I mean, look up “mindfulness” on Amazon. There are a million books for sale out there. And people like John Kabat-Zinn have made plenty of money selling mindfulness to everyone from mental health clinics to the military.

Mindfulness in this context is generally just defined as paying attention to the present moment. But that’s ethically neutral and can be used to, for example, make the horrors of late-stage capitalism more bearable for its subjects, or to help soldiers focus on the act of killing rather than the horror of it.

I’m not saying mindfulness can’t have serious benefits. However, I would caution anyone who’s into it to read the book McMindfulness. A lot of the “science” behind it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, there can be genuine drawbacks to it, and it’s often used in unethical ways–like to make CEOs of ruthless companies more able to shove aside their feelings of guilt, or to sharpen the minds of soldiers for killing.

if MODERATORS are landed gentry, what the fuck does that make rich bastards like him?

See, I was born around 8:00 AM and I hate mornings. I figure it’s the trauma of being ripped out of my nice comfortable home into this weird, loud, cold setting I never asked to go to.

But wait. I have a NSFW subreddit, and reddit doesn’t allow you to upload pictures directly to reddit if you’re on an NSFW subreddit. Right? So how can it be the primary host?

Ha. As if there’s a process. I just stumble across a hill one day and realizing I’m willing to die on it.

I’d love to help you figure this out, but your second link takes me to a 502 error.

Anyway, my guess is that one instance you’re on federates with certain instances, and one does not. So if you’re on instance A and B, A federates with C, but B does not, so from B you won’t see comments from C. But I admittedly don’t know what the differences are between the comment sections you’re seeing, so I could be completely wrong.

what i wake up to every morning

damn, they really are teaching CRT to elementary schoolers

The ruling class steals from the working class. By stealing from them, you are winning back some small amount of what has been taken from you, and withholding a tiny bit of power and influence they would have had if you’d bought the product. Shoplifting is also morally correct for this reason.

Now, you shouldn’t steal from co-ops, because they generally don’t steal from their workers. Small businesses are a bit of a gray area, as many of them are much more ethical than big businesses, but many of them aren’t, too, and you can’t always know which is which.

And before you accuse me of simply adopting a morality that is convenient to me, it’s true that I’ve always had been ambivalent at worst about piracy, but I used to be firmly against shoplifting. Even tried to report a shoplifter to my supervisor when I was working retail, the one and only time I noticed someone shoplifting. (Thankfully in hindsight, they peeled out of the parking lot before they could be caught.) I came by my morals not when I suddenly needed to shoplift or pirate, but gradually as I stopped believing in liberal ideals.

To be clear, I’m not saying you’re some kind of hero if you pirate or shoplift. Just that, ethically speaking, it’s better than buying from them.

No, you didn’t, but you said to “support” the game devs, and how does buying a game “support” them if little of the money goes to them?

I’m probably going to keep using both regardless, though I may cut back significantly on my reddit use.

Not a subscriber yet, but I might become one after I finish Fantasy High.

Do you really expect me to believe that the majority of the money you pay for a game goes to its devs?

Besides, I’m of the opinion that piracy in general is usually morally correct.

Reminder that pirating a Nintendo game is always morally correct.

It’s a browser game, not a video game per se, but Flight Rising. I play it when I need to do something with my hands or distract myself.

Sure, but that’s true of any job. If everyone were a doctor, society would fall apart. That doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with wanting to be a doctor, or even with a significant portion of the populace being doctors.

tag yourself, i’m crisis actor

You are not supposed to use q-tips to clean your ears. But if it’s wrong, I don’t wanna be right.

Tankies are just right-wingers who simp for different countries.

Caring about humanity is why I care about politics, though. Politics is the vehicle through which humanity’s fate is decided. If you don’t participate in it, you allow people who do to run roughshod over you. Politics decides whether your country goes to war or not, whether people die in poverty or not, whether the climate apocalypse kills us all or not.

Note that by politics I do not necessarily mean electoralism. Voting is a stopgap measure at best. But there’s much more to politics than voting and elections.