I honestly don’t know what to make of this word vomit attempting to make some kind of broad societal statement that you still cared enough to share with the world despite it making no points of any use to anyone.

“Everything is relative” is the philosophy of a child who thinks they know everything. Grow up and form some actual beliefs and realize that yes there is such a thing as truth and yes there is such a thing as objectivity and yes there’s a reason why some opinions are justified and others aren’t. Realize that truth is the basis of science and technology that keeps you alive today.

Sure, people might be all irrational, but there are certainly degrees to irrationality, we might be susceptible to biases or contradictory beliefs, but not all equally so, and it doesn’t make all beliefs inherently contradictory or irrational unless proven to be so, which you have failed to demonstrate.

That’s why some people can be absolutely right, and others can be absolutely wrong, and that can be objective. Go study the scientific method, epistemology, etc. Learn about actual formal logic, propositions, fallacies and so on, teach yourself how to think correctly and do reconsider your anti-intellectualism.

Why are you even here at all, if any slight and gentle attempt at a discussion on a discussion subreddit is “an internet edgelord debate” you’re being “baited” into that definitely won’t be in good faith?

Like, bruh, you opened the app??? What did you expect???

And I would certainly be happy to take your joke had I noticed you making any.

EDIT: Also, blocked. I don’t need this childish truth denialism and anti-intellectualism in my inbox in the morning, it genuinely rustles my jimmies. It’s like the number one reason the whole world has gone to the dogs.

Thank you! I hope for the best for you. I hope you can turn it all around again and make your past self proud!

Good points! I agree tbh.

No you misunderstood, I have had many traumatic experiences, I just have no trauma. Everything has been solved, processed or otherwise just didn’t leave a lasting impact.

Exaggerated? Sure. It’s the internet, it’s how we write, but even the very title is prefaced with a “kinda”.

I have absolutely no emotional involvement in this whatsoever, this is a pass time for me on the toilet. I really don’t care either way.

The key is “I don’t want” as in - not my preference, I still do nonetheless.

It feels great. I have a girlfriend I met off dating apps right before enshittification took full force in OKC, while we have our problems, we do our best and we communicate (the most important thing). I have many friends, some of which go back to my childhood, others are new, just wish I had more time to see them.

I got a job I like (albeit lots of changes atm as my manager and cherished colleague of many years is leaving), and it pays OK, well above median wage in the UK at least, I work from home so I save time and money on commuting and I can interact as little or as much with coworkers as I actually want.

My ADHD meds are working well and I’m able to look after myself and perform tasks more or less on time when I need to do them. I had bottom surgery and discovered I’m pretty much free of gender dysphoria - an ever-present mental anguish I suffered prior. I’ve been through a lot, always uncertain future - I was on the edge of being deported for many years, but at least I have a permanent residence now, so I cherish the good things. Used to be flat broke, now got a bit of money, so when my gaming PC broke it didn’t even phase me, I always knew it as a luxury to not be using an ancient laptop.

When my parents found out I was trans, they disowned me, but as I was an only child and it was their dream, they still paid for my university overseas. I hated them for a long time because I was very much limited by what they would allow me to do, but now that I’m safely independent, as an adult I’m eternally grateful for the opportunities and love they gave me, even if I felt betrayed then and there, I’ve been doing my best to reach out and slowly get back in touch again, even if they’re not exactly trans-positive as one might expect of ex-soviet citizens, they’re not brainwashed Z vatniks, so there’s hope yet, and I do love them, and have many olive branches, they keep slapping away, and I will keep extending them.

I have many hobbies ranging from music production to electronics (like just simple circuits with Arduino type stuff), learning guitar and on to self-hosting stuff, I’ve even released some music on Spotify for fun, I read a lot about the world in my spare time from philosophy to history to economics to stratigraphy.

For the last few months I lived somewhat rurally in a shitty downstairs apartment that actually used to be great but it had a lot of issues not least of which extremely loud, extremely shitty neighbours, that made me feel down for a long time but I actually managed to move, took spending my savings on paying double rent for both flats at once but I moved into a nice spacious new build apartment building with good sound proofing in what the brits call a “new town”, it’s a nice city, very modern, much cycle infrastructure so I think I’ll take that up when I have money, and it’s population density is quite low in the centre so I really enjoy it, feels like a whole city just for me haha, and it’s never crowded at all so thank god!

It’s not that I don’t have problems, but none of them feel unsolvable as they once did, many times I often feel like I can do anything! Maybe even own a house one day!

Sorry, it’s all over the place, but I didn’t just want to say “feels great! Thanks sucker!” But actually explain why I’m great these days so that maybe someone somewhere finds some value in it.

I may come off as a sardonic asshole in my OP, and it is what I intended, but as the world is going to hell and I feel powerless to change it, I want nothing more than for people to find peace and happiness.

There is no “their” logic or “my” logic, not all opinions are equal and not all are valid - there is only actual logic, the system according to which things either make sense or are nonsense. That’s the system I would like people to use when justifying their viewpoints.

You identify as an anarchist (lol, of course you do) but you admire “Soviet tech optimism”

These are not in contradiction. Soviet tech optimism was a naive general societal belief in the power of technology to solve problems, but unlike American tech optimism it was about the problems of the proletariat and disconnected from the profit motive. I absolutely do not simp for the soviet union itself and have never stated as such. Generally speaking technology has solved a lot of problems, hence why I’m sympathetic towards the belief, as opposed to “degrowth” which is often tied in with Anarcho-Primitivism and anti-civ movements that have many problematic aspects when it comes to their distaste for technology in practice working to rob the disabled of independence.

You argue in favor of neoliberalism which is directly opposed to anarchism

I side with them as opposed to Anarcho-Primitivists and degrowth/anti-civ people.

They’re not my first choice because as you said - it’s not very left-wing or anarchist, but I genuinely believe that if these were the two options, I would side with neoliberals even though anprims are fellow anarchists because the former built a genuinely better world than what I think would result from the ideology of the latter.

It’s called having nuanced, clear positions.

yet degrowth promotes sustainable technology.

This isn’t correct.

My political viewpoints are sound, but you’re right - maybe someone more knowledgeable than you, which I imagine is a lot of people, (though given some recent elections in the world maybe not), could engage with this and actually have a reasonable discussion.

is mediated by biology.

Eh, I wouldn’t be able to have most of those experiences if not for technology. My eyes are meat and flesh, but without the silicone contact lenses on top, they’re as good as not being there really.

So in many ways, it’s mediated by technology also.

but you still rely on the very biological processes you claim to despise.

Never said I didn’t? I would prefer not to, hence why I said I’d long for sacred steel in lieu of flesh lol.

You don’t consider what happens if most plant and animal species die, or its devastating effects on food production, the climate and human survival.

Of course I do? I never said we should go out and destroy the environment now. Are you struggling to read, or something?

Most of the rest of us will be out embracing the chaos, beauty and unpredictability of the real world while you wither away, unhappy and unfulfilled, in the sterile prison you’ve created for yourself.

That’s some crazy projection. I’m happy and fulfilled in my sterile prison, thank you very much!

None of that matters to you because your worldview doesn’t extend beyond your home and wifi network. Of course the fact that billions of people find comfort and purpose in nature is incomprehensible to someone like you whose life is devoid of meaning.

More projection. My life is fucking bursting with meaning these days, every year is better than the last ever since COVID tbqh.

But yeah I actually made the post to see what the arguments were for liking nature, so maybe I could see it differently and enjoy it as well, but so far it seems the only commonality is a genuine inability to argue without resorting to ad-hominem and a shocking lack of reading comprehension.

That’s why I said “in a vacuum” - as in, isolated from other factors including consequences. I do not in fact wish for ecosystems to be destroyed as I’m not an idiot.

I appreciate your input, but please just read the post before wasting time writing this out next time. Thank you.

No. I can’t say I’ve had any “trauma” at all. I grew up in a safe and stable home to loving parents. Nowadays I have a pretty good life and my mental health is pretty perfect, thanks for asking

Idk I’m not hiding from anything? Like i can’t really hide from these so-called realities, I just mitigate them as do we all by living in and perpetuating civilization by e.g. not littering thereby not fly-tipping and not attracting flies and other infestations.

What’s exactly “dysfunctional” about these statements? How can a statement even be “dysfunctional”?

Idk, flowers are just weak air freshener honestly. It’s not surprising that something that was created to smell good to us smells better to us than something that wasn’t meant to smell good at all.

Definitely not.

Guess we approached from different sides. Where we descended there was smell from a nearby pig farm. Almost swore off animal products then and there just because animals get pretty gross ngl.

I know Bookchin and I’ve skimmed some of his works, though I’m more familiar with Kropotkin and Graber, what’s your point?

I thought agoraphobia might be the case and it would make sense as I’m a minority and trusted polls show most of the nation wants my rights gone, but I don’t actually have any issues going outside and I don’t fear people, I don’t have issues even going out in nature, I just don’t like the latter same as I don’t like Chinese or Indian food, I will eat it if it’s all that’s available but I won’t enjoy it.

My mental health is actually pretty perfect these days.

Not everything is some mental illness, people just have different opinions and mine is well reasoned I’d like to think.

On the other hand “loving nature” is something I seldom see justified in any meaningful way, so I remain unconvinced that it is something to consider.

Do you have any logical reasons for why you disagree (and “hate”) my opinion?

Does it? What’s the position? Ultimately my reason for posting this is to create a discussion so I’m curious to hear what you think.

Picking up litter is going to make more health CEOs disappear? Whaaaaat?

No modern housing due to NIMBYs here in the UK. A smaller community means renting a tiny attic, basement or god forbid house sharing a room in a partitioned victorian mcmansion for £1k a month or more. In my experience you will also have absolutely psycho neighbours over and over and over.

Trains will be dog shit in the south and you won’t get anywhere fast or reliably and you will pay £50 for the pleasure, the cars are too expensive to have, and nobody wants to sit in traffic. If you’re LGBTQ it’s only a matter of time if you get hatecrimed.

If you talk to anyone you’ll get the cops called on you because talking to strangers is very weird in those communities.

There are insane cliques on Facebook filled with elderly with too much time on their hands who will conspire to attack specific street buskers or Starbucks baristas for being overly “gormless”.

Having a nice hill to stare into fields at is okay, but most likely it’ll be filled with dogs and all those fields and beautiful “”“nature”“” will be privately owned as well.

You’re in luck, the deck runs those fairly well in my xp.

My life is on a bunch of HDDs dug out of failed laptops with SMART errors some of which have already failed in the past, they are duct taped together and shoved inside a drive cage they don’t fit in.

Depends

https://steamdeck.com/en/verified

All these game will work swimmingly. Those marked playable will usually work perfectly fine out of the box, but maybe have an ugly launcher or something you need to use the touchscreen for. Those marked unplayable will have bugs but in my experience work fine too. There’s a more detailed less conservative compatibility db online too.

In terms of power it’s about between a PS4 and PS4 Pro, with a faster CPU, more RAM, slower GPU, but with a really fast NVMe SSD so games like CP2077 are very playable but not at the highest settings.

Gotta remember the Deck has a 7.4" 800p screen, so its not comparable to the horse power needed for a PC at 4K or something.

Most consoles end up around the same render res once you’ve accounted for checkerboarding, dynamic res and DLSS/FSR nonsense.

The deck also does shader pre-compilation and caching for games on steam so it often performs much better compared to a Windows PC with the same hardware for example.

Anything ray tracing is out of the question though as it uses AMD, not Nvidia.

I don’t play AAA games (nor know what new ones are there) - if you have a game in mind I could try it and report back?

The only game I tried that it really struggled with was NFS Unbound.

I was also able to do PS3 emulation on it, including Skate 3 and Motorstorm.