If you live in an apartment, just don't get one

Reasoning edit: pets, especially cats, will leave a smell all over furniture. Cleaning becomes an even worse chore due to the fur. They also require "house training" in order to not chew/claw/destroy most stuff that's lying around the house.

Isn't that very literally the point of the sub?

All anyone cares about is which powerful man gets embarrassed. And I recon it's more likely that Maxwell will get out early than any predator gets jail.

There were HUNDREDS of victims; it went on for decades; and nobody gives a tiny shit. Have you heard anybody propose a law, a task force, even a blue ribbon commission to find out how this happened or make sure nobody does this again? Are their any more resources for victims because of this?

Our society accepts that men of wealth are entitled to abuse people. And sexual abuse is all in the game. Because at the end of the day our legal system is constructed to protect these people from the rabble, not hold them to account.

A pedophile is political designation to strip rights, dignity, and legitimacy from enemies. Children being harmed is beside the point.

i automatically view it as mutilation, will never get piercings, and cant even save pics of ppl with earings because they trigger disgust in me

Live streams suck.

Why do people even choose to view unedited video anyway?

Not something I believe full stop, but imo there are signs that should there be a bubble, it will pop later than we may think. A few things for consideration.

Big tech continues to invest. They are greedy. They aren't stupid. They have access to better economic forcasting than we do. I believe they are aware of markets for the /application/ of AI which will continue to be profitable in the future. Think of how many things are pOwErEd By ArTiFiCiAl InTelIGence. That's really speak for we have api tokens we pay for.

Along these lines comes the stupid. Many of us have bosses who insist, if not demand, we use AI. The US Secretary of Defense had his own obnoxious version if this earlier this week. If the stupid want it, the demand will remain if not increase.

Artificial intellegence is self replicating, meaning if we feed it with whatever stupid queries we make, it will "get better" at the specifics and "create more versions". This creates further reliance and demand on those products that "do exactly what we want". It's an opiate. Like that one tng episode with the headsets (weak allusion and shameless pandering I know)

IMO generative AI is a dead end which will only exacerbate existing inequity. That doesn't mean there won't continue to be tremendous buy in which will warp our collective culture maintaining it's profitability. If the bubble bursts, I don't think it will be for a while.

Kyiv does not need 'democracy lessons,' Ukrainian Nobel laureate says

And any truely strange opinion or perspective can only be wrong, bad, insane and toxic.

And we react to that strangeness like an ant reacts to the scent of an ant from a different anthill.

We don’t write “womb” as “wume”.

I want it to be spelled “consomb”.

Because you can't account for what you can't see.

Sometimes we do it that way because it's easier than the other ways. Sometimes we do it that way because we like the power.

Sooner or later the person in charge starts acting, not to stop the bad guys, but the fulfill his own agenda.

I have been with Wal-Mart three times and I'm still working for one today. For the record, I am not here to defend the Waltons and I'm not here to defend the corporate side of the company. I know and understand, after watching the High Cost of Low Prices at least twice, that Wal-Mart has done damage.

However, I've noticed something with Wal-Mart and I have participated with the subreddit regarding the company and read as many disgruntled horror stories of associates who hate where they work. I've noticed that, when you work for an absolute shit store, you're always going to be in for a nightmare of a time.

And that can apply to almost any job in a company that has chain stores. It is just down to luck, really. I know the store I work for, has driven me to my edge multiple times, I've stress-ate so I've gained weight quite considerably, I've been suicidal a few times and I have been through the grind. But I also understand that I can't place all of the blame on the store too because I've yet to have time off that wasn't approved and I've been given a healthy work-life balanced schedule where I can have time and still cover my expenses.

Wal-Mart does offer quite a lot, a fair number of things for associates that are a little too sweet to go without. You just make what you can with them. I've always advised too with associates who hate wal-mart so bad, that they shouldn't quit because the company offers you education. Just go back to school, the company pays for it, you take whatever you need to and get degrees then find another job before ditching Wal-Mart.

It also doesn't hurt to bolster your certifications too by taking on operating machines, that's skills you could put down on your resume, even if you can't carry the certifications out from Wal-Mart.

So yeah, I know the customers are entitled fuckwads, I know some managers are power-tripping pieces of shit, I know that you have a bone to pick with them over this and that. But, I can tell you that I've worked shittier jobs than Wal-Mart. Like, I almost became a call-center employee and I would rather be on the streets than work at those places.

I was looking at a couple of posts that express feelings of exhaustion and isolation that are extremely prevalent in modern life. And in the comments are people talking about how they're able to deal with those pressures. I don't think that's a real solution to the stated problems. The real solution is replacing the system that demands an exhausting and isolating existence for so many in order to maintain itself.

When someone says he feels alone, it's not helpful to recommend social clubs because the real problem is all the ways modern society inhibits community building and a lot of minor social interaction. When someone says he doesn't feel like he has time to take care of her physical health, it's not helpful to show your schedule to fit it into the busy day because the real solution is having more time available which is only possible if we change modern work culture.

Yes, it's possible for individuals within almost any system to find a stasis where you're able to fulfill your basic mental, social, and physical needs. It's even possible for individuals to thrive. But your solutions only work for you and maybe those with similar material conditions AND cognitive predispositions. Otherwise you're just making excuses for the level of harm modern capitalism places on people everyday.

Take care of yourself and resist where you can.

There is no debating that feminism was necessary back then. Socially and legally women were at a severe disadvantage and something had to be done. Of course it's a never-ending process as injustice will exist as long as humans exist, but the levels are very different nowadays in western countries compared to developing and exploited countries (no they aren't "developing" they are being held back, but that's a different topic).

At the same time, there was a lot of movement for social awareness and things like free love, queer acceptance, bodily autonomy, anti-racism movements, and a lot more were happening world-wide. France had massive left-wing protests and so did Germany. Many know of the movements in the US Black Panthers, MLK, Woodstock, Free Love, Flower Power, and turmoil that took place after Kennedy was shot in 1963. In Congo Patrice Lumumba was assassinated for his role in the independence of the country (leading to the Congo Crisis), Nigeria had its very own Nnamdi Azikiwe promoting an African Union (which came to be for a short while), and a lot more was happening.

One would have thought the world was going to radically change forever in the 60s, but then, very quickly, the biggest topic became feminism. It was on TVs, talkshows, streets, and much more. While other civil rights movements were being brutally stamped out, somehow feminism got bigger and had major support in the US by the Johnson administration (after Kennedy was shot) and (suprisingly) even the following president: Nixon (although he was still a fucking sleeze).

And thought by the 70s the social movements in the US were declining and still strong in Europe, feminism gained force.

Things have now changed significantly as feminism is now "evil" to right-wingers and religious types (with a return to rhetoric from their antagonists in the 60s) and still serves as a major distraction, but mostly because it is seen as a danger to the elite themselves. For a while, it served its purpose of distracting and also bringing more people into the workforce while successfully forcing the pay of single bread-winner to be insufficient and requiring two. The economical output doubled while remuneration halved (with inflation considered).

The bigger distraction now is "immigration". The elite and uberrich have now successfully shifted the focus away from themselves. Again.