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MyBrainHurts

@ MyBrainHurts @piefed.ca

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    If you read international news, it's hard to read some of our complaints without wanting to scream

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  • I'd prefer we complained in ways that didn't make us sound like benighted children. When we do so, it makes it hard for anyone to take actual critiques seriously.

    When I babysit my friends' toddler, I'm not surprised when she howls at the injustice of not being allowed ice cream for dinner. But I also expect her to grow out of it.

    Yeah, things could be better. But the fact is that almost everyone on here is living more comfortably than most humans who have ever lived.

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  • I assume this is also your view when millionaires and celebrities complain about the struggles they face?

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  • Did I say it's the worst thing that's ever happened?

    Pointing out something accurately is not the same as saying you live in a capitalist hellhole, despite living a more comfortable life than almost every other human who has ever lived.

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  • Most people, even those who scream the loudest about human rights, tend to wear sweatshop clothes made by kids who occasionally burn to death because it's slightly cheaper to not have fire escapes.

    Not enjoying an artist who in most cases isn't even profiting off of my enjoyment just seems silly. I prefer to focus my efforts on the actual harms to which I, like so many of us, really do contribute.

  • Has anyone actually figured out what they want when they do this?

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  • Amazing! 70s choices were so danged bold! Yeah, not all worked out but..!

    Most of my walls are a fun but oft complained about, green. Here's the walls, with her highness basking in having successfully dethroned me:

  • Has anyone actually figured out what they want when they do this?

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  • I'm more curious, do y'all have a green carpet? Am I about to find out I'm cllourblind? Is this outdoors?

  • What is your funniest case of misheard song lyrics?

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  • Not mine but one day my buddy's 6 year old asked "what's parking tips?" My buddy being a veteran dad gives him some generic parking advice, doesn't think much of it until later when he hears his kid singing along to the shaboozy song but instead of "everyone at the bar getting tipsy" he's sing about how everyone getting parking tips.

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  • I just asserting that people generally had more down time in the past.

    By using total instead of share. Which also means there is even a more gigantic number of people with more wealth and leisure than any point in human history.

    Do you see why using total number is mind numbingly silly?

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  • Are you trolling?

    The number of people living happily in luxury unimaginable to 99% of people who have ever lived is also FAR greater than at any time in human history.

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  • About .6% of the world is considered as living in modern slavery.

    In say, the feudal era, that percentage would be some 70 or 80 times higher.

    Maybe you should do some reading?

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  • Is that an actual question?

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  • I imagine any number of slaves would disagree with you on the downtime.

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  • Life back in the day was so much easier!

    Just so dumb on so many counts.

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  • Everyone ought to have that relationship once, one of the best life experiences anyone could ask for.

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  • Honestly, most of my first few relationships were awkward bumbling affairs. Lot of heart, excitement and zero experience dealing with it all plus another person going through the exact same nonsense.

    If you're looking for advice that I would've loved, it'd be pretty basic; be safe, have fun and don't ever let him make you ever feel uncomfortable.

  • Reddit's human content wins amid the AI flood

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  • In both the US and the UK women account for more than 50% of Reddit users.

    That is a twist I did not see coming.

  • What are your favourite jokes and puns?

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  • My new favourite short joke...

    You hear about the non binary prospector? Found gold in them/their hills!

  • The world is more equal than you think

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  • Ok so I know indians who have lives as nice as mine or better and are in my field

    This is exactly the point. The fact that many (though frankly, a small percentage of Indians as a whole) who have quite nice lives is a goddamn miracle. I'll put it this way, those basics of life you were talking about; a home, plumbing, electricity, were not widespread in India until recently. As late as the mid 90s, about 70% of Indians didn't have access to a household toilet. That number is now 10%, which, while an order of magnitude higher than the West, is an incredible gain.

    It's just mind bogglingly ignorant to claim that the rest of the world isn't improving.

    silent generation and greates generation in a city had running water and electricity for most of their lives. Yeah you could point to very rural greatest or it not being available when they were very young

    And this is just silly. About half the population at the time was rural. Like, quality of life only matters if you live in a city? What the hell?

    Edit: Link to the toilets in India, because they have data over time. It's amazing and kind of beautiful to read about that sort of improvement in the lives of more than a billion people. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10373110/

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  • Im talking silent generation and greatest generation

    Not if you're talking about ubiquitous running water... (in the 1930s to 50s, only 70% of urban homes had indoor plumbing, while a scant 20% of rural ones, where about half the population lived, did.)

    The gap between richest and poorest in the first world is that much worse just for the obscene levels of wealth some have.

    Again, this has nothing to do with the world.

    An india and china were helped by aid in the past but you would need to look before 2000 for that.

    Okay and the revocation of aid now is not going to stop their development. No idea what you're trying to say.

    a few places that were worse off have gotten kinda sorta almost lives like yours.

    No, literally for most of the world, life has gotten better. That's the entire point.

    when living in india near an ocean sounds great to a first worlder

    If they are impressively ignorant, sure. If you are a middle class person, hell, even poor, in the first world, would you swap places with a random Indian or Chinese person? If you have any understanding of those countries, the answer would be a hard no.