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Donkter

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Donkter ,

I think it's just that most are based on chatgpt which cuts off at 2021.

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Just how different is a meme community to a shitpost community. Do we really need to split them?

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Well that sucks. If there are never goin to be ninjas again the least the family could do is write down all the secret techniques for histories sake.

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6 hours? That's not a very long time for worm bile. You may want to consult a doctor.

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Why does AliExpress and Chinese ads signify all of Chinese culture? They have the second largest population in the world. You've chosen scams run by fractions of a percent of the population of China and decided that the entire culture is defined by lying and cheating?

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I felt like the movie started in one direction and was putting down men. Not necessarily in a wrong way (a lot of it was a critique of patriarchy which is both true and necessary for a feminist movie.) But halfway through writing the movie they realized that an inevitable conclusion to the whole message of the movie was that the Kens were also victims of the system and they needed a positive plot arc. The movie tries to do it, but unlike Barbie the Kens don't really do anything to earn their progression and it feels shoehorned in because they wrote themselves into a corner.

Donkter ,

Yeah that's a pretty prominent criticism I've heard. The movie is stuck somewhere between 2nd and 3rd wave feminism and tries to grasp at more modern ideas but framing it through Barbie makes it very difficult.

I don't blame them though, for a full blown Hollywood movie with that size budget it's impressive they got what they had.

Donkter ,

I definitely agree that the movie is about Barbie so it makes sense that the Kens get sidelined.

But to my point, I think you're describing what I'm talking about. The Kens rubber band around between being the oppressed group in the gender reversed Barbie society, to being the cartoonish patriarchy that stands in so that Barbie can self actualize.

Actually as I type this out I guess you could interpret it as Ken then doing a cartoonish version of self-actualization with the funny song and dance after Barbie has the real emotional arc of the movie.

Donkter ,

Lick boobs

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If you show me a windows fanboy I'll show you a bridge for sale.

Donkter ,

That's like half the point of those high-paid engineers, you gotta min-max your material selection.

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Ex.

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Booooo don't throw this sort of insult at strangers you beautiful soul.

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My bi partner is still slightly annoyed that she's had to settle

I wouldn't have met her in the first place if she had been accepted by any of the women who she met before me.

I understand that I know nothing of your life. And I'm sure it's going fine. But the way you're framing it while defending the relationship seems like you need to have a bit more of a talk about it.

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This

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That rollercoaster might also kill people with the g-forces.

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An issue with this tweet is that we already have the capacity to do a lot. We have the technology to provide healthy and diverse diets for the entire planet and fit a cities worth of farming inside a few city blocks (vertical hydroponics/aeroponics). We have the ability to create electricity in a dozen different renewable ways. We have the ability to desalinate water creating nearly infinite fresh water, we have enough square footage in the world to easily house everyone. We have stellar education systems that we could hand out to the entire world.

Why don't we do it? Well, all these things cost money. But the issue is, there also exists staggering amounts of money across the world. The panama papers revealed just a fraction of the wealth being hoarded by just a fraction of the wealthiest people in the world (and most implicated in the panema papers weren't even too crazy, like soccer stars and business owners). There's exists tens to hundreds of trillions of dollars of wealth created by the world just floating around in billionaires bank accounts and in the coffers of world powers.

So it's not an issue of abundance coming in the near future, we have it here on earth right now.

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Just tried it, worked for me.

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I think it's because, as someone earlier in the thread pointed out. Most article begin by stating what the topic is a subset of. Since everything is a result of humans categorizing and thinking about the world, that inevitably leads back to philosophy.

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If there are 10 people including you and the majority chooses who gets to be president and the vote ends up as 5 for Biden (including you) and 5 for Trump. Then the vote gets recast and the only thing that changes is that you decided not to vote for Biden, it would be 5/4 for Trump and the person responsible for electing Trump would be everyone who voted for him and you. If you had voted against Trump instead of abstaining, he would not have become president.

That's a very basic concept and it's clear that it extrapolates to the actual election.

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I think in the original the sign said something like "league of legends". I forget the exact game.

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If reddit allowed third party apps again that would probably be enough to get me back. Maybe in another 5 years it won't but right now Lemmy only wins cause the reddit app experience is bad enough to drive me away.

Donkter ,

No, the more fallen, the lest west. Except sometimes there are pockets of fallen when theres actually a slight increase in The West.

Interestingly, it seems like with more collapse comes more society.

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This reminds me, I keep searching for the short story written by one of the creators set in the same universe. The only source I can find for an English copy of it is from a shady download link that my antivirus program doesn't want me to open. Does anyone know where I can get a copy?

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I feel like the severe sunburn on her neck would be important to point out in the description

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And before then it was "political correctness"

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Mf doesn't know the opiodic bliss of watching some griddy.

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Top comment says this comic is from 2009. You are just a whiner.

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It makes me mad that people who argue this can't answer the extremely simple and obvious question "so do you think everybody can do this? How does that work if everyone owns two properties, who's renting?" Cause you need at least an equal amount of people renting as there are landlords.

Obviously, the answer is that some people are winners and some people are losers and if you can't own that second property you're obviously a loser who did something wrong to deserve it. But they'll never cop to that, cause there are just so many easy ways to shut that down not to mention it makes them look like monsters. Not the least of which is that if the system necessitates that at least half the people are "losers" then it's not based on merit.

Donkter ,

Ill never understand people like this. Sure, very spicy food is tasty but at some point you have to acknowledge that the actual flavor of pure capsaicin is not very good, you're just destroying the flavor profile of the dish.

Donkter ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ebbed2c2-984e-4438-ace2-4b41330bec9d.png

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Boss 2 years later: "why did all of our newcomers quit?! I swear there's no good employees anymore."

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And he still got picked over other kids at the orphanage.

Donkter ,

Sorry for my ignorance but is this supposed to be a chair in AA? Or group therapy?

Donkter ,

Also they breezed over the humanitarian reason, but well over 50% of Texas would never dream of seceding and would be worse off for it, it's not like worrying about there being a few good eggs in the bunch.

Donkter ,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Donkter ,

Disclaimer: I don't really watch Mr. Beast all that much.

Mr. Beast's origin story (apparently) is that he went all in on Bitcoin really early, like so early that when it blew up he became a multi-millionaire (we don't actually know exactly how much money he got, it could be a lot, it seems like a fuck ton).

By some grace of God he had a really good influence and decided to use that money for charity, creating a YouTube channel to film that charity and make some money back on his endeavors. He talks a lot now about how he makes so much off of YouTube videos that he can often just break even on the crazy prizes he gives out based on the views he gets.

Now based on this it seems pretty chill. Mr. Beast made a fuckload of money and is working within the system of capitalism to give it back to some of the most needy (I mean he's done stuff like traveled to Africa to help install water wells in tiny remote villages, say whatever you want but that's good charity.)

The problem is, as other people in this thread pointed out Mr. Beast has done a ton of podcasts talking about his work and it's pretty clear that he actually thinks that this is how the system is supposed to work, that the only issue is that more rich people aren't giving away their money like he is and if that happened the system would be working perfectly. That's a stupid take, and as I mentioned before, I think he only became this charitable as a fluke, he's an exception to the rule.

Now I'll defend him: I think that Mr. Beast gets a lot more hate than he deserves. He's one of the very few rich people who is truly giving away most of his money to other people (sure, lots of his videos are him giving away money to middle-american white people but that doesn't even matter that much) he gets hate because he places himself in the spotlight the "controversy around every video" that you point to is a product of this. It's part of the production and only makes him more famous. Mr. Beast is only a symptom of a disease and directing hate towards him is only done because it's easy.

Like I said earlier, he's an exception to the rule, and the rule is that people this rich don't engage in any charity nearly this much. It's bizarre that people focus on the one rich person doing that. Oh wait, it's not, it's just a bunch of lugheads falling for the American celebrity worship/attention culture but in reverse.

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As the OP, I'd like to mention here that I never said or thought that Bitcoin involves no poor exploitation.

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Ummm no??? If you don't understand sarcasm on the Internet you're going to have a bad time!!!!! I swear people are getting dumber.

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I think that studies show that while facts can help, most significant changes of mind happen when a person is emotionally invested in the change.

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Isn't this still the meme format? Just without the original picture?

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No, it says Steven Crowder doesn't deserve a meme format. His image doesn't have to be in a meme for it to be his format.

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I understand what the meme is trying to say. I'm saying that I don't think it succeeded. I don't think this is different enough to not still be the Stephen Crowder format.

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There is a massive massive difference between using the data and selling the data.

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You joke but if you look, the fork is floating, not resting on his finger. And I would certainly call his expression vacant or emotionless.

Donkter ,

Tbf Funky Kong looks pretty divorced.

Donkter ,

Linux users realizing Windows is fine.

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