folkrav @ folkrav @lemmy.ca

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Keyword “many”. Not all, and if you do find some data that can point to that direction, I can’t find anything concrete that points towards only 5-15% realistically could work without physical presence, I’ll gladly take it. Hell, remember the height of the pandemic measures, when only “essential” stuff was still running? That was still a shitton of people.

Your food needs a kitchen and a delivery pickup point. That point has to be decently close to all addresses that could be delivered to, or nobody would want to deliver, so that’s a bunch of physical kitchens already. Some of the point of restaurants is also the social gathering aspect, so you’re completely alienating a whole swathe of consumers - not everyone wants to eat alone at home.

Some business, or hell, even personal needs are not solved by signing up for yet another SaaS. Some companies have regulatory requirements/compliance. Others’ currently very simple operating costs would go through the roof doing so. My programmer, software architecture, security oriented mind also is screaming a little bit at the idea of a mom and pop bakery ran by two sextuagenarians now having to worry about keeping their Wordpress/WooCommerce up to date and secure. Why would I want to give my data and personal information to a bunch of random internet companies when I can have the same service without the data breach risk at the store down the road?

Many things are easier to source locally. Not everything is easy to find on the internet. Ever tried to find some odd screw for some obscure appliance by browsing pictures lol? Much easier to walk into my department store and physically compare. Another example, I was trying to find a Guitar Hero controller online. It ended up being much, much easier to find one at a decent price by looking up secondhand stores and thrift shops’ electronics sections - found one in a matter of a couple of visits for like $30. Online, I can’t find one under $120 right now.

Slightly off subject (or is it?), but I would also strongly push you to try and consume locally when possible rather than throwing even more money towards Amazon, Uber et al. Amazon in particular is an insane multinational-sized loss leader.

I’d be curious how you get to 80-85% - sounds like a number pulled out of thin air. IMHO, I think the estimation is way off.

IIRC in the US 20% of companies are in the goods producing industry, and producing physical goods tends to be difficult without a physical location. Even being generous and only guesstimating half of those need physical locations, we’re already straight in the middle of your 5-15% estimate, and we haven’t even looked at service based industries, which represent most of the rest of the economy... Just things such as restaurants, shopping/retail, entertainment and hospitality are probably a much larger portion of the remaining 80% of businesses than the 5% we’re left with based on your number.

Edit: your edit doesn’t change much about the statement. Even factoring out manufacturing altogether, I’m pretty sure the stuff I mentioned is probably more than 15% out of the 80% that’s left (therefore from service industry), so not really possible to do without some physical presence...

That should be child abuse lol

I shortly used lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works before settling on lemmy.ca as well

Some of it is pure misinformation - the very thing they fear, getting weaponized against them. There’s a way to present things to people that sounds very convincing to someone with weak critical thinking and/or without empirical research experience. These people typically will focus on the few pieces that validate their beliefs and throw the rest out as lies/conspiracy/garbage/etc. It gets kind of dangerous when they hit peak Dunning-Kruger and they totally refuse to hear reason, they usually need some kind of major tragedy close to them to question themselves lol…

I guess some of it might be some sense of belonging. There may be a part of it that is purely about validation from peers.

I’ve also had many friends over the years who didn’t get vaccinated as children over religious reasons.

There’s a semantic difference sure (racism presupposes a belief in the existence of superior races), but in practice, the consequences on the recipient must not be particularly different…

I’m also too lazy to setup macros outside my editor 🙈

Of fucking course we now have cases of this very preventable disease too. We’re not immune to the wave of anti-intellectualism that leads to things like anti-vax to get any traction at all.

Yeah that’s fair. If you’re looking for reproductive capacity, you’re indeed going to have a bad time sticking with trans women…

IMHO for kids it’s as good and bad a time as any. Safer overall in most countries, children work less, mostly have a childhood, decent-ish education mostly, … but social media is solidly fucking them up. I thought my (33) generation was fucked by having access to the internet and knowing more about it than most of their parents way too early. IMHO, it’s nothing compared to them being practically raised to be chronically online. Ah, and the impending sense of doom from the contemporary ecological disaster we’re living in isn’t helping either. I also understand that not everyone thinks this way, it’s perfectly okay not to have kids. As a dad of 2, I wouldn’t wish it on someone who didn’t want it.

Cocks don’t turn me on either, I find them very ugly to be honest, but I’m then thinking… Do we have to find every single thing about our partners attractive? Could the right person make me overlook a penis? Maybe? Again I’m married and have been with my wife for so long that it’s all very distant hypotheticals lol

I don’t go on Reddit anymore except when some Google search brings me there hehe. I used to be mostly on gaming, tech and programming subreddits, plus a handful of hobby related subs like /r/mechanicalkeyboards, /r/fountainpens, and so on. Very little shitposting/memeing going on, admittedly.

I’m too lazy to type site:reddit.com, I just append “Reddit” at the end of my search query lol

I guess working full time in English for the last 4 years helps haha

I mean, I’m tattooed and pierced, and I still don’t personally agree with piercing children’s ears either. IMHO that’s a rather personal choice and should be made by the person itself, not parents. But IMHO, objectively speaking, it makes no sense to put both on the same level.

A tiny earring like kids get is about 20-18g - in the sub-millimetre range. Unless you go at a shitty venue with terrible hygienic practices, these things stop hurting in minutes, stop being sore after mere hours, a day or two tops, and are pretty much as reversible as can be. There’s very little “bad” about it except a child crying for a minute or two - and that already happens hundreds of times a day, when they get vaccines, when they wait a minute while you prepare their bottle, when they’re tired, or honestly, just cause they feel like shit and can’t tell you cause they don’t speak yet.

Chopping off foreskins has zero use outside religious belief or medically motivated surgeries, and has long-term, irreversible medical implications.

I still don’t agree with the act, but not all evil is created equal…

I’ll take this as a compliment, especially since English is my second language haha!

Yeah as a man, saying you find trans women attractive beside you wouldn't have(in my case) a relationship with one it's generally a taboo at least in my society, usually people are in extreme sides, you are gay or you are cis, there is no middle point.

It’s indeed pretty taboo in some sense, even here in Canada lol. Doesn’t make it true though, sexual orientation being mostly a spectrum. I don’t have anything to back it up, but I strongly believe most people who say they’re “100% straight” are mostly repressing the non-zero part of themselves that could maybe be a tiny little bit gay, even if it’s like 0.01% lol

I can perfectly be friend of a trans(male or female) person but for me they are not relationship material.

Preferences are always okay.

We wouldn’t need mods if people could be decent. You’re actively working towards being the proof people can’t.

It’d be very difficult to quantify, so all I can say is my personal opinion... I have seen many marvellously beautiful trans women and have 0 issue saying I find one beautiful. Hell, I’m pretty much not attracted to men and there are many I can definitely say are beautiful people. I wouldn’t mind dating a trans woman at all, if it clicked and I found her attractive (my wife might disagree though lol). But I don’t know how most even could look more feminine. In the end, they still are women that were born in a man’s body, and most men’s bodies are, well… relatively masculine. Gender-affirming surgery can help for sure, but many don’t want to (and don’t have to!) go through all that.

Interesting, I feel the opposite. I have had a few run-ins with… interesting people on here, but nowhere near as bad as on Reddit.

I’ve honestly yet to see or feel those. I however exclusively browse my subscriptions feed, so I guess I filtered most of them out by my community choices?

It’s your problem you can’t see anything else, not theirs. They could wear pink fuzzy clothes written “FUCK ME” on their ass - you are the one staring based on nothing but personal taste. But sure, let’s play pretend like they have to cater to your taste to avoid your gaze lol. It’s the same backwards logic used by misogynists when it comes to women wearing revealing clothes.

You’re either discussing out of bad faith and are actually perfectly aware and content with acting like an asshole, or you’re that much of a moron that you don’t even realize you’re the one seeing an imaginary booger. I’ll therefore stop this “discussion” here. Have a good one regardless.