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presoak

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  • Reading is a kind of trance. A state of modified consciousness as powerful as any drug. And we all know what drugs can do.

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  • Yes, I get the concept of damage. The point is the difference here. Because I'm comparing the derangement of the two. The damage is not really relevant to that. It's the fact that there's derangement that matters.

  • the one where ross says a slur

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  • I am blind to any nuance and humor above a gradeschool level but I expect my opinion to be taken as seriously as anybody else's.

  • the one where ross says a slur

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  • Oh you are so transphobic.

  • the one where ross says a slur

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  • This is an important point.

    But what if the racism etc makes the joke. And it's a funny joke.That makes it ok. Because humor trumps that other stuff.

  • the one where ross says a slur

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  • Well Gen Z is quite young. Children understand trigger-words more, subtle context less so.

  • the one where ross says a slur

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  • It's like we're living in Victorian England now

  • Reading is a kind of trance. A state of modified consciousness as powerful as any drug. And we all know what drugs can do.

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  • And book burning.

  • Reading is a kind of trance. A state of modified consciousness as powerful as any drug. And we all know what drugs can do.

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  • Drugs do damage and that's the difference? Rather broad and speculative.

  • In history we used to see fairies etc. But now we don't. Are we insane?

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  • Lol. Excellent connection.

    There's also the starvation thing. And drugs of course.

    And also children (traditionally weird) and monks (meditation, fasting etc)

  • Reading is a kind of trance. A state of modified consciousness as powerful as any drug. And we all know what drugs can do.

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  • Ya I get that it's addictive but it isn't the drug-effect I'm looking at here. I'm looking at the deranging effects of periodic prolonged intense mental concentration. It's as powerful as any drug.

  • Reading is a kind of trance. A state of modified consciousness as powerful as any drug. And we all know what drugs can do.

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  • Ah. Nuanced.

  • Reading is a kind of trance. A state of modified consciousness as powerful as any drug. And we all know what drugs can do.

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  • I am not referring to addiction. I am referring to the effects of intense, periodic, prolonged mental concentration over years and years. It will warp your perspective as surely as abusing your average recreational drug.

  • In history we used to see fairies etc. But now we don't. Are we insane?

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  • A fetish for moaning about the woes of the neurodivergent. So intense that you begin to see it everywhere

  • Reading is a kind of trance. A state of modified consciousness as powerful as any drug. And we all know what drugs can do.

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  • I don't understand

  • Why is privacy important? Be specific.

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  • Well if you think that there is a foundational right to privacy then it would follow.

  • In history we used to see fairies etc. But now we don't. Are we insane?

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  • No they weren't. You're just leveraging your fetish. Norse has a whole taxonomy. British Isles has a whole big thing. Moderns talking to machine elves even. The world is bigger etc.

  • Who uses MATE in here?

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  • Hey me too. Debian + mate

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    If everybody thinks the same and everybody downvotes everything they disagree with, how does that affect the conversation?

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  • Oh don't be like that. Gimme a serious estimate.

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    If everybody thinks the same and everybody downvotes everything they disagree with, how does that affect the conversation?

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  • How accurate would you say my assessment is percentage-wise?