UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Submitted 18 hours ago to [deleted] | 15 comments
- Comment on Looks like meat's back on the menu! 2 days ago:
Do not go into that boy’s restroom.
- Comment on Anon is a youtuber 2 days ago:
Only if you replaced OP with a twink.
- Comment on Anon is a youtuber 2 days ago:
Girl makes the same video
Plot Twist: It’s the same video, but the “girl” is edited in via AI.
Double plot twist: The views and reacts are also fake, because YouTube is flooded with bot accounts
Triple plot twist: AI making AI videos for AI consumption is technically gay and simping
Quadruple plot twist: It’s a fix-it video. People are taking the information you put out there and using it to fix their shit. Why are you complaining?
- Comment on dollah 3 days ago:
/r/writingprompts strikes again
- Comment on dollah 3 days ago:
Are you kidding? Can you imagine what a piece of human artifice from 5 million years ago would be worth to the right collector?
- Comment on dollah 3 days ago:
I’m going to take a line from Hob Gadling
Look, I’ve seen death. I lost half my village to the Black Death. I fought under Buckingham in Burgundy. It’s not like I don’t know what death is. Death is… stupid.
Nobody has to die. The only reason people die is… is 'cause everyone does it. You all just go along with it. But not me. I’ve made up my mind. I’m not going to die.
- Comment on dollah 3 days ago:
- Comment on Knowing that boomers had the "hate my wife/husband" humor because they were rushed to marry borderline strangers and didn't believe in therapy but can't prove it 3 days ago:
Happiest couple I know was in an arranged marriage by their parents starting at the age of 9.
They grew up together, went to the same schools, shared hobbies, were fully familiar with each other’s extended families, and the future-wife ended up going down the aisle slightly pregnant. They’ve been together for nearly 50 years, have three kids (one of whom was a friend in high school), and are both thoroughly convinced that American romances are dumb, shortsighted, and a big reason for the country’s endemic poverty.
Of course, this family is also stupid rich.
The couples that I see fail are consistently either poor to the point that they can’t afford a basic standard of living or where one parent is traveling all the time while the other is stuck with perpetual child care. Inevitably one (or both) cheat, or just have a series of meltdowns that end in a break up.
The handful of couples I know where one partner was closeted or just slow to recognize their own queerness seem to be some of the happiest. The relationships tend to be open or poly, to accommodate one or the other. But neither seem to mind. I even know one couple that did get divorced (primarily because the wife was constantly traveling), but you’d never know it given how much time they end up spending together when she’s home.
The “I hate my wife” crowd I do know tends to be the ones that are traveling so much they never really see one another except to deal with some financial bullshit, housework, or kids.
- Comment on Taxes are cool 3 days ago:
Taxes are not theft. They are contributing to the group that shares resources like water and services like roads.
They are not contributing to anything. Taxation is fully decoupled from public spending, which is why the US can issue $1.8T in new Treasury bonds in a year to no noticeable effect.
Public utilities (such that exist - most of them have been privatized in everything but name) operate on the expectation that the staff providing engineering expertise and materials can enjoy a reasonably comfortable quality of life. Setting aside that most utilities bill separately from state and local taxation (I pay a monthly water bill and a gas tax per gallon to fund these amenities), they are provided at an extraordinary mark-up that the actual staff don’t get to enjoy. As a case in point, Houston waste removal services have been chipped away at since COVID, with staff working longer hours for lower pay using outdated equipment. The mayor has outsourced more and more of the work to a private contractor owned by one of his mega-donor friends. What money is collected via property taxes goes first into the profits of the private contracting agencies, then to their administrators, and only at last to trickle down on the actual laborers collecting the trash.
Meanwhile, the housing and personal transport and groceries and other lifestyle amenities required by the waste management workers is… once again outsourced to the private sector, where owners take their cut first and labor gets the dredges. The end result is a working class mired deeper and deeper into debt, while the landed class grows fatter and richer.
This isn’t taxation paying for labor or materials. This is taxation paid out as a rent to landlords and cronies.
The problem with taxes is who is taxed.
That’s a system functioning as intended. Taxation is rent-seeking at the governmental scale. You don’t tax your aristocrats, because they’re supposed to be the recipients of the labor surplus. You tax the laborers, because you need a legalized mechanism for extracting any surplus remaining with them, in order to redistribute it to your aristocratic peers.
- Comment on Taxes are cool 3 days ago:
Wow. Damn. I guess facts don’t care about my feelings.
- Comment on Taxes are cool 3 days ago:
That your conclusion seems locked-in on this possibility as the only solution
I’m mostly just being contrary.
Currency and Taxation CAN and HAVE been weaponized as you described, but so has a carrot.
You’re going to have to cite how carrots were weaponized by the state to legitimize violence.
- Comment on Taxes are cool 3 days ago:
Anyone who disagrees is welcome to do the research by living in any number of failed states.
Currency is a tool of authoritarian governments to extract labor via the threat of poverty and state sanctioned violence.
Taxes are a means of legitimizing that violence by recharacterizing an extortionary rent as interpersonal debts, and the violence of collections as just compensation
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 3 days ago:
It looks more like something you’d see on the cover of Vogue, certainly.
- Comment on My FWB is still ignoring me so I'm sexting with my dealer 4 days ago:
There’s “playing with fire” and then there’s “using a lit match to check the bottom of a gas tank”
- Comment on Animals noticing 4 days ago:
This would be funnier if we weren’t deploying massive AI data-centers to destroy the last surviving mega-fauna.
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 4 days ago:
- Comment on it really do be like that 4 days ago:
How’s this?
- Comment on it really do be like that 4 days ago:
And learn to shave down below! God damn, nobody wants to see those hairy toes, you freak’n hobbit.
- Comment on it really do be like that 4 days ago:
That comically oversized lollypop is giving me diabetes just to look at.
- Comment on it really do be like that 4 days ago:
They’re not invisible. They’re wearing yoga pants. Just like the Allistic women.
- Comment on Live image of Trump negotiations with Iran 4 days ago:
I hear the guy on the left is gay.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 4 days ago:
Janeway was the best starship captain as a kid
Definitely feels generational. I’ve got a friend who is a Janeway diehard. But she didn’t really get into it until Voyager.
Picard will always be my captain of choice, but that might have its roots in watching the show as a little kid with my very bald father whom my mom teasingly referred to as “The Captain” when the show was on.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 5 days ago:
😏
- Comment on Anon contemplates AI 5 days ago:
angry Roomba noises
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 5 days ago:
Pretty sure that was just Star Trek Beyond, the movie where the crew defeated a horde of ravenous space insects by blasting Beastie Boys hit single “Sabotage”.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 5 days ago:
In the early iterations of the 1960s smash hit Star Trek, audiences were shocked and titillated to see a white male officer in a romantic relationship with a black woman officer.
This continues to be shocking today, as modern audiences are not ready to see any (fully clothed) woman in any form of Sci-Fi media doing anything at all.
- Comment on Im pan so anyone can apply 5 days ago:
🫣
- Comment on Anon changes his strategy 5 days ago:
Alienation does drive people nuts.
Great news for anyone in solitary confinement.
Socializing isn’t romantic fulfilment
It is a necessary precondition
Complaining about being trapped in a sense of unfulfillment is a non sequitur.
No it isn’t
- Comment on Anon changes his strategy 5 days ago:
no one deserves a relationship
Alienation drives people nuts. Idk about “deserves”, but everyone ultimately needs them to function normally. Folks who are shut up and hooked into the YouTube Vomit Cannon or the Twitter Racism Space to get all their socializing are the ones that burn out, melt down, or become Elon Musk.
Being unfulfilled is part of life, and any adult is well aware of that, and is good regardless.
Being unfulfilled creates motivation to change oneself. But being trapped in a sense of unfulfillment is toxic to the point of madness. If you’ve got no release for your anxiety or depression, you turn inward in a way that can get very dark over time.
