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Pro-Tip: don't Google that phrase (learn from my mistake yo!:-)

That's... what? What?! WHAT!?

To anyone else reading, note the @lemmy.ml after their name. There are only so many times people of intelligence can hear the most batshit insane things on Lemmy without either willfully losing IQ points or else blocking the lemmy.ml instance.

Unfortunately, that does next to nothing, bc you'll still see every single batshit insane comment like the above. Every. Single. One. And while it might be a bug, you can sometimes get replies from them too (while other times blissfully not).

Maybe I'll make an account on Lemmy.cafe, which is the only instance I've ever heard of that has actually defederated from lemmy.ml. Though I'm holding out more hope for Sublinks, Piefed, and Mbin too to help address such issues.

Stay safe folks - election season is coming and there are some who want to fuck you up if at all possible (not necessarily the above comment, just in general), don't let it happen!

There are those - like Jules Verne, HG Wells, and yes Orwell - who can see far into the future not because they are fucking magicians or whatever, but bc they allowed themselves to see clearly. Which in turn I think comes from mental discipline to ruthlessly weed out the false thoughts that would choke the life out of the true ones.

Anyway I'm full of trite quotes in this reply I guess but even so, those who don't learn from their history are doomed to repeat it, and lately I (who lives in America) am very worried about that thought... and yet there too it is history that gives me comfort. No nation (afaict) has ever survived devolving into a 2-party state, but even Rome fell too once upon a time... long may it live.

Cowbee is notorious for not actually answering questions, just throwing up the same articles to read and asking people to DM them to continue the conversation. Make what you will of that info - are deeds done in the light of logical discourse inherently "better" than those done in darkness, i.e. are facts that can stand up to scrutiny somehow more "correct" than those that can only be whispered in the dark to those most vulnerable individuals still living in the cave?

Just like the USA's experiment with far-right ideology, and also just like the COVID pandemic - knowledge that it will eventually implode seems not to matter one bit.

Obvious to you (and me), yet somehow they themselves don't see it.

Wow, she is so Karen that her parents even named her that decades ago in the past - that's some dedicated Karening right there! (/s:-D)

We got tired of all that winning.

If you go back far enough, all food was poop at some point. And will be again, that's the beauty of it.:-)

Yes, except not the first one bc it's on Lemmy.ml.

If you put an exclamation point before that, the image will automatically show up instead of needing to be clicked.

![Aaron Swartz Approves](https://i.imgflip.com/97bihv.gif)

Now you know, use responsibly!:-)

to the Maker of all GloboHomos:-)

It would like to finish the argument, if the bee would just come a little bit closer...

I believe that's a terribly slippery slope there: truth lies not only in the artist who made something but also the beholder who receives it. It's both. If I sent you an unasked-for picture, say of my genitals, then my own preferences in the matter may be said to matter less than those of the recipient even!

Or I could say e.g.: that men and women are the same thing (I mean... 22 other chromosomes are so...), or that men and bears are the same - neither is particularly true, nor does me saying it help make it so. The burden is on me to communicate whatever I intended - men and women are similar, and indeed the same in so many aspects, though not precisely all; and similarly with men and bears.

I preemptively agree that the importance of saying that mammals is the same thing as animals is low. Unless, that is, someone has decided to really really really really really care about the answer, for whatever reason, and then to them it will matter. But how then will they find the answer in such case, when everywhere they look, people all agree that those words mean the same thing?

You seem to be arguing that mammals == animals is a matter of subjective opinion, like the sky is beautiful, rather than of fact, like the sky is green, or blue, or whatever the names of colors mean. It is not though?

Oh well, no biggie. But I do think that facts matter, and furthermore I think that the very existence of the USA is at stake upon this issue. Not that I have anything against you personally I hope you understand (my intent there only going partway to explaining that, and the burden to communicate such being partway on me to say whatever I mean), it's just that I get triggered upon this matter, as I wonder how many of my family members will be among those who get killed as a result.

Anyway, far from ignoring that "truth", I was in fact bemoaning (and also making fun of:-P) its existence. Not every popular trend is equally valid. Case in point, I was making fun of the existence of the former, which you took exception to, so apparently you agree that despite the fact that MANY people think that mammals==animals, that there should be other interpretations that are equally valid and my pointing out the opposite was something that you felt needed to be spoken out against. If only there was some way to arbitrate! Some way to find out which things were "true", vs. "untrue"! Sadly, there is not it seems, so in your mind you will remain "correct" and in mine I will do the same. No /s - I truly bemoan that fact, but I know of no way to remedy it: in my worldview, facts, and only facts, are true, regardless of how many people believe otherwise.

Starbucks SG-2, The Z-Files, Common Things, there are so many great shows. But none compare to Donald Trump's making of the irl

I acknowledge that there is that as well:-). The hard part is that the OP is a joke, somewhat, so all answers seem to work within that context.

And Truth is such a very slender path between extremes - e.g. 1+1= neither 2.1 nor 1.9, but exactly 2 in-between.

So if I say that Truth matters, generally speaking, and you say that it depends on the context, then strictly speaking your argument must win. e.g. in a discussion between literally toddlers the facts would not matter, hence you are most definitely correct that there exists some scenarios where it does not.

I was bemoaning how society in general chooses for it not to matter, more often than the reverse - yes, definitely the road less traveled for sure. We all exist on that spectrum, with choices as to when and where and what and why and how.

And how ironic that we are nitpicking on these points to find the real Truth - that was supposed to be my schtick! But instead we will share it together:-). And here I am not joking: since I do value Truth, I enjoy both of our POVs here: sometimes Truth matters, sometimes it does not, but in general I wish people would value it more often than happens currently, even though sometimes indeed it can get in the way of other things too, like friendships.

I mean... not anymore!

(Burrrrrrrrrrp)

I always enjoy a Doctor What reference!

Why did I so heavily desire to read that name as "Batman". Surely it couldn't be that my brain was seeking a way - any way - to avoid having to read his name!? 📛 (I have no idea what this emoji is, but it popped up and seems to fit so...:-P)

So let's see, we covered Star Trek, and Batman, I guess that means that it's time for a Lord of the Rings meme picture:

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Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this.

Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this.

Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this.

Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this.

Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this.

Woman Who Sued Company for Not Giving Her a Farewell Card Finds Out They Did Buy a Card But Almost No One Signed It

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Are you in duplicate communities?

Totalitarian Soviet Republic of Canada

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I think we've been misinterpreting Trek all this time

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I think we've been misinterpreting Trek all this time

I think we've been misinterpreting Trek all this time

I think we've been misinterpreting Trek all this time