check the men vs. bear debate. apparently, meeting a random man in a forest is worse than being mauled by a wild bear.

Not once have I experienced even one of those things.

I have, multiple times.

Vulnerable young dudes trying to explain why left messaging makes them uncomfortable are being told to man up/grow up/get over it.

it was referred to as “positive discrimination”: discrimination, but about “white (old) men”, sometimes also just white men or men in general.

some crazy feminists actually thought that was a good idea, to “hit back”; instead it just creates further problems.

Being in this demographic, I don’t get this. How is right wing even an option

it’s very simple. men have nothing to lose and a lot to gain. at least that’s what they think.

where they’re expected to be invaded by North Korea at anytime

it could be noted, maybe, that in case of a war, probably only men would have to go to the frontline. so much for equality.

Seven years on from the initial #MeToo explosion

it’s crazy to me that that was as late as 2018. i definitely felt that circulating in school in 2012.

It’s not common for someone to get lucky enough to find a partner who matches them on the first attempt.

i did. that was a long time ago. life happened and now we’re apart.

you’d be surprised, but some people actually think that way. it’s a consequence of never exiting one’s bubble.

i’d give you half an upvote and half a downvote because you get some things but miss others.

Also, who wants loose liberal women everywhere?

I want.

A lot of women these days realize that their grandmothers had a lot less pressure and a lot more freedom.

Surely times were less stressful if you had fewer responsibilities like work or education. What i regret deeply is that feminism didn’t offer women the choice to work and study, but instead it made it mandatory. You can’t choose whether you want to work today or not; you simply have to. It replaced one kind of oppression (being forbidden from working and studying) with another (being forbidden from not working and studying).

Where a guy can get an entry level position and make enough to support his family on that single income. Why did that stop?

It stopped because companies don’t have as much demand for human labor anymore, because a lot of tasks have become automated and don’t require humans to do them anymore. As a consequence, there’s less demand for human labor. Now, if you’re familiar with the basics of how markets work, you’ll have heard about the rule of supply and demand. If there’s less demand for human labor, that means the price for that labor (a.k.a. wages) are gonna decrease. And that’s exactly what’s happening today: wages have decreased significantly since the 1970s.

I don’t think wages are gonna go up ever again, TBH, because demand for human labor is mostly caused by growth, and there’s no healthy way the economy can grow on Earth anymore. Except if you develop spaceflight and fly to mars, where there’d probably be a lot of demand for human labor. But that’s another story.

What does “right-wing” and “left-wing” even mean at this point?

Historically it apparently meant who sits on the right side and who sits on the left side of the president of the french National Assembly. From wikipedia:

The terms “left” and “right” first appeared during the French Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the Ancien Régime to the president’s right side and supporters of the revolution to his left side.

But i think that’s a kinda stupid categorization because it doesn’t explain why things developed like this. They could have developed completely differently, and are therefore arbitrary and not reliable.

What i don’t get is: has anybody bothered asking the people who have lived in the affected territories (Donbass) what they want?

I’m out of the loop. How is she a fascist?

Doing public education is an uphill battle. My voice will always be overshadowed by whatever bot army of companies that have an incentive to shift public discourse in a certain way.

There is excessive climate action being taken. Consider this graph: Source

Solar power generation is rapidly growing and displacing more and more fossil fuel power generation that way.

Sooo many people just want to see somebody bleed. It’s like in that one My Chemical Romance song.

Then same with water to get the paper thin skin and vascularity.

Not drinking enough water is like one of the worst things you can possibly do to your health, closely followed by smoking.

Yeah, i think the correct response to planned obsolescence from the side of computer manufacturers is to exclusively buy products from companies who have produced long-living machines in the past.

That gives manufacturers an incentive to make the machines they produce last longer, instead of shorter to sell newer products more frequently.

You can have a 12G text file, logs, suppose, you are going to load the entire file into memory?

That’s actually done via journalctl today, most of the time. Which extracts the logs out from a database instead of a text file. It has some useful features, such as slicing a specific time interval from the logs.

No, I dont want to buy your 2014 1TB drive for 25€ + shipping.

well damn that’s a steal. I’d buy it.

I mean, that was his goal. Either destroy trust to weaken our position globally for the benefit of someone else,

It’s not for the benefit of someone else though. Trump wants to intentionally destroy the US government by destroying its credibility both within and abroad. He does this by cutting foreign aid and pissing off all the US’ former allies, and by terrorizing the US population.

His goal is to destroy the US as an institution because his key voters, which are southeners, think that they were forced to partake in the United States against their will back in the civil war from 1800, and that they should have a right to secede, and if it’s not given to them freely, they have to destroy the entire US just to get away from it.