I miss slapstick comic strips!
JapaneseJudas
joined 1 month ago
Bump for red rising
I'm partial to Charles Darwin with this banger from 1861
But I am very poorly today and very stupid and I hate everybody and everything. One lives only to make blunders.
To this day I hear "Diarrhea Jane" instead of "Diary of Jane"
I think this is basically true. Though it's an interesting topic Here is an interesting bit of research
Barked beans
Early and often. I used to be one of those people who would just never admit if I'm wrong, grew up with them for sure. Learned it's WAY less stressful to just admit the moment you realize you're wrong.
That said, I use devils advocating to figure out what my actual opinions are, so I will argue positions I'm not 100% sure of pretty adamantly. Always seems to throw people when we debate for 20 minutes, me passionately defending my stance and then at the end I'm like "huh, yep. You right." Most people think I'm fucking with them or something and keep trying to argue and I'm just like "yep, 100% agree".
True, but from what I've read, virtually all mosquitoes don't bite people. You can wipe out the 1% or less of the ones that do without significant environmental impact since the things that eat mosquitoes aren't choosy about which ones so you really are just reducing their available food by like 1%, and even some of that will probably be backfilled by other species of mosquitoes since the ones that bite people don't only bite people.
Different take: be afraid of death. When I'm driving I'm afraid of crashing into the other cars. I don't obsess over it, but a healthy fear is a good thing. Fear is not intrinsically bad, and some things are scary and that's okay as long as that fear doesn't rule you
Intent SHOULD matter most here. Generally that's true. I've also seen some folks go apeshit on people for using the wrong terms while the person speaking was actively trying to use the correct terms but just isn't up-to-date. People of all groups, nationalities, genders etc can be dickheads, even when I agree with them broadly politically