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  • The Fallacy of the Beard

    Get your opponent to concede a point by burdening them with defining a strict threshold. Break their claim into smaller and smaller components and keep zooming in until you are looking at such tiny things that their original claims seem overblown.

    This man has a beard! Does he? Yes clearly! 20mm hair on chin!

    Would he have a beard I mean an actual beard if it was 5mm? No that’s just stubble! Where does it become a beard, at 10mm? I guess!

    So a man with 9mm hair has stubble? Yes! And he grows one measly millimeter of chin hair in on one of the hairs and BAM WHOA he has a beard now?

    Edit: Not calling your question out as disingenuous, but trying to prevent it being abused.





  • I grew up with analog clocks and can read them at a glance.

    For the most part, I don’t really care precisely about minute. E.g. the analog clock in my kitchen is only used to tell me that it’s “roughly 2 minutes past 5 soon” and it’s enough for me to put the potatoes on.

    If I need to know precisely whether it’s 16:03 vs 16:04, I use a digital clock. Though mostly because my analog clocks are not precisely synced at all times.

    Back when analog was the norm, nobody cared about a minute here or there unless they had some specific profession. Like, the bus came “15:15 ish maybe 5 minutes early maybe 10 minutes late”. Everyone’s clock were off by at least 2 minutes anyway.

    Today in the digital age, the bus schedule says “15:17”








  • Stay off redpill forums, incel spaces, or pickup influencers. They will put ideas in your head that isolate you and make you unlikeable and lonely, and vulnerable to macho grifts.

    I understand and respect your questions and applaud your desire to learn, but your posts all have the language of toxic masculinity, indicating that you are getting harmful advice.

    Women are not a different species than you.

    Women are not calculating cynical creatures analyzing men’s credit and social scores.

    It’s not a “game”! Believing it is makes adversarial “techniques” and “strategies” sound sensible. They are not.

    It’s all people seeking trust and intimacy.




  • While that answer is correct, “professional help” isn’t a thing most people can just pick up from the grocery store, so to speak.

    Knowing what type of help to ask for, getting affirmation that they need help at all, how to describe the problem, whether it has any other known names, etc are very valuable resources that people can only really get from asking friends or online forums.

    I need to go through my GP to get “professional help”, and the waiting list for non-urgent appointments are 1-2 months. I would for sure be stuck for months or years in “stressed or burnt out maybe rest some” if I tried to bring up that my inner voice is mean to me.

    If I went to my GP with the phrasing, clarity and clues I would get from answers in this thread, I might actually eventually get a psychiatrist.