God, post-digg era was peak. When subs like r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu were still active. It was just folks talking about their lives and relating to eachother. Then we all grew up, life got serious, and the culture wars started.

It’s two things. Bots, yes, but also the communities have gotten really lazy. Shit was fire during peak culture war because people were actively trying to learn. Now it’s like everyone gave up.

Lol, to be more specific then, human brains have trouble holding abstract ideas to levels of importance alongside eachother. Your children are safe from this.

It’s always been the goal to get children consuming products. It’s a known function of humans that they usually stick to whatever they were doing when they were kids well into adulthood. It’s harder to convince an adult with pre-established routines and preferred products to switch over.

You’re right though that it’s getting pretty blatant now, but that’s to be expected as we dismantle food and drug regulations.

Travelling the state, shitting for a cause. Big ups to the GOATs!

Just waiting for that one really charismatic Tori to come out and say the NHS is the problem. Thatcher 2 is gonna be hilarious

It’s lowkey true, if presumptive. People migrate here literally for the ability to dictate the lives of others and form their own little kingdoms. They’ll do this even if it pushes them into bankruptcy or death. The promise of being a sovereign is often more alluring than reforming any of these systems for the public good. Better yet, most of them don’t even consider the public good. The world just stops materializing past their fov.

Spicy, I’ll say I have less beef with tattoos and more beef with the people getting them now. Counter-cultural signifiers are getting really few and far between. Tattoos used to means you understood something about the world and wanted it reflected on your skin. Now you have folks with full sleeves working in finance departments for multi-billion dollar conglomerates.

I used to work at a shop run by bikers, and the vibe was immaculate. I’d shark the pool table because I was young and seen as inexperienced. Now when I go into a shop everyone is advertising their instagram and there’s essentially no acknowledgment of culture. If you ask a question as simple as who owned the shop, you get stares like their brain was just sucked out a tube.

I think you framed this wrong. Yes, you won’t hear a good defense of capitalism here, but you’re not looking for capitalism if what you want are free markets. Markets can and have existed without capitalism. If you frame the argument differently, you might find a conversation worth having.

Typical zombeh-eh-eh-eh-oh-oh-oh-oh response.

Yes, but two things cant hold importance in a human brain at the same time. Too many conceptions of racism boils a person’s brain into a mush where basically nothing is racist because someone is always racist to someone else. This is one of the things that killed BLM. All lives matter, stop asian hate, anti-islamaphobia, etc… It’s not to say those arent also problems, it’s to say those groups have better support systems than black folk in the US. The issue of anti-black racism requires concentrated effort, but the white majority easily loses interest when there’s another sexier group being persecuted to attend to.

“Has the largest” meaning a 3 comment average per thread. That’s what the OC is talking about. The communities in Lemmy World are really small in a way that makes it hard to hold together a sub. A new movie comes out and maybe one or two people talk about it on Lemmy while Reddit has hundreds.

Then you might say, be the change you want to see, but Lemmy has a pretty small install base. Even if you participate, there isn’t anyone to follow, because the users here are usually white collar tech folk. Hence the interest groups being tech and politics.

As a long time Gen X hater, I can confirm that they’re essentially responsible for boomers being seen as the only adults in the country for the past 50-whatever years.

Getting old sucks, but dont let folks rile you up so much that punk starts being a label rather than a movement. Punk is as punk does. Nobody needs credentials.

I think I can shed light on the 6 7 hate. To do so though, I need to cover why people are okay with the others. 420 and 69 have been around for ages so they get a pass for being grandfathered and having transgressive origins. Quick maths (2+2 is 4, minus 1 that’s 3) got its fame for being an incredibly stupid thing to say in the middle of a rap while also simultaneously going way too hard for how silly it sounds. Lastly you have 21, which was a vine meme so again, a more grounded and community based origin.

What makes 6 7 stand out is that it’s from the British school system, and British culture sucks.

I rest my case.

Not good for capital generation. Media needs to generate revenue like everything else in this system, otherwise it starves.

I’m not sure creating a streaming monopoly is much better as an alternative. I’ve been workshoping the idea that we should have a “public option” for being able to buy and watch shows and movies so that the subscription model would need to become more competitive, but the US especially is just too private enterprise focused support that right now.

Shout out to my cousins!

I’m not joking when I say consuming every propaganda helped. It allows you to measure each set of voices by their accuracy. You can figure out if people online are correct or wrong about something by taking measurements in your own environment and comparing that to the observations. This does create an issue where you might only trust things in your observable reality, and I would say there are trustworthy places for boring information like the history of groups of people and how light or sound work. Wikipedia put us a long way towards understanding eachother.

Anyways, kinda rambling but my point is, reality is easier to trace than people think. Your opinion isn’t usually too far from reality. The rest is usually misinformation that can be corrected through curiosity.

And there is a dark secret regarding our color coded and computer led society, but I, your lovable oafish guide to this world, couldn’t possibly know what that is.