The whole world winds her up. Randoms annoy her a ridiculous amount: dogs not on leads, naughty children, slow waiters, noisy people on trains, people who take up too much of the pavement, etc. Muslim randoms seem to annoy her more. Racism aside, she seems to suffer from an acute form of the fundamental attribution error, which friend Brian taught me about, and which is perhaps the useful thing I have learnt on 2p2 (it's awesome for dealing with crowded train stations, for example). I'd like to be able to broach that topic with her, but we're not close.

If you remove the racism, you've described my older brother almost. Anytime he complains, I'm thinking in my head - 'get some real problems bro.'
He lived his entire life almost perfectly, has a high paying job and I think that is what makes him half a douchebag. "Old people should not be allowed drive on the road", he said when he was being held up in traffic by a slow driver one day.
Another time in a restaurant, I told him to stack the plates to make the waitresses life easier and he replied, "no that's her job."

A homeless person once asked him for money, so he bought him a sandwich instead. The homeless person threw the sandwich at him. He doesn't care about homeless people anymore now as a result.

When my family returned from Vegas, they said they saw a homeless person with a sign that read, 'I'll be honest. Need money for weed.' My old man stereotyped all Americans as being very friendly from one week spent in Vegas. 'Have a nice day, sir', they said.

Interesting re: 'the fundamental attribution error'. I knew of it, but didn't know it had a name.

It can be applied to racists and people who think criminals are just plain evil and stop thinking right there. It's not clear to them why American prisons are mostly filled with blacks, why Australian aborginees'
or Candian Inuits' alcholol consumption changed when Europeans showed up etc.

The people who really piss me off are all those going round making stupid damn attribution errors all the bleedin time.

Yeah, from what I've seen the Brits are the worst.

fundamental attribution error*

* I didn't know of psychlopedia until I did a google search. This 'pedia' thing is getting out of control. We need a law to contain it before it consumes the universe of knowledge.

I pre-misattributed The Walking Dead as shallow comic book pop violence filled with shocking gore for a numb audience.

Damn, I was more than half-wrong.

Also to watch for indifference as response to a presupposition everyone blows everything out of proportion and also fear that a certain amount of problems that warrant blowing are real challenges and hard to face, let alone work on solving.

And wait, there is more.

Love you all

And the Trump violence-mongering is pressuring those fears. As violence is one of those problem.

Peace.

I still retain that Hillary is a bigger threat to world peace than Trump.
I just found out now that Pilger agrees.

http://johnpilger.com/articles/trump...he-unpalatable
https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/23/jo...-donald-trump/

Before I read that, I would like to say that agitation of local racism and violence is a primary threat to peace in individual's world's. I look for these kinds consideration in world peace approximations. Upfront.

Besides, since all this Trumpism is technically new, how could we even compare the values here well considered, only that it doesn't appear at all that Clinton does anything to provoke local racism or violence.

I am curious to read that though.

This makes me happy in a sad sort of way. I made some little bit of a difference here.

Makes me feel a bit less weary. Thanks.

I feel so sorry for USA and the world. You are voting in that old fart, and close to nothing I can do about it.

I created life? http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34...house-1628300/

Every view is almost equally welcome. Put some science in the cleaning/decluttering!

Every day this doesn't fall off the front page of OOT is a win for humanity!

It looks drearier than it is because it's loud.

It's fun trying to capture Trumpism in individual sentences.

One thing is for damn sure we need philosophers as long as we have authoritarian-prone democracy. Lest we forget.

Hilary's campaign is trying to torpedo her. Lots of subliminal messages that she is in ill health and hates America.

New scientific discovery: The wife's eyeliner is not supposed to be used as a pen. Even if you cannot find a pen and have something very important to write down.

Blood works. Punch her in the nose next time.

Will SMP be friendlier now?

What are the markers of friendship?

In fact a good question. Friendship is not equal to friendliness though. Somehow friendliness suits my constitution more than friendship.

Friendship doesn't fit in very well on an anonymous forum. Friendliness does.

Nice to have these final exchanges in SMP, after the ATF thread was closed.

Soon we all walk our paths, wiser or not.

https://youtu.be/wmin5WkOuPw

Fair enough. What is friendliness?

Edit: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/friendly

masque is at the mixer, plaaynde the solist.

spank is the third guy.

Friendly environments lends to opportunity for forming and continuing friendships, allowing strangers to get to know each other without any unfriendly prejudice caused by what's in the environment.

It's a little hard to believe as serious when the dictionaries are brought into the friendly discussions. Thesaurus has words for that.