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Explain like I’m 5 elephants in a trenchcoat

Ps2 is truly a beast. I have a ton of ps1 and ps2 games I still play from time to time

Pretty much every prepared food item is trash at this point. What kills me is the marketing. They just print “made with fresh, wholesome ingredients :)” on a package of health themed frozen waffles that cost $3 more per box and apparently that’s all it takes for people to believe they’re making a real attempt at healthy eating

It was tucked into a recent speech. I watched a timestamped link. He really said it and it really sounded like he meant the sum of all people.

Defenders say that he was implicitly referring to people who are “computer users” or would be engaging with his company’s products or whatever. If true, I don’t know if that’s better lol

He also thinks there are one billion people on earth total. So between that and the invention of cars being in his memory, I think we can place him solidly in the mid 1800’s?

Sorry so I mean, I literally just don’t know what you’re referring to exactly by “physicality and the tran debate” so that it can be taken out of the discussion. I guess from your reply just now that it has something to do with avoiding arguing about transgender people but I don’t see the relevance to the rest of your question.

Otherwise I hope I was able to respond to what you were asking!

What’s the first sentence of your title mean?

But I think you’re asking, “Isn’t drug addiction ultimately the result of a personal choice since a person has to choose to try it in the first place?”

You could boil it down to that. Personally I chose to start smoking cigarettes at a point in my life when I was spending like 25 hours a week with people who would take smoke breaks outdoors every 45 minutes or so, and we’d use the outdoor time to discuss the project we were working on. In that instance in time it just felt like a natural thing to start smoking as well.

For me personally, I view at that as a personal choice I made (really several choices). Was fully educated about all the dangers and everything.

On the flip side, I feel like we can’t really entirely discount genetics right? Like there’s probably layers to it. Some people possibly would be enticed by the smell of smoke, for example. Plus there may be genetic predispositions to succumb to peer pressure, or marketing, etc.

Put it this way. I walk past a slot machine and hear the jingles and see the cheerful flashing lights, and I roll my eyes and forget about it. Someone else might see that and get totally captivated by the idea that they could change their life forever.

For me the “choice” not to gamble is super easy, but someone else might have a ton of difficulty making the same “choice” as me, and even if they succeed a hundred times it’s just constantly wearing them down until they eventually cave.

I don’t know what the full answer is. I personally find power in identifying that my addiction was a choice (that same power helped me quit! Clean for over 7 years now).

If someone else does or doesn’t feel the same way about their situation, it doesn’t really affect me, because either way I can still choose to treat them with compassion, understanding, and respect. I don’t really care if, when someone needs help, it was an uncontrollable act of nature or a mess they created for themselves or whatever. If they’re ready to get help, then I think we should help either way

No signage says that

False! I have a sign on my cat’s litter box that says that

I also don’t have sex with this guy’s wife

Hatred against gay people absolutely exists in people who aren’t gay themselves

I spent I think over ten hours just hanging out in Gerudo town in breath of the wild. I remember watching my “hero’s journey” thing and when I got there it was just stuck scribbling over the town for ever lol. Super chill vibes

Normalization is a legitimate, effective, and popular technique employed across the entire entertainment industry. Most well produced audio will have degrees of the effect applied tastefully.

I have no idea what youtube’s “normalization” is doing that ruins the quality of their audio to such a noticeable extent. It’s also totally indiscriminate of the video’s existing audio production. It sucks for someone to work hard and produce a good mix only for youtube to ruin it without your consent, possibly years after release

Could be the opposite as well, youtube a while ago rolled out a “normalization” thing by default that absolutely ruins all audio on the platform and needs to be disabled on every device you have. Supposedly it was set to automatically disable for music but that depends on the uploader

Spotify streams have always been garbage in my experience, but I haven’t had a subscription in about a decade now so no idea if that’s still true

Total vertigo. Just walking through the streets is surreal. You crane your head to try and make sense of it but the buildings just keep going.

Individual buildings in NYC have more people in them than at any given time than my entire hometown. By a large margin. Just so cool. I guess that was the main shock for me, the sheer sense of scale

Couldn’t believe how good the tap water tasted either haha

I’m on ten seconds of thought now and I am FREAKING OUT

You wouldn’t get it

What happens when the depth of the hole exceeds the height of the knees

It’s hard to believe Skyrim is already 19 years old

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