HalfSalesman
@HalfSalesman@lemmy.world
I don’t have access to this account during weekends.
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 2 days ago:
This is why the vast majority of people don’t give a shit about democracy in the US.
I promise you, that is not the reason. Do you get out much? Talk to most people? They aren’t paying attention. And most people are not paying attention because they are extremely incurious about anything that doesn’t directly effect them.
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 3 days ago:
I say that I hate the haters. But also My enthusiasm is dampened a little by the fact that we had to even experience this because people are soooo fucking stupid.
I literally talked to a middle aged gay man recently who admitted he barely understood what happened Tuesday “Oh we elected a new governor? Or something? What are midterms?”
Its like DUUUUDE THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT HOW ARE YOU SO OBLIVIOUS???
- Comment on MANDATORY! 4 days ago:
Just to pretend to be one. You already probably spent a lot of time pretending to be your assigned gender anyway, what’s a little more pretending for a bit of gender euphoria?
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 1 week ago:
The continuation of the species is not a moral good.
- Comment on Surely they yearn for the mines 1 week ago:
We have robots doing the dangerous jobs in this meme. Its just they don’t do 100% of the work. They also don’t do 100% of knowledge work either to this day. If you have an AI make you a power point and then you don’t edit it and do quality assurance on it you are going to have one jank ass powerpoint.
Even if the crazy miracles its doing with decomp & recomp work on video games lately: that still requires a ton of human involvement.
They might eventually be able to do 100% of physical labor though. And 100% of knowledge work. They just are not there yet. The former requires use to have enough physical materials though.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 1 week ago:
That sounds like a very comforting story.
If you mean that I use it to justify not trying, I’ll tell you I also don’t think I owe you or others such efforts regardless. I did not choose to exist, I was thrust into existence by my parents because my dad failed to convince my mom to abort me. Suddenly now people like yourself expect me to contribute to a project I never choose, humanity, civilization, glorious communist revolution, whatever, like I owe the world.
Forgive me if I don’t take protesting advice from a misanthropist.
It wasn’t advice. I just think its a doomed project. Go ahead and try, I’d be happy to be wrong that a good world is possible in my lifetime.
Do not get it twisted, I thought a better world was possible for most of my life. But after 2024 I just realized I had poured an incredibly wasteful amount of energy into political action that has amounted to jack shit in the greater world and no real social life for myself, just scattered connections with other people involved with politics or activism. Only this year have I engaged in more personal attempts at socializing for the sake of fun and I’ve realized I’ve missed out and wasted most of my youth. I have a little youth left and I’m dedicating it hedonistically to myself as the world burns. I now only engage with politics for angry catharsis on Lemmy.
It is desirable that all individuals within the world live good lives, even the ones I dislike. I don’t care about humanity as a collective though, if that makes sense. I’d be content to see it end as long as it ends as humanely as possible for those contained within it.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 1 week ago:
I did not say it would. At least at this point I’m inclined to think we’re fucked. Voting in better government at this point is a opiate we can take while the world withers on its death bed.
Maybe it would have before. Doesn’t really matter anymore though.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 1 week ago:
Okay, you are actually advocating for people to give up. This is like a cattle mindset. The elephant that no longer tries to break the twine around his neck.
This implies you think I’m a collectivist. I don’t like most of my fellow Americans as I think they’re broadly backwards morons, why would I fight to help them? There are a small portion I’ve met that are OK people but most of them suck.
Never mind the fact that, no, I’m not underestimating—do I need to remind you what your grandmothers and grandfathers bled for? Are they just better people than you?
They procreated, they’re worse people than me for that. Among other things.
I’m not a virtue ethicist though.
I am American, by the way. Do not come at me with that “fuck off european” horseshit.
Wasn’t going to. I’m not operating on “You don’t get it, its harder here.” I’m saying its functionally impossible to go from the status quo to a successful leveraged rebellion/revolution here.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 1 week ago:
well at least it would substantiate substantial changes …so… 🤷🏿♂️
It wouldn’t. But even if it did, you are endorsing telling people to enter into a meat grinder.
If the americans are A-OK with the status quo allow tjem to keep doing what theyre currently doimg and let us see how much positive changes they bring about.
They aren’t A-OK, which is why they’re finally going to vote in numbers. They’re also petulantly stupid though and are only reactively voting now that we have had shit completely fall apart under Trump.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 1 week ago:
You might be underestimating what the US government is capable, willing, and ready to do to its own people if they legitimately threaten status quo leadership.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
In theory, is there a world where cops are not all bastards?
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 1 week ago:
Similar happening in DC would result in a rapid spike in ICE detentions and missing person reports.
- Comment on Always be prepared 1 week ago:
I’m vaccinated/drug-protected against the most dangerous STI’s and have a vasectomy. I’m probably not getting laid very often at all but I’m not really worried when I do and I lack a condom.
And I don’t like wings.
I carry neither.
- Comment on After all, why not? 1 week ago:
Just the black coffee that tastes like mud in a foam cup for me thanks.
- Comment on The fluffy tail butt plug is part of this year's fox-themed costume 2 weeks ago:
It is not within my reach to be like her in the ways I wish to be like her…
- Comment on The fluffy tail butt plug is part of this year's fox-themed costume 2 weeks ago:
I wish I had someone like you in my life.
- Comment on One of the down sides of testosterone 2 weeks ago:
I think the implication is fights are more common and as a result are of lower concern. Unclear though.
- Comment on I'm down with this 2 weeks ago:
I like cheese but honestly the food/snack aspect of holidays is often the most overblown aspect of any holiday for me.
The only extra calories I accept come in the form of booze.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Usually being attracted to something isn’t something someone can help. I think hentai is a safe outlet. And I’m not interested in introducing chilling effect legislation to censor stuff.
That said, I don’t think hentai is effective in preventing child abuse but I also do not think it increases its prevalence either.
Admittedly my personal usage of porn is my basis: I don’t desire fems less after consuming porn of them being reamed from both ends but that doesn’t mean it also encourages me to go out and rape them. I imagine whether a pedophile abuses a child (or is capable of such) has more to do with whether they have other elements of personality or intellectual/emotional problems.
- Comment on Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% 3 weeks ago:
As a PC gamer concerned about game preservation: good. Consoles are just walled hardware fiefdoms.
- Comment on Granted. 5 weeks ago:
Always write up a “wish contract” and wish the contract true, defining your terms. Gives you functionally infinite wishes and minimizes risk of monkey’s paw bullshit.
- Comment on Hard Out There For A Woman 5 weeks ago:
God, I wish I was a moron.
- Comment on Minimum Wage Isn't Living Wage 5 weeks ago:
Preaching to the choir.
- Comment on Broomsticks? What is this? The Dark Ages? 5 weeks ago:
As long as all the surveillance stuff is striped from it and perhaps its running open source software.
- Comment on Gap Year 🧏 5 weeks ago:
Its going to get worse before it gets better. US bond yields are massive, diesel is skyrocketing, AI bubble is teetering. Once we hit some thresholds in the next week or two we’ll have a significant wait before hiring really takes back off…
- Comment on Doof doof 1 month ago:
Hur hur, food over socializing amirite guys???
That said, I have always specifically hated clubbing because I don’t care about dancing, I enjoy drinking alcohol and talking to people though. Or at least I used to before becoming so depressed about my friend group that I don’t think if I won the lottery I would care.
- Comment on It's true 1 month ago:
Unironically, mostly yes.
- Comment on Just letting everyone know 1 month ago:
This has been me for the past 2 months.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 1 month ago:
“When” lots of optimism in that word.
- Comment on Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services 1 month ago:
You are either insufferably stupid or this is bait.