If you’re doing sets of ten, restart your internal count to zero when you get to five. It’s way easier to get yourself to hit your third rep than your eighth.

Treefiddy

The thing nobody wants to acknowledge and they are actively building more coal plants. ANYONE building coal plants for generating is a bad thing pretty much full stop.

Absolutely true. Has some of the best quotes ever too.

Fiction~Exquisite Corpse… there’s tons more but I’d recommend these nonfictions first.

Nonfiction~ empire of the summer moon, the gulag archipelago, the blood never dried, bury my heart at wounded knee, bloodlands, mao’s great famin, king Leopolds ghost, alive, the great terror, the rape of nanking, ordinary men and man’s search for meaning.

Blood Meridian

Chippy must be pretty cool.

Same

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy_and_advocacy_of_Dolly_Parton

Nuance is for nerds.

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“Communism in it’s pure form has never existed so any criticisms of communist regimes are invalid” ~ any communist who is confronted by historical atrocities carried out in the name of their economic/political ideals.

Yeah, like I said, you have a lot of living to do. A period of misanthropic negativity is pretty normal. You’ll be okay and the world will feel brighter the more positive experiences/relationships you have. Less internet, more life.

Yeah, you have a lot of living to do. Spend less time on the internet, especially doomy places like Lemmy. The world by and large is a fantastic place where you can build a fulfilling and happy life.

Those necky cunts can catch these hands too

Here’s a recent breakdown of which groups pay what in taxes and what they make roughly per year (Household USA 2023)

Bottom 20% about 1% or negative 30k-ish and below

20–40% about 6% 48k-ish

40–60% about 6% 70k-ish

60–80% about 16% 110k-ish

Top 20% about 70% 250k-ish top 1% being about 27% 580k-ish Top .1% 2M-ish

Being poor means you’re not paying as much or at all into the system. So I guess if your ultimate goal is to contribute as little as possible, sure being poor is a way to do that. But, being poor has plenty of pretty severe negative impacts on your life. Others here have described how taxes work as you make more so I won’t get into that. Long story short, if you’re being poor strictly as a way to “resist” you’re just choosing to have a worse life with less options. Especially in the USA. If you have the intellectual and/or physical ability to be employed, try to be at the highest level/pay as possible. Money doesn’t solve all your problems but it makes most solutions easier to obtain.

They did

So you’re just saying furries are drawn to being a furry because they are mentally ill? Or that many furries are mentally ill on top of being a furry. And the evidence for that is soley based on a single very small study. I’m just not sure the relevance. If you wanna make the argument children shouldn’t be exposed to porn/highly sexualized content, including furry, I think that’s completely reasonable. I don’t know anyone who would argue against that. The only thing making me defensive is the connection you’re making between furries (consenting adults) with pedophiles. The latter absolutely should be burned alive and the former are just kinda weird people.

That article doesn’t really support anything you’re saying or explain what mental illnesses you’d associate with furries. Therianthropy isn’t even a recognized mental disorder. You’re drawing the same link to if someone consumes X media they will likely engage in Y action. You provided a study that talked about historical cases of therianthropy. You didn’t provide anything that showed there is a link or higher likelihood a furry will engage in pedophilia/zoophilia. Aside from the vibe you get. I think engaging with any porn/heavily sexualized material in your early teen years isn’t going to be good for your brain or your expectations of healthy sex as an adult. You’re describing something it seems like you would have to seek out. It’s a caregivers responsibility to make sure a child doesn’t have the ability to view something like that at such a young age.