Honestly, this sounds to me like something a sociopath would say, which is why I don’t buy it when these people are using the ‘full context’ defence here.

The difference between empathy and sympathy is subtle, yet important, and (I think) exposes that he was a sociopath.

I’m not sure how to explain what I mean other than that sympathy is passive whilst empathy is active. Sympathy exists at arms length, whilst empathy is truly felt. Or, perhaps, sympathy is cerebral whilst empathy is emotional.

Does that make sense? I think sociopaths can understand sympathy, and maybe can tell themselves they ‘feel’ it, but empathy is a foreign concept – and in Charlie Kirk’s mind, a weakness.

So, for me, the context actually makes this quote worse.

They are on some instances.

This is why I don’t block, I just passively ignore.

I want to watch idiots shout into the void. No interaction, no downvotes, nothing. Their impotent rage makes me smile as I move on. That’s my fetish.

Context: https://bsky.app/profile/lillypip.bsky.social/post/3lyo2aq7qy22l

Thanks.

It’s not just that the drink is cheaper, though – the meal comes with a soda by default, but if you choose water or milk, the meal is 31 cents cheaper than normal.

That makes no sense, because the soda costs far less than the milk. It’s costing them more than 31 cents in profits than if you asked for no drink at all, though the milk costs them far more than the coke they’d give you by default.

The good will they get from having this on their menu must be worth those profits, and most people going there aren’t going to order that, so it’s got to be worth it, I guess.

I didn’t say it was healthy, just ‘healthy’, and I didn’t say it was’t marketing, only mildly interesting.

No, this was part of my selection in an adult meal. Perhaps it’s regional, but it wasn’t a kid’s menu thing.

Healer than what? Free?

The .31 discount was in whatever other thing you bought,

You order cheeseburger deal for 9.00 with a coke it’s 9…00. That’s the list price. If you get it with milk 8.69. Pretty much everything is .31 cheaper with milk instead of the soda it normally comes with (though soda costs them almost nothing and milk costs several times more).

Like u said, I get how this works, but I find it mildly interesting since I haven’t seen other places do this.

Sorry, I didn’t mean healthy but ‘healthy’ – like compared to the usual soda that most people get with their fast food.

Like, if you’re going to make your own salad and have a kale drink, that’s different from going to Culver’s butterburgers and shakes in the first place.

In that case, water or milk is much healthier than a triple-dipped ice cream shake, right?

This:

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e: And again, this was -.30 off my bill. Getting nothing at all would have cost more.

Source?

I’ve worked in many restaurants, and Coke is far cheaper than milk of any kind. You buy Coke as concentrate.

Not a shill. I only order out like twice a year and was shocked there were negative prices on their menu.

Decided to get chocolate milk instead of a heart attack of ice cream, and was surprised by the price.

e: proof:

Hive minds are actually pretty smart, collectively.

Not a bad crossview.

Your other left.

I didn’t shop anything out – I got this from a ‘best of’ list. Thanks for the context!

Yeah. He lived a long time only to be hauled up like that. :(

I think you sort of hit on it, but the main problem is borders and tribalism. We’re all people, no matter where we are, and AI transcends that.

You said:

but there’s never really been a global fight or movement against oppression for freedom

And there never will be so long as we subdivide ourselves by arbitrary regions. AI doesn’t have that limitation.

So long as we create these boundaries for ourselves – whether geographic or ideological – we are fragmented and weak. We will always destroy ourselves based on our religion or other stupid boundaries.

I think you’re right, and the way forwards is to stop believing in these petty lines we draw for ourselves.

There have been pictures of kids in this state from Africa for decades, such that people have become numb to it. People mostly don’t help. People are more worried about their own next meal now, because many people in ‘first world’ countries are one paycheque away from starvation themselves, and that’s only been made worse by the wealth-hoarding of a very few.

I think most people want to care, but the treadmill they’re on makes them only able to see their own feet.

This image is horrific, but if they stop running, this will be their own children, and that’s exactly what those in charge want you to feel.

What’s egregious about this is not only this war, but we have ample resources as a species such that every person on earth could live comfortably if a few people weren’t hoarding all the resources.

We could collectively stop killing each other over (mostly religious) differences and put all that energy into helping each other, but no, we’ve put sociopathic zealots in charge.

We could overthrow these zealots, but they’ve brainwashed us into fighting each other instead, and fucked us into having to fight for our own resources just to survive.

We’re collectively better than this. We always have been.

Slay the dragons.