TheDemonBuer
@TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t a child acting sexually often a sign they were sexually abused? Maybe the problem isn’t gen alpha watching porn, but either more sexual abuse by their parents
The two things are not mutually exclusive. One of the ways a parent can sexually abuse a child is showing them. Porn is often involved in child sexual abuse.
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 5 weeks ago:
I never said that the health professionals didn’t consider the possibility that these children were themselves sexually abused. Of course they did. I never said that the health professionals asked only about porn consumption but not about past sexual abuse. They make both inquiries. I wasn’t even necessarily making a causal argument, only pointing out the strong correlation. I can’t tell you, because I don’t know, how many of the children who consume pornography have also been sexually abused. I don’t have access to that information, I don’t work there. All I do know is that significant porn consumption (including kids being caught watching porn in school) is very common among these kids.
It’s not fake, I’m telling you what I know, you can choose to believe it or not, I don’t give a shit.
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure about gen z, but I worry about gen alpha. My wife works in a hospital for behavioral health and she sees an alarming number of kids (as young as 6 or 7) who are acting out sexually, and most of them consume a considerable amount of online porn. Many of them are there because they’ve sexually abused a sibling.
This is anecdotal, and of course in a behavioral health hospital my wife is going to see only the children who are acting out the most, and those children are by no means representative of the average child. It is also likely that some children have always acted out sexually, for various reasons, long before Internet porn. But the number of children they see for sexual predation is very concerning.
- Comment on Political discourse 5 weeks ago:
If you think the next US civil war will be fought between Nazis and Marxism-Leninists, you don’t understand American politics very well. The US in 2025 isn’t Stalingrad in 1942.
- Comment on Happy Birthday! 5 weeks ago:
Welcome to back pain, Mario.
- Comment on 6 AM Monday. Dreading whatever fresh hell awaits this week. Cranky, definitely getting a cold. Barely awake. Husband starts blasting this song that is now stuck in my head for all eternity. 1 month ago:
“DO IT ROCKAPELLA!”
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 2 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 2 months ago:
I hate this country so fucking much.
- Comment on Happy No-more-USA Day 3 months ago:
I was born and raised here in the United States, just like my father, and his father, and so on for several generations. You fuck off. You and your disgusting fucking federal government. May you all rot in hell.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 3 months ago:
I think most reasonable people would agree that there are many objectively good things about the modern world, but progress isn’t a strict good/bad binary. Often, progress results in both good and bad circumstances.
For instance, I think most reasonable people would agree that modern medicine is a very good thing. Vaccines and antibiotics have saved countless lives. Also, more advanced agricultural technology has allowed us to grow more food and feed more people. However, progress has also resulted in significant ecological damage, depletion of natural, nonrenewable resources and a significant loss of biodiversity. I think most reasonable people would agree that these are very bad things.
I don’t think the point is to ignore the very real, important positives about the modern world, but to point out that there are still things that need to improve, and unintended negative effects of progress that need to be dealt with.
I appreciate that for you the modern world is overall good, but that’s not necessarily everyone’s experience. Some people do feel purposeless, depressed and worn down, despite being relatively wealthy and comfortable, especially compared to humans of past eras.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I stopped buying consoles and moved pretty much exclusively to Steam because it gives me many more options. Thankfully, I don’t think that’s changing anytime soon. Consoles are great for some people, but I need more flexibility. I sometimes wish I could (legally) play Nintendo first party games, but it’s really not that big of a deal.
- Comment on Switch 2 Breaks Records By Selling Over 3.5 Million Units In Four Days 4 months ago:
Nintendo has spent decades building an extremely loyal, multigenerational consumer base. They also release very popular, high quality games. I have no interest in owning a Switch, but I get why so many people do.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 4 months ago:
I couldn’t care less.
- Comment on SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S 4 months ago:
What’s wild to me is that these games were all developed to run on Windows, not SteamOS or any other Linux distro. This is with the games requiring a compatibility layer to run. Imagine what they could do if the games were made to run on SteamOS.
- Comment on On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down 5 months ago:
They’ll charge whatever they think people will pay, and I’m pretty confident that many millions of people will fork over the $80 - $90 at launch. Prices come down when people stop buying.
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 5 months ago:
It’s hard to explain, but I have a hard time believing it’s just sadism. Maybe it has to do with the productivity gains from a four day work week taking time to realize. Like you said, over the long run you get better productivity, but maybe the corporations are just more interested in short term profits.
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 5 months ago:
Want happier employees?
No. American corporations absolutely do not care about how happy their employees are. They only care about maximizing profits, and the best way to do that is to squeeze as much productivity out of their workers while also paying those workers as little as possible.
They know the workers aren’t there to find fucking happiness. Few are so privileged. Most people go to work not because it makes them happy, but because they need the god damn money, to keep a roof over their head and to put food on the dinner table, and as everything gets more expensive, the workers need more and more money, to stave off homelessness and destitution. Happiness, Jesus Christ. What a luxury!
The purpose of capitalism isn’t to make people happy. It’s to make profit for owners. That’s it.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 5 months ago:
If I have to sign into a rockstar account through a launcher to play it, I ain’t interested.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 5 months ago:
If you’re still on Earth…
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 6 months ago:
“The people that think that’s toxic don’t understand the start-up game, and they’re just wrong,” he said. “The game is intense. And by the way, if you don’t do that, eventually, you’re out of a job.
For those who disagree, working at a startup is a choice, Hoffman insisted.
But the reward on the other side is second to none; the 100 or so first employees at LinkedIn don’t need to work anymore, he added. Microsoft purchased the professional networking platform for $26.2 billion in 2016.
That’s good for the 100 or so first employees at LinkedIn, but I’m certain that the VAST majority of employees who bust their ass trying to help get a start-up off the ground don’t have anywhere near that end result. I’m sure it isn’t worth it for 99% of employees of start-ups.
But if you want to take on the challenge, hoping that maybe you’ll be one of the lucky ones, go for it, but don’t fucking drag a spouse/significant other, or children into that nightmare. If you want to commit your entire life to a start-up, then fucking commit.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 6 months ago:
I agree, rebuilding a US manufacturing base will require competent planning and management, but those are bad words here in the US, when it comes to the economy. To many Americans, competent, central economic management, direction, and planning is tyrannical rule by elites. To those Americans, Trump is the antidote. You might point out that there is significant irony in that. I agree, it is ironic, but that irony is completely lost on many millions of Americans.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 6 months ago:
the US relies heavily on imports and doesn’t have a strong manufacturing base for most products
And that’s the problem Trump is seemingly trying to fix. I agree he’s not going about the right way. His approach is a kind of clumsy shock therapy, that will cause chaos in at least the short term and may or may not produce the desired result, eventually, but reshoring production and rebuilding a strong manufacturing base for the US is a goal shared by the Democrats, as well.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 6 months ago:
I agree that Nintendo was ahead of the curve when it came to expanding portable gaming, but the only reason the switch sold so many units, and ultimately got so many games ported to it, was because of Nintendo first party titles. If you look at the best selling switch titles, the vast majority of them are Nintendo games. Without Nintendo first party titles, the switch would have been far outsold by better devices.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 6 months ago:
It’s not convoluted at all. It’s extremely simple: if you want to play first party Nintendo titles (or other exclusives), you MUST buy a switch. If you don’t care about Nintendo exclusives, there’s absolutely no reason to own a switch. That has been true of every, single Nintendo console ever released… except for the Wii. People bought a Wii so they could play a motion control game with Grandma once or twice, and then just let the console sit and collect dust.
- Comment on Arkham aslume 7 months ago:
Just your typical Ammu-Nation.
- Comment on He's totally not a Nazi tho 7 months ago:
I suppose the military and police are public sector workers, but doesn’t that imply that he should be focusing on dismantling the defense department and like FBI, DHS, etc?
- Comment on The billionaires and politicians did it 7 months ago:
Corporate profits are higher than ever largely because corporations have been able to get greater productivity out of workers without increasing pay. If wages had kept up with productivity, profits wouldn’t be nearly as high.
- Comment on From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) 7 months ago:
I recently played through New Order, Old Blood, and New Colossus again. God, I love those games.
- Comment on Notch says he will work on a spiritual successor to Minecraft 9 months ago:
I haven’t played it, I’ve only seen clips on YouTube.
- Comment on Notch says he will work on a spiritual successor to Minecraft 9 months ago:
I thought there already was a spiritual successor to Minecraft: Vintage Story