So he’s gonna have solidarity with that white woman who was shot by ICE yesterday, right?

Make it Tylenol to level up your special interest.

I’d settle for “Not the worst year”.

That ascribes far too much agency to AI. It’s people like him who are putting society through the woodchipper.

I’d say that capitalism manufactures the chains

I like the Tron reboot movies more because of Daft Punk rather than the other way around.

It maybe depends on the particular culture/context around you. When I was growing up I was usually in explicitly Christian contexts, so it was probably more repressive than what some people experience. I think that toxic masculinity is pretty widespread, though.

I think the issue there is that male friendships in general and especially with females are culturally discouraged.

My personal experience might be taken with a grain of salt because I’m a trans female (and my wife clocked that before she started dating me, even though I didn’t realize it myself until later), but from my personal experience being raised as a male I had very few friendships with girls and women and I never dated until I developed a close friendship with the woman who is now my wife. She expressed interest in dating me, and eventually we committed to it.

So, I think that breaking that cultural norm and encouraging men to have more friendships would help a lot.

Why do you dislike Daft Punk?

So… he’s blaming this murder on Trump supporters. That’s what that means.

When you put it like, that, that sounds like exactly what they’d want off the coast of Venezuela right now.

For sure. They shouldn’t have blown up the other boats either, but spilling the oil into the sea would certainly have been bad.

Huh, I wonder why they seized it instead of shooting it like the others? It couldn’t possibly be for the oil, right?

No shit

Edit: Mamdani should run for president, he’s by far the most popular Democrat right now, and for good reason.

Edit 2: Darn, he legally can’t. Still, it would be great to have any actual leftist run. And charisma helps too.

How about we adapt by raising taxes on you assholes and funding social programs?

Karma on reddit tracks the accumulated likes and dislikes a user has gotten on all of their posts. Lemmy does not have a number like that.

Edit: What this means in practice is that on Reddit there are some users who make a lot of low-effort posts to get that karma number to go up and get a sense of accomplishment from that (even when they get a negative reputation among the other users), whereas on Lemmy that’s not really a thing. Lemmy has power-users that become well-known, but they’re more well-liked because they aim to gain actual reputation instead of just farming a karma number.

They weren’t already?

Maybe if more of “the economy” went into the pockets of consumers they’d have money to buy phones as often as they used to.

I am a big fan of cats. However, if they live outside, they are feral. And they should not be allowed to keep living outside.

My preferred solution would be for people to take them in and feed them, but you definitely should not be feeding them while they are still living outside. Outdoor cats cause a lot of destruction to the ecosystem by overhunting small animals such as songbirds, even to the point of extinction.

Blahaj!