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1. mmooss+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-01-14 22:32:32
These are all empty claim, including a grand social theory. I'm not even sure what you're talking about for 2010-2015. You really need to be drowning in yourself to believe it all and then, on top of it, to judge other people.

People don't share your priorities or beliefs. Maybe that's why they act differently.

> Avoiding doomscrolling is not that hard.

If you mean addiction to social media, that's empirically not true. You can see how many people are addicted, and the research about it. Typing a few bytes into HN doesn't change or establish any facts.

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2. borrok+ot[view] [source] 2026-01-15 01:12:15
>>mmooss+(OP)
What are the empty claims?

It is simple logic that dressing with intention is not hard. But let's define 'hard' with an example: running a marathon under 3 hours is hard for the general population; that is, it is an activity that, despite desire, planning, and effort, is beyond reach for many.

Dressing appropriately, such as not going out in PJs or with a mangled, overused, stained T-shirt or in flip-flops (apart from the particular cases I need to include, otherwise I am marginalizing people who don't have the resources to buy a 3 dollar shirt or refuse to clean due to some disorders included in the DSM-5) is not hard.

Avoiding doomscrolling is certainly not hard; one, given sufficient desire and a recognition of their inability to stop looking at other people's lives, could just delete IG, snap, X, or whatever.

Finally, people can do what they want, like going out semi-naked and without showering for 3 weeks, farting in public, which has become an unfortunate common circumstance, doomscrolling until their eyes are a bright red, or eating until they explode because sugar is "addictive".

But I like encouraging people not to live their lives like defenseless victims of circumstances.

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3. mmooss+FJ[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-15 03:17:42
>>borrok+ot
> What are the empty claims?

Almost all of them - you have no evidence, just your subjective beliefs stated as facts. There is a great, wide world outside your head.

> It is simple logic that dressing with intention is not hard.

I don't see logic in it. For many people, such as those on the spectrum and those emotionally exhausted by other demands, it is hard. We have emotional limits.

> appropriately

You are defining appropriately. You are free to follow your own ideas, and others are free to follow theirs. Many think your 'appropriate dress' is a waste of time and money, and an attempt distract from merit - putting lipstick on a pig. If someone does good or bad, works well or not, many think dress is irrelevant.

> Avoiding doomscrolling is certainly not hard

See my prior comment, which has an objective factual basis.

> farting in public, which has become an unfortunate common circumstance

huh? That's a pretty wild claim.

> I like encouraging people not to live their lives like defenseless victims of circumstances.

They are not doing that; they are living their own lives their own way, for the most part.

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