• NielsBohron
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      263 months ago

      Personally, I think Satan (well, Lucifer) is the perfect embodiment of chaotic good

        • NielsBohron
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          83 months ago

          You’re welcome to disagree. But if you read Paradise Lost or do a little critical analysis and compare the themes of “The serpent in the Garden” with stories like Prometheus (and other fallen angel motifs), it’s pretty easy to see Lucifer/Satan as a sympathetic character, IMHO.

          But then I’ll always tend to lean toward the side advocating for more knowledge over the side advocating for limiting knowledge.

    • SmokeyDope
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      33 months ago

      Why didn’t you just cross post to both? Fits well in both.

        • NielsBohron
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          23 months ago

          “Do you cross-fit? you can cross-fuck-off, cross-fart”

        • SmokeyDope
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          Its been eight hours, you have four upvotes, and this comment still reads like word salad to me. I’m assuming im missing something and this is a reference or an in-joke isnt it?

          • @gaael@lemm.ee
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            33 months ago

            It was a mediocre joke.
            OP posted here something that was originally on r/fit.
            Another commenter suggested they cross-post somewhere else.
            I just suggested that if you have a post about fit, when you cross-post it it becomes about cross-fit.
            You didn’t miss anything interesting ;)

            • SmokeyDope
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              Thanks for taking time out of your day to explain it for me gaael its a decent play on words! I just wasnt picking up what you were putting down today

              • @Glytch@lemmy.world
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                63 months ago

                Fourth party here: definitions are descriptive not prescriptive and vary by common usage. Due to current common usage, literally means both literally and figuratively, with the original definition slowly losing ground. So no one is correct.

                • @stoicmaverick@lemmy.world
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                  True, but if you wanted to articulate the concept formerly known as “Literally”, how would you do it? I just woke up, and my brain hasn’t booted all the way to desktop yet, but I can’t immediately think of another word to fill the niche.

                • SmokeyDope
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                  But is it a figurative burying or a meta-literal one? I mean if you really think about things entomologically and we pick apart the Latin root words of “bury” and “dogpile” we might just find that the meaning of lemmy dogpile changes completely depending on context, literally figuratively.

                  Language is fucked. We really need telepathically beaming abstract concepts directly into brain matter so I don’t have to crawl through linguist brainrot reply chains.

        • @dnick@sh.itjust.works
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          No said suffering want good. Lots of people like things that cause mild to moderate discomfort, but watching someone do something they dislike for an invalid reason seems to be the context. Lots of people like raw onion, but the consensus seems to be that few people would enjoy sitting there and simply eating an entire raw onion.

    • @zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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      Raw red onion is amazing in sandwiches, and I’ve eaten chopped white onion on hot dogs, and that’s pretty good, too. Just straight-uo eating an onion by itself? No.

      • @zarathustra0@lemmy.world
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        Btw the skin has the most testo boost

        This is misinformation.

        Everyone knows that you get the biggest boost to testosterone by leaving the onions until they start to degrade; yes, this is the point when the chemicals that make you cry are strongest, but if you can hold back the tears then you get +50 testosterone.

        • @minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world
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          This is disinformation. Everyone knows that you get the highest boost +100 of testosterone if you insert the raw onions in your ass daily. It’s equivalent to squatting 300 lbs.

      • @Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
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        I legit used to work with a lady who would do that. Her dad trolled her with an onion he told her was a weird apple as a kid. She loved it and just kept eating them. She was an interesting individual. In the best way.

      • @sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
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        Are you allergic to alliums? Or just doesn’t sit well? I think raw onions might not be good for me, so I’m just wondering…

        • @MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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          No idea never heard of that allergy, they just feel weird on my stomach like I want to burp them up or something. They also leave a lingering taste in my toungue.

  • @Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
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    Except, A lot of people eat raw onions. On salads and sandwiches. Sometime I caramelize some onions and put them on a sandwich along with raw onions. I guess they cancel out when I do that ;)

    • @Nihilistra@lemmy.world
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      And why wouldn’t you. I tend to not bite into the whole thing but suffer from occasional urges to do so.

      Still remember that maybe 10 years ago on our way to Romania two grandpa’s in a restaurant in Hajdúnánás ordered some huge chives to dip in salt with their beers.

      I ordered the same 10 minutes after and both gave me a drinking salute. Still eat it in summer, amazing healthy snack.

  • @brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    The modern internet in a single image.

    I’m a bit skeptical of Twitter Verified posters though. Makes me think jeeba made that up for Twitter engagement… I guess that’s fitting, too.

  • @Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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    Why would someone care about their testosterone levels? If it’s causing a problem shouldn’t you are a doctor. If it’s not then there is no problem in the first place.

    • @belastend@slrpnk.net
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      Because an entire generation of online grigters convinced people that “big testo good, small testo bad”. The same people who think baldness is a sign of low testoteron or that thin men have low t.

    • @Baguette@lemm.ee
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      Can’t say for much, but I do know testosterone is a drug (aka steroids) people willingly take to pursue a super muscular body type. Wouldn’t be surprised if people tried alternatives to get the same effect, especially since onions are technically “natty” (natural)

      There’s probably also some folklore on test outside of bodybuilding, wouldn’t be surprised if toxic influencers promoted it

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          I should have specified in the context of bodybuilding. People naturally have testosterone, but when talking about bodybuilding, it’s usually about people taking it as a performance enhancing drug.

        • How deep do you go? Believing a post on 4chan? Dumb. Believing a comment on reddit? Dumb. Believing an article on a reputable news site? Dumb. Believing a study funded entities that may encourage a bias? Dumb. Believing a study from scientists that would rather cause sensation than do good science? Dumb. Guess the only solution is to put on that lab coat, get a doctorate and do the experiment yourself, huh? Or maybe put the blame on people spreading misinformation instead of the victims it hurts. There isn’t enough time in the fucking day to validate everything you come across, and if you’re not doing the experiments yourself you’re trusting someone.

  • @chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    So like, did he compose entire fake studies for a laugh or are there real scientific studies out there about the effects of raw onion on testosterone

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    Wow. So the new morality is that it’s okay to be an asshole if the target is crowd-approved and it creates something amusing to click on. So much more Enlightened than boomers!

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      These aren’t some vulnerable protected class of people, it’s workout bros, if they can’t look into a study to see it’s bullshit that is on them. I agree though it’s a bit rude.

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        Oh I know… crowdsourced blanket judgements of entire groups of people are right as long as the right people do it and they’re right about it. Very common mentality, becoming more so in the meme era. I just don’t happen to agree with it.

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        I don’t have a dog in this fight, not into fitness and my testosterone seems fine, but I think it’s as ignorant as it is arrogant to decide a whole group of people are assholes because they have certain hobbies or interests or health concerns. Absolutely as ignorant as thinking black people are criminals.

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          True, but the people who actually need testosterone will not be well served by researching on fitness forums, and most of the people on fitness forums who are trying to ‘increase their testosterone’ seem fair game as far as an amusing and mostly harmless prank.

          It’s not nearly as close to the racist example as you think since no one is born a fitness bro or coerced into reading a forum post, and if they are, the could spend a minute considering a source. The only person this is likely to harm would be someone desperate to legitimately increase their testosterone, unwilling to go to a doctor and somehow harmed by eating onion. At that point it’s hard to say when a prank would ever be truly safe.

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            Yeah, I’m getting the hint that tricking people into self abuse and mocking them is the kind of thing you’d want to teach your kids to do as long as the people deserve it by being lumped into a legitimate target group, and that rationalizing that bit of minor cruelty on social media is super worthwhile.

            • @dnick@sh.itjust.works
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              Yeah, or maybe mocking a group that is a little too gullible and full of itself with what is arguably a broadly harmless prank isn’t the same thing as tricking someone vulnerable into drinking bleach to make friends or something.

              Honestly, tricking someone into eating something many people eat willingly isn’t the moral quagmire you seem to think it is.

        • @Casteyes@lemmy.world
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          23 months ago

          Generalizing a group is a logical fallacy. Many humans don’t seem to realize that though and continue to do it anyways.