[-] Ghostc1212@sopuli.xyz 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Microplastics are the new lead, and screens are the new tobacco, in my opinion. Overuse of sugar in processed foods is the new version of how they'd cut food with inedible stuff like sawdust back in the day.

[-] Ghostc1212@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

Abusing service / customer-facing staff fits in to this as well and is at once particularly revealing and particularly damning.

Whenever a customer is rude to me I just remember that they're probably compensating for how terrible their own lives are. If it was actually an issue on my part then one of my coworkers would've told me by now. Makes it way easier to move on with my day.

[-] Ghostc1212@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

Most of Sweden and Finland's working class supports joining NATO according to polls. Turns out living next to Russia does that to you.

[-] Ghostc1212@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 year ago

Because I want there to be shit to do on here

[-] Ghostc1212@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would you specifically use the sentient robots for your grunt work and why would an artificial intelligence have problems with the same things humans do? Especially if an AI was made for the specific purpose of doing work. The reason humans don't like doing work is because evolution naturally selected for us to be good at things like

-hunting gazelles

-gathering berries

-making finger paintings on cave walls

-sitting around a campfire making ape noises

and not working at a corporation. For an AI, it'd presumably be the opposite, meaning that AIs would be about as content with their lives as humans are in their natural environment.

[-] Ghostc1212@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 year ago

Congress is legally allowed to impeach any SCOTUS justice they want.

[-] Ghostc1212@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

When you pump large amounts of iron in rapid succession at the gym, it makes you feel unstoppable, like you could take on the world. It's an absolutely wonderful feeling to have, and I think it can be chalked up to the testosterone boost. The way to cultivate this mindset is

  1. Simply work out. The body releases the "unstoppable" chemical when you do Chad shit.
  2. Have more faith in your own capabilities. This will naturally happen if you surround yourself with positive reinforcement and if you do step 1.
[-] Ghostc1212@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

gen z, hate that trillion dollar corporations run our social media.

This isn't even an issue for me so long as those trillion dollar corporations let me use social media the way I want to. I can just download an ad blocker and stay off the more garbage parts of their websites. The reason why I like the Fediverse is not because trillion dollar corporations don't have a stake in it, because let's be real, money was always gonna be involved. The reason why I like it is because I will most likely be insulated from the effects of enshittification and corporate incompetence on company-run instances. Even if the instance I'm on gets enshittified, it won't be that difficult for me to just move to another instance, especially once the Fediverse matures and we get things like account migration, or even account federation, if I wanna keep one foot in both instances. Same for whatever community I'm involved with. Plus the fact that I can just block any community who's users I don't like means my experience will be way less toxic than it would be on Twitter, where avoiding toxicity requires a lot of effort. That's one of the things I liked about Reddit, the structure kept the toxic people in their own little bubble and I was able to ignore their existence if I stayed off mainstream subreddits.

TL;DR: It ain't about the money (or lack thereof), it's about the potential for a better service.

[-] Ghostc1212@sopuli.xyz 90 points 1 year ago

I'm Gen Z, don't use Linux, don't know the first thing about programming (I know how to use file explorer though), and never intend to learn, and I'm here because I don't wanna use the official Reddit app and because I'm convinced that the Fediverse is likely to become big in the future and I wanna be able to say I was here when it all began.

[-] Ghostc1212@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

I'll start actually posting things when my favorite communities jump ship from Reddit. Until then I'll just lurk while occasionally commenting.

[-] Ghostc1212@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

Reddit is shutting down its competition by overloading their servers with refugees, genius move on their part

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