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little bit of advice: if you can't tell if a post online is a joke, you should always assume that it is not a joke and the op is either an idiot with an inflated ego or is lying on purpose for malicious reasons. in both cases the best course of action is to aggressively correct them and insult them, maybe even threaten to kill them

the buddha taught this

often have interactions where i say something, somebody gets like mildly hostile and aggrieved, i reply with clarification, and they respond with 'okay?' or something similar. and its like, well okay, i think what's breaking down here is i was trying to communicate an idea and you wanted me to reply with something that you could get mad at. and i dont think im the one in the wrong

like ig they are looking for replies to be either starting shit with them or to be just echoing validation. but i am either asking a question to understand or commenting clarification to communicate in greater detail like, an actual idea about the subject at hand

among all the other reasons one might hope for a glorious posthuman future (end of suffering and injustice, the opportunity to expand our knowledge and wisdom beyond all previous boundaries, cat ears, etc) you do gotta admit that given a hundred million years, it's at least plausible that some future entity with a plausible claim to "being (or having-been) acclaimed singer-songwriter Taylor Swift" will at some point date a woman

I need all the hyperlexic statistical outliers on tumblr to look up what’s meant by low literacy, it means like, can’t read the notice from the electric company that says they’re cutting you off. Can’t read your doctor’s instructions on how to treat yourself at home. It means “school system failed you so badly that it might kill you”, if you’re reading simple fiction for fun you are already so far out of the window of maximum concern

But like genuinely. "humans have an innate need for spirituality" should be pretty transparently a reactionary opinion. It's simply not true and equates something that some people get benefit from with it being a fundamental aspect of being human (and one that is missing it most people today). You gonna start arguing "children *need* fathers or they grow up broken" next?