HalfSalesman
@HalfSalesman@lemmy.world
I don’t have access to this account during weekends.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 hour ago:
You mean you’re here to propagandize.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 hour ago:
Do you know anything? What’s your alternative?
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 hour ago:
Men are not born inherently more violent than women. That’s a sexist assumption from the get and invalidates your entire reply to be honest.
I never said they’re more inherently violent on some biological level. I don’t think it matters if they’re “inherently” more violent. If men are statistically more violent and that is just a cultural effect, my solution would still be more humane than ideas like a prejudicial ride share filter.
And if your rebuttal is “We need to fix men’s culture” my immediately question is how? Because that’s not a proposed solution: My idea and the ride share filter are explicit and specific policy. They can be compared, their effects can be studied or if not studied, their assumed effects can at least be rationally predicted.
Acknowledging the real outcome of the patriarchy that men are encouraged and allowed to use violence to further their own wants is not the same as agreeing that men should be killed or boys shouldn’t be born.
Fewer boys being born is absolutely not the moral equivalent of killing men. And I know the whole “Kill all men” line itself is a (usually) a troll. Engaging with that is boring.
That said, how do we systematically discourage men from committing violence exactly? Obviously with the goal of reducing harm. That is, in a way that is more humane, time efficient, viable, than either other solution we’ve already discussed here? I don’t think this is a serious avenue to be explored to be honest, because I never hear any concrete solutions being offered. I’m open to being wrong. I want to be wrong because the idea that we can get men to just chill out with the violence and make everyone happy sounds legitimately like the best option, I just don’t think that we can do that.
I just recognize a violent and sexist idea when I see one and yours is extreme enough that it makes me think you’re doing it to further provoke gender wars on this site.
Provoke an discussion. Like I said I’m bored at work. I don’t care about gender wars. I’m more of an equal opportunity hater. And lover.
If you must know, I avoided the “bear vs man” discussion. Now that was just a means to provoke gender wars bullshit.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 2 hours ago:
Population control and eugenics tend to be bad ideas.
I mean to be honest I’m not in favor of “population control” but I am basically a soft anti-natalist. I think we should stop reproducing entirely.
As for eugenics, I never said things would be manipulated along racial/ethnic lines, and that’s typically the area of moral outrage when it comes to eugenics. And what with a few people in this very comment section pointing out that it’d be unacceptable to let white people say they’re “uncomfortable” or “feel unsafe” around black people… well…
Like, you are being inconsistent at that point. Is viewing men as intrinsically less safe and validating that with prejudicial filters on ride sharing against them acceptable or not? If its acceptable, then just… simply not having more men is just a win/win. No one gets hurt, they’re just not born. And its justified because you can point out that its literally acceptable to apply what amounts to an economic sanction of already living men, some of which rely on their income to live a life worth living or to even live at all, on the basis that they are just more dangerous. This idea is more harmful than what I am proposing. It will result in more suffering.
What you don’t like is the emotions you feel when I suggest an idea that seems alien to you and have to mentally compare it to a worse idea that sates bitter catharsis or validates your desire to insulate and segregate for the aim of emotional comfort.
My idea is not me framing “birthing fewer boys” from some emotional perspective of “We should do it because we hate boys.” I’m suggesting it because I legitimately believe it would be more humane than what we’re doing now with everything, let alone considering this ride share filter.
I’m still convinced you’re here to make feminists and women who support safety measures for other women look sexist with your “provocative” views on men.
I’m here because I have no self control. I keep telling myself I’ll stop arguing on social media because it just makes me miserable but boredom at work just completely over takes my restraint. Why are you here?
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 2 hours ago:
I’m not trolling, though perhaps I am being provocative.
That said, I would be unironically in favor of the policy I am proposing.
I’m also open to better systemic policy propositions.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 3 hours ago:
I’m a dude.
I’m just saying it straight. Both men and women would be happier if we had fewer men added to the population.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 3 hours ago:
It’d make everyone happier.
A significant portion of women don’t seem to even like men very much so they’d not miss them. Men and women would get murdered less by other men. Fewer wars. Less violence. Less rape. Incels wouldn’t exist I can tell you that much. Rightwing politics would significantly lose influence.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 3 hours ago:
Yeah, we need fewer men in general.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 3 hours ago:
I think the issue people are taking is with collective punishment and validating prejudice.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 3 hours ago:
Yeah, lets reduce the number of incels systematically. We can start by reducing the number of male births.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 3 hours ago:
It’d be a win for everyone if we had fewer male babies.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 3 hours ago:
Yeah, we should just have fewer men in society in general. Reduce the number of male births.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 5 hours ago:
We should have fewer male babies.
- Comment on The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’d have to be a specific piece of Star Wars media the shirt referenced to compete for me. Like KOTOR or Andor.
- Comment on i unapologetically love male pits 2 weeks ago:
I need to find someone like you in my area, I’m trying to lose myself and sex is generally a good way to do so but I need to get my hetero on. Plenty of dude ready to get down but not enough good horny straight lady’s.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I mean, eventually there are going to be people with camera’s stealthily integrated directly into their eyeballs recording non-stop.
Like that black mirror episode letting people relive any moment from their past.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Couldn’t people who specifically want to stealthily record people just turn off the bluetooth?
- Comment on I'm in! 2 weeks ago:
This is just a regular political meme. A good one but still wrong by category.
Your post is not unhinged enough to belong here.
- Comment on I'm in! 2 weeks ago:
Wrong community.
Also they like it when they do it because it means they’ll prevent minorities from becoming armed.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
Fuck, I don’t have the money to replace my phone. I probably wont by September either. Too many expenses.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m not doing that.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 4 weeks ago:
I think he’s vocally self delusional. He does actually believe it, but he’s incentivized to delude himself into that belief. And incentivized to say it publicly.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 4 weeks ago:
I was a massive proponent of UBI all the way back in like 2010. Got on to invite-only on dedicated debate spaces specifically because of my advocacy.
I’d feel vindicated if I also wasn’t so depressed about where we’re at today as a country.
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 5 weeks ago:
Silicon Valley people who wanted Trump are so fucking stupid its absurd.
- Comment on Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda 5 weeks ago:
I mean, I’ve interacted with someone with active anti-semitic beliefs in a dedicated debate space who eventually changed his views too “Well, its not the Jews fault that they got into finance. They just kind of got funneled into that.” So absolutely people with shitty views can evolve in the right direction. I respect that a million times more than someone who is morally lucky and never budges.
And example of the opposite would be someone who adopts “progressive” stances of their time and never evolved from there or have selective self serving progressive blinders. “LGB w/o the T”, rainbow capitalists, Red-brown alliance types, etc.
- Comment on Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda 5 weeks ago:
The only good people are people who are brave enough to actively test their beliefs and earnestly question their own ideology (accept that they even have one).
Almost no one does this. People often even say they “don’t have an ideology”. Its convenient, if you have no belief system there is nothing to question.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 1 month ago:
While no doubt it may be that most users of DuckDuckGo are anti-AI given the nature of the service and who it attracts, the 90% metric makes me believe that the people who ambivalently use DuckDuckGo’s AI (and are not pro or anti) did not vote in this at all and may find themselves using DuckDuckGo less if they see the surface-level convenience randomly disappear from the service.
So I assume they’ll get rid of the AI and they’ll see a drop in users overtime as a percentage of minimum effort types get confused or annoyed. And then they’ll bring it back as they see a drop in users, annoy the users that hate AI and they’ll leave as well. And neither group will end up ever returning.
This whole poll was a terrible idea.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 month ago:
The savings will also lead to the corporation’s profits to decline in the mid term, and then the savings will actually go to private equity and hedge funds, not the shareholders.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 month ago:
If we’re talking about people blocking lanes with their cart. I agree fuck that shit. I want to grab my 6 pack or whatever and leave.
That said, I’m barely cognizant of my surroundings other than the one thing I’m there to buy usually so I’m almost certainly not a champion of spacial awareness. But I’m quick.
- Comment on Introverts Rock 2 months ago:
Ehhh, I wouldn’t place it at the same level as astrology. I do think people do the self fulfilling prophecy shit with it though.
I thought I was an introvert for a long time so I kind of became an insular hermit for like 5 years of my life after college and then I realized I was horribly miserable at the end of it.
And then when I forced myself to socialize I realized I actually fucking loved it and my introversion was from bad early social experiences due to autism and living in a backwards rural hellhole.