Unironic question: is it possible to boycott goods from a country apolitically?

Look, people showing cleavage are aware it’s going to draw attention. In the same way women know if they put words on their tits you’re going to read them. There’s a difference between noticing something and staring right at it

Your mom has been posting a lot more on Instagram recently

An important thing to remember is that your job represents about a third of your life and almost half of your waking life. People as a species are sociable and want to know more about the people they spend the most time around. A lot of those interactions are not inherently trying to get something from you but are rather people just being interested in the person who are around them

Imagine being the woman who drags herself in there, still mostly asleep, orders her coffee, gets it free?, drinks it, goes outside and sees this

That’d be pretty fucking gross

Online dating

It’s not pointless, it has a very clear point: centralize the police in the single territory free from the federal/state devide, where the entirety of the government that controls the country functions, and place it under the direct control of an autocratic ruler who has previously used control of this territory to avoid consequences for his crimes

The primary difference is he’s doing it in year 1 in preparation for what he’s about to do instead of retroactively in the last 20 days to try to save his ass. If that doesn’t scare the shit of of you then it should

I think the US infrastructure leads to a confirmation bias. There probably aren’t that many people who are actually “bad” drivers out there. The majority of people aren’t getting tickets, damaging their car, or hurting people most of the time when they drive. Our culture being so car centric however means that the actually bad drivers don’t have a choice but to be on the road. Bad driving also calls a lot of attention to itself because it’s dangerous. So when you drive you frequently see bad driving when realistically most people are just fine drivers, leading to you thinking more people are bad, and thus you must be better

That and American exceptionalism probably

I never said useless. Mustard Gas is really useful, State Sponsored propaganda is useful. Usefulness does not equate to goodness as much as capitalist will try to convince you otherwise

I don’t have Apple products but I’ve been saying this is a feature I expected them to beat everyone else to. Honestly I thought we were going to see something like this back in 2023. I assumed it was going to require the newest iPhone, airpods, and an Apple AI subscription but if it works as well as Apple products tend to then I bet this will be incredible. Tapping your phone to someone else’s, putting in some headphones and just talking in your own languages has been a sci-fi dream since the 40s. Combined with live translation of text you can already do in Apple Vision Pro, language barriers are going to start melting away

“It’s just the corner of the fireworks store that’s on fire, I don’t see what you’re concerned about”

AI power growth is projected to grow exponentially for a service a lot of people view as morally reprehensible and actively harmful

Spencer Weart identified the dangers of global warming in the 50s, we ignored the warnings and now people and entire species are dying. Excuse us for trying to prevent accelerating the problem

I’ve always liked this old Cracked video which argues that Zach Morris’ Time Out is low stakes enough to not create a superhero world but just kinda makes everything work for you

In a world without other superheroes? Rogue’s powers from X-Men are probably the worst. You can never have physical contact with other people for the rest of your life and there’s no other powers to steal. Lose/lose

If there’s anything at all Democrats have to learn in order to win ever again it’s that “when they go low we go high” and having a moral backbone is a losing strategy. Cheating and breaking rules keeps letting the other side win and they keep making it easier for themselves, if Democrats refuse to start slinging mud then they’re just going to keep losing

I think this is a reach. A lot of those songs are just popular songs from his youth and conservatives famously have incredibly poor media literacy. See all the people rocking out to Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine at pro police rallies

spend 4 years in college, get certified, start teaching children, get yelled at by parents and principals for giving a student who was on their phone for the whole class a C, make $45,000/year

play apex legends in the basement shouting racial slurs and eating cheetos for 2 years, get a $50,000 signing bonus on top of a $80,000 salary

Guess which one is more likely to be shot and killed at their job?

First and foremost I want to say discussions like this are why I really like engaging on Lemmy over Reddit. This is an interesting discussion with good points and isn’t inflammatory

I have a math degree and tend to approach everything from that perspective. By sheer cold logic: if 2 adults are capable of raising a child that is a functional laborer, then a household that achieves that same objective with 3 adults is less efficient because each of these adults spends time with the child instead of 2 adults spending time and one fully working

Personally I think this is a failure of capitalism. Studies show happy people working fewer hours are more efficient. Why is it that every capitalist country continues to overload their workers and remove benefits that make them happy?

I think capitalists live in magical fantasy economic land and don’t think of laborers as people, but numbers on a sheet. I think too many people have gone through business school (as I have) and have a simplistic view of economics leading them to think capitalism is a meritocracy. It’s not, if anything capitalism is most closely related to feudalism. The momentum of money caries ideas much farther than the merit of those ideas

I fundamentally disagree that capitalism is an unemotional descriptive science. I think behavioral economics as a subset of sociology does a much better job at explaining the human approach to money, even if it isn’t perfect

I disagree that capitalism is about the investment over labor. I view capitalism as a justification for growth at every expense. For much of history the most efficient way to grow was conquest. While that is still partially the case, now we’ve moved towards cannibalism capitalism in my opinion. Now capitalist seek their short term growth by stealing from future profits instead of stealing from other people (by and large)

Which is all to say capitalism will push people towards the minimum they can subsist on, while the capitalist suck up everything else. A three+ adult household is less efficient (from a cold logic perspective. I fundamentally disagree with that logic), so capitalist countries will enact the laws and customs that favor the fewest number of adults not participating in the workforce

In summary: I think we disagree about who the chicken is and who the egg is. I think capitalism is the chicken to societal norm’s egg

Sure, I think it was clear by your nitpicky word that I meant the open internet. Obviously you can use the internet to talk to friends/family/therapists about your relationships. I just don’t think you’re going to go to /r/relationships and say “me, my boyfriend, and our girlfriend all genuinely love each other and have super fun kinky threeways every week” or if you do you’re going to get downvoted for bragging/lying

So 2 things:

1. People in successful, happy relationships have a tendency not to go on the internet to discuss them. Additionally /r/openmarriageregret is obviously only going to be about disasters. It’s like going to a monster truck rally and crying about the destruction of cars

2. Hot take: capitalism is diametrically opposed to non-nuclear family lifestyles. Not that they are impossible, but that capitalism creates enough confounding factors that will make it very difficult

I think it’s typically because you lead with the thing people would know them for, or the thing that person is more known for in general. So because there’s so few astronauts, it’s pretty fucking impressive that you think I’m more likely to know their guitar work than their space career