Yes, but again - not by SM/apps/big tech, just by the establishment and grifters. Same as it always was with the press.
All aboard the LainTrain - We all love Lain!
Yes, but again - not by SM/apps/big tech, just by the establishment and grifters. Same as it always was with the press.
That’s fair, still, I’d rather talk to “crazy” people who reasoned their way into than “normal” people who got there purely based on vibes
Both have a profit motive, one simply earns actual capital that it’s owners (Murdoch etc.) exchange for political capital (favourable laws) and the other earns political capital (position promises, coverage opportunities, connections with assorted tory wankers), to exchange for actual capital (bonuses, cushy jobs).
Every system is corrupt.
In so far as beeb vs the sun hey are practically indistinguishable in terms of actual levels of bigotry, the actual tone is the only thing that sets it apart, but in terms of harm the Beeb takes the cake for me for being so transphobic one of their articles has a whole-ass Wikipedia page about it.
Then you have the frankly bizarre amount of sucking up to Rowling, Farage, et al. they do and now the coverage of the war in Gaza too.
The Sun is arguably more harmless because nobody really thinks it’s unbiased truth. But many people do see the Beeb that way and it hasn’t been so since the BoJo years at least when the new head got appointed, it’s just polite fox news now.
No, what the fuck?
The BBC is a propaganda outlet meant to keep British society in line and and in check so the aristocracy can maintain their power.
Idk, people here are definitely on average more sane than on mainstream platforms. This also isn’t to do with big tech or billionaires, it’s the fact that even knowing of Lemmy has a certain intellectual barrier that filters out the non-thinking masses.
This is from 2013. This has nothing to do with big tech, people are just stupid.
Extremely good take. Thank you! So well-worded.
I definitely prefer self-checkouts and in-store screen ordering, I don’t want to speak to some stressed out guy on minimum wage and stress him out more because he can’t hear or speak properly and will get my order wrong and get me frustrated.
The touchscreens are usually really simple and easy to navigate. Plus all the upsells for meals etc. are easy to skip past if you can navigate a basic dark pattern, compared to the human who has to say it then you have to hear it and respond etc. which is very slow + and you need to take your earphones off or at least pause your music to do it which always just sucks.
At least in principle - that’s a lot better, in practice in my experience too.
I’m sorry mr.boomer but when I worked fast food I didn’t do so for “human connection”, I did it to not be homeless and so I could eat and my worst nightmare on till duty was if someone wanted to speak to me, and I’d just wish for them to fuck off so I can keep daydreaming and blocking out the traumatizing levels of noise and shit going on.
As a customer - I don’t go to subway for “human connection” - I go there because I fell asleep after work and now I’m starving, I don’t go to Starbucks to harass the barista or the other souls inside who just want to be left alone like everyone does, I go there to get my 500kcal coffee treat to remind myself of better days and leave as soon as possible.
Also, good image OP. If AI it’s very impressive because it just looks photoshopped to me. Why is the grammar so busted though?
What even would that be? Like a CeX in the UK?
*lose, not loose
That’s a C- see me after class. Otherwise nice troll.
Cool band name, though
I never ever thought I’d want to be circumsized. I really enjoyed the sensitivity and all that, blowjobs were awesome etc.
I even remember some PoS noctor pediatrician insisting on it to my parents even as I was like 5-7, which they rightfully called him out on as motivated by his muslim religion/culture rather than sound real medical reasoning.
Even as a kid, it was nice to see my folks stand up to me, and it still matters to my nearly 30 year old ass today when it comes to enjoyment of sex, a whole-ass sex change later.
My also-trans gf said she wished she wasn’t circumsized as well.
My life is pretty good. I enjoy myself more often than I don’t, have plenty of hobbies and love learning about the world. I love myself, truly.
I also believe in agency and doing the best you can to reach for what you want.
However - you are wrong.
You cannot just “quit a job”. If you are fortunate enough to not have your entire life tied to your employment via a visa sponsorship in effective slave labour, that still means a job search in an ever-shrinking job market where increasingly peasants don’t matter as employees not even as consumers as demand and thus supply - shifts towards the ultra rich.
Un(der)mployment is in reality - sky high and most people can’t afford necessities as is, nevermind savings, and if they can, it sure as shit doesn’t make sense to spend a rainy day fund on months of job searching for no reason other than you don’t like your current role in the ever-more-remote hope that you’ll find something better
It’s not impossible of course, but it ain’t an easy decision to make by any means, the hesitation is understandable.
Similarly moving out of the slums is not possible for most due to a housing market that prices out residents and carers towards buy-to-let investors (landleeches) and private equity portfolio builders - there are now more private equity companies in the US than there are McDonald’s, it doesn’t take being an Einstein to see what kind of dark future we’re headed for.
I understand your frustration though and I feel similarly sometimes when people seemingly refuse to make choices that I do - e.g. quitting corpo social media, quitting algorithmic feeds, quitting using corpo products, consooming less corpo junk media, etc. etc.
Like it’s almost existential to me in terms of crisis how anyone could fall for misinformation about a topic you even remotely think about ever when you have the world’s information at your fingertips democratised for you right there, easily indexable and searchable for free, all you need is intellectual honesty and you can learn something at least in the ballpark of accurate truth about literally anything in under an hour at most, yet people don’t.
As a Marxist, I can at least somewhat understand like someone being a homeless fentanyl addict who stabs people in the alley due to economic circumstances out of their control that led them down a terrible path of crime and misery, even terrible as the things they do are - they’re worthy of compassion, and they deserve better, we all do.
But I cannot understand how one could ever be misinformed on anything they even remotely choose to hold an opinion on. Information is literally free as in free beer in most cases.
It’s very easy to say then, “I am super smart, others are not, that’s why I do the right things”, but I’m not satisfied with that explanation, it’s too self-serving and I just don’t buy that I’m anything like that.
There is another explanation - more or less, people are the same, they vary in priorities, but largely are some degree of rational, if chaotic actors that navigate the same systems you do from different starting positions.
Even when the actions seem absurd to you - there are reasons people do the things they do, the gambler and the porch parcel thief aren’t a different species of being from you, they navigate the same systems you do, but from different positions.
Assume they are the same as you, put yourself in their shoes, and think about what could make you do what they do, and it starts to add up, you can simulate the path of another by navigating through the systems of our society from their perspective and starting point.
This sort of systematic analysis is not easy, but it can get at things we can actually affect, the system is necessary, but not natural. The world was built this way, and just the same it can be built differently.
So, perhaps instead of virtue signaling yourself and your own assumed superiority by pointing out how you made good choices and other people make bad choices like some sort of slave mentality moral Christian who divides everyone into those who go to Heaven and those who go to Hell - you can ask, you can research, and think hard, because there are definitely reasons one can’t always follow your suggested actions, even if those reasons are also not an excuse to sit still and do nothing, either.
Anyway you are also an obvious troll and “magical hitachi wand” sounds like an alt of yours.
But I’m leaving this up just in case someone thinks this unironically.
Idk, I don’t agree. I think in many ways actually online is a lot less brainrot.
Online I can block ads. IRL I cannot.
Online I can block morons. IRL I cannot.
Online I can choose pretty freely what to do and when and with whom and why.
IRL depends a lot more on what’s available locally and transport options.
Online I can connect with people across the globe, massively increasing the likelihood of finding friends due to higher overall population meaning more people who are into the same stuff I am.
IRL I’m limited to the smallest fraction of a fraction of people who are coincidentally local and also happen to have things I have in common with, and id also need to meet them somehow, which is about negligible odds.
Online my options for research are practically unlimited, I can see and evaluate multiple perspectives and check the sources easily.
IRL not so, and for news I’m largely limited to propaganda from MSM billionaire outlets.
Online I am safe from physical violence and threats, I’m free to speak my mind and voice my beliefs, IRL - not so much.
I think the internet is good, actually, and if it hasn’t had a good impact on you, I’m sorry, but that’s a skill issue.
Yeah, true, I’m not racist and I think being in multicultural environments since childhood was basically what did it, international boarding school, city with big international population, etc.
Stop using anything with algorithmic feeds for a start. So no Instagram, Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, etc etc.
For YouTube - turn off watch history in your account settings. It turns off the home page. Bookmark the subscriptions page and use that and only that so you’re only watching channels you’re subscribed to. I also use ublock to turn off the comments and the suggested bar on the side. I’ve never used the app and I don’t watch videos on my phone.
You can also set an app timer for your Lemmy client, I’ve done it for Jerboa in the past and while it didn’t really work for me, it’s something that may work for you.
With local media that’s a really good idea you got going.
You do need to replace the stuff rather than leave a vacuum, so this would be a good time to pick up a new hobby or get back to an old one, something nice, chill and fairly passive so you don’t feel you’re too exhausted to do it after work, in the same way you’d scroll sm passively.
I may not agree on the whole divorcing from screens thing as IRL really is just a different type of brainrot IMO and an even more biased self selecting echochamber, but I do think divorcing from big tech is a good thing because fuck corpos and regardless I wish you luck!
Maybe, but at least I’m not the one getting evicted:)
Wanna let me in on the joke?