On a related note, I wish we would acknowledge that men socialize different and that guys doing stuff together is therapeutic. Ruminating on emotions can have a negative effect in men, while work therapy can be much effective that talk therapy.

Soulwax FM from GTA is great when I need a boost for house chores.

NAS devices can hold several hard drives, and most of them have wi-fi and other networking capabilities

I find it funny how we’ve resorted to streaming services in an age where you can put 256 gigabytes ono a pinky nail sized storage solution. Ereaders are even better, my old Kindle with 4gb of storage can hold an entire library.

Yeah, workplace hierarchies are a thing, and they are voluntary - nobody is keeping you captive at your job.

The birth rate moral panic is 100% manufactured by neoliberal capitalists who simultaneously want high consumption and low wages, which is a logical impossibilty. You cannot have a consumerist society where the average consumer lives paycheck to paycheck

“Mmmmm, yes, let’s turn a funny post about autistic hyperfixations into gender warfare. This will be a good use of everyone’s time.”

And deprive capital of all that cheap labor? Have you no heart sir/madam?

IDGAF about LLM bots scraping public forums, they are public and available to anyone. I do mind them scraping shadow libraries, and training on copywritten material, which they should not do

Remove yourself from algo driven sites, set up an rss reader and hand pick your media, subcribe to newsletters of trustworthy media sites, delete useless apps from your phone or better jailbreak it and install graphene, get an e-reader secondhand and start reading etc etc.

I stopped going to church because the community was composed of rank hypocrites and bigots. I can have communal spaces elsewhere.

Wayyy ahead of you.

These all look fine? How is a “perfect” cookie supposed to look like anyway? If they’re tasty, they’re fine in my book.

I don’t even visit news sites, just about every major site has an rss. I simpy load my reader, refresh it and read the news without any annoyances.

Open in gimp, lasso tool, delete. It’s not that hard.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Hobby clubs are great for meeting new people, just don’t join them for the explicit purpose of meeting potential partners.

He was inside you all along

Makes a planet burning bullshit machine.

Does not have any monetization plans.

“I’m telling you guys, it’s only a matter of time before investor money starts rolling in”

Name calls people who read documentation.

Does not offer any alternative.

“No John, you are the neckbeards!”