m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@newt
Ever seen a biker play grand piano? Well, except for Meat Loaf… 🤔
But he doesn't count! 🫣
@JoseMariaHDZ

@Tony
Five? I barely ever have less than nine open! 🤣

@gemlog
Ha-ha-ha, true!
It was a best-effort parody of the next sentence in the article to make it sound like an old-fashioned quote having a very modern meaning 😆

Oxford's Word of the Year: "Brain Rot"
https://slashdot.org/story/436075
The first recorded use of brain rot dates much before the creation of the internet — it was written down in 1854 by Henry David Thoreau in his book Walden.

Gentlemen, don't we exhibit a tendency to devalue complex ideas by consooming le slop? 🧐

@Merc @theorytoe
No, I get what you mean of course, I'm just exaggerating a bit for funsies 😄

@Merc @theorytoe
Yeah, farmers might be way better at it than Windows sysadmins… Or not — on the surface, they might posses a more useful skillset, but would they be able to put up a good fight for long enough if their John Deere shit suddenly breaks down, if there is no fuel, no electricity, no fertilisers? I'm honestly not sure — they would probably still have to re-learn a lot, same as those with "useless" professions 🤷

@Merc @theorytoe
But otherwise — yeah, sure, people are just scamming each other for money that you can't buy shit with anymore, but somehow modern equipment enables us to do it in a way that we manage to avoid famine and other catastrophic things.
Trading exchanges used to be helpful in determining market value of goods — but they no longer are and are often used for speculative purposes and cryptocurrency exchange is of course the epitome of that.

@Merc @theorytoe
On a serious note though, you might argue that farmers and coal-miners are at least self-sustainable — but they aren't! What are they going to eat, coal? Farmers aren't any better on a closer look — they aren't using "grandpa tools" anymore: with limited amount of farmlands and billions of people they have to feed, they can only stay productive if they use modern equipment — that's where engineers, mathematicians and software developers come it.

@Merc @theorytoe
And yet… Coal-mining industry is loss-making in every country I can think of: Russia, Poland, UK: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2130231-uk-government-subsidises-coal-sector-with-356-million-a-year/
Farmers too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy
A 2021 study by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization found $540 billion was given to farmers every year between 2013 and 2018 in global subsidies.

Governments keep sponsoring this bunch of botanists-speleologists! They've been leeching off taxes paid by honest crypto-investors and OnlyFans models for years!

@Merc @theorytoe
Those are more like lifestyles than jobs — and they aren't getting paid either, they keep begging the state for subsidies. No one's ever getting paid, all "jobs" are made up 😢

@romin
And you come to me on a summer breeze
Keep me warm in your love, then you softly leave
And it's me you need to show
How blue are your tits?

@newt
No one's asking you to — not playing them on purpose is usually good enough, unfortunately for them, they keep gambling until they find someone who does and use that to further reinforce their belief that everyone is like that 😩

@bartholin @kaia
Except in this case, the title of Dungeon Master is not figurative 😂

@newt
There are people like that, who have been manipulated in their childhood, they tend to get manipulative themselves and are also looking for similar type of relationships in their adult life. They need help to get out of their "vicious cycle" and a person who's genuinely interested in them to get into a healthy relationship. If you aren't that person — indeed, best to avoid.

@newt
Oh, yes, I've seen that one! Kinda odd that it doesn't show up when I'm looking for it explicitly 🤔

Had your behaviour been genuine/honest, it might've even worked for you 😅

@kaia
Well, we did survive COVID lockdowns so in a way we pass the test 😁
But yeah, even this short "training course" doesn't exactly inspire hope — the number of divorces worldwide skyrocketed.

@kaia
Why so many bunk beds? 🤔
Oh, my bad — long-term food supplies 😈

@newt
Something's peculiar about that post, I can't retrieve it neither from my instance, nor from this one.
Could it have limited visibility, private/followers only?

@newt
Women take that into account and tend to get openly hostile at an earlier stage, this extends to online interactions as well, but in most general case I don't think that we're that different and I don't think that "all men are happy when they get attention from any woman, it's only girls who complain" is true.

@newt
Again, it's all individual — you like receiving womens' attention no matter if you're interested in them or not, maybe there are girls who like getting unsolicited dick pics There one more aspect to it however: in real life circumstances it's much easier for a man to stop unwanted interaction than for a girl to stop an advance from a man who is already set on it, fails to read their reaction and might be intoxicated on top of it.