Yeah, like every day when I drag my ass out of bed to go to work, look around and think “this is a bunch of bullshit”

That’s a manga I would read

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

I saw it in the theater as a teenager. I thought it was hilarious. Saw it again 15 years later and was like “this is trash, how did I like this?” Last rewatch I was like “the camp is actually brilliant.”

Lol, first time?

You should read up on how we did Sadam. The US diplo April Glass gave tacit approval for his occupation of Kuwait and we then used that as a reason to retaliate and stabbed him in the back to get the oil.

Even better, you should look up how we completely fabricated a boogeyman out of Gaddafi.

Everything that reaches the ears of the public is a lie.

Both interesting and boring at the same time.

Reddit is just a marketplace for psyops/shilling now anyway.

You can see how there is collusion amongst the search companies and social media companies to wall off their little chunk of the interwebs and herd the users into data scraping apps.

Pic on the right… Oh snap, neurons activate! The whole of the aesthetic is greater than the sum of its parts!

People are inherently stupid. It is an essential part of our species for a reason that’s clever by no merit of our own. That reason is because fitting into social structure takes precedent over everything else. Without it being the highest priority, we are exiled from the goup which historically has spelled death and the end of our family line.

Above all we are a social animal. Of all traits, it is the entirety of our strength and survivability as a species. We believe what we are told to believe by people we believe. That’s it. The adaptability of our world modeling systems is remarkable and the vast influx of environmental data is ambiguous at best.

From the moment you are pooped out onto the earth to the moment you sink into its chilly clutches, all of us, from the beginning of humankind, believe only what our socialization allows us to believe.

Except for the very few things you’ve objectively tested with rigor, everything you think you know falls within the category of second hand knowledge by trusting that certain people are telling you the truth.

Conversely, logical deduction, mathematics, statistics, etc., etc., are not natural to our instincts. They’re skills that must be learned.

So just remember that. You, me, and the vast sea of morons that cover this planet are inherently built for fucking, hunting for resources, and being an integral part of our in-group way beyond things like understanding long term cause and effect, objective analysis, or anything else that paints a somewhat clearer picture of reality.

HSR is a powerhouse when you include the lore, story, graphics, music, etc., that just happens to also be a gacha game.

Now this is ironic.

Reading post: “Hey, I have that game! Wouldn’t it be funny if I took a picture of it and wrote something like ‘oh, it’s over here’.”

goes to xbox stash

“Hmm, that’s weird, it’s gone.”

It was pretty fun. Plot was kind of convoluted. Think I only played it all the way through once but it had a good feel, the upgrades were neat, and it looked great. I probably bought it used and there was a scratch that caused a glitch at one of the boss fights which deterred me from finishing it for a long time but at some point I finished it.

Yet another victim of the grinder that is the entertainment industry. All persons, young and beautiful, must be chucked into the media grinder for the insatiable appetite of the public and industry. Whoever survives is spat out like gristle.

It would be very simple for a person to look at any evidence and say “that does not convince me” and continue to demand more while simultaneously providing no evidence of their own. That doesn’t seem very fair, does it?

Anyway, as usual, the answer that rests between our two viewpoints is “it’s complicated”.

There’s plenty of literature on kin avoidence as well as the advantages and disadvantageous of inbreeding. Help yourself.

Again, that is exactly the point I am making. Wood chips are not “bad for us” in an isolated scenario. You can eat wood chips all day and be perfectly fine. Aside from starving to death, lol. We eat potato chips because we can digest them and gain nutrients.

Evolution did not code us to avoid wood chips. There’s no “wood chip aversion” gene. It coded us to seek out potato chips.

This distinction, while built on a silly premise, is important so that we can be accurate about what evolution drives us to and away from.

We risk mischaracterizing the nature of evolutionary forces by assigning to it a level of forethought it does not have. And explaining social concepts by simply assigning the wide sweeping “evolution must have made us like/dislike thing” and then coming up with reasons after the fact, without evidence, leads us down an incorrect path.

So the whole point I am making is that aversion towards incest is not rooted in primary drives but rather in the socio-primate drives.

It’s there for a good reason but to find out why we need to shed simple explanations which, while plausible on the surface, do not lend evidence to the facts.

The point I am making is that there isn’t a aversion away from something, there is simply a preference towards something. We don’t eat wood chips and don’t like the way they taste, not because they are bad for us, but rather because we would rather eat potato chips. The potato chips are more advantageous to our survival. This may seem I am splitting hairs but it’s important to make that distinction because the following arguments are based on such distinctions and it’s important to assign the correct motivation to our evolutionary drives.

It’s not that our blind systems somehow know that screwing our siblings makes disadvantaged babies (which it doesn’t know that and nor does it compared to mating with someone with a more prominent genetic issue- at least not for the first few generations) it doesn’t code that far ahead for cause and effect. It only instills a preference for slightly exogenous mates to confer immunity advantages.

The Westermarck effect shows strong evidence for a higher (socially speaking) system influencing our mate preference BECAUSE it can be “circumvented” by the evidence that even siblings raised away from each other show no inhibitions towards mating. If there were purely a genetic aversion towards inbreeding there wouldn’t be a statistically significant event of long lost relatives copulating. I’m stretching a bit on the statical significance but it happens often enough to be reported on.

Also, inbreeding is very common in the animal kingdom. Less between direct descendants, like mother/child, but on the whole most creatures make little distinction between relations. Which makes sense if the options are mate with your brood or potentially die without performing our evolutionary imperative command of passing on our genes.

https://theconversation.com/incest-isnt-a-taboo-in-the-animal-kingdom-new-study-160937

I felt a convulsing shudder roll up my innards, complete with subtle eye twitch at the peak, like a cherry on top, when I read your comment.

Actually, that’s assigning too much rational complexity to a blind system. Less the aversion to inbreeding and more the selection of genetic robustness of external mate mingling. To a certain degree.

The histocompatibility of another gauged through smell and taste (i.e. kissing) ensures a preference for a certain degree of separation from one’s genetic pool to ensure protection from local viral and bacterial adversaries. But not too far away! Or it is too alien and doesn’t confer the advantages of mixed immunities.

The ‘ew’ factor is just the societal reinforcement of the Westermarck effect. While surely there is some genetic component at play there it appears to be primarily motivated by the primate social adaptation system.

This can be seen by studying peer groups. Even people far removed from one’s genetic pool will feel like icky siblings if they are raised together. Conversely, many cases of siblings and other relations separated at birth who later meet and fall in love/have relations.

Edit: link for the curious. Fascinating stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect

The answer to this is the same answer to 80% of the issues that we face on the current tech landscape. It’s the answer most need but few want.

You have to circumvent the current monopolies and create your own space. It’s the answer to just about everything.

Almost the entirety of what the web is was originally built by enthusists who saw the tremendous benefit of people being able to communicate freely and privately.

Yes, it’s hard, and it takes time, and it takes exerting effort towards learning new skills, with a much lower turnout of participants.

But once it’s built, it’s yours. No longer do you have to bend to other systems, systems that have proven to be detrimental to a fair and open society.

Basically you have to take matters into your own hands and build the thing you want. Not try to work off the back of something already built that isn’t friendly to your desires.

Count those that won’t follow you as temporarily lost and move on without them.

And besides, no offense bro, even if there was a way to infiltrate Reddit, who would share it here? You could work or contract for Reddit looking for holes to plug or, even worse, the Turkish government.