1. Get an account
2. Screw with it till you can get it to give you terrible advice
3. Sue
4. Use cash to pay off debt, take a long vacation, get actual professional help/medication/etc
5. Improved mental health

The system works

It's a horrendous thing. To see a person killed before their time when they didn't have to die. Just like what happens to thousands of Americans each year who are denied coverage. If we're actually honest with ourselves, the only reason this one is seen as a tragedy by politicians and CEOs is that there was no profit to be had in it.

edit: spelling

It's easy if you don't know how shitty the other 90% have it. That's the thing about privilege. The folks who have it assume that everybody has it like they do (i.e. that privilege isn't really a thing, everybody has equal opportunity, racism is dead, etc).

Jfc. Thank gods my anti-intellectual "all scientists are paid lackeys of our corrupt government" family members don't see this shit. Holy hell is this an embarrassing read.

This 100%. So, how do we make it so that it's more profitable for the corporations to go after each other rather than just continuing to bleed we lowly commoners?

Minecraft. Honestly, send me into the wilderness where I can build a little log cabin by a lake, make furniture, and live off the land. And the only people around are some zombies who don't try to talk to you. Keep your million.

I still have such dissonance about this. I want to say "Look at this idiot" and point out something unintelligent that an objectively evil person does. But because intelligence is an inherited trait, we can only use negative language when referring to a person for evil that they do by choice? Or something? So, evil people bumbling can only be mocked for the evil intent and not for their inability to be evil with skill and intelligence?

I dunno. Trump is a numpty and if that offends the numps or whatever group that term was originally a slur for then I apologize.

edit: to be clear, the r word seems objectively shitty to use and I don't. I just have yet to find an objective litmus test for where the line is between that and "silly" cuz I swear there's always someone there to explain the etymology of "silly" and how it's origins were shitty in some way

The folks saying that this is ablesist. I hear you and I think I mostly agree. But this is one I kind of struggle on. Which "haha person is stupid" kinds of things are making fun of people who are mentally handicapped? And which ones are just making fun of people for being plain old stupid? Or is it ablesist to say that a person behaving stupidly is stupid?

Like, if you're making a meme and want to portray the anti-vaxer or nazi or whatever as being stupid or cruel or whatever, how do you do that without being ablesist? ("Inteligence is biological", "psychopathy is a disease", etc)

edit: oh whoops. And fuck tankies. Forgot to add that

Really? Generating real-looking faces has been doable for years now. MS paint copy/paste over an actual ID with the letters/numbers scrambled seems like child's play.

(Not that I would ever publicly condone ID fraud. That would be a terrible thing)

edit: oh. To do it en mass to fuck up their databases. Yeah that's fair. For a one-off: easily doable. At scale... Fair point

Hadn't heard much about this till I saw this:

https://cathode.church/@rabbit/113941419632144957

I don't know what's going on and maybe it's just really grassroots or something. Just, be safe out there folks.

Maybe I've just had a long day

If it's black, fight back. If it's brown, lay down. If it's white, goodnight.

I haven't played a GTA game since 3ish. Had been thinking "maybe I'll jump back in when 6 launches".

Thanks for the info. Maybe I'll just continue playing the million other games in my backlog. Fuck AAAA greed.

You can always tell when it's AI because there's something a little off about the hands

I'm anti-tankie as the next guy. But pick up a history book. Soviet Russia did a huge amount of the work during WW2.

I am also confused. Specifically about "there's no such thing". Is the meme saying (among other things) that authoritarianism doesn't exist or isn't real? That seems obviously untrue on the face of it? Unless we're redefining it so as to be meaningless.

Help me out here.

I'm always a little bummed when stoicism comes up. For some reason people always characterize it as "try not to feel things". But first, that's kinda twisting the intention. And second, it's only a third of the whole philosophy.

Everywhere, at each moment, you have the option: to accept this event with humility [will]; to treat this person as [s]he should be treated [action]; to approach this thought with care, so that nothing irrational creeps in [perception];

The serenity prayer more closely resembles the core idea than what most people focus on. Compare the above quote with it.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

If something is outside of your control, don't let it turn you bitter. If there is action you can take to treat those around you justly, you must do so. And then to do these things effectively takes knowledge, wisdom, and (I would argue) empathy.

But nah. Modern take: stoicism = real men shove emotions down. Bleh.

Anybody else see Toad with his mouth hanging open in a horrified scream?

No way. If I've ever seen a "hold me back bro. I'm serious bro" dog breed, it'd be the chihuahia

edit: oh. I guess under the right circumstances those could be the same

Perfect meme to describe what's happening. Yes, fedi has some UX issues and is not very beginner friendly.

But also, people have gotten so used to being spoonfed content from an algorithm that tells them what they want to see that they can't handle the prospect of "build your own algorithm"

Corpo-curated-content is a hard drug and most people don't realize that they have an addiction.