I went to valid social commentary town. They all knew you.

honestly? lemme is teaching me that it’s probably time to get away from social media as a concept. I’m having a tough time with it though. It’s too automatic to pop open a new tab and type “l” or “r” or “f” or “t” and then just hit enter and get sucked into the outrage and/or validation loops

the internet is a machine that turns attention into currency, it does this at the same rate for negative and positive attention, and negative attention is a lot easier to get. you just burst onto a platform unbidden and say something that will piss people off. You get rewarded, the platform gets rewarded, everybody wins except the users who have a gross toxic time in the comments. Lemmy may not run ads, but it’s structured the same way that other platforms are and we already have a way of using those types of platforms built into our cultural knowledge, so Lemmy just turns into a loose confederation of reddits.

rules aren’t there to be enforced, they’re there so that when you break them you take a second to think about why.

HOT GIRLS FROM {{US_STATE}} WANT YOU TO NOT VOTE FOR BIDEN

Okay but I’m gonna carry this platitude with me for the rest of my life

puts me in mind of the old guru meditation error messages that popped up in the stone knives and bearskins era of computing.

Murder, assault, battery, racketeering, however they charge it when you rig sporting events for cash (might be more racketeering, idk), I’m getting sued for violating several multimillion dollar contracts and probably a couple wrongful deaths, all before halftime (which is when the murders kick into high gear)

Tetris is a hyperabstract policing simulator. The shapes are people, your job is to shove them into boxes and keep them in line. Too many get out of line and you lose. Some people are easy to fit in, like lines and squares, some go out of their way to be helpful like Ls and Ts and some people…well, some people are just always gonna be Zs facing the wrong direction.

you know that the entire rest of the world is full of baby boys with foreskins and parents who clean them, right? is your argument really gonna be “it’s inconvenient for parents to clean their kids so lets just cut off a part of their body”?

how does cosmetic surgery make your child’s life easier/better?

to avoid putting men in that dilemma

There’s no dilemma at all. Every consenting person who wants cosmetic surgery should be allowed to have it, and no one who can’t consent to cosmetic surgery should have it forced upon them.

circumcising me was 100% the right choice

if you weren’t circumcised as a child you would go get it done today?

Here’s another question along the same lines - my friend when I was a kid developed gynecomastia, commonly known as “breast knots” when he was 14. They’re completely harmless, but they made it look like he had boobs. Cute little A cups on this otherwise very boy-presenting person. For some reason, no one thought it was “against God’s plan” or “mutilating his body” or “part of the gender agenda” when this 14 year old boy had a purely cosmetic double mastectomy. I wonder why no one batted an eye at a child receiving gender-affirming cosmetic surgery just because he wanted to in this particular case.

“I Isekai’d Into My Own Asshole And Now I Have To Eat Myself”, now streaming on crunchyroll!

who’s hype for the state-industrial complex to track our every movement! surely this combined with a right wing political movement that is increasingly focused on punishing so-called enemies will never lead to a complete humanitarian disaster.

also fish and bread dup, which didn’t prove terribly popular and was quietly patched out

there’s no sensory input that can’t be faked, simulation theory is undisprovable, the only thing you can prove is that a simulation as accurate and consistent as this would have to be is indistinguishable from a basis reality and therefore the question is irrelevant.

but for thought experiment purposes I like to think that simulating a computer must always require more processing power than the computer being simulated has, and therefore as we develop computing technology and proliferate computers the likelihood that it’s all just an emulation layer on one big universe-computer diminishes rapidly.

Spiders Georg

Spiders Georg

Upon spiders he likes to gorge

3 a year for you and me

He’s a statistical anomaly

Look oooooouuuuttttt

He is a Spiders Georg

Okay but how noticeable is the slow, creeping growth of your socks up your legs? Do you feel it, or do you go to bed one night in crew socks and wake up in OTKs?