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- Comment on challenge 1 day ago:
This is how those onlyfans promo account posts read. “Would you (obese gamer virgin) fuck me (fit nude model) however you want if I begged you for it enough???”
And then the comments like “yes baby I’d love to 😋😍😉”
- Comment on Doot doot 4 days ago:
I’ve always had an irrational dislike for the word “Bubba”. It’s just annoying to say, and I feel like it only ever shows up in annoying contexts. This flower is the first counterexample so far
- Comment on The Online Date Rape Drug 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have time to fully respond to this right now, but I just wanted to say that I do understand and sympathize with the things you’re bringing up here. I was hoping to engage with you politely, and my feelings are hurt by your insults, but I understand your anger. When I said I look forward to your counterargument, I meant that earnestly and respectfully. I’m sorry for upsetting you with my reply - I was hoping to lend an angle of positivity to you that you may not have considered, not discount your own view.
- Comment on The Online Date Rape Drug 2 weeks ago:
It allows individuals to distribute content to a network of hundreds of millions of people, with a very low barrier to entry, and in ways that are not centrally controlled. If my government is banning certain types of speech or information, websites in other countries may still be accessible with it. People in my own country may even make sites with that information, as it’s fairly easy to bypass those laws. The Internet holds all sorts of content that pisses off billionaires. Piracy, privacy tools, the Internet Archive, government document leaks. Think how I can read about the Epstein files so easily by searching or asking about it here on Lemmy - and then think about how much harder it is for me to find that information from a news company, if it’s even possible at all. Why do you think governments and billionaires around the world are so eager to monitor and centralize and rewrite the fundamental workings of the internet? They are coming after the internet because it is a threat to them.
I look forward to your counterargument.
- Comment on The Online Date Rape Drug 2 weeks ago:
Not the internet, but billionaire controlled platforms. The Internet is one of the best tools ever devised for fighting against centralized power!
- Comment on Popular Tech Youtuber Enderman looses his YouTube channel after AI error 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Reddit is technologically very bland. It’s “easy” to make a Reddit clone - the community is what makes it tick. But YouTube needs crazy levels of infrastructure to provide the full experience that it does. When Reddit collapses there’s places to migrate to. But if YouTube collapses it’s just a loss.
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 3 weeks ago:
Bruh. This is truly surprising. I feel like for a phone like this, it must be like 90% of the target market that would hate this? Seems like an unimaginably bad business decision. Of course, if FB gave them enough money, then this is kinda like taking a bribe to stop competing.
- Comment on Follow youre dreams 5 weeks ago:
Is it really being a pedant, or is it just being precise?
- Comment on Nearly 50% of Gen Z Say They’re Too Burnt Out to Work 5 weeks ago:
I feel like making generations has done some harm. This isn’t like, a “Gen z” thing, it’s a young people thing, it’s a “people who are the future of humanity” problem. The future of humanity is one in which people cannot psychologically handle the life they’re expected to/forced to lead. That is a lot more serious. It’s not like, just some cultural issue with Gen Z like the debate about ankle socks
- Comment on Lasagnaius 5 weeks ago:
Drunken Noodlius
- Comment on I'm running now 5 weeks ago:
I think the most comforting way to take it is that when someone thinks “i could throw this drink and kill that guy” it’s more of their mind being vigilant about dangerous opportunities, and not necessarily an endorsement of those possibilities. Kind of like how if you’ve ever picked up a really sharp kitchen knife you might think “it would be so easy to kill myself with this”, that’s not necessarily a “suicidal thought” but just the mind raising an alarm about a possibility + it’s actually out of concern for not dying that my brain raises the thought. So arguably this thought crossing people’s mind is actually out of an abundance of concern for safety. The morbid joking about it is probably after the fact, non-intuitive, and for almost all humans totally not thought in earnest.
- Comment on I'm running now 5 weeks ago:
I’ve normally never shied away from dark humor or a fucked up joke but something about the innocence of that man just going about his day really makes me hate even joking about it. I’m not hating on you for posting this, but this just really hits a bad note for me. Downvoted, no hard feelings
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 5 weeks ago:
Thank you for saying it so I didn’t have to. It’s so disappointing to see people on “my side” say dumb crap like “wait so if ur anti antifa that means ur calling urself fascist haha 🕵️♂️🕵️♂️🧠 Q.E.D republikkkan”. Like fuck me. Just like you said it’s the same shit as Republicans saying “oh you’re socialist??? Google what Nazi stands for sweaty 🤭🤗”
You’d think people would learn not to use shitty reasoning when it’s used against them. But it seems like instead people only care that the reasoning is bad if it contradicts them. And as soon as they want to throw things at their enemy they’ll pick up whatever flawed garbage they can, not worried about how it reflects on them or how if undermines the state of reasonable public discourse. Any weapon is valid as long as it’s used against the Enemy. So disappointing.
- Comment on wax on 1 month ago:
Yeah it looks really disgusting, like it’s shitting soft teeth
- Comment on Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs 1 month ago:
Don’t think the fact that corporations use VPNs will protect us. There are all sorts of products that are legal for corporate purchase but not for individuals. Typically dangerous equipment, chemicals, tools, etc. The precedent is there as long as you can establish that a VPN is dangerous or unfit for the public. I’m very sure this will be the angle taken for Phase 2 of the “finally fuck up the internet for everyone” plan.
- Comment on I Quit 1 month ago:
I feel ya, I also generally am very against “it’s just common sense!” type reasoning. But have you ever spent time with, like special education students? Like someone who will need to live with their parents forever because they can’t learn to do things like read or write? It’s nice to believe that maybe if only they had been given the right environment, they wouldn’t have those problems - it’s also just not true. Or perhaps we can take a more extremely example of someone who suffered a major brain injury. It sucks, and it’s unfair, but at the end of the day some people really are definitively less smart than others. And by that same token, those others are definitively more smart than them. Of course, once people are at a certain level, it gets a lot harder to tell, but that dynamic is still in play. Likewise, if you’ve ever had the experience of interacting with a gifted kid, it’s pretty clear that they’re smarter than others.
That’s a good distinction about intelligence being generally advantageous. That is why I said generally - it has some clear disadvantages like loneliness or a deeper awareness of the world’s problems, etc. But most of the time, being smart is advantageous, don’t you think? I mean, what is intelligence other than an ability to correctly understand reality? I do agree that sometimes having a false understanding of reality can coincidentally help you out, but knowing how things really are is certainly the superior strategy. If you think otherwise, it’s always easy to make yourself dumber and reap the rewards. I don’t mean that sarcastically or cruelly. I just mean, there’s a reason we don’t see intelligent people lobotomizing themselves to have better lives.
Agreed the chart only shows correlation and not causation in either direction.
- Comment on I Quit 1 month ago:
I mean, look. While it’s true that IQ tests aren’t a great measure of intelligence, it’s not like all humans are equally intelligent. We all know some people who are clearly smart and some people who are clearly dumb. And I think it’s completely expected that being smarter gives you some advantage at getting money. I don’t think anyone can reasonably deny that being smart is generally advantageous in life. This chart seems perfectly fair and reasonable to me…there is a slight correlation, moreso on the low end (how can severely mentally retarded people do most jobs or even have incomes?), and less so on the high end. It makes a mistake in talking about income rather than net worth, which is really the more pertinent thing in “being rich”. I bet we would see a much lower correlation there, because you can be born into having a high net worth. But the correlation isn’t too high, because, as everyone reasonable already suspected, being rich is almost entirely about being lucky. I don’t think this chart really has any import to the many social discussions about meritocracy or wealth or intelligence, except for maybe to disprove someone who believes that we live in a fair world where “if you’re smart and work hard you can make it”. But even then, that would rely on a misunderstanding of what the chart tells us.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 1 month ago:
Yeah, that particular article is a serious more historical one and then most of the others on the site are satire written in a cheesy old English style and medieval setting and it’s killing me
- Comment on Anon is exploited 1 month ago:
Beautiful, thank you so much! Will read momentarily
- Comment on It's depressing, man 1 month ago:
My very rough very compressed minimal definition is something like:
“Ability to determine truths from falsehoods within the confines of available information”
- Comment on It's depressing, man 1 month ago:
Probably true, but I don’t think that warrants the stupidity being put in scare quotes like that. Regardless of whether it is intrinsic or extrinsic stupidity, stupidity by nature or by nurture, the result is genuine stupidity all the same
- Comment on Anon is exploited 1 month ago:
Do we actually archaeologically/anthropologically know that this is the amount of time that people spent working in those different periods?? Would love to see sources because I always think this is one of the most valuable things those fields can bring to us, but I’ve had trouble finding clear answers.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 1 month ago:
- Comment on rawr xD 2 months ago:
Sun bears are definitely justifiably cursed.
So when she first said this. It was long ago, a time when red pandas were much less popular. So many in the group did not know what they looked like, I among them. From her fear, I inferred it must be something like, well, a panda, but red, and maybe skinnier and freakier. Then she pulled up a picture, and everybody lost it
- Comment on rawr xD 2 months ago:
This was asked of her. The answer was no, and the reasoning was that they won’t walk like that. She knew it was irrational lol
- Comment on rawr xD 2 months ago:
I once knew a lady who was terrified of red pandas for exactly this reason, the fact they would stand on two legs “like a human” despite not being human just freaked her out. So maybe there’s something to it.
- Comment on Kinky 2 months ago:
Dolphins stay freaky
- Comment on Margot Robbie makes a bold statement with ‘naked’ dress postpartum 2 months ago:
Fair enough. As long as you don’t want laws passed on that basis, I figure differences can be differences. Otherwise I may be inclined for us both to try some further mutual persuasion.
- Comment on Margot Robbie makes a bold statement with ‘naked’ dress postpartum 2 months ago:
- What is problematic about being scantily clad?
- It may be odd, but at some point a white person dating a black person was odd. That didn’t make it wrong to do.
- There are many tribal cultures where women do not cover their breasts, and children in those cultures don’t seem bothered by it. There are cultures where nude beaches are acceptable. Is it possible that adults only project their own socially-induced discomforts with the sight on breasts onto children? Not every human feels the same supposedly intrinsic wrongness at nudity as you do.
- Note that you are conflating nudity with sexuality. Surely nudity and sexuality are not identical, so we should be careful to make sure we’re not using them as synonyms.
- Comment on Margot Robbie makes a bold statement with ‘naked’ dress postpartum 2 months ago:
The comments on NY Post articles always make me want to board the next rocket launch off Earth. People are soooo sex negative. People ask “why” to this shit, but the real question is why not? What’s so horrible about a naked person? And the dress is really ornate and pretty. But we have to make it about her being egomaniacal, or slutty, or shameless, or a trend follower, blah blah blah. Maybe it’s just a cool dress and she doesn’t think a body is intrinsically sexual, or that sexuality is intrinsically shameful, or so many other preconceptions that these commenter morons would never even think of. “I respect my husband too much to wear a dress like this” - yuuuuck! I could write a whole essay about all the things wrong with that comment alone.