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eternalankh t1_jeb83we wrote

Anything can sound crazy if you break it down into steps and describe those steps in the worst way possible.

At some point, people decided to grind up seeds, mix it with water, let it set for several days until fungus started to grow in it, then add more ground up seeds and water, add some sugar, let it set for a while again, mix it some more and then bake it for people to eat.

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TheGrumpyre t1_jeb7k71 wrote

No. Do you think that would make a difference? I would assume that would only affect the cells in your eye that detect the difference between wavelengths of light, not the ones that detect changes in light intensity. Unless it's one of those things where you become more attuned to other kinds of visual input to make up for the lost data.

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potatoyeeze t1_jeb78l6 wrote

Hey thanks for making me laugh today! This is honestly hilarious. I cannot tell if you are trolling to not. I want to be optimistic but I really don’t think you are.

But let me make this simple for you: “being British” isn’t a group [of people], marginalized or otherwise. “Being British” is a state. The British” is a group [of people].

To follow… what?? Made the typo on purpose so people would point them out and then you could call them stupid? Objectively, that makes no sense. You think you’re pulling a ‘gotcha’ but in reality you just got pissed someone called you out for terrible spelling and grammar. You are the living embodiment of the “well achktually” meme.

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krypthammer OP t1_jeb6u0m wrote

LOL! I’m actually laughing so hard rn…. At YOU! I hope you feel ANGRY AND DISTRAUGHT! HAHAHA! (That’s me laughing)

Get trolled bucko…. Sounds like someone got DESTROYED!

And guess what… I MADE IT ALL UP TOO! LOL! This is going on r/quit your bullshit RIGHT NOW. All of Reddit will be laughing at you soon….. you day has come fuckass……………

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Apprehensive_Fuel873 t1_jeb6e69 wrote

Why is that absurd? I was. I would've preferred not to have been. Because now my options are struggle or suicide. And that's called coercion. When the choice is x or death, that's not a real choice.

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Apprehensive_Fuel873 t1_jeb5ypm wrote

Yup. There is little incentive for a proletarian in a capitalist system to actually maximise the value of their labour for the capitalist that owns the means of production to which they apply their labour. Their incentive is the same as the capitalist. To maximise their profits on the least amount of investment. It's just the proletarian's investment is their labour.

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Capitalism literally incentivises lazy but crafty workers, just as it incentivises lazy but crafty investors. At least if you own the value of your own labour, there's an incentive to work harder, if you value material gain.

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Happy-Fun-Ball t1_jeb5ehb wrote

This is the Great Filter I fear - any sufficient intellect realizes there's no purpose to life and no future in a universe provably dead-ending, so loses motivation to do anything.

No one out there's been found because the only ones who keep living are religious fanatics who can lie to themselves about purpose, and those don't develop tech to propagate.

Maybe someday space-mormons will encounter space-muslims, but I doubt it.

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