LengAwaits

@LengAwaits@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨90s band alignment chart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What about Ween?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s totally fair, and I agree with you. I probably shouldn’t have used the phrase “high form of humor”. I more meant “worthwhile form of humor”.

  I’m not the comedy police or anything, I just don’t want to end up here:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s me! Cringe and proud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shitposting is just pretending to be stupid/racist/shitty for laughs/attention, right? Pretty low form of humor, if you ask me (no one did), but I’m also guessing a lot of shitposters aren’t just pretending.

  I like a laugh as much as the next person, but we can’t sit around going “Why are people in this country so fucking stupid/racist/shitty?” while simultaneously elevating “acting” stupid to some high form of humor. You see how that’s counterproductive, right?

  “Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.” - Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

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  *“Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they’re in good company.” - Jason Garrett-Glaser*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not going to waste my time on this unless you can answer my very direct question, above.

  I’ve been convinced through a great deal of reading over the course of many years. For me to compile it all for someone who by all indications is not receptive to having their opinion changed would be a fool’s errand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did I claim that DEI is rational?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never assume rationality in an irrational world. We don’t live in econ 101 class where the assumption of rational actors is used to simplify equations for freshmen.

  Putting Rational Actors in Their Place: Economics and Phenomenology

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What sort of evidence would it take to convince you that DEI programs have been a net positive for US businesses?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose to live in reality⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Objective truth, eh? Tell me more!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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  Plenty of the east coast is high CoL. Not as much as in the west, but plenty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I won’t be reading the replies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, it only has ≤5 lines of text because the card is cropped. The artist credit line at the bottom of every card would mean that it indeed does have >5 lines of text. You just know how to extrapolate from incomplete data!