He was being a bad person the moment he thought "I hope she gets abused by her boyfriend." No need to do research on the guy after that point.

That said, he'd only saying that because hes incredibly close to being depressed and in extreme self loathing in response to being rejected and trying to protect his his will to live via delusional projection and lashing out. "She's the one with a problem not me. I'm great. She's a piece of shit and deserves to suffer."

People who don't delude themselves about how great they are unfortunately usually don't respond to rejection with "I need to improve myself" or "I'm just not his/her type I'll find someone." but with "I should kill myself, its hopeless. I'll be romantically alone forever and I can't take it." and the sheer mortal terror of potentially thinking that way causes the delusional insulation and projection.

Second place to Harris??? Holy fuck we deserve our fate.

Edit: upon reading the article (I know...) AOC has the best net favorability. So a little more hopium there.

One of the issues is a lot people don't want to do amateur stuff. They aren't comfortable even starting because then they'll start comparing themselves to others and begin self loathing.

"Ugh, I'm 32 years old and I draw like a 3 year old. Fuck this."

This applies to more than just art.

"I can barely manage to operate the basics of a computer there is no way I'll ever code."

"I have no sense of rhythm and I'm out of shape I'll never be able to dance and not look terrible."

"Can barely socialize platonically at all, there is no way I'll ever talk to that cute girl/boy, I'm going to die alone."

Sometimes its either ship something broken or lose your job.

It would be nice if we had elected the boring president yeah.

Capitalism makes abundance problematic.

People who refuse to vote when there is a clearly superior option deserve whatever the greater evil brings forth when they win.

It sometimes depends on the programmer's situation. Maybe its "lose a ton of credibility or live on the street/lose your H-1B Visa"

Originally I never wanted kids because it sounded like it'd get in the way of all the other stuff I want to do in life.

Now I don't because I see it as unethical.

Let me just state the obvious: They fired her due to the current US administration. She got harassed in the first place because of the current US administration.

Trump is effecting corporate decisions without even making in specific executive orders as well bolstering the common rightwing individual's boldness in harassing people.

Like, I agree with the tit for tat. But don't let your cat outside.

The people who voted for Trump are only angry that they are being hurt. Even if they read Project 2025, they'd assume they'd be exempt and that it'd only hurt the right people.

There is no reason to engage in smug gloating to shame them into repenting or trying to gently reason with them. You shouldn't even be talking to them. You should seek to undermine them at every level possible. They need to be kneecapped.

I feel nothing but revulsion and disgust for the person who made this comic.

It places its sympathy towards parents, which is nonsense. They're the ones who choose to bring the child into existence in the first place. They should fucking bear the guilt and try and make up for it as best as they can.

They're only useless if they legitimately suck at their job or don't give a fuck.

A good project manager will go a long way to keeping things running smoothly.

Please let them implode.

I want Lemmy to have niche content. I'm tired of being a bitter asshole about politics and news on here. I want to gleefully distract myself while my country burns, not be ultra depressed about it because its constantly in my face.

I took one of those autism tests and I can't remember off the top of my head what the score was but it was very high which both surprises and doesn't surprise me. I mask extremely well according to most people I meet. Telling me "You seem normal" or even "You aren't autistic".

I've only had two people tell me "It's obvious" ever, my mom and a single friend of mine.

But holy hell all the other autism personality/psychological aspects are like cranked up to 100 and I have a love/hate relationship with that. Hyperfocus is a double edged sword for instance. I love that I can get super into something and get really fucking good at it but I don't love obsessing over the same thing for months to the point of it keeping me awake at night and hurting other aspects of my life because I can't change mental direction.

It also isn't good for social anxiety, way too much rumination on single awkward conversations MAKE IT STOP.

Good luck to her.

Fuck man, I wish I could afford move to Canada right now.

The guys saying the top three things aren't necessarily the same as those saying the bottom thing. But there is definitely some overlap. Which is depressing. Though, I mean is that really that surprising given the state of the world and how stupid the average person is?

The loneliness epidemic also effects women. We're all more lonely and miserable these days. I think really men and women are alienated from each other in large numbers due to internet brain rot. And being too broke to do anything outside except like... go to a public park or a library or something.

The shitty rightwing politics comes after, the average person is too stupid to not get immediately sucked into manipulative rightwing grift when they're painfully lonely.

I say this as I consume internet brain rot myself. Though at least its on Lemmy and not Tik Tok, Reddit, or Facebook, and its during work, not my free time.

Impeachment on its own I can't bring myself to care about. It needs to come with "and removal" for it to matter.

And even then that means president Vance. It would still matter because Vance is a weaker villain lacking the full undying support of the MAGA death cult but shit would still suck, just suck in a way where there would be more hope.