Lyre

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[–] Lyre 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well if you define death as "not existing" then 100% of people who don't experience life are also dead.

[–] Lyre 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

"Hmmm well if you think tiktok should be banned for spying then do you think american social media platforms should be banned for doing the same thing?"

Yes. They should. That is not the argument you think it is.

[–] Lyre 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I mean when you're in an echo chamber this intense it's natural to lash out. I kind of expected something like that to pop up eventually.

[–] Lyre 77 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Honestly not sure if the concept of Facebook was so great to begin with actually....

[–] Lyre 2 points 3 months ago

Connect app web viewer was not prepared for that at all lmao

[–] Lyre 5 points 3 months ago

Well, I got the impression that the author was mostly hanging out in upper class society. So while she's asserting that these rules are universally applicable, her frame of reference seemed to be mostly talking to people in situations like fundraisers and galas. I imagine she's operating on a framework of always having some prior knowledge of the people she's engaging with.

[–] Lyre 6 points 3 months ago

I got that vibe throughout the entire book. It really smelled to me of someone trying to justify their own success when in reality she was probably just born with the right connections.

[–] Lyre 38 points 3 months ago (16 children)

In her book "How to talk to anyone" Leil Lowndes suggests that when speaking with women it's best to maintain constant, unbroken eye contact to signal attention and interest. She goes on to note that even when engaged in conversation with multiple people one should act as if their eyes are constantly glued to the woman, only briefly looking away when another person is speaking and behaving as if your eyes are irresistibly drawn back to the woman of interest. She believes this formula is best in male to female conversations and female to female conversation.

By contrast, she notes that when engaged in a male to male conversation, one should regularly break eyecontact as not to be perceived as a threat. However, one should still act as if your eyes are being irresistibly drawn back to theirs.

.... I have no idea what Lowndes's qualifications are and frankly this sounds like a formula written by an alien trying to understand humans but hey maybe theres some merrit to it idk

[–] Lyre 103 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)
  • Orcas are hyper intelligent
  • There has never been a documented orca attack on humans
  • People regularly go missing at sea without a trace

Hmmm....

[–] Lyre 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I mean at this point it's not even news

[–] Lyre 37 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The thing that gets me is the McDonald's employees tip. Whenever something like this happens the police are flooded with false information and bad tips, this case would have been even moreso due to the politics involved. What made them decide this random person in another state was credible? What about this tip in particular made them say "this information should be followed up on."

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