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Salbazier on Nov 19 2025 said:

'I don't know, mate, it reads pretty good to me. If suckiness equals AI, I say this doesn't sucks, and therefore it isn't AI. Checkmate'

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nocarename on Mar 13 2014 said:

I like constitutional monarchies. You get all the democratic bonuses, plus an emergency back up autocrat. Like a spare tire of government. Plus all the snazy titles and everything. I'm a sucker for snazzy titles. And it's handy to separate out the moral authority from the political realities of policy. Makes it way easier to keep that moral authority clean and useful.

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twicethmadness on September 10 2025 said:

Here's the thing about codes, they, like most rules are cognitive shortcuts we use to simplify decision making. It's a sort of top down thinking that cuts down the load of cognition. It's quite helpful if you want to make quick decisions or to regulate behaviour fast.

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Hardric62 on May 19 2019 said:

And people falling into self-loathing for not doing something they could be able to do because they're deadly afraid of screwing up? Depressingly common occurence without superpowers, so with them in play...

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Tetramoore on September 25 2019 said:

Exactly, why don't depressed and damaged people just get help and stop being depressed and damaged?

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Chair-zard on September 25 2019 said:

Coming from a guy going for a psych degree, you cannot help someone who doesn't want help. Therapy is a cooperative process.

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PathologicalFire on September 4 2019 said:

Therapy isn't magic.

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Night_stalker on Apr 29 2020 said:

If you don't like or get along or trust the shrink, therapy is pointless.

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Rater202 on Feb 18 2020 said:

If you can't trust a therapist unconditionally then you're never gonna get better.

In order for therapy to work, you have to trust that the person you are sharing your problems with, who is counseling you and making suggestions to help you train yourself away from thoughts and behaviors that harm you or hold you back, or and may or may not be prescribing medication that alters your brain chemistry is doing that to help you and has your best interests at heart because you are making yourself vulnerable to that person.

Going to therapy is the emotional equivalent of stripping naked in front of a guy with a knife and trusting that he won't stab your soft vulnerable flesh.

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Aleh on Dec 30 2013 said:

You see, we're taught that a therapeutic relationship is founded on trust. Whether or not this is actually true, there's ample evidence that clients trust therapists... even when they shouldn't. Among other things, they tend to believe that their therapists do have the sort of special insight into their problems that they don't actually have.

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Siri Keaton in Blindsight said:

The experts of the day had been little more than witch doctors dancing through improvised rituals: meandering free-form interviews full of leading questions and nonverbal cues, scavenger hunts through regurgitated childhoods. Sometimes a shot of lithium or haloperidol when the beads and rattles didn't work. ... the therapists and psychiatrists poked at their victims and invented names for things they didn't understand, and argued over the shrines of Freud and Klein and the old Astrologers. Doing their very best to sound like practitioners of Science.

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The B5 Fan in Jun 29 2017 said:

Listen here you little nit, the only inhabitants of the Falkland islands prior to the arrival of the colonial powers were fucking penguins, and they sure as shit didn't call them the malvinas, unless that's a particularly weird spelling of "awk awk".

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Shylock the Merchant of Venice in 1598 said:

Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause;
But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

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Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir on Dec 11 1956 said:

When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

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Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban on Dec 21 1973 said:

The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

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Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu on October 28 2023 said:

Remember what Amalek did to you.

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy on March 3 2022 said:

My life today is wonderful. I believe that I am needed. That's the most important sense of life: that you are needed, that you are not just an emptiness that breathes and walks and eats something.

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Laserdream in Dying 15.a said:

It was more convenient to not have any friends at all.

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Mattman324 on May 29 2020 said:

But the power of friendship is very real! If I have more of it than you it means I have more friends, which means that when we fight my firing line is bigger.

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hyzmarca on Apr 9 2017 said:

We love war because war is friendship. War is love. War does not merely beget more war. War is, in fact, the gateway to peace. If we beat them hard enough then they will love us, and will be our bestest buddies forever. History has taught us this.

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German Field-Marshall Count Helmuth von Moltke the Elder on December 11 1880 said:

Perpetual peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful dream. And war is an integral part of gods ordering of the universe. In war, mans noblest virtues come into play: courage and renunciation, fidelity to duty, and a readiness for sacrifice that does not stop at giving up life itself. Without war the world would be swamped in materialism.

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British Vice-Admiral Sir John Fisher on May 1899 said:

I am not for war, I am for peace. That is why I am for a supreme navy. Did I not write in your autograph book at the Hague 'the supremacy of the British Navy is the best security for the peace of the world'? My sole object is peace. What you call my truculence is all for peace. If you rub it in, both at home and abroad, that you are ready for instant war, with every unit of your strength in the first line, and waiting to be first in, and hit your enemy in the belly, and kick him when he's down, and boil your prisoners in oil (if you take any), and torture his women and children, then people will steer clear of you.

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United States Air Force Chief-of-Staff Curtis LeMay on January 1 1965 said:

What I'm trying to say is, if once you make a decision to use military force to solve your problem, then you ought to use it. And use an overwhelming military force. Use too much, and deliberately use too much, so that you don't make an error on the other side and not quite have enough. And you roll over everything to start with. And you close it down just like that. And you save resources, you save lives -not only your own but the enemies too- and the recovery is quicker and everybody's back to peaceful existence. Hopefully in a shorter period of time.

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