Stray dogs:
If you pass somewhere and there are suddenly stray dogs in your way, just squat down and show your hands. Hands down, palms up. If they come to sniff and shit, keep your palms below their face. Basically let them come to you. When they trust you, you can pat the top of the head. But patting the top of the head before they know you can be dangerous, as you might use them to hit them, for example.

Usually within seconds the whole pack comes to get some love :)

I’ve never been attacked by a dog this way. But if a dog would come at me, actually aggressive and not slow down, I hear you should use your feet to defend yourself.

Don’t just walk through their territory.

One of the best resources I found to just learn fundamentals of maths.

https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorLeonard

Sorry, hard disagree.

I also don’t want to argue. So feel free to say what you like about this, but I won’t respond. I’ll just drop some thoughts for consideration.

1. Cults don’t have to be religious, and even then there’s a difference
2. Harm doesn’t just come from being militant or political
3. The mechanisms of disbanding suck as much as the criminal justice system and states in general do
4. This isn’t just about the US

Jehovas Witnesses, Moonies, Scientology and so many more are still ongoing. Cult mechanism are literally some of closest stuff to brainwashing there is. They are malign. The followers are victims, and collectively this absolutely should be addressed.

Also, I am not offering any kind of solution here, I.e. to just go after the cults and disband them. As others have said it’s nuanced.

I really don’t mind the vast majority. Unless it’s really dumb, hateful or repetitive, I’m good. It’s just one more thing to scroll past, if I’m not interested. Though I do notice people with cool input running for the hills when the questions aren’t ‘exquisite’ enough and places can turn dull.

Walnuts, figs, honey, mozzarella, blue cheese, rucola and parmesan

That’s pretty cool and very kind of you. But I was exaggerating, though it does hit me more than it should.

But cognitively I know it’s usually not that big of a deal. Sometimes the way I communicated is an issue, or somebody interpreted it wrong, or they are having a bad day, being unreasonable, or I just straight up made a mistake. It could be so many things.

I find this article pretty useful for anyone who might struggle with this and rejection in general:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/08/stay-true-to-yourself-fly-closer-sun-what-ive-learned-from-50-years-of-rejection

Help, I want to report an assault!

Admirable. A single down-vote, even out of 200 and I take physical damage for the next few days.

How about knighting people who actually do real good, rather than rich assholes? Oh right, the people knighting them are the fucking monarchs.

The dumbest game I’ve ever played. Escaped into it as a kid on release and got addicted. Sure the initial journey to 60 was pretty magical. It was my first mmo, and I had played WC3 a lot before.

But my god, the dunning krueger effect, the toxicity, the community. Just terrible imo. And of course the utter unfulfilling time sink.
I’ve also been quite a competitive gamer, having played a lot of cs, dota and wc3 ladder, some semi-professionally. And WoW is simply not it.

I learned how evil Blizzard is, how addicted I can get to certain games, etc. yeah, the one word that comes to mind looking back at it is “stupid”.

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Aside from all the things that are instant turn-offs…

Being hopeful.
Also seem to get drawn to BPD

Sounds very psychosis inducing.

The ability to create black holes. Just wanna fuck around and find out.

Hmm, reminds of this part of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory

I think this is an excellent question. People often forget about threats to families/friends, and only consider their own lives.

It’s of course very context-dependent and I’m sure different people have different beliefs. For example, if your friends and families are ardently against the government and would be willing to risk a lot, and you are having an impact, you might just ignore the threats.

And in a way I think if more people think like that, it’s best, as that makes blackmail to friends/family worthless.

In most other scenarios, I would give them one chance. After all there is other good that can be done in this world. However, if they show that they can’t be trusted. I’d consider that I have nothing left to lose, and go hard.

Yuuuup, I have that while doing yoga alone or trying to meditate.

If it’s gripping, and I don’t get distracted by something else more gripping, I’ll burn myself out binging everything. ADHD and OCD might play a role.

You all are forgetting that cats live on this planet too!

I mean, kinda hard to say without context. Are these aliens even compassionate? How smart are they and what’s the reason for blowing it up? etc.

If I can’t argue how fucking stupid it is to destroy the entire planet, I might become a fervent earth-destroying zealot and undermine their efforts through my utter incompetence.