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@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world appears to think so.

In the above thread, I suggest that artifacts of evolutionary development are purposeless and that suggestions to the contrary are intelligent design. I'm met with the common hostility.

But what interests me is the justification for it:

Claiming I was suggesting intelligent design when I obviously wasn't is a pretty dickish thing to say, so...

FlyingSquid feels entitled to hurt other people when certain conditions are met. Eye for an Eye has been a staple of justice systems of less developed cultures and despite the advancements of modern technology and modern thought, some apologists still exist today.

I find it interesting that people who have been hurt (by something as innocuous as a perceived slight to the ego, no less!) are willing to pass that pain on to other people rather than allow it to end.

I'm open to using GIMP or a web-based online tool

I'd like to take a source image and posterize it, but instead of letting the application pick the resulting colors, I'd like to pick them manually. So for every pixel, the app would change the color to one of my chosen colors

I had a friend who struggled with uppers and I gave him a hug once during a wellness check. His front door was hanging open when we got there, it was so scary. But he was fine. He later died in a car accident. I'm realizing today it was probably because the driver hadn't slept.

In general, I think it's used to turn the abused person into the guilty party. Excepting the cases where gaslighting is being used to confuse the person about why they're hurt it usually comes from a place of not understanding. Which is forgiveable. But choosing not to learn (or stop doing) whatever is hurting them isn't. Any time a person says "you're too sensitive" they just look a stupid, selfish jackass.

A coworker asks what you're bringing to the potluck. What's the worst response?

As the owner of a wordpress.org website, which I host myself, and use for personal blogging, how can I get an email anytime anyone posts to my blog?

It's barely noon and I'm ready for bed.

People that take too much require an exhausting amount of energy to defend against. By the time I'm done protecting myself, they've usually got what they want anyway, it sometimes feels like there's no point

Group living/school situation, I'm older than them so not very conerned, but they're all very preppy and cliquey. There's a smaller group wearing suit and tie that all sit together. At one point I'm on the "welcome aboard" video motioning with my head to my mom to come inside the store. Kids are laughing. One mentions my "tunic" (hoodie?) and I make fun of her because I'm standing right behind her and she didn't know what to call it. Then I'm in my underwear looking for pants. I find a friend. Someone is getting blood or plasma drawn, there's so much of it in a tube. A steam machine in the gym pumps tubes full of petroleum jelly.

In a fight, represented by a 2D grid of icons, like Candy Crush, I happened on a combination of potions which kept combining into more powerful potions, getting more and more powerful, until the game began spoiling its own ending. Potion, to person, to spell, to space station, the icon kept getting more powerful until I could see what the endgame looked like. I was excited but dismayed

Intent is to remember years later what specific tasks I had, even if I've left the company and no longer have access to my files. It's been very useful during interviews when asked about details of what I did, and in conversation with friends who want to know what my day to day is like. I've learned that this journal has to be kept in a personal space so that I won't lose access to it during layoffs, for example. Do you have any similar habits? What are your policies?

Personally I'm looking forward to a sober holiday season. I'm white knuckling it. But already leagues above where I'd be if I were still in it. So I'm grateful and looking forward to a happy season. What about you

Me: there's a fire in my house! Please abolish it!

Fireman: Ok, we're ready! What are you going to replace it with?

Me: what

Fireman: The fire. What are you going to replace it with? Fire has a purpose, you know, you can't just remove it. The combustion that powers your car engine, that's fire. And the fire in my woodstove heats my house and keeps my family warm. Fire is doing what it's supposed to be doing, and in the correct place, at the correct time.

Me: It's destroying my home. Please abolish it.

Fireman: Do you even know what fire is LOL fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in a self-sustaining chemical reaction, do you REALLY think you can just abolish that? Do you even know what you're talking about?

Me: I'm fine with it existing just not in my house right now.

House: destroyed

Fireman: Why didn't you give me a valid replacement??? We could have helped you.