DrFuggles

@DrFuggles@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to understand his coworker⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, flirting for fun can be … fun, but obviously OOP wasn’t te only one to read more into that. There’s a line between “platonic” flirting and getting someone’s hopes up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to understand his coworker⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, no harm done, but she’d been leading him on for weeks. That’d make me pissed too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I alleviate bitterness due to lack of intimacy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that might be volcel? as in voluntary celibate?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, I know. I meant it more along the lines of whoever comes up with a method for standardizing bias in media puts their own bias in the methodology.

  For example, I feel it is a political statement in itself to have a “bias spectrum” from left to unbiased to right. This implies that both left an right are “biases”, while only the center is truly neutral and therefore an arbiter of truth and facts. Enlightened centrism, anyone?

  Also, I disagree with parts of their methodology. The headline “Habitual liar and convicted felon to seek US presidency again” would probably be classified as loaded language, whereas “Donald Trump wants to become president again” would be considered more neutral.

  I would argue that the former example is, in fact, more truthful than the latter because it doesn’t omit major reasons why this is newsworthy. But since the mbfc is founded on the illusion idea that there is such a thing as truly neutral common ground, it conflates perspective and bias.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  thanks for putting it more succinctly than I did!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually meant to start a thread one of these days if we can’t ban it! Glad you started the conversation!

  My main concern is that by attributing a tactfulness and political rating to them, we’re attaching weight to that. But who does these ratings? Especially when a pop/mainstream mag like the Rolling Stone is classified as “left” the same that explicitly politically left publications like Jacobin are also “left”. That just strikes me as odd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨obesity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Congrats on your weight loss journey! May I ask if there was a specific thing that motivated you to start and keep going? And how did you turn your mindset around?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simples.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s gotta be satire

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tech discovered⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, if it’s something that other people can actually profit from I usually post it anyway, but most of the time it’s “oh goddamn, there’s two commas in line 72 where there should only be one” kinda stuff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tech discovered⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I’ve written countless stack overflow posts detailing my problems in hope someone would be able to spot the mistake or error only for me to realize what it was along the way and never even submitting it.

  And I didn’t even need a 🦆 for it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  maybe, but the article really doesn’t justify the headline imo. The article reads more like her statements are coming from a “this worked for me, so try my way if you’re struggling” place rather than a “work for me for free, bitches” place.

  not saying that in itself is good, but, you know, also way less infuriating than condemning those entitled youngsters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't learn if you don't fail!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  or maybe they just forgot to type out “achieve”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The taste of 🦅🇺🇲 Freedom 🇺🇸🦅⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this song: youtu.be/AByfaYcOm4A