Hard to determine with what we know. We haven’t met any other intelligent species which suggests we’ve passed the filter. Yet, making that conclusion before knowing there are no others to meet is too presumptuous. But, if I were to guess, I’d think the filter is adaptability.

We’re superior to animals for being able to use tools, live in radically different climates, and shape every spot on earth into a livable climate. Even on Mars, the moon, and space. How else would a species venture through space if they can’t adapt?

That might be too general a concept for the question though.

Every day I wake up I gamble if I’ll enjoy it or not.

The best way to deal with imposter syndrome is to remember what got you here. All the things you do and did that other people can’t or aren’t willing to do.

I know a girl who just left her boyfriend because he didn’t show affection, didn’t try on dates, and just stopped trying altogether. Imagine the average person, then 50% of them being worse than that. Surely we can convince ourselves we’re above average if only slightly.

Wasn’t scared about microplastics before this headline so it’s effective.

has been bombarded with reactions (both good and bad)

Are articles just school essays with a minimum word count?

When HOA Karens actually move up in the world only to fuck it up for a larger area.

Because nobody likes self aggrandizement. The perception that so many people only do it to make themselves appear to be better people because of their morally superior choice is often a vile taste to anyone who hasn’t made that same choice.

We all know eating meat is bad and for the many reasons for it. What we don’t want to hear is that someone made the switch and that their bleeding heart simply couldnt take it anymore.

I eat beyond meat and I do my best to transition, yet, I’d never say that for the purpose of making myself seem like a better person. Vegans typically do.

Allowed to beat them? Yes. Will they have a dozen lawyers from the most expensive firm they can find? Also yes.

Corporations always have an extensive legal team which is why lawsuits rarely work against the wealthy.

Given you can sue for anything, yes. As to if you would win? I am sadly not a lawyer.

Then cut their own funding because nobody gets a free ride, not even the kids.

Proceeds to write over everyone else’s signature

I’m now imagining him getting bottles of concentrated piss and pouring it off the deck in the middle of the night to deter predators.

That’s wild because twice now I’ve said to you that I feel bad for her and it sucks but it’s a distraction from the horrors quite literally from the other side of the border. I am not going to morun a paper cut in front of someone missing their leg. I am not going to stop and express great loss to someone who survived their attack in front of someone who lost loved ones to the same kind of attack.

The people who are overly concerned about this woman are the ones trying to use her story as a smokescreen against the atrocities their side have committed. The “Hamas did a bad thing!! Don’t pay attention to the IDF doing the same thing exponentially more times! Listen to how bad her story is!”

The dead can’t speak. They can’t relive their trauma because they’re gone. Extinguished. Stop missing the forest for the trees and start looking at the broader context. But you know, you’re right, you’ve helped me realize maybe I don’t give a shit about her story because she’s choosing to use that story as propaganda. Thanks, Aragorn. Fuck that woman and her problems. I choose to believe that only the inhumane would placate to these small stories while the victims of true abuse have no voice. Buried under the rubble of their homes, losing their lives wishing for nothing more than to just live a little longer.

If there is even a glimmer of humanity left it is not with the IDF. It is not with Israel. And it most certainly is not with the people who try to defend them. There is no middle ground to this conflict, my friend. You are either a monster or are fighting them.

Sure do, that’s why my first comment said it was sad and sucks for her but knowing there are at least a dozen more Palestinian women who were also raped, whose names will never be known to the world, who didn’t get to go on television and talk about it, who were killed afterwards as they likely begged for their lives, who were then rolled into a fucking mass grave. It makes it really, really hard to care about this woman and her problems.

I’m not going to let her unfortunate situation overshadow the extreme brutality happening to the Palestinians. Not any longer.

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Shut the fuck up. How many Palestinians have been raped? Reporters killed? Children bombed? Starved? Mutilated the the IDF? The shit I’d tell you to do would get me banned off this instance but make no mistake I have zero sympathy for you and the fucking monsters you suckle to cock of. You’re beyond pathetic.

Yeah it’s almost like there’s a list of points that all culminate into the broader accusation. You didn’t debunk shit. You didn’t link shit. You made a claim, cited fuck all, and expected me to go “Oh okay, you’re right!”. My position is based off the behavior of Israel as it’s being reported. Yours is based off “some articles I read said so”. Provide something worth locking in on or fuck off.

Yeah you’re just trying to shoo away the fact Israel funded a terrorist group as a scapegoat for a genocide. Didn’t think it was a stretch.

Fuck me, I bet you believe Israel earnestly is trying to hit Hamas bases under every hospital and school. Or maybe that all 13,000 children they’ve killed were actually Hamas leaders.

Without Hamas, they have no scapegoat to wipe out Palestine. It’s never black and white, is it?

How do you know [Israel has killed more of their own hostages than Hamas]?

Reports like this, of which I’m sure there’d be more if the IDF didn’t kill the reporters.

Hamas are definitely closer to insurgents but are definitely still terrorists. Yes, pushed there by justifiable reasons, but we shouldn’t become disillusioned. They’re not good guys, but they are still the result of inhumane and brutal treatment.