we aren't machines piloted by willpower: we cannot hold our breath until we fall asleep, and very few can choose to gate off pain signals.
some can count calories long-term and starve themselves thin, but they are few.
we're trying to solve obesity for the many, not the few.
@AlexStepherylh@JoshRainerGold the Epstein psyop is fascinating--i am genuinely astonished some days how otherwise reasonable, patriotic folks who aren't too awful brain-broken by Trump derangement syndrome got taken in by it.
@tracewoodgrains@IsaacKing314 with care here lest i say of myself <Ἄνθρωπε, τίς με κατέστησεν κριτὴν ἢ μεριστὴν ἐφ’ ὑμᾶς> i'm a third party with values radically dissimilar from either of y'all's and this is not a good-faith reading of Jack's. the provocativeness of the paraphrase is fun, though.
@MarkMReidisback@wil_da_beast630 yeah, i wouldn't say my experience of him has been 'enjoyment'. it's more like that famous CS Lewis quote about the mistakes of the past being different than our own, and therefore a useful corrective.
@JoshRainerGold jokes aside, curiosity is challenging in both senses--it is difficult to sustain, and it angers one's audience. look at the tribulations of @exfatloss on here.
@adrusi@toasterlighting i'll admit that blogging is crime against humanity, but i mean in this particular case advertising oneself as good at something we might call 'no-really-not-CNC' would lead directly to being able to do it more often. pure incentives.
@SwannHnesce i have a hard time believing that any priests who make it through the filters involved in the modern church would ever dream of criticizing a woman. Melody here is probably just fantasizing about priests after having read too many 'historical' bodice-rippers.
@justalexoki@SCHIZO_FREQ claude, create a soviet-style cartoon about a little boy who ragebaits daily as a joke until one day he has a serious question and nobody answers him