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I never understood the fight against nihilism, as if it’s inherently bleak. I came to the conclusion that nothing truly matters a long time ago, but that doesn’t keep me from feeling like stuff matters, and doing what matters to me. Subjective meaning can still drive you to pursue and live a good life even while you’re aware that objective meaning doesn’t exit. Happiness feels good, which is enough for me.

I’ve never had a problem starting on step 4 and repeating a few times.

I don’t even have to pretend I’m not working when I’m in the office. I’m constantly being interrupted by people to the point where I only get maybe 2 hours of good working conditions total throughout the day. I may spend a good amount of my time at home blatantly not working, but even then I’m still getting more work done in a day than trying and failing to work for 8 hours in the office.

My only regret is only being born with 7 fingers to give…

This is some Made in Abyss type shit, and I’m all for it .

I almost missed the scale on the left. Almost.

Teach a man to fish and you’ll have one new fisherman. Teach a man to teach a man to fish, and you’ll start a new fishery education pyramid scheme.

Reread the rule @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world listed; it’s not a rule against posting AI, it’s a rule against accusing people of posting AI, the very thing they were trying to prompt people to do.

So, if nobody accuses them, is it because nobody noticed, or is it because nobody wanted to break the no-accusing rule? It’s impossible to tell, which makes the results of the study worthless.

One pizza place by my old house in the bad part of Minneapolis always had a bunch of cars in the parking lot. One day I decide to try it; I manage to find a parking spot, walk in, and the place is pretty much empty. I order a pizza, take it home, and it’s one of the worst pizzas I’ve ever eaten. That place simply cannot be a legitimate business.

I suppose you could be right. I do think it’d be strange not to ask your girlfriend why she randomly gives you a singular M&M all the time.

Well, wait, are you assuming she’s not already saying “I’ve noticed peanut M&Ms cheer you up when you’re sad, you want some?” because I have been. The thing she’s been “hiding” is the concept that she’s training him like a dog, which as I said in my original comment isn’t true; she learned the skills from training dogs, but they are skills that offer the same love and respect you would give a human.

Her friend focused on the fact that she treats dogs and humans the same, thought that meant she was disrespectfully training her boyfriend like one might train a dog, and believed that she was hiding this secret training from her boyfriend, which is just an incorrect assessment of the situation.

So yeah, she could tell her boyfriend that she’s treating him like she would a dog, which technically would be the most honest thing to say, but I think it would just lead to him forming a negative association with what is ultimately a caring act, the same way her friend sees it. It’s enough to just stick to “I’m giving you candy because you’re stressed” rather than “I’m giving you treats in the way that I would give a dog treats.”

It’s funny, your hypothetical made me realize that OP’s example specifically does involve consent. Your example removed the inherent consent of the situation by making the HGH dosage a secret thing they’re doing behind their partner’s back.

When my wife has a hard day I’ll bake her a batch of her favorite cookies because I know they’ll help cheer her up. I don’t need to ask consent for that because it’s just a thing I’m doing on my own. She always has the option not to eat them when I offer her some if she doesn’t want to, and on the rare occasion she turns me down, she knows I’ll just bring them to work to share with the office. That’s a normal relationship - seeing when your partner needs something from you, and offering it to them - that offering is the point where consent is asked.

Yeah, if I secretly ground up cookies and mixed them into her cereal in the morning in an attempt to force her to eat them, that would be bad. The consent comes at the offering, not at the loving act of choosing to offer it in the first place. This guy is giving consent when he takes the candy, and denying it when he chooses not to take it, just like my wife is giving consent when she takes the cookies, or denying it when she refuses them, which is always a known option.

That’s fair. If you’re used to not receiving emotional attention, then suddenly receiving it might be something so novel that you need to give it your blessing before accepting it. The relationships I’ve been in have generally defaulted for both parties to a sense of “I’m going to do what I think is best for you, so let me know if I’m ever wrong,” rather than “Can I do this thing for you? Ok, good. How about this one?” But I’ve been lucky to have mutually caring relationships.

If this person has gotten used to people not having their best interests in mind, then maybe even their partner’s good intentions need to be given consent just to show them that people can have good intentions. I do worry that, by being told what’s happening, he’d associate candy with being stressed and get defensive whenever offered candy, but hopefully she’s been doing it long enough to at least show him that it’s an effective de-stressor coming from a place of love rather than manipulation.

I hope you find someone who cares for you as well. It took me a lot of time and effort to put myself out there before I found my wife, but I’m really glad I did.

It’s not an experiment to react to someone’s fear and trauma with kindness, even if you learned those skills through helping rehabilitate dogs. She’s not doing this to try to figure out how he reacts to the stimulus of M&Ms under certain conditions, she’s giving him candy when he’s stressed because she knows it helps him calm down. That’s just being a caring and attentive girlfriend.

Yeah, this person isn’t disrespectfully treating a human as they would a dog, they’re just respectfully treating dogs as they would a human.

As an adult, I now celebrate the day after Halloween, when I can get to the grocery store right as it opens and grab several giant bags of candy on clearance.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: they don’t support Trump because they agree with him, they agree with him because he’s Trump. It doesn’t matter if he flip flops on topics every couple of weeks, it doesn’t matter if he directly screws over his own followers, it doesn’t matter if he spits in the face of all things America has ever claimed to stand for; if Trump says or does something, his followers will support it. Every time.

Anyone that would stop would’ve done so well before they got to the point of obscene wealth. Billionaires can only stop hypothetically - the only way to get them to actually stop is through force.

Had to make sure Berghain wasn’t an art school. It would explain a lot if it was.