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  • Ifera@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldIs it worth it?
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    13 days ago

    All that text and not an ounce of empathy, this place really is turning into Reddit 2.0. But no true Scotsman, Right?

    “Look at any city that currently exists that has at least half decent public transit, or town where its reasonably safe to walk to common places you’d need to go.”. I live in one of those, and it is still prohibitive as fuck, so you will probably just say something like “Well, not there, I meant somewhere like Japan”, and buddy, been there too.

    You’re like the people who sees someone with depression and just tells them “Just go to therapy, they’ll fix you”.


  • Honestly, that is just overcomplicating something very basic for the sake of polarization, views and manufactured rage. People want esthetically pleasing things, and that doesn’t need to mean sexy.

    Do I find some male videogame characters sexy? Yes, very. But most importantly, we just want our ape brains to go “Engagement and dopamine, yay”.

    Do men need to devote days to unlock mirror mode in the latest Mario Kart? Nope, but in a world this depressive and bleak it is an achievement, and sexy doesn’t even factor there.


  • Don’t you think I have been trying for the last year and a half? The market out there is brutal, one position opened yesterday, and they already got over a hundred applicants, although with how dire shit is at the moment, we might as well be called supplicants instead.

    I got an offer a couple months ago to hire me for min wage, despite having multiple certifications and over a decade of experience in the specific field.

    Seriously, things are very fucked up out there. You need to be realistic and grow a bit of empathy, or at least research a bit into what other people are going through before being so judgemental.


  • Just for that, I am going to add an extra prompt to my daily AI queries for today. Just to make you rage harder.

    One third of my coworkers were laid off, and the ones remaining are forced to use AI to compensate. My salary isn’t enough for me to even pay my mortgage, keep myself and my cat safe and healthy, so I need my job.

    Should I starve for my values? Should I stop supporting my mom and my niece for them? Should I just become another statistic and kill myself, to die on that hill? That is my choice to make, and fuck you for making sanctimonious assumptions.


  • Welcome to Lemmy, where nuance goes to fucking roll over and die. I volunteer teaching English as a second language, and encourage the use of AI as a learning tool, while being very clear about its many dangers, but people here love to crucify me for it.

    I have rented for years, because I have always hated living far from my job, and I don’t drive. Lots of people here foam at the mouth at me choosing that convenience, and at the fact that I finally got a house, using my life’s savings, and now that I am divorced and no longer need that much room, I’m just renting the upper floor.

    Same as you, I either fix everything myself, or if I’m not qualified, hire someone to do it. My tenants love the fairly priced apartment, precisely because the price is fair. Cheap enough that them both can work and study, while still being profitable enough for me to help myself pay for the bills, taxes and mortgage.

    A lot of people just swallowed the lie whole, thinking that landlords are the scum of the earth, equating it to shit like what Ticketmaster, LiveNation, Blackstone Inc., BP, UnitedHealthcare or Anthem do.

    But most of them are just keyboard warriors who won’t move a finger to help others in need, believing themselves righteous just because they didn’t have the opportunities we had.


  • Honestly, I wish there were proper places for people like us. I don’t have the grace to write as much and as well as you, but you hit the nail right in the head, and see the whole picture.

    And that stuff happens pretty much everywhere, I got lucky I am autistic, bisexual, got raised by a very hands-on dad, and therefore, far more open to male bonding than your average guy.

    The whole system has flaws, and most people are too blind to see we are all being pitted against each other and farmed for content, attention and ad revenue.

    I would like to find a true MGTOW community without bullshit strewn in. Last time I tried joining a community of that sort, all their looksmaxing stuff made me feel very uncomfortable. I’m almost 40 and a little bit pudgy, but I’m happy with my current body.



  • Ready to eat hot food that is cheaper than the ingredients to make it, is not a luxury.

    Especially if it can be refrigerated and made to last for over a week, used to supplement other foods such like chicken quesadillas, chicken soup, broth and chicken salad.

    Having to prep and cook is such a narrow minded way to look at things, and a way to look down at what people do to survive.

    Does the fact that I can just bite into a tomato and eat it without preparation or cooking make it not a grocery? Hell, I can even do that with oatmeal if I’m down on protein and fiber.




  • Just like a lot of animal rescue videos. Horrible, heartbreaking animal abuse, staged to look like an act of heroism.

    I used to watch those videos on YT a lot, until I suddenly pieced it together, that two cats had the very same markings, and figured out what their scam was, I felt so disgusted I ended up making a massive rant and telling every person I knew for months.




  • That certainly happens too. But it is not 100% schedule, at least where I have worked, they use a risk matrix based on multiple factors including risk, pregnancy length AND personnel availability, to keep themselves from overstaffing, and that way keep the spending and budget margins under control.

    I can’t speak for every hospital, of course, and also there are psychological factors at play, such as the fact that telling a patient vs asking a patient gives far better and more streamlined processes.

    Even if done with good intentions, often times it is not productive or time efficient to explain everything to patients, so they don’t have time to argue. And while that is absolute bullshit, in my opinion patients should be informed of all relevant information, most people are not logical and rational while they’re at the hospital, and this does not limit to expecting mothers.

    Patients when given a chance, don’t always choose treatments by success or survival rate, they might choose riskier, more expensive alternatives when faced with amputation, and the psychological effects of this on medical personnel are massive. Most doctors, when they lose a patient, lose sleep and confidence, they spiral into “I could have done this”, “I should have done that”, and often times letting a patient choose against what them as doctors consider the best option, and getting a bad outcome, makes them psychologically vulnerable for a while, because the medical professionals feel they weren’t convincing enough, and that even if it was the patient who chose what procedure to have, it is still their own fault.

    And that is only one of the reasons why healthcare worker burnout is so prevalent and risky. Most people lack the emotional fortitude not to carry those decisions with them, and that is why medical professionals are taught to be professional, clinical and distant, and can be read as them being aloof and uncaring. Because the more one connects emotionally to a situation, the harder the emotional recoil will hit us if it has a bad outcome.