• Zink@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    It really is the worst when shitbags like this take what could be a useful, healthy nugget of advice and paint over it with their antisocial garbage.

    For all people, having a “mission” in life, finding a purpose, and having something to look forward to are all generally good things that are good for you.

    Your mission that you look forward to does not need to be any specific thing that some scumbag who does not care about you prescribes.

    For those of us who want families and have them, and considering that we are a social species, it also turns out that your partner, your kid(s), and your immediate environment that you can control (home) can be a pretty significant and rewarding part of your purpose each day!

    It’s just a part of how conservatives think that they can claim a monopoly on family values while actively destroying families left and right. Which in turn is part of their warped view of the world where to love X means hating that which is non-X.

    I have the most traditional looking family you can imagine. It works great for us, and I say fuck messages like the one in the OP that say our individual paths to fulfillment must look alike.

    Many of our paths DO look alike, because there are billions of us living in the same world, and that’s why it’s worth sharing anecdotes and advice while we shout down the “thou shalt” garbage.

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    “Malfunction” made me feel slightly sick. There’s no shortage of misogynist rhetoric that paints women as animals, but this guy takes it a step further into reasoning about them like they’re machines.

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      Yeah. I mean we keep trying, but they, kostly men, and mkst consistently these exact men keep getting in the way.

      To misattribute a quote to a much cooler misogynist: the creative urge is also a destructive urge.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah and also the “civilization” women destroy is purely the put men first civilization - the only civilization they’re interested in

  • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Put them back in their place. Young men no longer want to contribute to society because it’s all nonsense nowadays and would rather let it burn to the ground.

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      4 months ago

      Is that real? I’ve gotten good enough at massaging AI prompts to get such moronic images, but I don’t know how to control certain aspects.

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          4 months ago

          LOL thanks, I wouldn’t have believed it. You know how in Nature animals advertise that they’re bad news with various markings? I think that’s the human version.

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            Well… after reading his site, I can’t say he’s that much of a moron. Unconventional beardist, for sure. Everything he says is pretty spot-on IMO, having a lot of personal experience in that area.

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    4 months ago

    We should just let AI take over.

    Just let it happen.

    I’m not saying it’ll be a good thing but it won’t be this…

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      4 months ago

      Those glorified answering machines just propagate what is in the zeitgeist, albeit saying it a bit nicer.

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    The mental image in my head is asking a lady the time and she turns and looks at you, opens her mouth to speak and black smoke starts billowing out and she starts shooting sparks at you.

    It’s easy to think that if half your population were eldritch horrors civilization would have a bit of trouble.

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        I practice the most unsettling smile i can, and do it in really jerky movements. Wheeze while i do. Talk on both the inhale and exhale while it’s maintained.

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          Does that work? I’ve tried:

          • Pretending I’m hearing disabled(problematic, I know)
          • Telling them to eat shit and die
          • Speaking really fast and fiercely in a made up language
          • Keep asking “What was that?” until they stop trying

          By far the most successful was when walking home with a bag of meal worms(for my pet tarantula,) I dumped them on his lap and ran away.

          • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Sometimes if i nail the acting. Im pretty good at uncanny.

            I always want to kick them in the balls and then smile genuinely, but only ever did that once.

            You’re my muse re:worms

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              Nice. A kick to the balls is the only appropriate reaction if you don’t have worms. And worms are cheap!