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  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•If someone gave you 5 billion dollars to improve the world in any way you see fit, what would you do?
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    8 hours ago

    I honestly don’t know.

    My first thought was hiring PMCs/wet work specialists to take care of some particular people (but what if they get a counteroffer and they change their minds? Even the 5 billion might be nothing compared to what these people could offer and it’s not like the people doing this kind of job have a moral compass and care about the great good on average, lol) and put some fear in their hearts. I guess if they don’t fear God, they’ll certainly fear for their lives (you can’t be a hedonist if you’re dead after all). But would that work? Would the ones remaining take care of spinning this in a way that brings the proles even closer to them? Trump and his team have been able to do it after all. But this is a necessary step to control public discourse and create enough fear that those at the top fear for their lives, act a little bit better and cannibalize each other at the top in the chaos.

    The second step would require/involve making people fear God (believe you’ll be judged for your actions by the Merciful, the Gracious after death so you work good deeds and avoid evil). I don’t think that’s possible, at least not for me. After all, every sort of moral teaching and parable has already been made and it’s out there, for free. Maybe if they understood that Voltaire was right, and we’d have to invent God if He didn’t exist FOR OUR OWN COLLECTIVE GOOD IN THIS WORLD, maybe that would be enough. But how? Voltaire was right, but I don’t have to invent Him, I’d just have to remind people of Him enough (but I’d need a literate populace and that’s a dying breed)… Maybe the PMCs should focus on big people in the media and spin but wouldn’t someone else just fill their shoes? Anyway, in the end, I don’t know, lol. I don’t know how to make an impact in the world to make it better in the long term to such a magnitude, not with 5 billion. Maybe 500, and then I’d have some chats with the Chinese to take care of the PMCs before they get out of control or something (they get to showcase/try out their toys, the rest of the world gets rid of an actual/extremely possible danger of military dictatorship).

  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How often do you compliment your girlfriend on her personality traits?
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    2 days ago

    All the time! Words are cheap and everyone enjoys a compliment, especially those with lower self esteem and a myriad of concerns and doubts. But I compliment everyone when the circumstances call for it, from telling my friends I love their shoes (IDC nor do I have an eye for fashion, but I know they do!) to praising my colleagues, telling them how competent they are at what they do etc etc (it’s deserved, plus it keeps the machine running smoothly). If you’re mentally agile, have read a book and aren’t too consumed with your own insecurities, words should come very easily to you, so don’t forget to use them!

  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Feel this
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    3 days ago

    The phrase “I probably lack something fundamental…” is what I’m against. Yeah, it’s a bit pathetic IMO to say something like “thanks for letting me try” (what are you looking for here, comfort? Fishing for compliments? Just for talking?) after a certain age, but you’d be crazy to think I’d say anything but “no problem buddy” to anyone who said that, regardless of how I feel about it. What else would any reasonable person do?

    So, at best you have the tisms (being in the spectrum is too common for anyone to accurately say they “lack something fundamental”, but it’s at least a more accurate statement) and lack a diagnosis, at worst your brain is ok but you’re too childish and self-pitying to the degree that makes me side eye you a bit. It’s not a big deal, and it’s not like I go around telling people to shut up, lol, neither the internet nor the world belongs to me alone and I’m not a villain.

  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Feel this
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    4 days ago

    Thinking you’re that fundamentally different to the rest of the human race because you’re lonely and probably improperly socialized is just not it. Maybe you’re just a bit on the spectrum, which makes you at most part of a sizable minority, maybe you’re just a bit anxious and in your head (and that still doesn’t make you special)… It’s a show of childish self-pity with aftertastes of vanity, IMO, so what I posted was the first thing that came to mind/heart.

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