yeah but did you use linux when you deleted your cookies?

Or it’s about money.

people like money and they will do whatever it takes to get it. regardless of generation.

and people bitch and whine that they are 5 bucks, not 50 cents.

lots of prepper fetishist weirdos in this thread who seem to think anyone who thinks electricity, plumbing, and internet is normal are ‘weak’.

because apparently if we were ‘strong’ we would all be hunting animals and coking their carcasses over fires and sleeping outside… and communicating via smoke signal… lol

Yeah, they tend to be heavy drinkers and can’t socialize without alcohol. They just get drunk at home and doom scroll and group chat now.

Stewart errs on the side of intolerant liberal belief. He seems to things certain things should be banned from existence if he/liberals finds them offensive. He is also palpable ignorant about certain issues and biased toward mainstream definitions of things, than taking a more academic and broad view. He doesn’t really acknowledge the problems or contractions in many liberal beliefs, the way someone like Maher makes a point of doing. He is not a social libertarian, and Cohn was definitely more of one.

I do those things… and social media/phone users tell me I’m an asshole for not being addicted to my phone.

It’s socially isolating for a lot of people if they aren’t doing what everyone else is doing and aren’t following social media trends that most people are freaking out about.

I’ve had to socially isolate myself a lot more the last few years because it’s so intensely pervasive. Like I meet people, they ask me what my social media handle is, and they get ANGRY when I say I don’t use it. And even ANGRIER when they ask me what I spend all my time doing and I say I read paper books, watch films from the library, etc. and they tell me that makes me anti social and a pretentious douchebag.

Driving everywhere and not walking makes you obese.

Using AI and never using your brain makes you stupid.

For people who are used to driving everywhere, and people who use AI all the time, they think walking/thinking is an impossible task that’s only done by superhumans.

I mean, I’m not a teacher, but I’ve seen a massive decline in people’s basic cognitive abilities and social skills the past 5 years in particular. I used to be able to get along and have a conversation with a relative stranger for alike an hour or two. Now they check out after 10 minutes and can’t seem to have a stained conversation about anything without rapidly switching topics, or just flying into an ignorance rage/rant about something they clearly know nothing about. I’ve also seen a massive uptick in straight up hostility toward me for reading paper books and using paper and pen…

the thing that is massively increased is people’s confidence that they are correct no matter what and there isn’t anything they don’t know, and if there is, it’s stupid and not worth learning. I’ve seen this attitude in online spaces and in real life conversations. A massive difference to like 10 years ago when that attitude was far less frequent and people were far more curious and open to new information. I used to volunteer a lot, and I quit because it became so awful to deal with ignorant and aggressive people, whereas previously people were far more amendable and grateful.

I miss people being able to rant about things they did know about and able to acknowledge the limits of their knowledge. AI is basically next gen social media in that all it does is bias-confirm people’s ignorance and tell them what geniuses they are and they get addicted to that cognitive junk food and think good food tastes disgusting.

For me it’s just the character limit.

I like reddit because people could write in paragraphs. Twitter never had any appeal to me because it could never be more than slogan-slinging and when i briefly used it it just seemed utterly stupid to be limited to like 10 words.

he’s a comedian. not a politician.

Depends on the university. Some of them are still like that, some of them are totally ideologically captured such that they have encoded being anti-free speech into their conduct codes, and/or they simple would not want to deal with the fallout of bad actors would/could do to their servers.

A lot of university’s slide towards authoritarian centralizing of power post COVID along with internalizing their student bodies. Sadly. They themselves aren’t the bastions of freedom and truth they once were, because those things don’t make the bottom line go up. Many also closed off spaces and programs that were previous open to the public to further isolate themselves from the rest of the world. MIT had libraries and other facilities anyone could use, and now they shut them all off from public access post COVID.

That tracks. You pissed off someone who had a connection with a mod and/or admin. Been there!

I got banned once for dunking on IG travel trends and the mod involved was dumb enough to PM me threatening me.

It’s just pathetic how emotional and over reactive people saying crap on the internet they don’t like. I don’t agree with a lot of stuff but I see no reason to censor people for enjoying musicals or whatever else I hate.

doesn’t matter where you live, the people living in hell will force it down your throat because they want everyone else to be as miserable as they are.

yeah but more pictures of cats and dogs.

They can be used to launder money though.

That’s why art is so inflated. It’s used as a means to launder, because it’s the value is so arbitrary.

What’s baffling is I meet people my own age, who make like 200K a year who also think this exact same way. They think their life right now is impoverished and they deserve to be a billionaire one day. Half my first dates the past couple of years tell me how ‘difficult’ their life is because they can’t afford first class plane tickets.

It’s mind-blowing to me.

Thanks for the link. I never heard that term before. Super interesting. But very common rhetorical device these days.

Yeah, but it’s worse than that. Some people don’t even know they were raped. Some people, think you not raping them is worse than raping them. For some being enthusiastic consent happens at the moment of the act, but then is revoked retroactively due to guilt and shame.

Rape and SA don’t really have very clear cut and obvious cases, esp from the victim or the perpetuator’s POV. It’s easy to judge it from an external POV, naturally. But it’s VERY gray. I have had so many sexual encounters that were so messy, including encounters where there was no sex, and the other party accused me SA for not raping them, because in their twisted mentality, my lack of overbearing sexual desire was somehow insulting and painful for them. Literally, I had a woman over, she was falling over drunk, so I put her to sleep on my couch, and the next morning she sent me a flurry of texts about how I had SA her and violated her by not sleeping with her and she was going to post my info all over the internet and make sure I was punished for being a good person because how DARE I not take advantage of her what is wrong with me, I must be gay, etc.

I didn’t have sex with her because she barely conscious and it would be rape. And yet, her mind, I was still an evil-doing bad guy because it hurt her feelings for me to not rape her while she was semi-conscious. I can’t say for certain, but I suspect his woman was clearly a previous victim of sexual abuse. I’ve also had similar encounters with women in the case of physical abuse, where the encounter was “be a man and hit me to prove to me you care.”

Peoples mentalities around sex are not cut and dry. They are incredibly messy and fraught. Lots of people pressure other people into sex, or feel compelled to have sex because they know the relationship can’t progress or be secured without it. When I first started dating, I quickly learned that most women expected me to be sexually aggressive ASAP and if I asking them for sex, I wasn’t interested. So had to learn to fake an interest just so I had more opportunity to continue to see them. Lots of dates think I am a pussy if I don’t try to force myself on them.

I’ve also had so many other encounters where people lectured me on safe sex, consent, etc. but then when we were in the sexual act, they demanded I sleep with them without a condom, and then retroactively decided that doing so was wrong/bad. Or, that I was a pussy for wanting to use a condom. Some of those encounters also result in physical/sexual assault on myself by the woman. I’ve also had horrible sexual encounters that I hated, where the other party thought it was AMAZING and vice versa.

I mean really, there is no ‘solution’ unless you’re going to have some neutral third party observing all sexual relations between people. People themselves are not capable of that. They have zero objectivity about themselves the vast majority of the time and they their narrative in the heat of the moment is VERY different than it is before or after that moment. You can be VERY clear ahead of time about what you want and your boundaries… but that in no way means the other person cares or listens or they don’t change those desires/boundaries during the act.

Not to mention that some people are very bitter when faced with rejection and will retroactively change the entire relationship’s story post-breakup. During the relationship you are charming and wonderful and compassionate, but post-breakup you’re a manipulative evil person who seduced and took advantage of them…

What is the solution to any of that? You require some sort of psychological assessment or licensing before you are allowed to give consent?

I don’t think there is any ‘solution.’ I just think shitty people are shitty and it has nothing to do with culture. And shitty people will victimize others and make themselves out to be the victims, because yes, like you said, they are ‘good people’ and they can never do anything wrong. They are sex-positive and open minded and perfect! They could never assault anyone!

deleted by creator

What pragmatically can anyone do?

Am I suppose to stalk my female friends 24/7 like a vigilante to prevent them from being assaulted? Maybe put a webcam in their bedroom and watch every sexual encounter they have to make sure they aren’t assaulted? At that point I am the sex criminal.

The very premise that other people are responsible for someone else’s crimes is totally absurd. We don’t do this with say… bank robberies. Most bank robberies are done by men, and yet I don’t hear how it’s every man’s job to stop bank robberies from every happening. The people who are supposed to stop that are security guards and police. Are we supposed to have some sort of anti-SA police force that goes around policing every social interaction men and women have in public?

There are countries that do have that very thing…