Jiggle_Physics
@Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon applies for a job 6 days ago:
Different, but still hiring fuckery
Friend applied for a job, database admin, HR called to set-up and interview. Two days later he got an email from the IT department, of that company, telling him that they weren’t actually supposed to be responding to applicants for the position. He emailed asking if the posted position had been filled, and then received weirdly worded response saying yes, but implying that it never opened for that particular job post. Then they stopped communicating with him. They were just posting jobs they weren’t hiring for.
He passed it all off to a link for, employment law, at the city chamber of commerce. Not that anything would be done.
- Comment on hmmm 😈 1 week ago:
why did you feel that someone, using a foreign word, to look cool, was similar to you using a second language, to communicate with its native speakers? Honest question here. That seems like a big leap in logic to me.
- Comment on Anon browses r/AmITheAsshole 1 week ago:
Yeah, people act like a site with half a billion users somehow is only representative of a very niche population contained within reddit. I also love the “well I saw x posted here yesterday and people loved it! Here it is today, and people hate it! reddit can’t make up its mind!”, as if reddit is a monolith, they took the hive-mind shit-talk literally. Then that same person will complain when that reddit is a hive mind…
My guy, this is just how people are. You are in a place where the group is large enough that you, in the population statistics sense, are getting a snapshot of humanity.
- Comment on YouTube diluting my recommended videos feed with AI-generated “music” that pretends to be made by an actual artist 1 week ago:
Hasn’t been happening to me. Then again, the music I listen to probably isn’t a big target for AI, yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah something that could easily be taken as inciting a murder, is actually not legal under our free speech laws, so… Yeah, he has no choice in the matter.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Everyone knows that if someone threatened one of the stooges behind this tweet they would absolutely be crying to the website, and police, about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
She made a skit cutting a fake head off as part of a skit, so it wasn’t even actually this serious.
- Comment on Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees 1 week ago:
Great, now that they has bought winn-dixie, and is moving in places most where there are failed/failing regional chains, we will have even less competition.
Remember, despite saying Aldi does not discriminate based on union/desire to unionize, A LOT of their ex-management say they were straight up told to fire anyone who mentions it, and they would rather get sued for it, than allow it.
- Comment on Meatspin 2 weeks ago:
We had those in place in the US too.
- Comment on Anon signs up for a dating site 2 weeks ago:
As am I.
Unless you didn’t actually know the height of a bigmac and just made up a number
- Comment on Venom vs Poison 2 weeks ago:
From the Natural History Museum website -
The hallmark of venom is that it’s introduced via a wound. It can be injected through a number of means, including teeth, a sting, spines or claws. ‘Poison is different as there is no wound involved. It can be absorbed into the bloodstream through the skin, inhaled or ingested,’
- Comment on Venom vs Poison 2 weeks ago:
The toxins are excreted through their skin, and adhere with the oils that keep their skin moist. It is a defense that keeps other animal from eating/touching them. They are not really facilitated to bite as a defense. They pull prey in, and their mouth mostly crushes, and is used to swallow.
- Comment on stop 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, for every vegan that just beats everyone around them, over the head, with their veganism, there are 100, or more, people who go out of their way to insult, and offend, vegans. I have seen far more people do things like try to slip animal products in food, secretly, to make vegans eat it, go out of their way to over indulge in meat because there is a vegan there, and just talk shit, than any vegan proselytizing.
I do think veganism has had their representation taken over by the loudest, and most obnoxious, elements, but that can be said about nearly every lifestyle, or belief system.
- Comment on stop 2 weeks ago:
There is a burgeoning industry of vegan pet food for cats and dogs. Though the science behind it is far from clear
- Comment on stop 2 weeks ago:
Vegan cat food being safe isn’t exactly an uncontested thing in the scientific/medical community.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=vegan foods for cat…
Everything from it being very hard to balance the nutrients in these foods, in a production sense, to veterinary science not being complete on what is needed for proper diet. The foods available aren’t great, and making it yourself is generally worse. Most of the reports of the animals being perfectly fine, when allowed to be closely monitored by experts, show that, while they appear fine, they likely to suffer long term consequences to their health, and often die of them. however it takes a long time, so regardless of the average lifespan decrease, which is abstract, and hard for a general pet owner to quantify, since the cats lived for years, people assumed it was fine. There is also a lot of mis/disinformation from the pro side on the actual QOL of the animals, both because they aren’t experts to know, and, to a lesser extent, data gets fudged to support their goals. This is not to say that the same can’t be said of the con side.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 weeks ago:
The US is an imperialist hypocrite of a country. Like that is just a damn fact. As you point out though, the issues leftists, not in these spaces, have with places like hexbear, and ml, is the fact that they back authoritarian regimes like China. China who is in the process of the US playbook of economic imperialism with their BRI. They are committing a genocide, they are exploiting much poorer countries, to hold them in economic dependency, and they are discussing annexing land they do not own any longer, and haven’t for a long time now. No I am not talking about Taiwan.
They are making so many similar moves to the US post WWII, and have an economy that is dependent on allowing capitalism, to the point that they have a billionaire class second only to the US. While the US is growing its police/surveillance state, China is leagues ahead on that one. The big thing China doesn’t have, is something similar to the massive global infrastructure the US developed to be able to deploy, and supply, its military in a time frame measured in hours. China is trying to develop something along these lines, but it has the US/NATO super structure all ready in place, it will have to, at least partially, displace. This will not be easy.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 weeks ago:
This person is saying Putin wants the territory back, not the government system. They even say the statement was hyperbolic.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 2 weeks ago:
Ashamed, of being born, in my ass
- Comment on I have been to jail in the US. How come they always offer a bible instead of offering you different religious books like a quran? 3 weeks ago:
don’t forget capitalism, capitalism is the real religion, and the dollar is it’s icon.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like reddit 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, at the core, people cause problems when the group gets too big to be a tight knit one. There are also a not insignificant amount of people, who get together, with antisocial behavior in mind. When you have thousands of people, posting on some community forum, it will be impossible for it not have some serious underlying issues. Not to even think of the scale of places like reddit, where that forum could have millions of users.
Back in the day, when IRC ruled the social scene of the internet, it was hard to control a channel that had 100+ people on it, forget about crowds orders of magnitude larger.
- Comment on MSc Mansplaining 3 weeks ago:
I mean, at most meetings I shift between holding back rolling my eyes, and forcing them open so I don’t fall asleep.
- Comment on Coming up with new names is hard 3 weeks ago:
Or Australia. If it isn’t something from europe, or a indigenous name, it’s something really imaginative, like calling Northern Territory, Western Australia, and South Australia
- Comment on Coming up with new names is hard 3 weeks ago:
Same in PA, but they get Duquesne right.
- Comment on YouTube now vs then 4 weeks ago:
A while back YT rejigged it’s algorithm to give weight to channels with with small subscriber amounts
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 4 weeks ago:
Have you ever petitioned your local legislators, or even contacted them? That is a starting point. You also search out what political initiatives are local to you, what political organizations are, and you look for ones already working for things that would benefit men. Things like groups pushing for better coverage of mental health care, groups that work to get popular media to discuss mental health, and work for better media representation of mental health care. There are plenty of these, and if none seem to be working for men’s interests, since you joined, you now have a opening to present data to get them to do so, etc. Everyone who wasn’t already a public figure, when the went on youtube, was in the same position. You could look for youtubers who are already doing just this, like for real, and not just grifting manosphere stuff, and push their channel to places.
There is a lot you can. You have to take the initiative, you have to figure out what is out there, you have to figure out how to interact with them, etc. It’s not easy.
- Comment on E, W & F 4 weeks ago:
If you pulled all the water out of the eyes, they would be destroyed. I mean, we are talking about magic though, so all water, ever that which is part of other fluids, or tissues, could be removed. They could completely desiccate someone. Living human one moment, mummy the next.
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 4 weeks ago:
Are you trying to say that it is impossible to change?
- Comment on E, W & F 4 weeks ago:
pull the water out of people
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t say only by men, I said men have had most of the control through out history, so they have, by far, the greatest influence
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 4 weeks ago:
There is a lot of misandry in conservatism, and liberalism, and leftism. However, the root for it differs from conservatism, and the other two position. While it isn’t a huge talking point, I wouldn’t say it is not something that is really ignored. Maybe it is so in “pop” leftist media? Like breadtube type stuff?
I wasn’t trying to imply that men’s spaces, on various fora, were the only ones with bad behavior. I was pointing out that, when a lot of these places were shut down, a lot of them cried misandry because x misandrist forum is still up. However, when you look at the situation, it wasn’t the misogynistic conversation that got them banned, it was the actions they coordinated on their fora. I have also seen a number of misandrist spaces get shut down too. Again though, it was because they refused to stop bad actions on their forum, and moderate it out.
Yes liberals, and leftists, should know better. Unfortunately you are broaching a subject with A LOT of strong emotional value to it. It is awful that there are, practically, no support groups for male victims of rape, and, even though there is often no indicator it is only for women, they are pushed out of those places because a lot of those women, straight up, are afraid of men. Men have traumatized them to the point where they cannot feel safe around them, and/or get a visceral reaction to a strange man being there. And yes, there is a lot of resentment in these communities towards men. They are mentally, and often physically, scarred by the actions of men. It isn’t fair, but these emotions, trauma responses, etc. are not rational. They are real though, and they are exceedingly difficult to deal with. It is actually very difficult for them to truly view men as, mostly, decent human beings, because of trauma. Especially so because men are responsible for damn near all sexual violence, and homicide.
This isn’t easy. There are no clear ways to deal with this situation. However, men are the root cause of most of it. As you have pointed out, the men higher on the hierarchy are incentivized, in many ways, to maintain this status quo. That is a class conflict situation, between those lower on the hierarchy, and the men who are in control. As more women come into power, both in government, and in the commercial/industrial world, things will change. Exactly how is yet to be seen.