Hopefully I can replace myself with an AI and then she can deal with this shit.

As a trans woman who spent a lot of her life as a violent man, I have some perspective on this.

The tendency to blow up and hit things? Those are panic attacks. Men don’t like to think of themselves as having sissy emotional problems and so they just try to stubbornly power through their panic by yelling and hitting things, but like, a good cry really fucking helps you know? Meds too! Take a break, get some fresh air, take some deep breaths, fix your makeup, it’s going to be okay. No need to break shit.

Chicken and egg situation.

Did Russia make them into this, or did Russia seek them out because of who they already were?

Sometimes (the freak lobster men like top right aren’t what most women are into lol), but Hollywood doesn’t give a shit about what women want. This is what men want. It’s all power fantasy.

It keeps crashing and not loading stuff correctly and giving me lots of hang time.

A lot like Reddit around the time I left Digg

Actually it’s only sterile in the bladder, once it passes through the urethra it picks up bacteria.

Factory farms where everyone is being fattened up in cages on a slurry of hate and memes.

Huh, I always assumed it was referring to dogs eating cat shit.

Do they have a choice? By hosting an instance, they open themselves up to liability if someone posts child porn. What else could they do?

Gimme Newspeak already. The world isn’t cyberpunk enough yet.

Yahoo answers held on for decades after it was relevant, I’m sure Reddit will be around in 15 years.

Sadly, Remindbot will be reminding a ghost town populated only by other bots

Or its proof that rich people shouldn’t be allowed to have children.

I, for one, support Elon and u/spez in their efforts to destroy corporate social media and their support for federation!

There’s a theory that, at one time, “man” was a gender neutral term for persons and we called males “weremen” and obviously women “women”

That probably isn’t true, but it’s fun to think about a world where that was reversed.

EDIT Also evidently there was wifmann and wapman, which is an even funnier world to imagine.

As a hard materialist, I don’t see art as separate from materialism. What art does is materially express immaterial things - a good piece of art isn’t just an image or description of events, it’s an idea or concept that has been made into a material form.

Art isn’t just a description of the world. The point of art is to change it.

“AI art doesn’t have the imperfections of the human touch.”

Except when it gives people six fingers and shit lol

Art hadn’t been properly commodified yet because the technology for mass produced art didn’t exist. They still needed artisans and artists, so they had to fund the arts if they wanted to see any created. They didn’t appreciate art more, per se, but they saw it as fundamentally different from other widgets.

This is no longer the case. With the advent of photography, film, digital information, and of course the internet we now see profitable “art” without any need to fund it with philanthropy. Aside from one-off public works projects they can fund by stealing public funds, they can only imagine art through the lens of profitability and have no understanding of the amount of free time and energy that has gone into creating so much of the art that exists today.

There is no Medicis in 2023. Instead you get Marvel.

This might not compel you to, but the only way to keep Lemmy from turning into Reddit 2 is by donating so they don’t have to seek out investors. We all have to do what we can to help out - that said, by posting you are creating content for the website. That’s not nothing.

I hope without karma we can do away with vote fuzzing.

It fails to do what I want, and that’s basically the same when I’m irritated lol

My point is that Lemmy being different and sometimes frustrating isn’t a big deal because none of us need it to work.