ameancow @ ameancow @lemmy.world

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Foreign inflammation of existing sexism and gendered issues on social media has made it so men and women are afraid to be in the same room with each other, leaving behind only the absolute morons on both sides to represent gendered relationships broadly. People aren't even dating anymore, loneliness on both sides is becoming a lethal epidemic, human relationships are falling and people are suffering for it on a huge scale.

Where once people would have compromised and men and women would have formed relationships understanding each other, we're now so high-strung that any slight is considered "harassment" or "feminist woke ideology" (whatever they call it on the other side) and everyone is starting to hate each other just for being different from themselves.

Welcome to part of that machine, you're a member of the club destroying us all, just as bad as the orcs on the right who think you're trying to take something away from them. Screeching in all caps about being harassed by some general "male presence" just paints a stereotype that I really wish advocates would abandon because all it's doing is making the division worse and creating harder lines that people won't cross to understand each other.

Can't tell if the pic is AI or not, but your point stands and applies to a much larger issue with the slop being generated at a death-spiral pace across the internet.

Most of the people trying to replicate "stock photos" on the cheap have no clue what the subject is about or how it should look, so if some South Tanzanian family decide to make a few bucks pumping out content with help of their local internet cafe, they can generate the most professional pictures of people doing all kinds of activities. Pictures which get picked up by someone else somewhere else who is trying to make a guide or informational content, again for a few fast bucks. And this story repeats at all levels of human society at all levels because of capitalism. Every time, something is lost, some detail missed, some cultural context glossed over, and this is how we lose human history.

And eventually, inevitably, one way or another, humans.

I hate to read any post on the internet that involves both the words "animal" and "consent."

Human beings are inexplicable, contradictory species that don't know how to view the world through anything other than our momentary feelings about things, and the universe suffers for it.

I never had a microwave magnetron give out, they last far longer than the plastic housing, plastic handles, hollow frames and thin plastic films over the buttons. I've also lost five vacuum cleaners of various brands in the last decade, full on smoke and melted plastic. Only Dyson has lasted more than a decade.

And I also realized that by discussing the durability of branded houseware, I am absolutely too old to be on the internet anymore.

And it all starts from people reading the endless, pointless, contention-filled threads like this, where two sides are arguing bitterly about nonsense, not giving in an inch, and not resolving anything.

What do you mindless drones out there think this is doing to your brain? Has anyone of any gender been helped by reading any of these stupid arguments about sharks and bears?

The answer is no. The younger generation who was raised by these terrible posts and terrible, wastes-of-time arguments and persecution olympics is desperately, chronically ALONE.

So yah, lets all just keep stirring this soup of loneliness as we all train ourselves to stop socializing like humans and view everything through the lense of internet arguments. I'm sure it will start to show positive impact annnnny day now.

What pushes people to grifters is reading endless, pointless internet arguments where neither side is compromising.

This is how we all learned to socialize, in bullshit threads like this, and this is why all you young people are so fucking lonely.

Stop making it a life-goal to go 1.5 million dollars in debt to own a stucco home in a vast ocean of identical stucco homes and maybe buy some property by a small town and sacrifice the luxury of convenience and being able to get doordash whenever you want and instead have a little garden or something.

If the market decided that living in suburban hell wasn't profitable anymore, they would stop paving over vast tracts of land to unroll a sea of terracotta roofs as far as you can see like a rolling ocean of crippling debt and HOA fines.

I hope you're copying and pasting this to every other user who thought your comment was inexplicable or I will know you're just sore.

Your phrasing didn't sound ironic at all, review the puzzled replies and rethink your notions of how well tone travels over text messages.

Keep trying, I'm done.

Are you not a native english speaker?

Aha, so you ARE their alt hahaha thank you for making it make sense

You misunderstand, the comment may or may not have been a joke, it wasn't funny, it was just weird, but everyone made it INTO a joke. NOW we're all laughing, because of the replies.

You're the one too intense and taking this too seriously, unless your an alt of the person who used the weird word "ghoulish" to describe erotic disney fan art, then I guess I understand the irritation at people making the best of a weird moment.

This has been another episode of "over-explaining shit until it stops being funny and becomes contentious because one goddamn person can't figure out what's going on and tried to make it into an issue."

I answer all unknown callers with "Thank you for calling State Department of Telephone Fraud Investigations, how may I direct your call?" and they tend to hang up lightning fast and not call back for some reason

I was speaking generally of most consumer goods that have cheapened on design and materials, but to address phones...

While the material of the shell was plastic, there were huge differences in both shape, density (bakelite has different compressive properties than polyurethane) as well as engineering.

IE, the shells of lets say, and old 1985 motel phone, were made of pretty thick bakelite or poly plastic, and the insides were made of very simple metal and copper wiring, there were no integrated circuits, there were no moving parts, no computers, no video screens, no charging ports, no boards with parts, they were almost entirely mechanical, the function of the keys only served to send signal tones and didn't connect to anything more advanced than a switchboard somewhere. That's why they could withstand a lot of abuse.

Modern electronics, including the rare home landline phones we have now, are made of much thinner polyurethane or styrene shells, they have almost entirely solid-state parts inside, chips and boards that capacitors can come loose from, charging ports that can break off the housing and make shorts in connections, wiring isn't designed to withstand someone accidentally yanking the whole thing, they have LCD screens and are basically just more fragile in all regards.

The issue has a lot more to do with the wider array of consumer goods though, like vacuum cleaners or microwave ovens and home goods that are supposed to last for years and years, but tend to break after only a couple years, and this is now by design.

This entire story is another stupid distraction designed to hook the emotions of both sides of the political spectrum for views. Anyone who gets engaged with these kinds of stories, no matter what side you're on, are being victimized by manipulative media trying to drive up views for advertiser revenue.

We need to burn our entire capitalistic, profit-driven media hellscape to the ground and make something new that has actual oversight and regulation.

It’s the FCC and the FTC that have a say and they are supposed to be politically insulated.

Agencies soon to be replaced by Elon Musk's Grok and a group of 17-year-olds with punisher skull stickers on their macbooks.

This is the KGB handbook in effect.

Spend enough time amplifying the loudest, worst takes on both sides of any and every social and political issue, and eventually nobody knows what's real, everyone is exhausted with the contention, and people just tune out and default to believing whatever the state tells them is real, because the alternative is time-consuming research, and people rarely read news past the headlines.

We've been sabotaged and have the receipts, yet I still get angry leftists and liberals scolding me that this is conspiratorial nonsense, and it's "problematic" to try to pin all our social issues on Russia.

And they're right, it's not just Russia. It was also North Korea, Iran, China, and probably a thousand different smaller groups for assorted agendas.

But nobody wants to admit how vulnerable they are not just to misinformation, but the ancillary effects of a misinformation climate.

Condolences, you will be missed.