manner of animals. When an animal does something you don't want, you do something the animal doesn't want. Then the animal does it less. When someone platforms the idea that we're all supposed to hate "sociopaths", I create a pointless, annoying, and frustrating argument that pisses everyone off. Then people do it less. It doesn't matter if I change anyone's beliefs, this technique changes habits.
Good point. I'm going to release Mittens onto the street and get a brand new bunny rabbit instead.
You ever hear about how the Mafia uses pigs to dispose of bodies? It's cause they eat them up, bones and all. Pigs love meat.
It doesn't mean they should have meat. Same goes for humans.
Yeah! Nobody should be making decisions for a helpless animal over what diet they think is acceptable. Anyone who kills innocent cows over their belief in meat eating should be locked up.
Not the evil cows, though. They know what they did.
This. This exactly. I'm very poor so I can't always afford to buy food for myself or my dog. So when times are tough, I kidnap the neighbours' children and feed them to Fido. I'm not going to starve my dog, that's animal abuse.
Hey it's the pedo who takes naked pictures of his kids. Ew!
I'm willing to brand myself as a sociopath if it gets people to treat others with respect. I'm not going to abandon my fellow neurodivergents for self-preservation. We're in this together.
They'll get used to it if it's the only way, or they'll find a workaround, like a sensible railway network. Big gas taxes would create a big opportunity for private industry to build railways. Where's the invisible hand of the free market? I'll tell you where it is, it's scratching its own bum out of boredom because the government won't regulate externalities and make companies responsible for their own decisions.
We have to do it all overnight to make up for it. Otherwise, Canadians are going to be sipping pina colada on the Manitoba beaches while the rest of the world burns.
We had small towns before the automobile. Parts were delivered by train or wagon. Our society got used to having instant access to remote goods because of this demand for razor-thin margins and constant work. Well, that's not how the human race spent the last hundred thousand years, and I don't think it's how humans are meant to spend life at all. It's too much and it's killing the planet. 150 years ago, people took their time. Stuff took as long as it took. If your equipment broke, you made a new part yourself or you made do without. And you got stuff that was sturdy, and that wouldn't break all the time. None of this plastic garbage planned obsolescence overengineered nonsense. Would it be such a bad thing if life slowed down a little? Because this planet can't afford us all to keep going as fast as cars have gotten us used to.
Yap yap yap. You vegans are so annoying. There's nothing wrong with eating the neighbourhood cats, and you can shove your vegan morals and your cultlike demand for conformity up your ass.
Okay, but you have to know about plant-based steaks and vegan butter. And of course you know about vegan garlic and vegan potato, because all garlic and potato is vegan. What's the extra cost of a vegan steak compared to an animal steak in your area? In mine it's around 3 dollars.
Ah, so you're saying you don't like it, but you find it an acceptable sacrifice to make in exchange for yummy food?
Oh great, another annoying vegan here to tell me that killing animals for food is wrong
You're correct, sociopathy is a social construct defined by use. And I'm using it to refer to autistic people and people with other sociopathies, in a blatantly transparent attempt to manipulate the general public into having some sympathy for those who have been historically branded with this slur.
It sounds like you aren't very assured of the validity of your sources in backing up your claims. If you don't believe in your own sources, why are you so confident in your opinions?
https://medium.com/@lillieefranks/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-psychopath-4992690a0044
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/signs-sociopath
Now, with the source game out of the way - you cheated. You said sociopathy is actually a different disorder. I specifically told you not to cheat like that. You're arguing for garbage medicine. You're saying sociopathy is a real and very important diagnosis, and not just a Greek buzzword, and your source is a completely different entry in the DSM. You're a pseudoscientist.
Yeah! Someone could be vegetarian for lots of sensible reasons, like religion or fad diets. But veganism is based on the idea that slavery is wrong, which makes it bad.
Einstein said that common sense is the sum of prejudices acquired by the average person by age 18. Religions survive because of common sense. Because of biases taught to children and taken as fact because of their ubiquity. Anything based on common sense is a religion. If veganism is based on common sense, then veganism is no different from any other cult. I'll never agree with anything based on common sense.
I have a live and let live attitude to veganism vs carnism. No living being should be forced to be a vegan, no living being should be forced to be a carnist, and no living being should be forced to be a hamburger. Can't we just end all the aggression and live peacefully?
How to add Shrek to Deadlock
In this guide I will tell you how to put absolutely any video instead of an intro or menu background...
Based.
(I will explain more about the drama surrounding Flying Squid if people don't already know about it)
/c/soulism is removed from lemmy.blahaj.zone
The community /c/[email protected] was removed by the instance admins two weeks ago. The community contained only memes and discussion of the ideas of soulism. There were no attacks against anyone. Here is the admin's explanation of the situation:
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https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/9875313
Transcript:
ADA: The post you linked to by MindTraveller is an active misrepresentation of events by them
Traveller and I are not “in agreement” about much of anything. Their politics are very far removed from mine
This is the text of the message I sent advising that I was shutting the group down.
> After consideration, I’ve decided that non voters does not really fit the stated goals of blahaj zone. Your motives for creating it seem based on a personal vendetta, and whilst your views are genuine, nothing constructive comes from the community. All it does is create division, because its sole purpose is to target others, without really focusing on any progressive ideas or discussion of its own.
> At the moment, it’s causing more harm than good to the overall community.
> I’ll leave the community open, so that if you choose to set the community up on another instance, you will have the opportunity to direct them to the new location.
Given the post which you linked, (which I had not seen until now) I will be removing Traveller and the new community, because once more, the goal appears to be to create division
The goal of blahaj zone is not political. The goal is to allow trans people to have a space where they can exist on their own terms, without having to pretend to be someone they’re not. My own political views are closer to Links/LibertyHub than nonvoters or its ilk. Yet as long as there is no bigotry or gatekeeping, then trans people with politics at odds with my own are welcome. It’s why we have an “armed queers” community, despite my own strong distaste for gun culture.
It is communities/posters that exist primary to create division, without adding anything positive back, that have no place here.
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This comment contains only one side of the discussion I had with Ada about Non-Voters and Soulism, here is the full context (top is newest, bottom is oldest):
Transcript:
ADA: Hey there. After consideration, I’ve decided that non voters does not really fit the stated goals of blahaj zone. Your motives for creating it seem based on a personal vendetta, and whilst your views are genuine, nothing constructive comes from the community. All it does is create division, because its sole purpose is to target others, without really focusing on any progressive ideas or discussion of its own.
At the moment, it’s causing more harm than good to the overall community.
I’ll leave the community open, so that if you choose to set the community up on another instance, you will have the opportunity to direct them to the new location.
MINDTRAVELLER: Thanks for letting me know. I don’t mind if nonvoters is gone. It served its purpose. The guy who was banning trans people and calling us liberals for not wanting to die is no longer in power. The Blahaj community is no longer divided. We achieved unity. And sure, some people are whining that they have to get along with others now, but the tide is against them. I’ll see if there’s a way to lock the community and prevent new posts. I want to keep the most recent post visible so in two months when the transphobes start whining about Kamala I can link that post and tell them “called it.”
MINDTRAVELLER: There we go, all locked up. No new posts or comments.
MINDTRAVELLER: Also, your mention of constructive politics gave me an idea. I want to create a soulist community on Blahaj. Something like https://www.reddit.com/r/Soulism101/. That place has been a ghost town since the APIcalypse, but the soulist movement has been going strong on Discord. It should have a place on Lemmy too. Plus, it would dramatically reduce the number of people mischaracterising soulism on the fediverse. The only attacks shall be against capitalism, the cisheteropatriarchy, the state, and reality.
ADA: That sounds like a much better fit!
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Non-Voters was completely locked up, and I made a post explaining the decision to close it, which both Ada and I agreed on, as you can see in this message log. In Ada's later public comment, she says the post was a misrepresentation of events. She said that she and I did not agree. However we can clearly see in this chatlog that when Ada told me the community was closing, I agreed to close it. And when I asked to open a new community not focused on any form of criticism of others users, she agreed too. If I had not agreed to do as Ada said and close the community, there would not be a post from me announcing the community's closure. So the idea that Ada and I did not agree to close the community is nonsense.
At the time that /c/soulism was removed from lemmy.blahaj.zone, I had in fact already been unbanned from /c/libertyhub by the community's mods. Ada cites division as the reason for the removal, but there was no division at this time, except between some Liberty Hub users and their own mods. Here is the log:
Transcript:
MINDTRAVELLER: Hi, I’d like to appeal my ban on Liberty Hub. I never broke the rules, I only complained about LOC’s overly strict moderation style. I was banned with the reason “off topic”, which isn’t a rule.
KITTENZRULZ123: I unbanned you however know that you have broken the rules, if you make me regret this act of leniency I will reban you.
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At this time, the division between Non-Voters, myself, Liberty Hub, kittenzrulz, and linkopenschest had been resolved. Non-Voters had never been a community specifically designed to target Liberty Hub, and in fact linkopenschest and kittenzrulz both had posts on the community that engaged with the concept in good faith, and which I did not remove. They were never banned from the community, and they decided to reverse my ban from the community. So the three of us had been engaged in a good-faith disagreement from the start, minus one impulsive ban that was reversed, and we had already set our differences aside. I became an outright ally of Liberty Hub when they decided to relax their excessive bans, and they were exploring the possibility of treating me the same way.
Here is where I diverge from pure fact to analysis and speculation: Since division still existed between the users of Liberty Hub and the mod team, and the users perceived Ada as an ally of the mod team and of myself (because I was cooperating with everything Ada told me and getting along well with the LH mods), Ada panicked. The fact that I was getting along with everyone and making compromises was causing the conspiracy theorists to target Ada. So Ada manufactured a drama between her and myself to make it clear that she did not approve of me, even if I was agreeing to do everything she told me. The unity, compromise, and reconciliation was a bad look for Ada in the eyes of the tinfoil hat people. Ada chose to regain the tinfoil hats' favour by inventing a fake disagreement between herself and me. That's the reason /c/soulism was removed, despite hosting zero offensive content and never even having one of its posts or comments reported by anyone. Ada needed to conjure up a fight from nowhere to look good to the conspiracy people.
Jesus Christ didn't need no Y chromosome to be a man and neither does any other proud Christian man!
c/[email protected] is full of transphobic trolls
The community c/[email protected] states in the sidebar it's a community for leftists and post leftists, but if you actually look at the posts the mods are making, it's almost nothing but trolling and telling people not to vote in the general election.
This rhetoric is especially dangerous to trans people, who this instance is supposed to be a safe space for, and West Bank Palestinians. If the USA elects a fascist president, there is guaranteed to be multiple genocides of society's most vulnerable groups, in addition to what the US is already doing in Gaza.
The mods on Liberty Hub openly troll their users and ban people for advocating left wing or harm reducing positions. The only action that is allowed on the sub is advocating political inaction in the face of genocide, taking a centrist position with regards to open fascism.
This community has absolutely no place on Blahaj Zone and should be removed by the admins.