Touching_Grass @ Touching_Grass @lemmy.world

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What about Mr beast and moist critikal how will they feed their children. Think of the YouTube's you monster.

Look at moist consuming his once a day meal.

It gets crazier to me when I start counting how many minutes of my day is spent being advertised too. I get ads on the radio to work. I get ads in the song themselves because DJ deEzNutz took a deal with McDonald's to include a hook where he talks about those two sweet beef patties. Meanwhile I'm staring at every billboard one the way to work. I see all the signs on the bus stops. I see the ads on the bus themselves. Hell I get 8 hours between work and bed. How many of those are spend watching a commercial. This is such a wacky situation and I feel like Rowdy Piper in 'They live'.

Illness/disorder is the key part here. All of us experience sadness, depression, anxiety, urges like murder or fetishes, compulsions and dysphoria or whatever to some degree. It becomes an illness when it becomes so distressing that we can't manage it to ourselves and cause negative results that is beyond manageable. And where that line is will vary.

Labeling a huge group as being mentally ill just seems a bit fucked to me. Am I mentally Ill because I drink every night even though I stop when I want. When does it become alcoholism? When do I go from being depressed to depression or anxious to having generalized anxiety. And when does my gender identity become a dysphoria. I go to the gym because I'm not as big as I want to be or think I should be. That's a dysphoria but is it an illness?

I would say if someone is able to live their life as they want without harm to themselves or others then its not really illness because I don't know where the illness part is. But if I force them to identify as something they tell me they're not then maybe I'm forcing the illness on them and I don't like to do that. But I also don't agree wolfkin and the other shit you mention are similar

I'm so behind companies doing this because too many people accept ads in every other part of their life and then act surprised when they get more ads showing up. It would be nice if this stuff woke people up.

You can't pick and choose. You have to reject all ads. They're a cancer we let it metastasize

Well that's some peoples goals and its none of my business

Why has every note app gone into the cloud.

Like its hard to find a note app that doesn't try to get me to sign up and subscribe to features. I just want to take notes like I'm a PI investigating people at my local mall

But why not both

Cool, so you guys told her how vaccines work and she totally listened and grew that day in both knowledge and as a person right?

Look up what Stephen harper is president of right now.

I don't think this is Russia. Its ex Canadian PM

Let's just keep doing what we're doing now

A lot of us do have both happy and stressful holiday. But its not like reminding people that stress exists makes it better. Learn to live your life at your pace not stressing what ads or TV tells you that you should do.

Reject culture if it isn't working for you. Do your thing.

Haha I went through a phase where I made OG stuff and got shit on for it. I got a new perspective getting shit on by meme/content gatekeepers even though they never made jack shit. Like film critics

I got older and found out I was more sympathetic to prohibitionist than I thought.

Alcohol is wild. And it blows my mind how its common that the biggest consumers are 18-30 year olds who barely have any self control. So many lives cut short by bad decisions from a single night.

I mean articles like this are kind of bullshit propaganda anyways. Microsoft is such a big company that there is going to be a huge range of opinions. The author is just selecting one opinion for their own reasons

People sending dick pics to who?

Would have been less work to wikipedia types of plastic than make a whole meme

I like to think Alan and Mark have the same cosmic acting energy whatever that is

Common sense.

basically accusing Lemmy of being controlled by marketing PR teams

You accused me of being dramatic but then discredit what I said with an overly dramatic take like that.

That is not what I said.

Because people that are posting comments like yours aren’t adding anything

That also is not true. They do add their thoughts and observations which is what I thought these forums were suppose to be about. These are communities that should be for users. What I said I observed is suspicious because it happens only in places like r/marvel or other sub reddits that are heavily controlled by PR teams. Posts are made, people give their honest opinions, posts get deleted. I have been seeing it more and more.

These marketing teams are the reason all these social media sites fail. Lemmy is unique right now because lots of us learned from reddit. The issue isn't posting a sale you like. The issue is censoring and hiding what the community really thinks and manipulating these spaces so its favorable to whatever marketing team pay the most.

You said other users have said similar. It tells me there might be something to pay attention to if people really want Lemmy to stay as honest and community focused as it is right now.

That dynamic changes when its not organic. what I wrote about is not talking about regular users posting things they are interested in. My issue is when companies take over platforms and control discussion and content. This is what happened to reddit and most other social media platforms.

As far as I can tell, a lot of people here are conceded about avoiding pitfalls that ruined reddit. The biggest pitfall reddit succumbed too was focusing on attracting advertisers and marketeers over reddit. If having a discussion about that is dramatic then so be it. But makes me curious why you are concerned about stifling that conversation