I would say the shut-ins on Lemmy are worse, even less exposure to the outside world. I’ve seen takes on Lemmy that make reddit incels look sharp, progressive and dashing.

No you’re right, the only way to win the game is to not play.

As long as you’re staying aware of what you’re taking in, and you regularly think about how you’re thinking, you’ll be miles ahead of the broad swath of humanity.

That’s a good point, what do we choose to feed ourselves? There’s massive industry built around people’s food diets and almost no attention paid to what our media diets are like and what they’re doing to us.

I think at the end of the day we all need to really understand how maliable our brains are and how easily we can change the way we think just because of the stuff we’re watching or listening to, and this has been an unpopular topic for a long time because it makes people worry that what they enjoy might not be good for them, but I think as long as we stay aware and keep our diet varied enough we probably will do a lot better than people who just mindlessly draw emotions from people shouting on Twitch streams all week long.

I found a number of really good rising streamers and progressive advocates back in the day by watching Charlie Kirk debates and probably became a lot more involved with further left politics than I would have normally if it wasn’t for Charlie Kirk.

Truly, we still carry the flame. 🔥

This is basically all of media now, there is no such thing as objective media of any kind anymore, everything produced is meant to pander to some group or another.

Even if we accept the passing of the internet, we have to also understand that this is how it’s going to be always, forever. Unless social attitudes broadly change, this is just what the world is going to do with recordable content from now until eternity.

Everything you see, no matter your political ideology or attitude or values, is cultivated and selected just for you to reinforce your beliefs even if that reinforcement is inaccurate.

A few of you reading this are going to frown and downvote and roll your eyes, and to this I warn you: the more you think you’re outside of this system, or the more you think you’re invulnerable to manipulation… the more vulnerable you really are.

My life consists of spending 5 days a week getting 4 -5 hours sleep per night, steadily wearing down to a state of nearly non-function and being less and less productive at my job until the weekend, where I catch up on a little sleep if possible, just enough to start over by Monday.

They were largely warm-blooded like birbs.

Nope, not doing line by line contentious essay shit, I’m not doing this at all. Bye.

It’s an opinion, sure, I stand by it, but it’s not an emotional or hyperbolic term, so the impression of “intensity” you’re getting is kinda weird.

Its got to be deliberate.

It is, they want to do what every gaming company wants to do, have a huge and popular streaming platform with games hosted on their servers so that people don’t own games or hardware, they just pay an ever-increasing monthly subscription fee. (plus many, many extra surcharges, in-game upgrades and cosmetics and virtual collectables, etc.)

“You will own nothing and be happy” is going to be the motto of every electronic media company for the next several decades. Hope you didn’t like peer-to-peer gaming and having good ping in competitive gaming.

They’re going to go all-in on paid streaming gaming services, like every major company for the next thousand years.

You will own nothing and be happy.

A: it’s a joke calm down.

How are you reading “not calm” in any of this?

I mean, the meme here is satire, no idea what it originally was supposed to be, someone slapped on the message about atheists for a joke.

But yeah, broadly it IS accurate to how conservatives feel about the kinds of families we want, the kinds of pets we want, the kinds of food we eat, the clothes we wear, etc. Every change to that normalized order terrifies them, it’s in the name.

Feeling afraid of change is fine. Most of us have those kinds of feelings, most of us are going to have wary responses to the unfamiliar. But the conservative base in the US in particular have the worst combination in the world, which is fear of change plus stupidity, so they fall prey to any story supplied to them about what exactly they’re scared of and give it no actual thought. All feelings, no thinking.

There were so many dinosaurs across so much of the globe for so many millions of years, that there was undoubtedly some species of raptors and related dinosaurs who were absolutely fluffy and chubby and look nothing like we imagine them to look from their bones.

Look at one of those speciality breed chickens that look like floofy mops, compared with an average chicken skeleton and you get an idea just how little we actually know and how wrong we might be about the distant past.

We absolutely could have domesticated raptors. Dogs are more than capable of eating us, and once in a while actually do just that, but that doesn’t stop us from spending more on their special diets and cute sweaters than we do on our human children.

A wild raptor? Probably not, if you’ve ever had chickens you know how vicious they can turn suddenly. But you also know how affectionate and loyal they can be. A few generations of selective breeding and you will have the ultimate protection animal. Jurassic Park’s representation of them being like fucking Alien and being horrific killing machines with brains designed for unlocking cages is likely a huge exaggeration of what kind of nuanced and intelligent and complicated creatures they were.

I’ve had wolves, they make terrible pets, but even dedicated predators have a measure of deep loyalty and love for their family unit.

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Nah, it looks great but it’s totally unwieldly and may in fact be dry-rotted out and may shatter if you actually try to use it to hammer the ground to send that imaginary Earth Shockwave towards your enemies. That would be pretty embarassing.

Which were you more jealous of?

Racism AND capitalism.

The “single family home” was barely a concept before American development early last century. For the majority of human history, people dwelled together, raised families together, stayed together and supported each other their whole lives.

It was the housing industry making these “neighborhoods of the future” that started pushing the idea of moving out at 18 and getting a home on your steel-mill salary of $10 per week, and then it became shameful to still live with your family past a certain age. Forcing so many Americans into a role of being a sole-provider for an entire household as wages have dropped and house prices have soared, and we all still keep “investing” into homes in suburbia despite nobody feeling fulfilled in these cul-de-sac lives, and both parents of children having to work 6 days a week or more just to afford to sleep there.

many are too worried about their potential moderate republican voters corporate donors, the same donors who donate to republicans.

FTFY