@AMPH3TAMONSTER if you manage to avoid it, you’re a tougher cookie than me; if not: just doing less per period l is the next best thing. depends on the person whether tapering down or cold turkey is best, but for me cessation was an invite to dive back into hotter water than i got out of, asap.
@Alishacmlewis (which is to also highlight: being antagonistic and stubborn about it is by contrast literally *deteriorating* one’s own surroundings bit by bit. maybe i should take a leaf out of my own book!)
@Alishacmlewis it’s a good point. e.g. i’ve thought for a long time that—to put it glibly as req. for an x post— (basically) being ‘nicer’ (ugh…) is actually literally logical for even people prone to extreme selfishness because you’ll be literally improving *your own surroundings* bit by bit.
@Alishacmlewis@DirkBruere i admire your optimism; i just think that if people’s beliefs seem to have implications that they *want to*/ *enjoy* those beliefs, then it’ll be very difficult to *argue* even a really logically clear case against such beliefs to any actual effect. hopefully, i’m wrong 🥲
@Alishacmlewis@DirkBruere there’s no logic; most people just react with selfish emotion, which takes the form of a ‘common belief’, which therefore has an assumed ‘logic’. most people don’t even *care* about logic. they just say what they can get away with. there’s no point arguing. especially on X.
@kayri70 fact is not everyone’s usage will escalate to life-ruining extents. but it started like this for me. then once i started doing a bit more to stave off comedowns, that was basically it… danger is in the *very* slippery slope towards total fuckery. i had good self-control before.
@justinbieber i always knew that having been a child star, we would lose this guy. it’s just so inevitable. fame is a disease anyway: a disease of the people who believe in it, and make it virulent, but children just have no immunity to it and it seems so much more life-threatening to them.
@berserker_yt if you enjoyed older things when they were new, you can do that again, forever. save a lot of money and fomo that way… the billionaires will hate you too
@theJackONeill@andihero if someone re-painted the mona lisa, and someone else said ‘the original is better’, would that critic be a nitpicking bitch? because to a lot of people, the original silent hill 2 is art, and a remake is essentially an insult.
@RichardTMurtagh@kiriyako3@PicturesFoIder actually the scope of your language implies much more than ‘some’, and most agreeably ‘most’. ‘indian men are…’ is a categorisation that’s clearly intended to speak for most indian men. nice try though. just be racist and admit it dude.
@knarf0087 @missfacto @Morbidful nothin left in you but cruelty and the sweet kick of hate, huh? it’s alright dude, truth and heroism will be remembered, meanwhile you will disappear into the ash-heap of history with nobody left singing any praises of you. just another victim to insular right-wing conspiracy