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I take immature as a compliment here.

What do you want, a boring picture driven by society expectations, adulthood stress and other people's pressures. Or a fun picture idea that came from a mind still able to be creative and lighthearted?

It's immature and you should do it.

You are doing way better than I was doing at 22.

I was studying a career that I didn't like and ended up working as something completely different. I didn't have a stable job until I was almost in my 30s. You are doing great.

It fits if you know that what orangutans are doing is beyond sin. The don't partake in sin because they are the sin.

I haven't used photoshop or any other "industry standard" in more than a decade.

Still, everytime I open Gimp I have to look up for the "increase/decrease brush size" shortcut, because it's so dawn counter intuitive.

Here goes gossip from my job.

• There was this janitor guy that used to be around and we haven't seen him in a while turns out he was stealing from people's desks.
• You know our ex boss, who was suddenly degraded? Turns out he committed a crime, and he is going to jail in a few months, if you see him happy lately it's because he is full of drugs to cope with the anxiety.
• This woman who just came out from her wedding, all the office know she hooked up with the guy from accounting a few months ago.
• These two guys who used to be friends and don't talk anymore? You know the reason, this pretty new girl both of them fall for her. She had nothing with either of them, but they stopped talking regardless because both think the other one is the reason she don't hook up with them.

But you are not part of their movement, at most are a supporter. You get excluded from being part of it if you try. You need labels to be included. No labels no representation. That's why we see people collecting more and more labels each day, because without a label you are nothing in the movement.

And you may support, but you are not part of the decision making, you are not considered when decisions are being made. Solidarity is expected from you, but you should not expect nothing in return.

This may suffice for you. You may need nothing for your selfless support. But most people are not like that. More people when they feel that kind of exclusion just move out ot the movement and do their own thing. Because everyone wants their voice to be heard. This explain a lot on what has happened with politics in the later years. Thus why I advocate for the end of identity politics, and return to class politics, include everyone as equals, without some being "more equals than others" if you catch my drift.

Majorities might or might not make better or worse decisions that minorities. But democracy is the best system we know for a reason, and without including everyone, truly including them, minorities could not rule for long, and then other minority would take place and undo all that the previous minority did (as shown by recent events).

I do think progress slow down because identity politics indeed. And progress became more fragile, being easily erased by all the people who got pissed off by identity politics.

Each year I see less and less people willing to support minority issues because identity politics let them out. Without that supposed the minority, by definition, is left in a minority position. And the only way it can change things is from a minority rule, which is not the best as it pisses off a lot of people this way.

The thing about identity politics is that it's useful for majorities. I don't see the point in using identity politics for minorities, by definition they are doomed to lose. Wider interclass politics are needed for minorities to get rights in a sustainable way.

I do think that identity politics got dominant not because of their usefulness to minorities. But because their usefulness to a few politicians (politicians as a wider term not only elected officials), which allowed them to gain short term power and privileged using them. But they doesn't seem to do much to help the minorities. Isolating them from wider support to get a short lived iron claw over them feels not right to me.

I might be wrong here. Once again, this is just my particular perception, and I do not have strong evidences for this claims, just feelings and personal experiences.

As said by many, there's a hidden structure that supports everyone here. So every athlete is only supporting themselves.

If you want to see people supporting each other in a tower structure search for Catalonian Castells.

I don't see it that way. Speaking as non conforming gender bisexual.

I think I can properly defend my rights without making groups that exclude others from it.

Again, just my opinion, and something that I do not agree not in the final goal (everyone being happy and free) but in the how to achieve it.

Also as an European I think identity politics (in this context) were mostly born in USA and imported here later. But we had achieved way more liberties before identity politics than after. We were one of the first countries in the world that legalized gay marriage for instance, and we didn't need the kind of identity politics that exist today to achieve it. And since identity politics took over I feel like we haven't be able to achieve much more, because we take a conflicting approach that meets much more resistance from excluded identities than the previous approach.

At least that's my humble opinion and perception of reality.

Who said the cable was put there by a company or is used by a company.

It could be put there by people and used by the people.

That works for that example.

What if it's an internet cable and playing around it could harm others and not you? Up to people to take other people's chances?

When the pipe suddenly burst into fecal matter coveting everyone in other people's feces democracy would be seen as a great thing.

Then the moderator would ban you because the mod agrees with the other person. I have seen it happen. (Not to me luckily, but I've got a post deleted and the post insulting me was upvoted by the same mod who deleted my post).

And not fron small communities, some of the bigger here on Lemmy.

Moderation is a bit lacking. Which is understandable as few people want to invest time in moderating.

With the aggravated issue of moderators being far less ""professional"" here than in Reddit. At least in some big reddit communities there was a big admin team that tried to keep things more or less professional (not that they would always achieved that but they tried). Here mod teams are very small and mods mostly just got their position by just being here first, so I have found out a lot of very biased moderation and mods just using mod tools and position of authority to defend their own particular opinions.

If you are debating something with a moderator alt account, or with a moderator friend you are in for some unfairness going your way. At least that have been my experience trying to debate even very small deviations from a Community main political stance.

Normal day.

Some things made me nervous because I need to make a big decision soon. But I also got this afternoon (CET here) free when I was expecting to have it occupied so that's nice.

Probably another big tech would fill the gap before. Sad, but that's the most likely outcome.

I would say (and I know that is a controversial opinion this one) that the fediverse itself is a little to blame here. Not because the technical difficulties to join in that are not that bad, but because most people in the fediverse want everyone here to have a very characteristic political ideology and to be very passionate about it. Like 90% (exaggerating here)of what I read here and in mastodon are politics (more so politics from a very specific pov), even after I made a big effort to get away from political communities.

Most people have not that particular ideology or are not that passionate about it, so they take a look of what's going on here and take the sane decision of not joining in.

I actually think that's the bigger impediment for the fediverse to become mainstream.

I haver a scar (more like a small disfformity) I regret because I sometimes feel that if I would have gone to the doctor in time (or at all) I would have not have it now. Also I got injured by doing just a stupid thing so it's sad have a constant reminder of that. But whatever, you end up learning to live with it.

I remember cheats playing cs 1.6

Cheaters have always been there.

I also remember that it was kind of fun sometimes?

I've never been a competitive person. So ranks mean nothing to me. So when a cheater was in the room it felt like a Boss in dark souls. Hard and unfair to beat, but when you did you felt the reward of hard work. I didn't care about dying 100 times, I lived for killing that player just one time.

My ps1 controler have not gotten stick drift in.. how long now? 30 years?

Is that a lost technology like in sci-fi books?

I was a waiter in and out for a year. It's tiring and you can end up exhausted.

But the needed skills were very simple.

Maybe it depends on the type of waiter? I served on the bar and only drinks, which was fairly easy. And of course I didn't own the place or anything. We also didn't serve any special cocktails or weird drinks. I didn't think that a special skill was needed to do what I did.