gAlienLifeform
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- Comment on Gaming industry right now 1 week ago:
For the predatory games, either find some other way to get them…or don’t play/pay at all.
It’s good advice, but past experience strongly suggests not enough people are going to follow it to make a difference. I think the only way game pubishers and other media companies reform their practices is if there are enforced government regulations requiring them to do so.
- Comment on and what?! 2 weeks ago:
It’s shit like this one minute and then bawling your eyes out over Sniper Wolf talking growing up as an orphan during the second Iraqi-Kurdish war the next
- Comment on Become ungovernable 3 weeks ago:
we can be bees
- Comment on Become ungovernable 3 weeks ago:
This is the most self defeating use of power I have seen since the last news story about US foreign policy I read
- Comment on what even is the purpose of life? 4 weeks ago:
That tracks
- Comment on It's a very satisfyingly clicky button, that's why. 4 weeks ago:
Time goes more quickly when you’re older
- Comment on WOMEN. 4 weeks ago:
Also, a lot of “stupid” behavior people do is a direct result of them being stressed, scared, tired, hungry etc. The more stuff you have on your mind to begin with because the world sucks the harder it is to pay attention to what you’re doing.
- Comment on Schools being too soft lately 4 weeks ago:
All good and totally relatable tbh
- Comment on Schools being too soft lately 4 weeks ago:
Lol, I sincerely love what it says about this website that we get wholesome and intelligent comments "Well, actually…"ing like every submission to the shitpost community. Like, we just never turn it off.
But also, yeah, the original message is super judgmental victim blamey stuff, but that just makes the “your parents’ divorce” photoshop on it perfect satire
- Comment on Schools being too soft lately 4 weeks ago:
A kid in my elementary school got yelled at because her stomach gurgled too loudly for the teacher and it wasn’t til years later that I was like “She lived in a trailer park, she probably didn’t have food at home” and realized how fucked up that was (to be totally fair, the teacher was kinda joking and had a reputation as the asshole teacher he really leaned into, so he yelled at kids for stupid shit all the time, but still)
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 1 month ago:
“No! You’re dumb and your opinions are poorly justified! You must listen to us instead!” - billionaire media
- Comment on Gurll 1 month ago:
Yeah, doesn’t look like a punch to me either, but just looking up the IG account that’s tagged on here I kinda wouldn’t be surprised if they did post an image of a woman getting punched given all the other right wing stuff there
Fwiw, I think yoinking a good pun off a bad account on a bad website and posting it to a better website makes the world a better place
- Comment on Gurll 1 month ago:
Hard to say anything for sure anymore given how we’re all several layers of irony deep at any point, but I think that may in fact be the joke (or part of it anyway)
- Comment on Sick of this shit 1 month ago:
The way that it’s so impossible to tell what’s organically popular and what’s just a hype campaign is honestly so maddening, it’s not as blatant as what they do with political campaigns but it is still an attack on democratic pluralism in a really significant way imo
- Comment on How you keep em after you get em. 1 month ago:
Yeah she told me
- Comment on How you keep em after you get em. 1 month ago:
At first I really thought this was some sort of ai generated arcane horny post, but after looking it up - yeah that’s pretty shitty too
- Comment on How you keep em after you get em. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Woman of my dreams 1 month ago:
Can’t put my finger on it either, but my brain is telling me this is a 2D image, not a photograph of a 3D space. Like I can’t say why for sure, but it looks like there’s nothing “behind” that chyron to me.
- Comment on Planned obsolescence should be illegal 2 months ago:
Gaia I’ve come to bargain [ODs on pain killer]
- Comment on Nobody tell him 2 months ago:
Maybe they did! People believe more unlikely things to make themselves feel better all the time
- Comment on Nobody tell him 2 months ago:
Posting misinformation is acceptable behavior in a shitposting comm, so this could be a photoshop
I feel like the real question to ask in these situations is whether or not it matters whether it’s “real” or not
- Comment on New gf 2 months ago:
One of these hung out near my parents house one summer when I was a kid and made a hunting strategy out of grabbing prey birds mid flight and dive bombing them into the bay windows of our living room
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This would be a more responsible use of my tax dollars than like half of what I read about in the news tbh
- Comment on Iran's shitposts were obliterated, too! 3 months ago:
“… and then he responded ‘Never has been,’ and that’s the last transmission we got from Artemis II.”
- Comment on Stephanie Sterling - "YouTube: The Online Predator's Best Friend" 3 months ago:
I’m actually with you on that point, watching younger people come up with euphemisms like unalived and PDF file to work around the braindead moderation on other platforms actually gives me a sense of hope, because it just highlights the futility of the censors’ efforts (and also I just think it’s cool when languages evolve and we get new slang and stuff)
I still think this is worth posting though because of the underlying bullshit going on here - a ton of Stephanie’s old videos and other videos that documented the rise of lootboxes 10 or 15 years ago are now being disappeared, which is just a crime against history. Also, I do think there are some limits to how far euphemisms can take us, and the fact is that just having to run the risk of possibly being demonetized for using the wrong word is going to keep a lot of creators from even trying to engage with this issue.
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- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 3 months ago:
Yeah, I’m not totally sure I would go as far as requiring criminal charges to kick things off, but their ought to be some restraints on recalls. Besides stability in government being at least somewhat important, it’s unfair to the past electorate who voted whichever candidate in for a given term to have a different electorate (because new people are always becoming eligible and other people are passing away or otherwise becoming inelligble) come along and mess with that.
- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 3 months ago:
Fair point in practice, but in theory that’s a campaign finance regulation problem not a recall election problem
- Comment on Achievable dreams 3 months ago:
Unfortunately (almost) anything you do for a living becomes a chore even on the best days
