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  • The cautionary stories came about with the era of bored housewives who drank heavily and took pretty heavy prescription drugs…

    But they were also wealthy so rather than say OD or suicide they “fell asleep” in the bath.

    And I’m sure more than a few murders got wrote off as the same thing. A housewife that habitually passes out deeply could just got tossed in the tub.

    Because like you said, no sober person is staying asleep till they drown.

    But people hear the cover story and believe it, so they warn people about something that just won’t happen





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    Essentially the story is angels were god’s original creations. Perfect beings built to serve.

    But that was boring so god created humans and withheld knowledge from them, and commanded angels to serve at human’s beck and call, even tho the humans were complete idiots who lived a life of luxury free of any worry.

    Lucifer was basically Prometheus and “tricked” humans into learning stuff.

    Then God threw Lucifer, the humans, and a couple other angels out of paradise because humans weren’t dumb pets anymore.

    And somehow that makes God the good guy in the story.

    Personally it always seemed like God was a dick and Lucifer had our backs, but that’s why I didn’t have to keep going to CCD as a kid




  • Nothing is binary

    I took a bio psych class that got into neurotransmitters and shit, the professor started almost every class with:

    “Normal” is just the average, if anyone was exactly “normal” they’d be the weirdest most unique human ever

    Because a lot of people get freaked out about their own when they start learning about psychology or genetics, smacking them together and teaching 20 somethings is a recipe for existential crisis.

    Your brain is sorting people into binary groups because that’s an easy shortcut our brain uses for everything. But what’s normal at the gathering of the juggalos is weird almost everywhere else. It’s all subjective and there’s a lot more ways than one to be normal.

    Maybe someone is 99.9999% “normal” but they peel hard boiled eggs with their teeth like a psychopath. You’d never know till you saw them do it, but it would instantly recategorize them in your head as “weird” without a second thought.

    But everyone knows they’re actually a unique snowflake, so it’s common for people to feel like they don’t belong to just one group. When it’s that everyone has that level of uniqueness, it’s just too much for our brains to keep track of, so we throw labels on people and treat them as groups.



  • Most people want to want for nothing…

    But once that happens, then you start wanting the extra shit.

    And humans are wired to never stop wanting extra shit, like through pretty much all of recorded history it has always taken a lot of work for someone to get to the point of wanting nothing once basic needs are met.

    It’s something people devote literal lifetimes too, and still might not truly pull off.

    Even if you meant it in a hyper pedantic way like seconds before death, they’d still all either want to live or want to die, the slice that truly wouldn’t care would be statistically insignificant


  • They seem like good folks. Probably owned by a conglomerate though

    It’s way more confusing than I thought it would be…

    But basically, yeah. Although some dude that’s been in the beer industry a couple decades put it all together and seems to be preventing them from fucking it up.

    Kind of rescued the brand even. They had sold and moved to LA, but under current ownership they’ve moved back to Minnesota. Apparently “the good old days” I was thinking of, have all been under current ownership.

    Still not as good as an independent brewer



  • Eh, I disagree on both parts.

    Lots of information out there, but it’s the equivalent of a Forrest full of virtually identical berries, 90% of which are poisonous.

    And people are broke as fuck these days, you need wisdom to survive like that, and you earn it the hard way.

    It’s just that when they have to devote so much energy to meeting their base needs, they can’t be assed to think about more abstract things.

    Which is why the wealthy are never happy unless everyone else has nothing. When we’re comfortable enough to think ahead, we start asking why there’s any oligarchs to begin with. And their propaganda pitting us against each other isn’t as effective.

    People are wise, you’re just judging fish by how well they can climb trees








  • It’s so if you don’t support the IDF, you don’t support your own children.

    If service wasn’t mandatory, the IDF wouldn’t get away with as many war crimes to their own populace

    You get everyone’s hands dirty, and no one wants anyone held accountable, because most have done something wrong

    Same way authoritarians always want a society where laws aren’t enforced so everyone commits them. The goal isn’t a crime free society, it’s a society where the govethas an excuse to arrest anyone they want