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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Gay dude here, it seems to be. We have the loneliness epidemic here too, but we’re actually organizing and fighting it, because we’re used to do that. Our cishet counterparts are definitely not equipped to do that. Women are socalized much earlier than boys, and they’re taught that the social order is theirs for keeping. Girls are simply raised to be better at this. By the time men realize what’s happened with the natural funneling of friends through the parenting years - usually those late 20s and early 30s where it suddenly starts to become really difficult to overcome the friendship hump.

  I can’t comment on the whole incels taking hold of this concept, because it’s something I’ve just had explained to me in the past week. I can definitely see the gender/sexuality lines on this in real life tho (I started and run a nonprofit to create community for GBT+ men in my state).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet kind of sucks right now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone should be forming real-life groups on discord, be in cells, be part of several, everyone should be linked like chain mesh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  B/W film was still cheaper through the 80s and so color photography was very much optional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just put Altman on mars. Musk too. All the billionaires can go. Right now, no habitats needed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that you can save a lot of money in Colorado by using Bustang. It's a government-run bus service that offers great and frequent buses across the state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Go home, Germany, you’re early

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And I thought it would be a happy ending for the kid⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mmm no the character was actually based on his father, Shyguy Boo Bowser

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope they tell us when it starts because I won’t notice otherwise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I loved on capitol hill a dozen years ago and even then, all the hardcore hippies and weirdos were being wrung out of the neighborhood by developers and the bubble they bring. All of Seattle is totally different from 10, 20 years ago, which is totally different from 30, 40 years ago. None of it is for the better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole point of reversing loneliness is to not go bowling alone. Make a couple friends and go with them. You’ll find you’ve been missing something substantial.

  It’s the making friends that’s challenging, and we definitely have -the internet -on smartphones -and social media to blame for it. We used to know how to talk to people, which is how you make friends.

  The number of men who report “no close friends” has gone from 3% in 1990 to 15% today. That’s so sad, my heart aches for these men. I started a social club for men in my city. This is my issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to raise prices in September⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well my decision to cancel Spotify last month is already paying off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What um, what court system do you think is going to make that happen? Cause the current one is owned by an extremely pro-AI administration. If anything gets appealed to SCOTUS they will rule for AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for sure. Look at the Huckabees, dog torturing/killing family, much beloved by Trump. I’m Sarah Huckabee’s neighbor and her dog Traveler is a total asshole, my dog hates him, but I also feel bad for whatever might happen to him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was once a time when a small company built out of passion could elevate a normal guy into CEO, so as recently as 30-40 years ago you could still have some decency at the top. As the barriers to entry have shot upward, today to become a C-level you get an MBA and carefully scrape out your soul as part of your “leadership” education which has nothing to do with the widgets your company will produce, and everything to do with fellating the shareholders.

  It’s sad because I grew up in an era when a guy could still get ahead by being sharp and having good ideas, but now it’s only by Playing The Game. So those of us with morals are stuck with low earning potential because of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Dems finally figured out it’s incredibly stupid to keep fighting and pushing upward when it just results in a net loss for us. Took them a surprisingly long time to figure it out, and we lost a lot of rights, including trans rights, in the progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but the media is willing to lie for him and whatever form necessary to normalize all this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response in people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  mRna is cancelled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every female Democrat presidential nominee has resulted in a Donald Trump presidency⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your despising of the Clintons is the real point: there was an anti-Clinton machine working for 20 years before her run, making everyone who listens to AM radio, or eventually conservative TV, absolutely hate them both. She was pre-judged before she ever got up there. Everyone had an opinion. What a fucking mistake.

  That said I do think it would be silly to run another female candidate with this electorate, there is a gruff male-driven populism at work, and Dems/Progs/Liberals/Whomever would do well to play into it rather than fight it if, of course, we have another real election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having no way of finding out if you’re telling the truth or not, I choose to believe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The woman in the center of this pic is Dead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a great Atlas Obscura article about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good news readers can help you get lots of the content you want with only a quick passing glance at the headlines so you can still carry a conversation/contemplate the inescapability of this planet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The woman in the center of this pic is Dead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is mostly a myth propagated by the idea of “posing stands” which were actually meant to keep living people still for portraits that took a long exposure time. Victorians loved some goth shit like hair jewelry tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inflation outpaces wage growth for over 40% of Americans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just inflation but also everything has become a “small monthly service” now and those prices rise every few months. Life was simpler and less fee-based when I was a kid and teenager, just less expenses in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once you start playing with radiowaves and antenna you start noticing the intricate ways it plays with and around bags of water like bodies. I’m sure the original research on location/movement tracking was due to scientists trying not to get interference, later once they figured it out it was natural to see how much data they could get out of a radio interference profile.

  I remember the original tech was going to be marketed as a way to tell if your old person (parent etc) had fallen down and stopped moving. Not the best use case, and then the privacy implications became clear. Once that happens the race begins to exploit the tech.

  …But the eventuality here is something like a Star Trek tricorder that can take multiple vitals and detect irregularities from across the waiting room. Sensors that remember who was in a room and what settings they had. Etc. Some cool thing besides the bad stuff (microtarget those ads).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the ways I knew my marriage was over, he disabled location services and left them off for months and then years. I followed when I started fucking other people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no way a libel database could be a bad business model

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They would have sex with him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately there are systems that will reject PO boxes - credit applications, mortgage and loan applications. It’s increasing and I think they’re catching wind that nomads do it, so they challenge for a “physical address” which of course must match your credit file. This is a nice way to shit on people who are trying to get out of transitional housing too, since they can easily spot group homes and halfway houses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the dudes in my gay group tonight:

  “My momma cleaned hunter’s cabins and those hunters were real nice men if you know what I mean.”

  He was talking about a time when he was early teens.

  So it’s not just girls who get this treatment! If that makes you feel any more egalitarian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly it, they’re making themselves “indispensable” at the consumer level to hold on for dear life.

  But, on the other hand, you have companies like Klarna that are successfully using AI to replace, in one case, 700 humans or 3/4 of their tier 1 support staff. And every other company perks up at that. There is definitely a use case for AI, it’s still improving, and business will keep it going in some form (which will be great for the poor neighborhoods they put the data centers in).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can hold session memory including 10+ source files, and a looong chat, but when you run into the wall, suddenly it’s eating its own memory to keep going, rather than forcing me to reset the session. Which is interesting, like co-coding with a mild amnesiac. “Hey remember when we just did that thing 2 minutes ago?” I should have started a new session when I branched.