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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but not much of one. Honestly anyone supporting or protecting them is almost as bad as being them. Some technical terms would be sheltering, aiding, and abetting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have a purpose in life and feel like a robot. This cannot be good for my mental health, but I don't know how or what to change. How do I change?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody has a purpose in life. Belief that life has a purpose is a creationist delusion created to try and comprehend and apply order to what is intrinsically chaotic and random, and to fight the anxiety that their fears induce.

  Your options are to choose one of the following:

  1. Acceptance. You can accept that life is meaningless and that it’s okay. This one’s my preference.
  2. Denial. You can deny life’s meaninglessness and seek to find or create a purpose for yourself. This can range from something as simple as a hobby to as life changing as having a family or advocating for a cause.
  3. Embrasure. Revel in the chaos and express yourself through it, doing whatever you want without thought it care. This is best exemplified by the fictional character of the Joker.
  4. Oppression. Take up religion to crush understanding of reality and replace it with a delusion of supernaturally defined purpose. This is probably the most commonly used option, frequently forced upon people during childhood.
  5. Opposition. Attempt to fight the reality or mask the effects of meaninglessness through other means, such as direct therapy, chemical dependency (not recommended), talking with friends/family, or through other methods not previously mentioned.

  Understanding one’s place in the universe (insignificant, irrelevant, and temporary speck) is important to having an accurate impression of ones existence. Whether one can accept that and what one do with that understanding is unique to the individual.

  I hope that helps - good luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨War on Christmas⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The true War on Christmas is fight in solidarity with Halloween and Thanksgiving in an effort to push Christmas back over the November/December border. It’s a just and noble war, one which I both advocate and fight in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are examples of things that would get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances of Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently not advocating for spreading knowledge of jury nullification. Lemmy.World is (mostly) banning it and now I need to find a new instance because I consider that to be the endorsement of our (American) government’s system of “bend over and take it.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, that’s not bullshit in the slightest. Is it legal to do this there? I mean it’s technically illegal here in America but employers can always come up with a bullshit excuse. Worse, if you live in San “at will” state, they can fire you with NO reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Motherfucker of you’re gonna charge me $3,000 per day, I’m keeping the bed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What murderer? There’s an alleged person who allegedly may or may not have allegedly done something that allegedly resulted in the alleged death of that CEO. Allegedly.

  Unfortunately this is America, and as members of Congress have publicly stated, there’s just nothing we can do about domestic gun violence. So even if an alleged person allegedly committed an alleged crime with a firearm, the system’s hands are tied.

  Oh well. Anyway I’m gonna go eat some cake, since it’s all I have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much can we hope is being put in place behind the scenes at the US federal level to mitigate the damage Trump will do? Can any of it be effective?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We can’t. IMO unless some of the military brass grow the spines needed to actually fulfill their oaths to protect the United States from threats both foreign AND DOMESTIC, we’re all pretty well fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon holds her bf⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Green text, but men’s health is a disaster and this has been me in the past before therapy and meds.

  To be fair though I have several lifelong comorbid depression and anxiety disorders that I didn’t get treated until I was 30. No 7 year old should have to be be suicidal.

  I wonder how many other men are similar but never get treatment? Too many.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO brains go brrrrr⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Let them hate so long as they fear.

  Attributed to Caligula, but guess what ya rich bastards? It goes both ways, and we outnumber you. By a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨super squirrel⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He needs a squirrel-sized Iron Man suit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨super squirrel⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Deez

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You don't need to answer this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t spell murder without laughter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what a moment to live⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey gun crime is just a reality we have to live with, according to the Republicans in Congress. So I don’t see any reason to make a big fuss just because this rich bastard accidentally feel into some bullets, instead of the usual bunch of innocent children or random black person the cops decided to shoot while face down and in handcuffs. No, I’m sure the police have much more serious police matters to attend to, like civil forfeiture on somebody carrying a large amount of cash or selling appropriated weapons to drug cartels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still liked it though!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  4’33"? So like 6’9"?

  Oh. I see what they did there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays spin the bottle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d take too long to list it all, but it started way earlier than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Doing so makes you a hypocrite. Don’t worry through, there’s no shortage of hypocrisy in America. It’s practically a requirement to be at least unwittingly hypocritical. Just by drinking Coke or tipping a waiter you’re contributing to a broken system designed to exploit people for maximum profit.

  But here’s the rub. You can’t, in any practical sense, escape that crap, however, you can choose to not deliberately contribute to stuff outside your immediate wheelhouse. It’s one thing to buy a chocolate bar out of a vending machine, but investing in Nestle? That’s a choice, and one you could have easily skipped. You could skip the candy too, but it’s very, very hard (and impractical) to refuse every corporate product ever. Everything, from the materials in your electronics to your mortgage company, to most food from lettuce to frozen chicken, exploits people. But you don’t have to voluntarily make the problem worse.

  And on the sliding scale of morality, investing in slavery - in this case the prison industrial complex is just greed and indifference to the cost in human suffering. Seriously research it, slavery in all but name has been part of the plan since the Reconstruction era after the Civil War. We never had a justice system; we have a punishment system that hungers for the labor of the downtrodden, especially of minorities.

  So if you want to at least try and be a better person, and investing is something you want to do, look into the companies you’re investing in. See what their executives are paid compared to their workers here and abroad. There are companies that you can ethically justify investing in - small companies, co-ops, credit unions, pro-union companies, companies actually trying to solve problems or make the world better, like solar manufacturing, etc.

  If you want to invest in human suffering, then you’re going to have to make peace with being a bad person and being judged for it. I’d advise at least trying not to. It’s a hopeless battle, but fighting honorably is its own justification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an American living in Chicagoland, the 3rd largest metropolitan area in the country. I can drive for over 900 miles in any direction and everyone still speaks English, though some jerks Quebec wouldn’t admit it at gunpoint. Even foreign born immigrants who never took a class can usually manage enough pidgin English to get by, even if it’s just a hundred words or less.

  America also has the largest English speaking pop globally. More than the next 3 countries combined. England is 5th on that list.

  America had been the dominant global source of money, technology and education since WW2. Though it’s in it’s slow decline arc, good luck explaining that to uncritical people who were spoon fed the doctrine of American Exceptionalism since infancy.

  Why do many, if not most Americans assume everybody else speaks English? Why the hell wouldn’t we?

  Europeans and Brits go on vacation abroad and it’s usually elsewhere in Europe. Huge swathes of the world had to learn English when the British Empire was large and in charge. The US picked up where the Brits left off. It’s been that way for literally centuries.

  There’s a dozen or two languages they might need to be at least passingly familiar with, on top of English which is needed for business, industry, education, flying/air traffic control, and gawd knows what else. It’s the lingua franca of the modern age, and if they have no other language in common, two people with a passing knowledge of English can communicate at a basic level.

  Americans go on vacation and travel three time zones over without leaving the continental US. A small town is basically the same in New York and California. You can go anywhere in America or Canada (or most major foreign cities) and find at least a few things you know and are familiar with, from chains like Hilton and McDonald’s to independently owned clones like Motels and Diners. Our country, a third of the continent (more or less) is larger than all of continental Europe.

  So yeah, that’s why. Don’t worry, the planet will probably kill us off within a generation or two, assuming the Orange Idiot or some foreign despot like Putin decides to end it all early with nuclear hellfire. So if it’s a problem for you, at least it’s a problem that will solve itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an engineer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The school to hospice informal incarceration pipeline is omnipresent for the working class, and college/trades level is right there in the middle. Right after kid jail and before wage slavery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Exclusives of any kind are bullshit marketing ploys, at best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scalper economy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re all pieces of shit and deserve to be kicked out an airlock into deep space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well to be fair you already went through this shit once. Speaking of which, you’re gonna send troops over here to help us out this time, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just one toke!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for reminding me that I’ve got some gummies on the table.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What gives you hope to keep going?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That there’s no evidence of the existence of an afterlife. It’ll be like that time I had eye surgery but without having to wake up afterwards - merciful oblivion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It has nothing to do with your right to work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if they named it honestly as “Right to Fire” then only 55% of voters would vote for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ugh i wish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  America, home of the brave and land of fucking around and finding out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • I am Error.
  • All your base are belong to us.
  • It’s dangerous to go alone. Take this! Why yes I did grow up in the 80s & 90s.

  Bonus from a newer game: “What have I told you? People are a renewable resource!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bro 😭😭⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna give Stamos the benefit of the doubt as say maybe he needs the hair for work. No seriously. He’s an actor, their appearance and image are work relevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fear, control, indoctrination, tribalism, double standards, poor mortal character, hypocrisy, and because it ‘makes them feel icky’ and so they have to be loud and obvious about it so that they’re community sides with them and doesn’t suspect that they’re (allegedly) total closet cases.