PolarKraken

@PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debatable⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, I wish I had that kind of commitment to a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debatable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It all worked out, but I appreciate your defensiveness! It was a mixed group, 'twas the lads cracking jokes, and not even to her - she’s a sensitive one (which I love). The funniest part is the coach wore a silly (admittedly less silly) mustache the whole season, his son was one of the goobers cracking jokes, and everyone actually really got along great over the season.

  On the other hand, the kinda stuff you’re describing does happen, and my kiddo has already had to extract herself from a friend group that was heading solidly in that direction. No bueno! Bad parenting by crappy people usually, in my experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debatable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the link that is really fascinating, though I also want to acknowledge that I feel almost crazy if this is a prevalent thing and I haven’t noticed?

  I’d be kinda pleased if it were largely a rejection of performative positivity, one of the theories presented. I do worry about the ways the COVID pandemic interrupted social development for an enormous number of kids, just huge (though to be clear I was in favor of pretty strict, sweeping measures to limit spread).

  I bristled a bit at first, on the mention of “quiet quitting” - AKA behaving perfectly rationally, given the available opportunities and treatment today, by my measure. But the (still Wikipedia) article it links to is a solid overview of a collective action tactic, so hell yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debatable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m 2 weeks that kid is gonna look like he lost an argument with a weed whacker lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debatable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m the opposite, I say bring on the stupid shit and do it often! Life’s short and looking kinda silly on purpose sometimes is fun. My most recent foray into such was a mustache large enough to be mocked by my daughter’s soccer teammates, first practice, basically on sight hahaha. Causing her to cry (and me to shave it, lol, but it was fun while it lasted, and I don’t intend to further traumatize her with sartorial silliness).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely agree that learning about some of that made me kinder. Don’t agree about your reasoning for it not being scary, though.

  It’s not “new” in the same way that using a computer wasn’t new when home PCs were introduced. However - home PCs massively increased the accessibility of computing and resulted in a huge boom in use, including by lots of people who never previously considered it. That’s what this is, that increase in accessibility, but for parasocial relationships with inanimate objects.

  I’m not dooming so hard that I think society is in trouble via AI faux-mance in particular. But I do think it’s sad and troubling that many more people will now accept a (sometimes high) degree of self-imposed isolation, due to misplaced belief in a piece of technology, a false belief which the technology deliberately tries to engender.

  And let’s remember, human social life is the original “network effect”. By that fact, it seems clear that taking more people out of IRL socialization (and replacing it strictly with simulation), is bad even for people who never touch the stuff.

  Feels like a big increase in the ongoing general loneliness and atomization of society is headed our way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. Good to have a less rent-seeking option, not sure I love the idea of the Fed just (assumedly) having access to all my transactions, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, but yet…