krooklochurm

@krooklochurm@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly.

  Being exposed to people that believe differently than you challenges your own beliefs, and theirs.

  When women started opening about the bullshit they dealt with, a lot of people listened. Some didn’t, but a lot of people did. Some men said “hey, you know, now that you mention it, there’s some kind of fucked up shit about being a guy, too”.

  Anyone that had ever engaged with any real feminist theory or any facet of gender studies said: you’re absolutely right. Everyone else completely drowned them out.

  The internet around that time largely had the response of “shut up, the women are talking”. Not all of it, not everyone, but it was very common.

  Some men kept patiently listening, others stopped listening and started talking, others stopped listening, got angry, and started yelling. Some were never listening at all.

  Now we have hordes of young misogynistic racist shitheels who may have been receptive to other points of view once but are now so firmly entrenched in their shiftiness it may never change. And they’ve found nice cozy places to whip their impotent rage into a society-destroying frenzy. It festered in critical mass, quietly, until it built up a level where it could burst open like a cyst.

  The lesson here has nothing to do with gender, but highlights the importance of LISTENING TO PEOPLE, and being exposed to their viewpoints while exposing them to yours. Even the most vocal, selfish, pigheaded, racist conservative has legitimate concerns driving some of their shittiness: fear of uncertainty over the future, economic uncertainty, poverty, lack of education, fear of death. None of these things validate the shittiness but they do explain and they’re the levers by which these views change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “Why can’t everyone just be nice to each other all the time” is what lead us to where we are.

  I’m not arguing for being an asshole but when you force everyone to be kind all the time online you get people that are empowered to and motivated to wrap up abhorrent shit in a pleasing package. Racist dog whistles, selfish political propaganda, etc.

  I’m not saying that applies here but I DO think it’s important that people are allowed to be assholes online. The internet really started its descent when people started putting bubble wrap on everything.

  You’re free to engage or not to.

  People have become so used to echo chambers and safe spaces that they forget what things were like when they didn’t exist. And it was better.

  You SHOULD be encountering assholes online and encountering opinions you disagree with regularly, because that is the real the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨See ya.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  “Shucks to your Ass-mar” Said Ralph, as his face grew white, his eyes lost focus, and a telltale buzzing began emanating from somewhere deep inside of him. His mouth drooped low and spread wide forming a horrifying O at least two feet in diameter. The buzzing became louder and more frantic, as thousands of flies began to spill from his mouth, hurtling towards the small, fat boy in front of him whose even now was attempting, futilely, to run from the buzzing, angry, hungry swarm of flies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He'll let you do it if you're rich⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The regal stature of a president’s neck or a particularly bad case of vaginal prolapse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  "Trinity honey, can you please get Daddy’s clearing stick?’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The rookie is just… so fucking bad.

  I like Nathan Fillion but it’s so. So. Bad. Everything about it is bad. The acting, the story, the characters. It’s just crap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh.

  Not sure. I was speaking in hypotheticals. I’m sure it’s possible though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are reports all the time of play store apps containing malware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The scientific method or something idk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I came once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Man in the middle an app download or find some kind of exploit to inject the code from a website, ta da.

  I mean, obviously there’s more to it than this but.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I got my steam deck at bic camera in Tokyo.

  So like. Maybe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Valium was truly magical for me too.

  I played on a custom server with four friends but I had, like, way more time for gaming than then.

  Or rather I made the time.

  We had a mutual base it eventually I just said fuck it and went off into the world and built my own. I went absolutely apeshit. Giant walls, neatly organized chests. I was obsessed with making an indoor dock big enough for a boat to go in. I ended up besting the game while they kind of just gave up but the first time I got on a boat and just kind of sailed into the unknown was absolutely magical. Of course goblins and mosquitoes killed me more times than I can count but I’ll never forget that feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users, thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A dealbreaker for me is that it’s wireless.

  You’re posting about needing a wireless mouse on a post about hacking a mouse through its laser. I can’t even:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dangerous crow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My pubes glow with the light of ten thousand radiant suns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder what game they're trying to play⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  lol bros never polished his knob with a hitachi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian Temporarily Removes Games From Sale Due to Unity Exploit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How many unity games have kernel level anti cheat as a requirement and can this exploit leverage that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If this had happened to me there’s a zero percent chance I wouldn’t have taken a shot at the threesome at some point.

  Opportunities don’t come along like this every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mr. Pope⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like a daisy chain in the special ed room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf when Xbox first launched console multiplayer there was a monthly fee too.

  That was anti-consumer from the get-go but it was also there from the start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wholesome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Shut up, dog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose the rat poison⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ratatouille awareness is far, far too low.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of your favorite Master System memories?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Step sister fantasies are quite common according to some documentaries I’ve seen online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Amen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m cool with someone deciding to do this.

  I mean, I’ll decide not to go on the date, but that you do you.

  Your lack of ability to judge my character leading up to the date, and the general sense of paranoia leading to a decision like this, aren’t qualities I’m looking for in a partner.

  Neither is starting things from a place of outright suspicion. Like. I’m not judging. I just have zero interest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I masturbate until I forget about the decision I have to make and then put off cleaning my apartment until I finally just run out, randomly pull the lever, and never think of the consequences again.

  Of course by that point everyone has already starved to death which is the worst possible outcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're together now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dicks out for Jane goodall

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can download everything posted on Reddit prior to the great op ban in a torrent. So yeah it’s still out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got my pumpkin today. All ready for Halloween⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have someone squeeze the pumpkin so the wet stuff comes out and it looks like the pumpkin is pooping in your mouth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford CEO on his ‘epiphany’ after talking to his Gen Z factory workers: ‘They were saying [they] had to have three jobs’ | Fortune⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A life sized portrait? That really dials it up a notch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Donald Trump Is Declaring War On US Cities Based On Fake Fox News Footage And Nonsense His ‘People’ Tell Him⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a dream last night where I met Donald trump after he gave an appalling speech. I told him his suit jacket still had a label on it and he droned on unintelligibly about nothing while I took Tylenol 1s for some reason. Then I turned into a bird and flew to the airport.

  Think about it.