People are still using facebook and reddit by the hundreds of millions or billions. Most people don’t give 2 shits about technology, just that it sort of works. Most people are Jen.

Apple products are generally the worst way to attempt to do anything with a computer. Drop the idea.

They’re not “anti-globalism”. They don’t even know what that means. They’re just parroting Alex Jones. I don’t like globalism, but conservatives who go off about globalism are actually just being anti-semitic and using Israel as shorthand for “the Jewish secret ruling class”.

Don’t anybody tell her that the Fediverse exists. It might break her brain.

In the Pacific Northwest, you have to make the distinction. Lots of gin bars and whiskey bars.

They’ll also yell at you if you stick your hands in their pockets but don’t steal anything. Then they’ll be super friendly to you on a dime.

Imagine buying a $1600 US laptop to use blender.

You know you don’t have to tell your boss you’re dating a coworker right? It’s not their business what you do in your off-time. Dating people is legal. Do you tell your parents every time you take a shit?

I remember back in the day if people found out you were on a dating website, you were basically totally ostracized. Then people realized, well shit, if I’m going to be ostracized for looking for love online, I might as well do it on the free website (POF). But POF basically became the “drug addict and single mom machine”. Then dating apps came out and it became trendy and cool because you didn’t have to actually connect with anyone and you could be aloof and detached and have NSA sex with strangers. Now everyone hates dating apps again. Normalize talking to people about real things in public!

The idea that you only get to choose between either predatory Capitalism or corrupt Communism as your society is pretty pathetic. Truly we have some of the minds of all time in this thread.

Maybe there’s a sweet spot in between Capitalism and Communism. They are basically the 2 extremes of the political spectrum after all. Surely there’s a spot on the spectrum that embraces worker’s rights while also incentivising commercial enterprise. Checks and balances are always necessary, even in a utopia.

There was never socialism in Asia or Eastern Europe. At no point have the workers seized the means of production and had a dictatorship of the proletariat.

Exactly. No revolution occurred because everyone wished really hard it would happen but still played by the oppressor’s rules.

Social Democracy. Commerce is key to strong economies, not capitalistic wealth hoarding.

You’re a fan of exploitation of the working class?

I get it. Thanos doesn’t have the infinity stones and communism is about to fail.

People suck. Staying at home, catching up on sleep, reading, playing video games, and re-evaluating the important parts of my life was a revelation.

You can tell who the introverts and who the extroverts were during the pandemic. For those that got to stay at home:

Extroverts: "My mental health is crumbling! I'll never be the same after this. Literally the worst thing that's ever happened to me!"

Introverts: "I just beat a handful of games in my backlog, read 4 books, started learning how to make Chinese food at home, and I just started learning Spanish on Duolingo. I'll never be the same after this!"

In no way is this child abuse. Preventing your child from playing Paper Mario is though.

In 2009 a parent in Toronto accused the book of being anti-Christian and anti-Islamic because the women are veiled and polygamy is allowed

I wonder if that parent ever actually found out what the plot of the book is…