FlashMobOfOne
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.
I’m single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.
@artbyflashmob on Instagram
- Comment on Lies of P: Overture devs actually rewarded for making a solid DLC in rare industry W: Getting a bonus, 2 weeks vacation, and a free Switch 2 7 hours ago:
I hope you have fun with it. :)
- Comment on Lies of P: Overture devs actually rewarded for making a solid DLC in rare industry W: Getting a bonus, 2 weeks vacation, and a free Switch 2 8 hours ago:
Yeah, I had to put it down.
The gameplay was ultimately just too annoying to me, which is a bummer because the ideas and aesthetic were exceedingly cool.
- Comment on Lies of P: Overture devs actually rewarded for making a solid DLC in rare industry W: Getting a bonus, 2 weeks vacation, and a free Switch 2 8 hours ago:
Did they fix the janky dodging though?
- Comment on Are dating apps really as bad as people say? 8 hours ago:
Time to sow the royal oats, no doubt.
- Comment on Are dating apps really as bad as people say? 10 hours ago:
It depends on what you want.
If all you’re looking for is casual sex, they’re pretty great. If you’re looking for love, you’d do well to search for it in a more organic way.
- Comment on [DHS]Threat to the United States. "Both hacktivists and Iranian government-affiliated actors routinely target poorly secured US networks and Internet-connected devices for disruptive cyber attacks." 10 hours ago:
Lots of social engineering incoming, no doubt.
- Comment on Usually the word "alternative" should be replaced with the word "bullshit". Ex: alternative facts, alternative medicine 10 hours ago:
You’re right.
Also, add the word ‘faith’ to that list.
- Comment on Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out 1 day ago:
If hobbies aren’t the way, how do you feel about animals? Just being out and walking a dog will acquaint you with people in your neighborhood, and those connections can turn into friendships.
- Comment on Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out 1 day ago:
Oh there’s evidence.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 day ago:
Correlating education to wealth is fine overall but you are intentionally avoiding more direct metrics of wealth and inequality to make it seem as if this is direct causation for women having some upper hand.
No. I’m illustrating that the machinery of government can and has elevated women and minorities.
Women absolutely make less and hold a significantly smaller portion of the overall wealth in this country.
What I’ve suggested above would benefit them as much as men.
Women routinely have to leave their careers to manage the home and their family (due to archaic misogynistic gender roles). There is also just straight up bias in management decisions about pay.
Sometimes yes, hence why there needs to be more regulation, as I’ve suggested.
Your interference that I’m blaming women is projection.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 day ago:
Thank you for reading it.
There are two factors here in the US that correlate significantly with a person’s lifetime earnings potential: their zip code of birth and attainment of a college degree. It’s exceedingly significant (in a positive way) that women constitute the majority in college enrollment. I think that’s a good thing, but it also demonstrates inequality.
I want to see policies here that mirror those in more progressive European countries: Free college, a federally-mandated living wage that adjusts with inflation, and universal health care. I also want to see universities’ federal funding tied to expansion of enrollment rates, as there are many that keep them artificially low and yet still raise tuition rates every year. These benefits should target low-income communities without regard to race or gender.
In short, I want to see the economic ship lifted for the poor, and that’s how it should be done.
Most young people, and in particular young men, have three choices when entering adulthood: Work for sub-standard wages and struggle alone and/or live with their parents, join the military, or take on permanent debt on the hope of a college degree and an elevated life.
Rampant misogyny has spread because people who consider themselves progressive have ignored these economic calamities and right-wingers have, conversely, highlighted those inequalities, created communities for young men, and gotten rich in the process. Currently the functional unemployment rate in the United States is 25%.
The solution, is creating an economy where prosperity is distributed among a more diverse population of people.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 day ago:
I think this person sees someone pointing out the problems facing young men and automatically thinks ‘incel’. It can be disorienting to see people who don’t hate women advocating for young men.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 2 days ago:
Respectfully, your hostile and reactionary tone demonstrated quite well that you had no intention of discussing things in a rational manner. You toss around terms like ‘redpill’ like they’re Halloween candy, and it demonstrates that even having the discussion is enough to set off your temper. I even gave you an example of the imbalance in economic opportunity favoring women and minorities, and you just ignored it.
And that’s fine.
Be angry, but the least you could do is try to be productive.
The problem is the systemic impoverishment of young men is the root cause of all this, and that is what needs to be fixed if you want to fix misogyny.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 2 days ago:
I’d suggest you read the entire post.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 2 days ago:
No, this is a misrepresentation of my argument.
From the 70’s to a few months ago, governments have made it a fundamental priority to elevate women and minorities, and it’s worked. (Go look at the demographics of college enrollment, at least here in the US, if you don’t believe me.)
I’m arguing that to fix misogyny you have to fix the fundamental economic crises affecting young people.
But I appreciate that you were very quick to demonstrate the point I made about the fashionability of blaming young men and pretending these problems simply don’t exist.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 2 days ago:
I think it’s far more fundamental than that.
You’ve got a generation of young men who did what they were supposed to culturally: went to school, got good grades, went to college, never broke any laws, and their choices in life are permanent debt and struggling to afford a roach-infested studio apartment, living with their parents, or joining the military to survive.
The social contract has been broken, and for the first time, you’ve got a generation who are not going to live more fulfilled and enriched lives than their parents largely by no fault of their own.
Of course they’re pissed. Governments should be addressing this, but it’s more fashionable to blame young men instead, and the right-wingers are the only ones willing to admit there are fundamental economic crises for men.
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 2 days ago:
Thank you for your opinion. I hope you have a pleasant day.
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 2 days ago:
Agreed.
Though I do think that if progressive-minded people were more apt to fly the American flag at protests, it would be harder to criticize them.
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 2 days ago:
Americans love to subdivide themselves, and that’s especially true for activists. The flag reflects that.
- Comment on A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly looses his believe in the supernatural. 3 days ago:
Partly what made the TV series ‘Evil’ so good was that it was horror from a skeptical perspective.
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 3 days ago:
…and they basically stole it
It’s the American way. We’re honestly lucky that it wasn’t feasible for the big telecoms to build their own versions of the Internet, or there’d be several of those too.
- Comment on Just got over 450 Wishlist!!!!!! 🥳 4 days ago:
Very cool. Congrats!
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 6 days ago:
Interesting!
I haven’t run into any of that. Not sure why, but what a pain.
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 6 days ago:
It probably depends on the state.
But, I did mine five years ago and still check it periodically. My info’s not on Spokeo or any of those scummy sites even all these years later, so it’s a good way to spend 20-30 minutes.
- Comment on Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 6 days ago:
Look outside of the US.
Other countries have better laws around digital privacy and AI. Try products from those countries instead.
- Comment on Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses 6 days ago:
It’s actually really easy to get your info off these sites, as they have to delete it upon your request. Just take 20 minutes, pull up any random Top 20 Background Check Sites list, and go to town with those deletion requests.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
Agreed. This article sounds like the kind of BS corporate media’s trying to parrot to gaslight us into giving up WFH.
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 1 week ago:
Good. WotC is wretched hive of scum and villainy.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
This childless man loves his peace, quiet, and alone time.
But maybe I don’t qualify as I have dogs, friends, and kickass neighbors.
- Comment on Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository 1 week ago:
That’s the deadline Donald set for the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill as well.