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Kwakigra

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  • Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy

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  • The nerve of CNBC to use the word "hoarding" and and not mention the actual cause of the problem being the declining wealth of the median household relative to wealth hoarders.

  • Average westoid logic. May your troops burn in hell 🔥

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  • Because understanding that the cause is poverty encourages everyone who understands it to focus on solving poverty. Poverty should not be allowed. If there was no poverty in the US there would be less of an incentive to do desperate things such as join a gang of any size.

  • Average westoid logic. May your troops burn in hell 🔥

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  • This is a pretty conservative take. Does OP understand why someone living in desperate circumstances would join their local gang, or why they would choose a much larger and much more powerful gang like the military? Does OP understand the difference between explaining why a bad thing happens versus excusing that thing?

    I don't think adults should give heroin to vulnerable children and traffic them into sexual slavery either, but the reason that's happening isn't because a bunch of heroin selling hobbyists decided to be as evil as possible for fun, it happens because of economic context producing survival-orientated people who behave ruthlessly for their own self interests. People making anti-social livings probably wouldn't have chosen the road they're on if they had the opportunity to have a comfortable life doing something safe. A lot of the time they were conned into it in the first place and can't get out. Nothing justifies murder, but to stop the murders you have to understand the context of why they're happening.

    Joining the military is not ok. Trying to understand why a kid would be think it's ok to kill people overseas and then willingly do it is ok.

  • What's your most cynical opinion about the world?

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  • Cynics are dupes who are easily utilized by the forces which deliberately made them cynical. The foundation of conservative politics.

  • Guys and Girls of the fediverse who have made the decision to end a toxic relationship, did you choose to go to the gym? If so what has been the out come for you since then?

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  • Going to the gym is way easier than the infinite treadmill of trying to fix relationship which was never going to work. Having a stronger body helps to deal with the physical symptoms of trauma too. It can build confidence because working hard in the gym yields rewards but working too hard backfires. You have to listen to your own body and your own feelings rather than have them dictated to you by a toxic partner, or it won't work.

  • Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use”

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  • That is quite a headline. I just got on but that's already enough internet for today.

  • What do you think about the concept of lesser evil? (i.e. when faced with selecting from two immoral options, the less immoral one should be chosen.)

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  • Too often this option is presented by people who are deliberately manipulating you and causing you to think that you only have the two choices which each benefit them and neither you. Always consider who is offering this choice and why. The true lesser evil here is whatever you have to do to get out of the situation where this choice is being presented to you.

  • The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

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  • The actual bubble that needs to be popped is financialization. The US economy is now completely detached from productivity and is now running on speculation only through financial valuation. At the same time, people are starving, infrastructure is falling apart, the birth rate is plummeting, and suicide is on the rise. It's time to stop taking "job creators" seriously and use all this fallow professional experience and skill to restart the material economy and forget this pretend crap that keeps plutocrats busy doing nothing of any value to anyone.

  • Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened | VGC

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  • I think that's the right approach. Once it starts getting old it won't get better. That being said, the writing of the DLCs does not have the problem of the main story and are often pretty good. If getting access to all your character's abilities wasn't attached to playing the main story I would advise skipping the main game and only playing the DLCs.

  • Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened | VGC

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  • I, like you, heard the story was bad but figured I could just focus on the gameplay and ignore the writing. Unfortunately, the reason the bad writing is so notorious is that the game is setup to jam it in your face consantly. It's unrelenting.

    Imagine playing a pretty decent game while a dead-eyed 50 year old comedian is making the worst jokes you've ever heard in your life while doing a very poor impression of gen-z internet slang they barely understand. The comedian thinks you the player are actually stupid so the jokes are as condescending as they are awful. Now imagine they won't shut up. Every time you do anything in the game, you get a few minutes of these whacky jokes. Accepting a mission, every bullet of the mission, skits that you have to watch before progressing, etc. You have no choice but to engage with the lazy, insulting, horrendous writing that wears thin after minutes and goes on for the entire hours-long game.

    There are mods that disable the endless chatter which I can't recommend more highly. I made the misake of playing the game raw. The game is actually pretty fun, but the aggressive garbage of the writing is not something easily ignored.

  • Shein Used Luigi Mangione’s AI-Generated Face to Sell a Shirt | 404 Media

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  • This is really interesting. Faking an endorsement by someone who is accused of preventing thousands of needless deaths to sell shirts is on one level nefarious but on another level incorporating Luigi into mainstream pop culture. The plutocracy wants people to think this kid is the worst monster who ever lived, but the average American is so pleased with what he is accused of doing his likeness can be used to sell clothing. I am not totally opposed to the mainstreaming of this kind of folk hero. Optimally he should at least get some royalties to pay for his legal fees, though.

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  • This thought used to haunt my brain as well and it has the potential to kill all your joy. Regardless of difficulties, you have to be able to enjoy things in your life or eventually life itself becomes a burden which could eventually become unbearable. Doing things you enjoy is not trivial or unimportant. Enjoying things is the difference between wanting to live on this planet and wanting an express ticket into the unknown. There's a balance, but ignoring the things that make life worth living tends to make life not worth living. Please pursue your joy.

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  • For those of us with ADHD, if you are thinking about a task every second you're not doing it and desperately want to do the task more than anything else and are devastated that you can't do it so much that you use all your energy just on trying to make yourself do the thing that you want to do but can't, that is NOT procrastination. That is executive dysfunction. It only seems like procrastination to people who have never experienced executive dysfunction and those who have only ever experienced executive dysfunction.

    Procrastination is when you fully have the ability to do something and choose not to do it but to do the thing you prefer doing instead. I hadn't experienced this until very recently, after a lot of therapy and medication.

  • Why exactly does AI-generated comic/cartoon/2D art look so off-putting?

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  • It's an inhuman facsimile of the expression of humanity.

  • Medialabs is pissing off the users at Imgur

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  • Why is EVERYTHING made in china?

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  • China has for decades deliberately designed their economy to provide affordable and quality labor to the capitalist world, and in all of the English speaking world capitalists are free to invest their money however they please wherever they please. Since it is cheaper to produce and import particular similar quality products from China than produce them domestically, that is what the right business move would be to minimize costs to maximize profit.

  • Can we talk about the Roblox situation?

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  • Definitely. They could do something about this but they would make less profit.

  • Can we talk about the Roblox situation?

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  • This is, very unfortunately, what happens in every internet space which is targeted towards children and allows communication among users. It is by far the easiest way for anonymous predatory adults to make contact with typically unattended children. I would like at some point to see a child-oriented space on the internet have the highest priority of children's safety at some point, but there hasn't been one yet.

  • I've seen it

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  • If someone has never experienced executive dysfunction, they have never had the experience of wanting to do something desperately while thinking about it every second but still not being able to will themselves to do it. Explaining that this is the experience of executive dysfunction is straightforward enough for anyone who doesn't experience it to understand.

    A huge issue with any explanation is the willingness to understand it. If someone is not even trying to understand what you're explaining, that doesn't mean the explanation is bad, it means that person has no respect for you. Someone who does have some respect for you would make a good faith effort to try to understand if it doesn't make sense to them.

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    Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a Masterpiece, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is an Indulgence

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    Throw It Back (Looped)

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    Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules

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    Demon Parent Vs. Devil Parent, an Analysis of Evil Parenting Styles

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    Girly Girl Productions - Coked up friend adventure!

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    Deja Vu (But Worse) - Biden vs. Trump ft. "Weird Al" Yankovic

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    Why do you choose to continue living?

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    The Lesser of Two Genocides

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    Happy New Years ya jerks

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    My One-Step Guide to Turn Soup from Watery Crap into Something You Would Want to Eat

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    What kind of discussions are y'all interested in having?

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    Enemy at the Door is one of the Greatest Television Programs of All Time

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    "AI" Is Not a Problem and Is a Good Thing, but Is Being Abused by the Actual Problem

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    What is your process for belief formation?