WiseThat

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[–] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I remember like 10 years back I was 23 and was riding the bus with young guy from one of the clubs I was in in university. He was maybe 19 or so.

We're on the bus, and a woman boards who looks very pretty and has a satchel with a bunch of enamel pins of the pokemon gym badges on it.

I compliment her flair, and we have a pleasant conversation about pokemon until my stop. Pretty normal stuff.

I disembark with my mentee and he turns to me and goes "WHAT?! IT'S THAT EASY TO TALK TO WOMEN BY JUST ASKING ABOUT THEIR INTERESTS?"

He was just completely unaware that people respond well when you pay attention to them and treat them like people. He was convinced the only way to talk to girls was by using pickup lines.

[–] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

The problem is that churches and religious zealots have a LOT of money and are willing to spend it on things that make our world more like a Handmaid's Tale.

I found this video to be really well put together analysis of these religiously-funded redpill outlets staffed by young religious single guys or multiply divored religious assholes who are trying to be experts on love and dsting despite being absolutely horrible people.

https://youtu.be/9ewTLFKRPmQ

The key takeaway is that a lot of what appeals to these American Taliban types is the idea of being able to hold women captive and under control, because they know they are awful and that given free will no woman wants to be with a controlling asshat, so they work to enact "enforced monogamy" and to eliminate divorce.

[–] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's amazing that Tate, a failed athlete turned failed reality TV show participant turned literal sex-trafficker has any pull anywhere...

But the reality is that rich assholes like Peter Thiel want him and his radically regressive beliefs to be popular so they fund him and give him top spots on their platforms (e.g. Rumble, which is owned by Thiel and has him as a featured channel next to Newsmax and Alex Jones).

[–] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Because capital is greedy? The economy is growing every year, productivity is growing every year. The fact that wages are not says bad things about employers, not the workers.

[–] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

As well they should. Police enforcs the law, and they should be under the same, of not MORE scrutiny for assault with a deadly weapon than the average person.

[–] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

My first thought was this was a punk thing, like, if you want to think of yourself as a bit rebellious you can buy the American phone instead of the phone made by the company that owns your nation.

[–] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

The thing about Lemmy is that "all" means "everything that anyone on your home server has requested we federate to", so the "all" that someone hosted on Lemmy.nsfw sees will be a different "all" than someone on beehaw will see, because individual servers are free to choose not to make connections to other instances if they don't want to.

[–] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

The people seeing furry porn are based in Lemmy.world or Lemmy.nsfw

Your instance, lemmy.ee, doesn't subscribe you to porn by default.

[–] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Depends on your Instance looks like the defaults on lemmy.zip don't include much porn, so if you want it you gotta add it. My home instance is also pretty SFW as well.

[–] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I absolutely adore my Subaru CVT. The only things I dislike about it are how it has a bunch of fake crap to act more like a manual transmission.

I want my car to always be at peak power band when I stomp the pedal, CVT can do that and other transmissions can't.

[–] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago

That and market share. Between 2007 and now, a website could reliably grow as new people got connected to the internet and as internet usage naturally grew. Up till recently, a large proportion of people either didn't use the internet at all, or had the internet, but didn't use much. Prior to 2020 I knew lots of friends and family who simply did not own a home computer or maybe had like one laptop for the whole family (and a bunch of phones).

During that era, the attention was all on getting new users in the door. Make a good, cheap/free product, and people will come.

But NOW, most people already are using the internet like 14+ hours a day and have become full netizens. If companies want to keep growing, they can't rely on new blood, they need to pivot to harvesting more from the people they already have.

[–] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

New reddit crops images that it displays, so you typically had to click on images anyways, though

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