u/UncleVolk

I'm mostly just speaking to myself here, but I'm sure many of you will relate.

Have you ever accomplished anything by arguing with people online? Has anyone ever changed their mind about anything just because you proved them to be wrong? I have changed my mind about things mid discussion more than once, only to get even more downvotes for it because... I guess the hivemind couldn't fathom the idea of someone having honest, critical thinking and challenging their own ideas? Anyways, my point is, I have never, EVER, not even once, in like 15 years of engaging in online discussions, managed to make someone rethink a single idea even for a fraction of a second. So... why the heck do I keep trying?

And it's not that I am bad at debating. I have managed to make people change their minds about many things in real life. Face to face conversations with someone who has a certain amount of emotional maturity and critical thinking can be very productive for both sides. But people's minds work very differently online. Online, especially on places with upvote/downvote systems like Reddit, it's never about who's right. It's all about tribalism, circlejerking, and karma farming in their little echo-chambers.

The next time you think of arguing with someone here, remember: it doesn't matter how stupid their point is, how easily you can prove they're wrong, how much strong evidence you have to prove your point. They care about that as much as a hungry lion cares if you're vegan. They behave like mindless animals, they already concluded they are right, and anyone who disagrees with a single one of their ideas is an enemy to be destroyed, period.

When they don't have counter arguments they'll just insult, threaten, downvote to oblivion, ban you... best case scenario they will respectfully throw one fallacy after another, or start talking about nonsensical, incoherent stuff that has nothing to do with what you're saying, while ignoring every point you make, or deviating the topic, or go into their beloved whataboutism.

Seriously, spare yourself. Don't waste time, energy and sanity. Debating here is like walking into a sanitarium and try to reason with a bunch of paranoid schizophrenics. We should know better than this.

Llevo años viendo todo en audio original, y ahora se me hacer muy raro ver cosas dobladas. Y yo pensaba que ahora todos los doblajes me sonarían fatal, pero no. El doblaje latino, no digo que suene bien, pero no es ni de lejos la abominación que es el doblaje castellano.

En España el doblaje ha ido involucionando. Antes todos tenían vozarrón tipo Coco Basile, y hablaban normal. Pero desde los años 90 tienen todos la voz del Rubius y hablan como si les estuviesen lamiendo los testículos. No sé quién ha decidido que todos los dobladores tenían que hablar como si tuviesen autismo severo, ni por qué se le ha hecho caso, pero es lo que hay.

Los latinos tenían razón y todo el bullying que nos hacen por el doblaje es merecido. Me cachis en la mar salada, tío.

One thing I've noticed here is how people try to replace online surfing with productive stuff, or even explicitly reflect on how much time they "wasted" instead of doing something productive. Here's the thing: unproductive activities, in moderation, are very important for our mental health. Italians have a term which I love, dolce far niente, which means "the sweetness of doing nothing". I think most of us are missing that in our lives and that's why we doomscroll instead.

Realistically we can't just work all day, exercise, do chores, and then spend the hour we have left learning new skills we're not even really passionate about.

So, what are your favorite mindless, non-productive things that don't require much effort or focus, that you can do even when you're running low on energy, and you do just for the sake of it and genuinely make you happy?

You bunch of illiterates, you grand imbeciles. Do you think you are very smart reading dumb fucks everyone has heard about? Do you really think those lame, normie books are of any value?

If you like normie idiots like Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Saint Augustine, Kant, Hume, Locke, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marx, Camus, Cioran, Foucault, Kierkegaard Wittgenstein, or Heidegger, just off yourself already. You are literally retarded. It is a miracle you made it so far having such a severe mental retardation. All of those idiots were extremely laughable, and they are only famous because most people are braindead and find their pathetic, simplistic ideas to be interesting.

A true deep thinker like myself is way, WAY above those moronic, wannabe philosophers. The half braincell you idiots share would melt if you even got a glimpse of the kind of thoughts I have, and the kind of REAL philosophers I read. No one has ever heard of them, that's how intelligent they were. Way above you, mortals.

Imagine thinking you're smart because you understand Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Let me guess, you also like Jung? I bet you think Kubrick and Kurosawa made good movies.

Lmao, retard.