logicbomb

A character acting out of character may not technically be a plot hole, but for the consumer of the media, it is tantamount to the same thing. The character's previous characterization is equivalent to "the existing rules of the story".

Not to say that characters cannot change, but you can tell when a character suddenly does something out of character simply because the author decided that some event has to happen for the plot to work, and it makes the plot seem impossible.

Basically, if you disagree with the moderators about what is appropriate content for a community, it is difficult to find any path forward.

Really if you believe that God created the universe, then C logically follows.

But if we were created in the image of God, then B is very likely, too. Just look at what we do to characters that we create in The Sims.

I promised myself that I'd try my best not to argue with people on Lemmy over completely trivial things, but sometimes it can be a challenge.

Our timeline is even stupider than the Biff timeline.

"Entire Trump team hated Elon Musk"....

If you'll recall, after Trump's first term, it was revealed that the entire Trump team hated Donald Trump.

Basically, any marginally competent person will hate working with people like Trump or Musk who make drastic changes without any reason or even any idea of what they're doing.

My stupid brain... When they said they took the principal to "go live" on a farm, I initially read that as if they were beginning their live stream.

Unfortunately, second-guessing yourself is a vital skill. Imagine if you could never change your mind after your first thought on a subject.

AOC told a story about how a pro Israel person offered her a huge campaign donation, which she declined. One of the reasons she could easily decline it was that she already had enough money. By that time, her seat wasn't in that much danger.

I'm not saying that AOC would have taken the money if she had a smaller campaign fund. There's no way to know that.

But you can be sure that if we did proper campaign finance reform, and stopped every instance where a single source of money can create undue influence, then a lot more politicians would be able to afford to be honest.

Our current system nearly guarantees that honest politicians will be forced out by corrupt politicians who can easily accept huge donations.

What's really weird is that sometimes when you don't do this, logically choosing the appropriate emotion, you're actually sort of doing the opposite, illogically choosing an inappropriate emotion.

For example, let's say that you're angry at somebody for something they did. If you pay attention, you'll notice that you actually don't stay angry the whole time. What happens is that you start to feel less angry, like you are just about over it, and then you think about that thing they did, and you get angry again. It's not completely conscious, but you're choosing to remain angry, usually for no reason. If you just didn't think about that thing, you'd stop being angry.

For me, I've noticed that when I do this sort of illogical thing, I can't seem to get past it until I go to sleep that night. Sleep seems to break the pattern. But most of the time, I can control it nowadays.

"The more people I kill, the fewer who will be alive to resent me."

I don't think Donald Trump is capable of speaking like that.