The fifth Doctor knows who the Portreeve of Castrovalva really is.

Yes and no. Beliefs can definitely shape reality.

If someone believes that they can’t do something difficult, they often don’t attempt it, so don’t acquire the skills they would need, and stay unable to do it. The converse is also true.

Children are heavily influenced by their parents’ beliefs about them.

Believing something about different brands of soda doesn’t change the chemical composition of them, but in a world where products are judged on their sales rather than their chemical composition, changing the perception of a product can fundamentally change its sales, making it a better product by the only objective measure that’s consistently used. This is even more true in the world of fashion, for example very strongly with trainers etc.

Anything where human behaviour changes reality is a place where beliefs change reality.

Our beliefs shape the world strongly and powerfully. They change reality.

Eg. USA.

(Personally and irrelevantly to your question, think it’s weird to shave your pubes, and I think that based on who started that trend, why they started it and why it became popular, but people younger than me, who don’t remember any different disagree strongly.)

But the fact that your son trusts you with that question and that you calmly helped him and didn’t make a big deal out of it, is an absolute parenting win. Who does your teenaged son go to when he’s worried about something personal and sensitive and embarrassing? He goes to you, and you help him and he is right to trust you.

You are doing excellently as a dad.

This graph is really, really wrong. Properly messed up.

You’re so insightful and wise. You have learned much from other viewpoints.

… because this sign was made before the IBM PC was invented.

Language changes over time.

I think you’re missing sarcasm for insanity, and the reason that you’re doing that is that you were already belittling their viewpoint quite fiercely, rejecting absolutely everything they said just because you disagree with their conclusion.

Has lots of experience starting things, yet doesn’t look old. Hmmm.

I have a similar story, but it got worse and worse with the lies as it got through the table. I fought it for an hour, then I wrote a script instead.

Yep. UK.

Shit.

The really upsetting thing about this for me is that I can’t tell without clicking through whether it’s the USA or UK, and I suspect it’s the UK.

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How can I subscribe to piefed.world users and communities etc from my lemmy.world account?

How do I subscribe to a user or community on piefed.world and see it in my lemmy.world feed?

I agree it was a dumb comparison to start off with.

I wasn’t the one who made it, but the license issue is the logical conclusion if OP insists on the comparison.

If guns are so alike to cars, why not require a license that you get by passing a written test on gun safety and a practical test on basic competence and safe usage?

The same kind of grill that can be bricked remotely if you stop paying for software updates.

Definitely, but I think that Proud Boys leader who showed he could take a black dildo probably thought he was doing some really clever double bluff thing, but we see you Gavin McKinnes. We see you and the insecurities you’re fighting so hard to hide.