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Re: Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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Post by rexpop »

giingyui wrote: post #303

It’s surprising that this article doesn’t mention LGBT or disabilities at all. The same effect extends to those two. And, in the same vein, it’s females “buying” it. “…between 19% and 22% of women aged 18 to 25 identify as bi.” https://nypost.com/2023/04/18/gen-z-women-identify-as-bisexu...

Only assholes* use "female" as a noun.

"Female" is primarily a scientific or biological term that refers to sex, not gender. When used as a noun for humans, it reduces women to their reproductive capabilities and strips away their individuality and humanity, making them seem less than fully human or equivalent to animals. For example, "female" can refer to any species, while "woman" specifically refers to human beings.

Here it's clearly being used in a derogatory, dismissive sense.

* and Ferengi

Re: Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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Post by etruong42 »

Could this be an evolution of astrology? Or an evolution of the underlying attraction to astrology? This need to label things (libra vs scorpio vs etc) and the assignment of character traits and behaviors to these labels? This need to push for explanations beyond our control? And perhaps these psychological labels are even _more_ attractive since they have the veneer of science and rationality behind it.

Re: Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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Post by [deleted] »

BobaFloutist wrote: post #458
blueflow wrote: post #347

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You opened up how you feel about a thing and your parents derided you for it. Did it change you? No, but it surely made you feel like shit. This is a social deficit in your parents, and asserting yourself as "introverted" is the workaround.

It's funny how op was primarily complaining about how annoying it is to have a load of assumptions dumped on them and you read their post, assumed the derision they described came from their parents, and made it about that rather than the point they were trying to express.

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Re: Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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Post by Hyperboreanal »

93po wrote: post #415
nradov wrote: post #301

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Do or do not, there is no "try". If you know you have to leave home at 7:00 AM to avoid being late then just set an alarm at that time. When it goes off then walk out the door, even if you're in the middle of some other task. Like if you're brewing coffee then just unplug the machine and leave: no coffee for you today. Don't allow yourself the opportunity to get distracted. Simple.

this response is like hearing someone has crippling depression and telling them "have you tried just thinking happy thoughts? have you tried thinking about things in a happier way?" here's the real thought process (edit: the writing is all over the place but im not gonna spend more time editing) it's the night before, you know you need to leave at 7am, you pick up your phone to set alarm, and you see a text from jimm…

>i never CHOSE to text jimmy

Yes you did. You are an adult human being with free will.

Re: Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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Post by Hyperboreanal »

Walf wrote: post #299
Auracle wrote: post #289

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Oh, come on. “It takes me 15 minutes to get to my destination. I should leave 5 minutes earlier than I need to in case there’s traffic or whatever.” Set an alarm for 20 minutes before you need to get there, and leave when it goes off. Done. I will absolutely trivialize it because everyone I’ve ever known that’s like that simply leaves at the time they’re supposed to already be somewhere. Or yes, they get distracted a…

You clearly don't have these issues, and I doubt you care about anyone who does, because your "Oh, come on." response positively reeks of 'that's not my experience, so other people's can't be that different.' It's never just one thing like travel time, it's scores of steps in a routine, which aren't always the same, and can easily be derailed by anything unexpected. You can estimate how long something you do frequent…

Everyone else manages to do it, you're not special. Be on time, or be a NEET I guess. You've decided you'll never be able to function properly so yeah you probably won't.

Re: Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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Post by anal_reactor »

falcor84 wrote: post #378
KolibriFly wrote: post #313

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Yeah, calling depression a "disorder" sometimes misses the point entirely when despair is a logical response to how things are

I know where you're coming from, but despair is never the logical response. Whatever the situation is, it's better to do something about it, even if it's just to rage and call for help, rather than to quietly despair. Regardless of how bad things are, we still have hope, both as individuals and as a civilization.

> Regardless of how bad things are, we still have hope, both as individuals and as a civilization.

No we don't. Evidence: falling birthrates is the society collectively deciding that live ain't worth it. Personally, I think this is the real reason why we don't see aliens - any advanced civilisation will eventually reach a point where it realizes that life ain't worth it.

Re: Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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Post by rgbaww »

oezi wrote: post #280
rendaw wrote: post #236

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> could you still hold people responsible for their actions? Surely this is trivially "yes". If their actions are deterministic, then your responses to their actions must also be deterministic, including holding them responsible (punishment, firing, etc).

Even stronger if you believe things are deterministic there is no reason not to hold them accountable. You don't try to argue with a broken clock for it to become more punctual, you just trash it.

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Re: Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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Post by machinawhite »

stevenAthompson wrote: post #430
machinawhite wrote: post #411

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> fun and easy It's not fun or easy for anyone to find a new job. However, it's usually less painful than staying if you're poorly suited to your current role. We all have strengths and weaknesses. The secret to living a good life is learning to take an honest inventory of your personal capabilities and then figuring out how to work with what you have. I truly hope that things improve for you.

Don't talk to me about painful and please take the rest of your insufferable statements and shove them up your ass

Re: Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels

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Post by const_cast »

nradov wrote: post #475
const_cast wrote: post #457

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> Stop blaming capitalism for every problem in the world, it just makes you look childish. Economics is intertwined with every other study. We can't pretend socio-economics isn't real, social interactions fuel the economy and the economy influences our social interactions. Also, making connections to way capitalism might fuel addictive disorders, such as, say, talking about advertising of alcohol and tobacco, does NO…

If you want to criticize capitalism on a website run by literal capitalists then the onus is on you to propose a better alternative. So far none of the other economic systems that humans have applied at scale have worked out better. I mean Islamic fundamentalist theocracies have lower rates of alcoholism but that advantage comes with some pretty severe downsides.

But nobody is trying to prove or show a better alternative, that's my point. A critique of capitalism doesn't mean we should dismantle capitalism.

I don't get it, because we do this with other stuff all the time. I program in C#, guess what? I have plenty of critiques of C#. That doesn't mean I want C# to go die, I love C#. It seems to me everyone understands this... until it's capitalism. And then, suddenly, it's our first day on Earth.

Also capitalism, like everything, is not just one thing. It's a complex beast and there's infinite possible implementations of a capitalist economy. Nobody actually wants raw, unregulated capitalism because that sucks major ass. Yes, that's a technical phrase.

Meaning, we can, and should, be looking to progressively improve our economic system. I mean, it's what we've been doing since forever.

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