The light is just so they can see you better and they actually just lasso you like cattle with an invisible rope. Physicists be damned.

Yep. That’s the ones. Or really pornographic or absurd. Cause buying more makes you feel like you have control of your life when you can buy a new shirt that dissolves when you wash it because you can’t afford to take a day off to walk around a park.

Man… Try saying that with a non standard size phone screen… Or the terrible UI to force you into downloading an app.

Can’t even check the balance on a Dave and busters card without a masters degree in computer science.

“Come on man, I just need a couple more pets of your data and I will totally be able to predict you something useful!”.
It’s capacitors flip polarity in anticipation.

“I swear man! It’s only a couple of orders of magnitude more, man! And all your dreams will come true. I’m sure I’ll service you right!”

Well if it needs it, right?

Thank you.

I’m sorry I kinda had a panic attack after I sent that.

Thank you again.

I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to type all that. I’m sorry.

I’m a guy.

I’ve been sexually assaulted multiple times in my life by both genders. The last time was at the hands of a boyfriend who made me no longer want to be Bi. I haven’t been with another guy since and only date female now.

Honestly the response has never been in my favor. At the hands women it was ignored or blamed on me and by men I was told that I should have enjoyed it more. I’ve been belittled for not being gay enough to take being assaulted in public. And told I was being a problem for having it done to me in a work setting with apologies made for the perpetrator and then myself sent away.

I never get to feel unsafe and I never have gotten to feel seen for it. Not by other men. Not by the LGBTQ community, not by women, not even by doctors. It’s devastating and yet there apparently is no right time to ever bring it forward. It’s horrible that it feels we have specific socially acceptable ways to be traumatized and most of them are against men. And yet the loudest resistance feels like from the people being hypocrites cause it makes for an easier narrative.

I don’t like people anymore.

Do you ask everyone that question or you decide I know something you don’t?

Its pretty godawful advice.

But it’s advice I do see going around and people taking seriously.

Right but none are what the past thought of. None of these are cars or street legal really in any way.

Also it’s cheating to say no one has died in them if nobody is really flying around them. There have been crashes but like a really limited sample size.

Probably as an over reaction to lost wages and the feeling of being completely unable to secure financial freedom for their family if they even had one which likely makes them feel like failures thus the hard pivot back to forceful ideology.

I mean unfortunately expectations of what a “man is” hasn’t changed much since pre world wars with added consumerism since.

So it’s equality where the equality is worse for everyone and social stigmas still are abound. It’s a powder keg.

Yeah it’s called a helicopter.

Most of the extremely wealthy use then to avoid traffic and occasionally die in them cause flying is more complicated than SciFi made it seem.

Look at the mansions and companies that all include landing pads. They aren’t just for die hard movies.

Fuck that. That got us here by not fixing any problems and just hiding issues in the beginning of social identity politics.

Focus on “joy” and hope you are rich enough to feel really good about life until it all blows up?

That seems to be the stance of the younger and the wealthier left, and you can see the nightmare self hatred that is already causing if you aren’t.

Eh. By now I’m pretty sure most people just interact with the internet in order to reconfirm their already held beliefs because they expect the algorithm to give them exactly what they want and a few “wrong” things to dunk on easily for bonus points.

They don’t need sources they are already right.

I’ve been incredibly broke before and I think it’s different kind of protective. I’m frugally protective at trying to keep something working but that’s a different kind of possesive.

Of course you will care about food when you are starving. And you won’t care about scraps and leftovers when you are not.

But like that was a change of not being afraid to lose something you can rebuy. I’m sure their is plenty of non disposable items that you would have and ideals that you hold onto as truths about yourself. And im sure you don’t viewing housing and transportation as disposable.

Yeah I think they misunderstood what was happening cause they were getting wealthier as they got older.

Honestly, you just become more protective of your stuff and things you consider yours as you get older.

There are plenty of nerds that are super conservative about their fandoms and what is allowed to happen with them and same for all kinds of niches but the idea we would get more conservative with money really assumed we would accumulate more of it and assets. But what people do have is their apps and thoughts and those… Those people will be just as conservative as the boomers are about their money as they get older.

It’s shocking how often I think the assholes of Lemmy have hearts in the right place and thus I don’t block them but are otherwise overly committed to specific and weirdly hyper critical takes.

Like they want the discussion/fight but only as long as they win every time even though no one is 100% right about anything. And not everyone needs to know or believe in the same hyper specific thought process they believe in.

Notice how it’s people in the comments that seem to take issue with this? Like the ones actually where it is?

Your insisting it’s needed from a silent vote with no voice?

Maybe just fricking hold a poll?

LOL