ameancow @ ameancow @lemmy.world

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It ain't happening. They already stopped caring. So have most people.

We all knew it would go away, but it should serve as a pretty profound reminder that we don't have rule of law anymore, and we have the exact same fucking situation that we declared independence as a nation from. The SAME thing.

The only thing essentialist about us (and the only other explanations are essentialist) is that we're highly social creatures, the point that we literally die without social contact like a goddamn lovebird or guinea pig.

The primary thing that's gotten in the way of our social life of the past is the rampant increase in "luxuries" such as single-family homes, personal cars, computers that keep us inside, and the vast array of conveniences that let us survive with clicks and phone calls with strangers.

At its heart, it's not complex. We buy things that are sold to us to give us the illusion of comfort, but comfort is not good for us, having community is what's good for us and makes happier and have more balanced perspectives, and we're suffering massively and experiencing national divisions because we don't have a sense of community broadly.

Just wear gloves and get some CBT. OCD isn't a quirky personality trait, it can get worse.

WHILE arguing about the bills, shouting at the dog and trying to ignore the TV blasting in the next room. Then it will truly have replicated what it's like being human.

Ideally it would work as a seat that automatically braces under the user if they fall backwards, or just is able to touch the ground and help the user not lose balance, then revert to walking-balancing mode when the user stands up again.

It genuinely could have beneficial use for people with mobility problems, it's too bad these uses are going to be utterly drowned out by furries looking for new accessories to feel unique.

For your fursuit.

transspecies creatures

Furries. Just call them furries.

They might also be toying with the market.

I can't imagine the administration, who's primary concern is getting as much money as possible from as many sources as possible, would open themselves to lawsuits AND reduce a chance of fleecing/Intel'ing the pharmaceutical markets that produce highly profitable vaccines.

My bets are they're going to talk it up real big to scare everyone left of "backwoods gooner in a wooden shack" and raise a big narrative that they're doing all the weird shit Conservatives think they want, while trying to exercise a completely brain-damaged tactic against pharma companies to try to negotiate another fascist "cut" of their profits. Then they can quietly forget about it like nearly everything else they've promised to their completely ignorant, unthinking base.

All that said, I am going to have to suffer through a booster ASAP because these fucks are deranged and unpredictable. And if they DO go through with it and I lose anyone I care about to covid, I am going to the hardware store. And I am betting I will have friends.

My actual response to someone so cynical and unable to relax and banter about hobbies and fandoms is to block them. Bye.

You take this shit so seriously that I think you are having some issues.

I agree, but after spending some time here, it's amazing how sensitive the people are about their fandoms on these more niche communities. Like guys, come on... it's just entertainment, you're allowed to have opinions, not everything should make you feel so stressed.

At least in larger sites like reddit people can have lighthearted spats and debates about silly things like media. Some of the folks here really need some sunlight.

why should anyone care about your arbitrary opinion

By this metric, what's the point of even browsing any forums or websites at all? Everything is someone's arbitrary opinion, if it makes you feel bad to read something you disagree with, you can't fix that outside of yourself.

Focus that energy on areas that are making people actually contentious and hateful towards each other like rampant capitalistic greed, subversion of democracy and internet grifters who manufacture hate for engagement. Talking shit about the shows we like and don't like is fun.

People have been debating their standards for media, entertainment and franchises for longer than we have written history. Literally, look up Roman graffiti. It's fine, it's fun even. If you're seeing malice and stress in these kinds of debates, you need to back away from it entirely for a bit. Just don't get involved, stay healthy.

Good, succinct explanation. There are some people dropping their life stories in this post, which should be a barometer for just how lonely everyone really is.

But yes, this. It's all socio-economic. It's capitalism ruining our world by forcing us to serve the system instead of having a system that serves us. It has been like this a long time, but if unmanaged, allowed to grow and consolidate beyond just the interests of a few companies here and there and allowed to turn into an all-consuming monster that takes away our politics, our social lives, our hopes and dreams, you end up with a very miserable population.

Are you new on the internet?

As a purist, we can agree that the only real series was TNG, this was the cornerstone, built on the hallowed but kind of silly ground made by the original series, but followed by DS9 when we grew up a little, and we can kinda accept Voyager was a thing that happened somewhere in the distance but we don't get too close.

There was nothing else. The franchise ended and we all moved on, happy for the good run. "ALL GOOD THINGS..."

America doesn't have culture, we have several hundred million "rugged individuals."

They've been making these kinds of predictions for a long time. This doesn't mean that there aren't very real existential threats to humanity around every corner, we may well experience a complete disaster, lord knows our logistics chain is delicate and largely ignored and props up everything we care about.

But what a lot of people miss in all of these predictions, is how adaptable and malleable human life is.

Will there be flooded cities and shanty-towns across coasts? Probably. Will there be gleaming cities of solar-powered utopia? Also probably. Will there be unrest, crime and war and famine? Absolutely. Will there be new comforts and escapes and new ways to stay safe and protected by your state in return for your attention, your money and your time? Also absolutely. Will it all be fragile? Yes, and it is now as well.

The future doesn't hold just one thing, it holds many things. The future has always been the same: more of everything and then some. Look at us now, people predicted by this time we would have flying cars and robots... which we do! In some places. But we also still have uncontacted amazonian tribes, so we have everything we had in the previous century plus more.

A bridge collaoaes and no one foxes it

But... I want them to fox the bridges :(

Notice they also admitted that they can't read "walls of text" either so this is just the modern generation of "just put the [THING] in the bag" and "I ain't readin all that" mentality that spending more than seven seconds of attention on something is "cringe."

We probably deserve the coming apocalyptic horrors being spawned by man and nature alike.