Comments by "Mark Zuckergecko" (@markzuckergecko621) on "Lotuseaters Dot Com"
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I wouldn't want to live in the communist utopia even if it could be achieved, a world where all of our needs are met by some outside force, all the struggle of life is stripped away, and in turn our humanity, and what makes us unique as individuals? No thanks. I've made a lot of mistakes and there's a lot of things I could have done differently that would have made my life a lot easier today than it is. And if I had a time machine, sure maybe I would change some things. But maybe I wouldn't, or shouldn't. All of those things shaped who I am, and I still struggle, but I like my life. I think this is the real reason communists are so angry and unhappy, they think they want stuff, and to not struggle, but what they really want is a purpose, and something to struggle for. They'll never have that as long as they buy into communism. It's a never ending cycle of depression and anger. No amount of stuff would ever be enough for them.
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#9 cracked me up, holy hell that's so annoying. I watch a lot of left wing content and I swear 50% of the comments start with a "as a _____" statement, because that's how these lunatics think, personal identifiers are far more relevant to them than the substance of any comment. To me, the only time that would be relevant is in a very specific topic, coming from a very specific kind of person. Maybe a video about grocery store shelves, and someone says "as a midget, I have a lot of trouble reaching the high stuff." Ok, that's valid. That is a physical difference that gives that person a legitimately different perspective of something most people may not have experience with. As far as politics, I don't give a shit if you're black, or gay, or an atheist, that doesn't make your opinion on a nebulous topic any more or less relevant.
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I saw a UFO with my ex and our then neighbor, about 10 years ago. It was circular, glowing green, not particularly bright but definitely noticeable. We watched it go in a kind of upward trajectory for a few minutes before it turned real sharply and we eventually lost sight. The weirdest part is that we didn't hear any engine noise at all, we couldn't really use anything to scale how close it was, but if it was far enough away that we couldn't hear the engine, it would have been absolutely massive, bigger than any manned vehicle I'm aware of, and if it was close enough that it was about the size of any conventional jet, it was silent or at least far more quiet than anything I'm aware of. We also lived a few miles from an air force base, so I'm sure it was some freaky military vehicle. But it sure was freaky.
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I love animals, I work at a kennel and have dedicated a large portion of my life to pet care, I would never harm an animal for no good reason (other than insects, because fuck those parasitic bastards, I'm a proud insect serial killer). But I still wouldn't say animals have equal moral value to humans, not from a utilitarian point of view either, if we're looking at the world as a whole, sure, I could agree that no organism has a higher value than another. But I'm not the world, I'm a human, and I care about humans more than all other organisms.
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Houston all my life, which I've heard is the most ethnically diverse city in the world, I'm not quite sure what that means, maybe it's the most different ethnicities represented in one city, maybe it's something to do with the overall representation of ethnic groups, maybe it's just complete nonsense that I misheard, but either way, it's an extremely ethnically diverse city. And there's a huge, huge difference between people of any particular ethnic group, and ghetto culture. There are certainly strong correlations between certain ethnic groups and ghetto culture, but it knows no bounds, anyone of any ethnicity can become one of them, and anyone can also refuse that life and do better.
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@asd3601 lmao, it is very bizarre how often I find myself on the side of Christians and Christianity, even though I don't agree with them. But I don't have a problem with religion as a general concept, certain aspects of certain religions, sure, but I'm not gonna hate on anyone or try to tell them they're wrong just because of what they believe. I also had a lot less of a traumatic journey than a lot of atheists, I never was in an overly religious family or anything like that, I became a Christian and started going to church on my own, as a teenager. Got roped in by a friend. So I left on my own free will too and didn't really have a whole lot of pushback, I realize I would have a different point of view if I had some kind of background with religious abuse like a lot of atheists, I think that's where the hostility and angry atheist phase comes from. I never really had that.
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I was discussing this with a coworker the other day, stacking a million people in a couple of city blocks is a recipe for disaster, and poor behavior. If you're somewhere in the boonies, you're more likely to act like a civilized person, because that guy in front of you at the grocery store is your neighbor, the lady behind you is your kids teacher, the guy at the register plays on your softball team. There's more accountability when people know each other. With a million of you living on top of each other, nobody gives a shit, because you're probably not gonna see the guy you're being rude to ever again, and even if you do neither of you give a shit, because you're just one of another thousand people you're going to encounter that day.
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They're incrementally pulling people close to their side. And I don't think even a lot of conservatives realize what they're doing. They start with the most bat shit insane, extreme and obviously incorrect position, like Rittenhouse was the attacker when he was in fact the victim, and reasonable people with a tendency to see both sides will try to take some kind of "middle ground", like Kyle shouldn't have been there, or he was morally wrong but legally innocent. When that's not the reasonable position at all, the reasonable position is that he acted with courage and restraint, and acted in self defense only when he had to. They know that their position is wrong, they're only trying to pull you closer to their position, piece by piece. They've done the same thing with gun rights over several decades, with race relations, with virtually everything else you can even think of and numerous other things you've never thought of.
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I really think if you were to reduce the left and right to the simplest terms possible, and look at the one factor that has a greater impact than any other single factor, it would be collectivism vs individualism. If you look at the moderate left, and moderate right, liberal and conservative in modern US terms, one of the main differences is that a liberal would believe in more emphasis on government run programs like welfare (collectivism), and the conservative would believe in more emphasis on lowering taxes and creating more opportunity for people to make their own way (individualism). So yes, it's hard to imagine a coherent form of right wing authoritarianism, since authoritarianism is inherently collective. Even an extreme Anarcho state, which could resemble an authoritarian state, it would be individualistic because the authority isn't based on a collective, it's based on who has the most money and guns. This is also just a theoretical structure that couldn't actually exist in reality.
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@PaIaeoCIive1684 yep, African wild dogs have an extremely sophisticated hunting technique too, each dog is part of a different "unit", they either go to either side as a flank, stay back as a guard, and then the fastest and strongest run to the front to flush their prey back into the rest of the pack. They're one of the most successful hunters of all carnivores, most feline species don't even come close to their success rate. They play the odds too, they don't try to get one particular animal as prey, they find a herd so they can chase them all at once, they don't need to catch all of them, only a few.
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@domingodesantaclara1130 I work at a kennel, we mostly do dog stuff, boarding, doggie day care, grooming, all that stuff. But we have cats too, we can't exactly turn someone away that has 2 dogs and a cat and need to board for the weekend, that would be bad business. And with damn near zero exceptions, the cat owners are fucking bonkers. It's an ongoing work joke, every single time we take in a cat and have to interact with the owner (almost always a woman) it's an entire ordeal of having to babysit/appease some complete lunatic that's talking about nonsense, all shifty and jittery most of the time.
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@hagoryopi2101 no, the truth is the truth. We rarely, if ever, know the truth with absolute certainty, at least in the philosophical sense that we can't even know that we exist with absolute certainty, so we can't know anything else with absolute certainty. But within a reasonable degree of certainty, 2+2=4, that is the truth. You can call the numbers anything you want, it doesn't change the truth, you can even claim it's something different, and even if you're too stupid to know the answer to that equation, none of it makes any difference, it's 4, it's always 4, it always will be 4. And a lot of other things are far less certain than that, and far more subjective, but there is only one real truth about those things, even if our modern understanding of it hasn't necessarily brought us to a consensus yet.
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@Stevie-J well there's a lot of overlap, and Golden Retrievers are very smart, #4 to be exact. And I take those lists with a grain of salt, it depends on where you look, but the top 4 are consistent, 1 - border collie, 2 - standard poodle, 3 - German Shepard, and 4 - golden retriever. So you were mostly right, it is mostly herding and working dogs, but there's also a lot of overlap there, "working" is pretty nebulous bc herding dogs are essentially working dogs too, it's just a more specific type of working. And there's mostly categorized that way based on their physique, herding dogs typically have a longer, slender frame, as opposed to working dogs being more stout. You can actually make a strong argument that German shepards should be in the working group instead of herding, because they're really not used for herding very often, they're typically used for protection or police work. Retrievers are considering sporting, which again could loosely fit in the more broad category of working. "Working" for the intents of classification usually means guard breeds, like great Danes and mastiffs. Labrador retrievers are very intelligent too, but not as much as Goldens.
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@gottesurteil3201 but they were still men. They could have mistaken what Jesus said, or they could have even been corrupt and added in things for their own personal interest. I'm not a Christian, I'm an atheist, but even internally within Christian beliefs, Christ is the only son of God, his authority supersedes all. That's one part that's never made sense to me, the Bible was written by men. That doesn't mean you should just ignore it, it doesn't mean there's not valuable knowledge and insights, I even respect a lot of what's told in the Bible, as an atheist, it's a great work that holds a lot of relevance even to modern day. But it shouldn't be taken as the infallible word of God, by definition men are not God, they are not infallible, even if they were genuinely inspired by the word of God himself, it was still physically penned by fallible men.
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I wouldn't go full "both sides" on the issue, there's definitely blame to be cast on both sides, but it's not equal, it's not even close. Societal expectations for women have evaporated to the point that you can barely even say they exist anymore, women are applauded for the most vile behaviors and attitudes, there is absolutely nothing a woman can do that won't be defended by some insane fringe of feminists. The same isn't true for men, of course there are a lot of men who haven't lived up to societal expectations, but at least the expectations are there. A man can look at another man who lives at home as an adult, doesn't work or works a shit job, is overweight, with poor hygiene, and we will say yea buddy you gotta help yourself. Women wouldn't do the same in the same situation. They would make excuses for the woman who does nothing with her life, and try to explain how it's someone else's fault she's a gross loser.
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There are plenty of ways to get a tooth infection aside from eating grain or sugar, that's completely absurd to say. I get what you mean in principle, they didn't have the same treatments we have, but they also didn't suffer from the same chronic conditions we do at the same rate we do. But ancient humans died from complications with their teeth all the time, it was actually quite common, we've found ancient remains of people who have had teeth removed, so archaic dentistry did exist, they knew that sometimes a tooth had to be surgically removed, and we've also found the remains of people who likely died during these procedures, and remains of people who died either from starvation due to difficulty eating without teeth, or directly from tooth infections.
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@rtg5881 yes, politics sucks, because humans are flawed, and self serving at times, some people at all times. Which is also why politics is necessary, because if left to our own devices we would just kill the shit out of each other. We have to find a way to maintain social order, for the good of all people, the only problem with that is the people in charge of maintaining that order are the same flawed, self interested humans as us. That's why we argue about it so much, because there's no one size fits all solution to everything. Something is going to suck no matter what you do, the only choices we have are which things suck, why they suck, and how much they suck.
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Wicker 2 I'm just gonna firmly disagree on homogeneous nations, I think it's fine if nations want to do that, but I also think there's value in having a society that puts merit above ethnicity, like the US is supposed to be. We're obviously not that anymore, we've been subverted by communists, but I don't think multiculturalism is the cause, I think it's just a symptom that's being exploited. I think ethnostates have a right to exist, and people have a right to be only around their own people if they want to, but I don't think that should be enforced in any way on a global scale. As far as hiring I think it would be better to filter out bad candidates based on their candidacy, I don't really give a shit if they're African, or European, or Asian, I care that they can do the job.
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@jimtaylor294 oh I've known socialism is stupid since the first time I found out socialism is a thing that exists. Obviously if you just give people stuff, it's going to lead people doing less stuff, and then there's going to be less stuff. I understood that concept by the time I was 11 or 12, even if I couldn't articulate it into political terms, or such exquisite language such as the word "stuff" multiple times in one sentence. But that's just me, I completely understand how someone who's just not emotionally mature enough would buy into it. And I'm not trying to say I'm super smart or even mature, I'm certainly not that, not even at 37. But it just never appealed to me, I don't even think it's "good as a concept" like some people will say, screw that. Stifling our incentive to achieve more is equal to stifling our humanity, having to do things that suck is part of the human experience, that's what makes the things that don't suck so enjoyable, you have to do shitty things so you can do the things you really want to do. Just getting to do what you want to do all the time is like a fluffy rainbow prison sentence, and I think that's a lot of the reason so many leftists are bitter, hateful, joyless people. They don't understand that hard work and taking responsibility actually make you a happier and more fulfilled person in the long run, they just do whatever they want all the time and then complain about the inevitable and obvious outcome of that later on.
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@skylinefever I have a theory that I call "Ozzy Osbourne Disorder", that some people for whatever reason are immune, or mostly immune to substances. And this is probably known in the medical community, and kept under wraps. Because part of the oath of medicine is to "do no harm", which typically entails telling patients about any kind of disorder they have. But if you have a 20 year old patient, and test results show they can drink a million beers and do every drug on the planet without suffering the same negative consequences as normal people, it could actually be quite harmful for them to know that. Just because you won't die directly from drug use doesn't mean you can't wrap your car around a tree driving drunk, or just screw up your life in general. I call it Ozzy Osbourne Disorder for obvious reasons, because let's be real, the fact that dude is still kicking makes absolutely zero sense, a normal person probably would have already overdosed 35 times after consuming as much illicit substances as him.
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@AlexiusRedwood I think you're dramatically misinformed about what life was like for our ancestors, again, some of what you're saying is true, there are a lot of medical problems today that are a direct result of modern luxuries, in some ways our ancient ancestors were more healthy than us, but you're vastly overstating this effect. Also not all ancient people ate meat based diets, some people, like Inuits did eat mostly meat, because there's such scarcity in flora in those regions, but most ancient people ate more fruits and vegetables than people realize, hunting meat is hard, especially depending on the time of year. It's not like they got a kill every day, and even when they did, it wasn't necessarily enough to feed the whole tribe. They had to get by with gathering to hold themselves over between successful hunts, and I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but there's a lot of sugar in fruit. It's not like man never ate sugar until the invention of granulated sugar. Sure, we didn't eat it in excess like we do today. But let's not act like every ancient man had perfect teeth, perfect vision, and was a model of human health. That's just not true.
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@cord113 it's a cult. Part of how cults control their flock is by convincing them that nobody outside of the flock could ever possibly be right about anything. That's why they label outsiders as "sinners" or "tools of the devil", or whatever other smear they choose to use. For the far left cult, everyone who disagrees is a racist, or a fascist, or a troll, or a bot. They're under complete control of the cult, because their brain has been reprogrammed to value the source more than the content, if a conservative says it, it's wrong, no matter how basic and obvious the statement is. If a leftist says it, it's true, no matter how nonsensical and verifiably false it is.
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@cord113 YouTube shadow bans a ton of comments, sometimes more than half in any given thread. I can't really put my thumb on the reasoning, and it's not the same as how they delete comments for using their "naughty words", I can still always read all my comments even if they're hidden from other people, and I don't think they're hidden from all people either. It's not about vulgarity or anything like that either, I think it's more to do with what you might find objectionable, based on your personal comments and activity. It's creepy as hell. Because when I watch left wing content and comment, more than half the comments are hidden from me, it'll say there's 30 comments in the thread but when I scroll through there's only 10 or so visible to me, most of the ones I can see are more critical. Right wing content is the opposite, with 30 comments I'll probably be able to view 20 or so, because more of them are more agreeable to me. It's like YouTube is trying to further the divide by hiding comments you may find objectionable, siphon everyone off into echo chambers.
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@granddefectus4602 I already explained this, the only thing that can be quantified is changes in climate. That doesn't prove causation. And since we know for a fact that there are so many external factors that have nothing to do with human interaction, you really can't quantify how much is due to human interaction. You can't just say "it's changed (x) amount since industrialization, therefore industrialization is the cause", science doesn't work like that. The earth has undergone many, many, many extremely dramatic climatic shifts long before human beings ever existed, far more dramatic than anything that's happened during our time as a species, let alone the brief time since industrialization, and many of these shifts happened very rapidly, in the span of a couple of decades. You're being taken for a ride. Global elites are taking advantage of that scrambled little dyslexic brain of yours.
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@ghmj2607 not a Brit, American. And I get what you're saying, I don't have all the answers, and I do think people should have at least some base level of medical care available, especially when we're talking about kids, I hate the idea of kids suffering because their parents made poor decisions, although some degree of that exists in society no matter what. But we do have some responsibility to bridge that gap in reasonable ways. I also don't like the idea of people being charged different amounts of money for the same thing because of their income. I think that's horse shit. We shouldn't punish people for being successful and reward people for being unsuccessful. It's different when we're talking about medical care, I understand that. Nobody should die from a treatable illness just bc they're poor, while Joe Biden can just pump himself full of fetus juice and continue his near zombie like existence, I don't like that either. If the US could cut out some of the other nonsense expenditure of tax funding, maybe I would be less stubborn about socialized healthcare.
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"It's only wrong if I get caught" is the most meaningful difference between a leftist and a regular person. The rest of us have a moral compass, we know right from wrong, even if we don't always follow that, I think everyone reading this, myself included, have had moral failures before. But at least we know that, and we care, to varying degrees, and along different lines, about being a good moral person. Leftists do not care. They will always lie, if they think you won't know any better, they will always steal, if they feel like they need it more than whoever they're stealing from, and they will always do whatever they want to do in that moment, regardless of who it might hurt.
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