One even mocked me for thinking any man would look for anything other than quick sex on tinder.

It’s a hookup app tho…

You should have said that. If I can’t access banks, it’s a way different picture.

Compounding that is the notion of privilege, which exists. I’m a cisgendered white male with a university degree and I speak English natively, I don’t have a persistent mental illness or a chronic disease, and I don’t have a physical handicap. The deck is stacked in my favor no matter where I am in the world. Taking away enforced regulations on housing, employment, and banking makes things easier for me, not harder. It’s way, way, way different if you belong to a group with less social power.

The phrase has been corrupted from its cold war origins to mean (putting it politely) the “developing world”. Whereas I’ve moved countries seven times, I’ve seen a lot of places, and I can say from experience that outside of specific prejudicial circumstances (being a woman in Iran, Uyghur Muslim in China, being anyone in North Korea, for example) there are paths to success everywhere.

It’s cute that you assume I wouldn’t. OP never said anything about that.

Denmark was supposed to have revoked her citizenship due to an administrative error surrounding whether her father was a citizen when she was born and that decision was reversed. She wasn’t the only one, and it had nothing to do with her comments on Facebook. The notion that she had lost her citizenship due to Facebook posts came from a reddit thread. That part was never true.

Spend my dollars on an apartment and a house cleaner, start networking with other folks, get a job. It’s not hard.

piss in boots

Good film imo, but terrible sequels.

The constant bombastic music is absolutely terrible. Jingle jingle jingle jazzy jazzy BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS DING DANG DONG And remember, if you complain, it means you don’t want any presents this year!!

Also it’s MERRY CHRISTMAS not HAPPY HOLIDAYS even though there’s advent, christmastide, St John’s Day, St. Nicholas Day, all those funny South American holidays, all Christian holidays celebrated at this time that are not Christmas. But JESUS is the reason for the season.

Buh-bye.

Promise this time?

You still think being a professional writer is a flex. It really isn’t. You’re probably lying about your experience. There’s a lot of us out here. Lemmy isn’t a secret club for CS majors.

Making a living as a professional writer isn’t as impressive as you’re trying to make it sound, but good for you if it makes you feel accomplished.

Now I’m expected to be a good enough writer to “match their style,” or I’m a bad person?

Nope. Just a bad communicator.

Not matching your style (and vocabulary, and tone, and grammar, and basic word choices, and, and, and…) to your audience has always been bad communication.

If you want a government with the kind of regulatory power to “put all this nonsense on hold” why not use that regulatory power to generate cleaner energy and solve the problem? The current clean energy sources we have right now are cheaper than what’s currently being used for energy generation. They’re also faster to get online and can be put in more places. The reason we’re not using those sources right now is because of politics, not economics or technology. The solution to environmental damage caused by energy production is to use cleaner energy. Stopping people from using technology on the user level won’t do much of anything.

Who says they’re not?

everyone else becomes temporarily insane

Yeah all these people having fun and participating positively in their community are crazy.

You’re not missing anything. Those platforms aren’t useful for talking to your friends anymore.

There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism.

Games? Books? Films??? What about politics? What’s your take on US politics? And how about Linux, what distro are you running? And AI slop, it’s pretty bad, huh? Repeat, repeat, repeat…