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  • At the start, HC had a handful of people join from the old exploding-heads.com instance, and that was enough for many people to label us “EH 2.0” and de-federate.

    Ironically, the most excitable members in question have long left when they realized this was not “EH 2.0”. I’m also not American and had nothing to do with exploding-heads.

    The idea behind HC was to have a laid back instance where we could post whatever and not worry about heavy handed ideological moderation. @Alice@hilariouschaos.com and I really don’t care what your politics are, and that’s the whole point.

    That’s all there is to it, what you see is what you get. Anyone can just browse through our posts and make their own mind up. We also welcome everyone, irrespective of politics.

    We have been around for almost a year now and I think we have been good neighbors. lemmy.world is still federated with us because there’s no reason why they wouldn’t be and they are thankfully mature and rational enough to take things at face value. I’d like for us to be federated with everyone else too, but I don’t think their minds can be changed.

    Anyway, I see you have already deleted your account, but if you keep reading this thread then maybe this post helps clear things up for you. You are of course welcome to rejoin anytime if you want to.









  • splinterAtoChristianity"Randomness Does Not Exist"
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    It depends how you look at it, predisposition can be seen to run counter to randomness, since you can then work out the likelihood of something happening a certain way. It turns out the odds to almost everything we do can be worked out based on factors, just look at the insurance industry.

    If humans are pretty good at predicting what other humans will do, then surely God is on another level.

    Still though, an individual can defy their predisposition in every way. To say that randomness doesn’t exist would mean to accept that beyond predisposition, everything we do is prescribed. I don’t think this is the case.

    For an analogy, let’s say you had an aquarium. It’s interesting to watch the fish do fish things, you care about them and want to make sure they have the right conditions to thrive. You can be fairly certain of what the fish will do, but you can’t control it - and even if you could, there would be no fun in that.




  • This is an interesting question, long story short I thought I was dying for a few days a while back (I’m fine).

    Knowing my time could be really limited completely changed my perspective on life, I almost instantly stopped caring about most things that were important or I was preoccupied with just a day earlier.

    My thoughts were a bit all over the place, but overall I just wanted to spend the time I have left in the most meaningful way I could, with the people I love.


  • I bought a Michael Jackson vinyl bobblehead figurine for someone who really loves Michael Jackson, for Christmas.

    I thought it was a pretty shit present but I didn’t know much else about this person. She literally cried of joy when she saw it and thanked me a million times. I think this is the happiest I’ve ever made someone with a present, and it was pretty inexpensive.


  • Men and women are predisposed towards different things. It doesn’t mean those things are exclusively for men or women, but overall men and women tend to have different interests. As the old adage goes, men care more about things, women care more about people.

    So when a man is interested in things that women generally go for, those can be seen as feminine traits, and vice-versa.