You go to lemm.ee, feddit.uk, lemmy.ca or what ever instance you wish to join and create an account there. Just like you went to lemmy.world and joined that one.

Possibly yes but that doesn’t help if one is morbidly afraid of approaching women for example.

However my point was that it’s a bit pointless to ask why would someone become something when by definition it’s involuntary. It’s like asking why would anyone be under 6ft tall.

I bought a pick-up truck because I’ve wanted one ever since I was a kid and one day I just realized I’m an adult with money and I can buy whatever I want.

Well I started my own business a few years later so it turned out to be quite useful purchase in the end anyway

Incel = involuntary celibate

You become one by not being able to find a life partner or even a one night stand. Not something I’d really blame the individual for.

If you mean that the average person doesn’t exist in real life then you’re correct, but to claim that what is statistically average cannot be determined, then that’s just a bunch of nonsense.

Depends what one means by intelligence.

It’s not what you know / think that’s important to me. It’s how you think.

If my memory serves, in the early days of free online porn the step-prefix wasn’t generally used. I can dimly remember the time it started appearing all over and I always suspected it was because implying it was actual incest was a bit too taboo so they modified the titles into step-porn so that it’s not as provocative. Maybe advertisers had something to do with it, who knows. Or maybe it’s because they realized that people find it easier to fantasize about step-siblings rather than biological ones.

We’ll see if this is going to be controversial or not but isn’t the entire “step” -part of it there only to give people plausible deniability about incest accusations? It’s incest these people are turned on by. To my knowledge having sex with your step-anything isn’t incest because you two aren’t related.

Either way, I think that most people who like watching mom-son, brother-sister, dad-daughter etc. porn usually aren’t sexually drawn towards their own family. They just like the idea of sex between family members in general but not their own.

Dad buying their underage daughter a dildo sounds like a good way to get canceled. Or worse.

I don’t think it’s a bad idea per-se but I can imagine a ton of ways how that could backfire.

EDIT: Yeah I misread that

I don’t believe in free will or the self. To me, there’s effectively no-one for me to be judgemental of. Wether it be littering, racism or violence, these people didn’t choose to act this way, they just do and couldn’t have done otherwise. If I was them, I’d be doing the exact same thing.

I’m just as non-accepting of their behaviour as everybody else. In my case there’s just little to none negative emotions involved in it. Me getting angry about someone littering, to me, is the same as getting angry at the weather.

And yes, I agree. If I were a smoker I wouldn’t want to throw cigarette butts in the ground either for the same reason you just mentioned. My point was that I have theory of mind for such people. I can imagine how someone could naively imagine there’s no harm to it. This just no longer holds true when we’re talking about trash that’s bigger; I can’t imagine what they could be thinking.

I asked my North Korean friend how things are back at home.

He said he can’t complain.

That would be the slipperiest of the slopes. Anyone could get away with murder by just claiming the person was a nazi. Especially in this day and age it’s really difficult to find actual nazies. The supply is incredibly low compared to the demand which leads to people like Elon Musk being labeled as one which is absolutely ridiculous thing to say.

I can’t name a single person—neither in my personal life nor any public figure—that I truly hate.

About five years ago, I started to really get into meditating and observing what my mind is doing. The person who got me into it was Sam Harris, and he’s also the one who planted the ideas of no self and no free will into my mind. Despite all the arguments I’ve heard to the contrary, no one has managed to convince me out of this belief. Because of that, hating a person is now almost entirely incompatible with my worldview, and I’m basically incapable of feeling hate anymore.

That doesn’t mean I don’t dislike anyone, because I do. But I dislike them in the same way I dislike rainy days or paying bills. I don’t act as if it’s someone’s fault that it’s raining outside. I don’t blame the person for who they are; they couldn’t have been otherwise.

It’s not the winter wonderland many foreigners think it is, unless you go to Lapland. Most of the winter is just wet, cold, dark, slippery, and absolutely miserable. It’s dark when you leave for work and it’s dark when you get back home.

Went to a job interview for a position I didn’t want. It was the most honest interview I’ve ever given and surprisingly didn’t get the place. Ended up starting my own business instead and while it’s too early to tell wether it’s going to be succesfull or not, I’m still glad I tried. Had I got that job I wouldn’t have.

I live in Finland. Wouldn’t mind a less wintery climate but not to the point of willing to move elsewhere.

I’d say that when the viewer can tell it’s tilted on purpose. Otherwise it’ll just look unprofessional.

The only example I can think of is this one photo I saw which was on a 45 degree angle so that the shadow in the middle of it was straight. It was obvious why it was tilted.

…and avoid the ones from .ml instances. There’s usually a non-ml equivalent for almost every community.

These sorts of long-term questions and concerns are not things shareholders and investors think or care about.

Well that’s not true at all. The vast majority of investors are on it for the long term.

Remember when crypto replaced all the banks?

No, I actually don’t remember that. When did this happen?