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- Comment on Comfy cozy 4 days ago:
It’s not that 60% was “okay with fascism.”
It’s that “60% of people have embraced toxic nihilism.” Shaped from years of scrolling, overdosing on dopamine, reading and participating in contentious debates on the internet that never lead to an outcome, reading clickbait headlines that stopped making sense years ago, going home and sitting in front of a monitor instead of going out with friends to hang out and just talk about life, of eating the most addictive foods and getting all manner of drugs over the counter to alter their moods, their feelings, their perceptions.
We have everything to placate us and make us happy and it’s killing everyone.
Many years ago I once sat with a local captain (like a constable) of a village in Southeast Asia. We were drinking gin and looking at the stars and he said “You know why gin here is cheap? And sold on every corner? Because as long as everyone makes their number one priority at the end of the day to come home and get drunk, you won’t get people coming together and forming groups, of protesting the injustices, of changing the system” he said with a smile as he tossed back another shot.
Since then I’ve actually pursued this and have found evidence over and over how capital uses numbing agents to keep populations subdued, from the overt tactics well recorded and planned like the use of Opium in China, all the way through more modern places like Russia and vodka. And it works. And we have a lot more numbing agents around us now than just ingestible substances.
In places with fewer numbing agents, people are still having kids, still throwing parties and looking forward to poker every night with their grown siblings, of building a new barn or getting together to open a new store, or instead of spending 12 hours a day getting better at Marvel Rivals, they’re playing basketball. Sure it happens here still, but it’s in such radical decline that we have a dictator in charge and nobody cares. This is nihilism and don’t mistake it for something else because that’s exactly what the numbing agents want you to say.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 5 days ago:
About 30% of Americans did.
This isn’t an “America bad” situation as much as an “Oh fuck, capitalism just took down America, who is it coming for next?” situation.
- Comment on Something something far-left 1 week ago:
I always wanted to be a teacher. I have a passion for teaching people new ways of looking at the world. I manage a team and used to open every Monday call with a chat about science news until the higher-ups started cracking down on “unproductive time.”
Then I got to know a few teachers, and the way they have to work one or two other jobs on the side so they can afford to bring their kids art supplies and science books and I just don’t have it in me. Massive respect to the men and women who stick with their teaching careers despite not being paid, respected or honored in any way by Western society.
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 3 weeks ago:
Can’t tell if the pic is AI or not, but your point stands and applies to a much larger issue with the slop being generated at a death-spiral pace across the internet.
Most of the people trying to replicate “stock photos” on the cheap have no clue what the subject is about or how it should look, so if some South Tanzanian family decide to make a few bucks pumping out content with help of their local internet cafe, they can generate the most professional pictures of people doing all kinds of activities. And this story repeats at all levels of human society at all levels because of capitalism. Every time, something is lost, some detail missed, some cultural context glossed over, and this is how we lose human history.
And eventually, inevitably, one way or another, humans.
- Comment on Anon accidentally makes a camgirl rethink her life 3 weeks ago:
Not only was it wild he coincidentally had the account ready, it’s equally wild that this girl never thought about her father before this random stranger brings it up while she’s trying to work. Really wild stuff, almost makes you wonder.
- Comment on Anon accidentally makes a camgirl rethink her life 3 weeks ago:
And the odds of her never having pondered her father except for this one time when she was working: 0%
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 3 weeks ago:
I hate to read any post on the internet that involves both the words “animal” and “consent.”
Human beings are inexplicable, contradictory species that don’t know how to view the world through anything other than our momentary feelings about things, and the universe suffers for it.
- Comment on Me when I zoom past traffic on my e-scooter 3 weeks ago:
Stop making it a life-goal to go 1.5 million dollars in debt to own a stucco home in a vast ocean of identical stucco homes and maybe buy some property by a small town and sacrifice the luxury of convenience and being able to get doordash whenever you want and instead have a little garden or something.
If the market decided that living in suburban hell wasn’t profitable anymore, they would stop paving over vast tracts of land to unroll a sea of terracotta roofs as far as you can see like a rolling ocean of debt.
- Comment on Disney wolves 3 weeks ago:
I hope you’re copying and pasting this to every other user who thought your comment was inexplicable or I will know you’re just sore.
- Comment on Disney wolves 3 weeks ago:
Your phrasing didn’t sound ironic at all, review the puzzled replies and rethink your notions of how well tone travels over text messages.
- Comment on Disney wolves 3 weeks ago:
Keep trying, I’m done.
- Comment on Disney wolves 3 weeks ago:
Are you not a native english speaker?
- Comment on Disney wolves 3 weeks ago:
Aha, so you ARE their alt hahaha thank you for making it make sense
- Comment on Disney wolves 3 weeks ago:
You misunderstand, the comment may or may not have been a joke, it wasn’t funny, it was just weird, but everyone made it INTO a joke. You’re the one too intense and taking this too seriously, unless your an alt of the person who used the weird word “ghoulish” to describe erotic disney fan art, then I guess I understand the irritation at people making the best of a weird moment.
- Comment on Disney wolves 3 weeks ago:
That damn movie was one of two VHS cassettes I had as a small child, the other was The Sword in the Stone. I watched them over and over and over.
As a result, my sexuality has been absolutely maimed in ways I am still untangling.
Wouldn’t trade it for anything.
- Comment on Disney wolves 3 weeks ago:
You might need to take a long shower friend.
- Comment on Found Lily and Mitch 3 weeks ago:
Yah but what use is it for kids to say weird things if we can’t have 3000+ comment-deep debates about every possible angle of it online? This is what the internet is best for, completely dismantling every benign situation until nobody even knows why everyone hates each other now.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 4 weeks ago:
Honestly I like knowing that I CAN use it if needed
I love how reddit’s social section is now regarded the same way as a product like condoms or guns or narcan.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 4 weeks ago:
At this point, I think the better alternative is to just say NO! to content aggregators and like… take walks instead.
Seriously, I changed my daily hour-long lunch break from browsing the internet to walking outside and it’s done so much good, and I miss being connected to the world less and less. I am using all the sites less, even Lemmy and Youtube get less enjoyable when you get your brain focused on other goals.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 4 weeks ago:
That’s good to know, if I ever really, really need to throw shade at some comment I see on Reddit i’ll give that a shot… but honestly, I’m also mostly clean and free from “using” and probably will avoid it so I don’t backslide into that fetid mess. I find I don’t miss it that much anymore and have become a LOT more productive without having those comment sections to scroll every day and every lunch break.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 4 weeks ago:
Burn all your tracking cookies associated with reddit, kill all your browsing history, then reset your router for a minute, then use a fresh e-mail and not a disposable one. Using a VPN will also get you insta-flagged.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been treated the same way, lost about 7 accounts each over 12 years old because some mod didn’t like me telling off an incel and from sent it to admins there it’s been repeated bans and shadowbans.
I am done with reddit, I’ve seen behind the curtain in my time there, I know how bad it really is. The whole platform is now an AI training-bed and in some communities more than half the users appear to be bots. Very clever, very well-disguised, but you can tell if you check their history.
But if anyone wants to try to keep fighting the bot army, you can create a new account by deleting all your reddit cookies and browsing history, resetting your modem for a minute, then making a new account with a new email. (Use Gmail or another name-brand on, they now shadowban accounts made from disposable emails.)
Also, do not use a VPN ever. Instant permanent shadowban.
From there you just need to establish some karma history so you can post. Memes and other content-grind subreddits let even new accounts last I checked.
If you don’t want your account banned immediately, do not make political opinions, do not argue with anyone, do not sass reddit even through they deserve far worse. Don’t reply to yourself or your alt accounts, they can now tell immediately. Do not report anyone, they now will use reporting as an excuse to ban you if they decide they don’t like you.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 4 weeks ago:
Ideally, #3’s head on #1’s handle
This is the way.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 4 weeks ago:
To bother you in particular.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 4 weeks ago:
I love me a really well-made grilled-cheese sandwich, like with all the fixings and fancy bread. Truly one of life’s pleasures.
But if gets moldy, even if it’s no fault of my own, I will probably throw that shit away and pick another option. (This also kills the spread of the mold.)
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 4 weeks ago:
Sure, and my point is maybe we all need to put away the internet, it’s literally killing us and the world.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 4 weeks ago:
I do not see how Lemmy helps with anything other than allowing people another excuse for escapism and scrolling on the internet over actually developing life skills, seeing new sights, socializing with humans, getting better at understanding people, and actually making an effort to communicate with others, doing some small part to make the world better.
- Comment on Anon pitches the next big movie adaptation of a video game 4 weeks ago:
going, FULL MAGA.
zoom in on Schnieder doing a goofy face while wearing a red baseball cap as a slide whistle plays “Who’s afraid of the big, bad gays?”
- Comment on Brib Cuddles 5 weeks ago:
remember they predate upon other birds’ chicks, etc.
Wait 'til you see what humans do!
- Comment on It happens... 5 weeks ago:
How TF old are you people anyway?
Are you all literally as old as the kid in the pic? Who can relate to this??