You put into words thoughts that I’ve been unable to for a while.

Like, I read this and I see how someone makes this argument, but I feel fucking terrible afterwards. Sure you haven’t said I’m a rapist, but you’ve said you’ll treat me as though I am. You can’t expect men as a demographic to agree to this argument if it requires society to assume they’re shitty people, at which point, why is it even being made?

The worst part I feel is that there’s a lot of incel types that conflate feminism with sexism, which we’d like to school them by pointing them at a dictionary. While incels are generally shitty, we can’t ignore the fact that this argument is telling them their behavior doesn’t actually matter because we’re going to act like they’re rapists based solely on their malehood anyways. (to be clear, this is an explanation, not a justification)

For what it’s worth, Doom 2016 does a really good job of appealing to the goopy goblin gamer brain that hates story in away that other Doom games (perhaps with the exception of 1&2) just don’t. There’s only one sizeable chunk of low-gameplay story and there’s a clear acknowledgement that you clearly are going to run out the door as soon as it unlocks because you don’t give a shit. Doom Eternal completely dropped that pretense for some reason so I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much (I don’t dispise cutscenes like you do but I don’t play Doom for them).

Apparently twitter has a system where they’ll pay you for posts with a lot of attention, regardless of it’s quality. Pays less than minimum wage but some do it full time anyways.

I don’t mean to say the data is invalid, but you’re using the data to imply this experience and others like it are invalid. Maybe you don’t mean to do that but that’s what it sounds like.

Your point about zip codes though doesn’t really make sense to me for a few reasons.

Firstly, from the data that i can find, in my state the unemployment rates are only a little worse than the national average, in the “not great, but not hell” range you describe (report).

Secondly, a little over half of the positions I’m applying for are remote ones across the country, so they’d have to be discriminating on my zip for some reason, including the ones whom I never told where I live. The one employer that briefly got back to me was a local one just a county over for what that’s worth.

Thirdly, I only share a zip code with one of my friends, and he’s in the ‘has a job and lives with his parents’ camp; his job is also utterly unrelated to what he studied in university (though to be fair it’s in a field with historically poor employment).

From what I’ve seen, some people are getting jobs after getting layed off. The problem is that now I, with <1 year of experience, am now competing with others who have 3-5 for the same position. No company in this economy is going to choose me outside of a gamble.

I see the unemployment stats and they just don’t align with any of my lived experience nor that of anyone I know personally.

If I go on LinkedIn, every job listing says “over 100 people clicked apply”. I’ve done ~60 applications through various places and heard back from only 1, which proceeded to ghost me. Any of my frends that have found one did ~500, and not even at a livable wage so they’re still living with their parents. Every employer says their inbox gets so filled with applicants that they admit they have to resort to some poor heuristic (like applying in the first hour or having a ton of connections on LinkedIn). I’ve heard employers of service jobs are getting tons of overqualified candidates as runoff. I’ve shown my resume to people I know with multiple decades of experience in the field I want to work in and they tell my my resume is good. Of those that employ, they don’t have a position for me to fill but tell me if they did they’d hire me.

Is there a way on bls.gov to search unemployment by field, education, years of experience, etc.? I suspect it’d be K-shaped, with newlygrads getting the shit end of the stick.

You down vote if you disagree or dislike a comment

I’ve always known that a lot of people used it this way, but I thought most people were on the same page that that’s a misuse of the feature. I’m sad to see that I was wrong.

The purpose of downvoting (or voting in general) on any platform that offers it is for you to indicate that a post doesn’t contribute to the discussion. It’s a soft knob for you to say others won’t find it worth reading. If you believe that use inherently aligns with indicating what you already believe then that’s what makes people see Lemmy (and Reddit) as elitist and hive-mindy, because that’s elitist and hive-mindy.

I’ve never understood this position. There’s definitely people who try to use it rhetorically to get others to engage with their trolling; but “automatic” implies that you’re not concerned with that. Do you not think it’s possible for someone to make a comment in poor taste without knowing what makes it poor taste? Now that I’m thinking about it, that feels like one of the defining traits of autism; I think it’s healthier to explain something “obvious” to someone like that than to effectively say “fuck you for even asking”.

For basically any chan board when you hover over a “>>#######” it shows the post it points to.

I could sympathize with your point if VGM was still the blips and blops of cheap midi synths like it was in Doom’s hayday. Heck, I still someshat sympathize with the idea that VGM just doesn’t work as well as albums for making a pure listening experience because the game inherently restricts it’s format (though I’d say it depends on the game). But VGM by [current year] has gotten so good I must ask what VGM you have heard. Would you make the same claim for film soundtracks?

Then ask that question to yourself and think about whether the verification of an age is the issue with what’s going on here

Verification is the issue. Or, rather, it would be if there was any verification here at all.

I could put 1970-01-01 in that field no problem. Systemd has asked for precisely 0 additional information from any of its users, because it neither asks you to fill it in nor verifies that what you filled it with is correct. Just like the real name and location fields that were already present, which, might I remind you, are also PII.

Systemd isn’t the problem here. The laws are a problem and pissing in systemd’s direction won’t change that.

So who’s gonna write the Elagabalus/Sporus fanfic

I mean… parmesan ice cream?

Unusable in what way? I’ve been rocking a B580 for a whole year now and the drivers have been more reliable for me than the GTX 1070 I used before it, for what thats worth.

I had to read Plato’s cave for a philosophy class and this tracks. My generous suspicion is that the ancient greeks didn’t separate the concept of a lecture from that of a play… and so you get absolutely lousy “plays” in which there’s a sycophantic and/or zoned out student that plato keeps asking questions of to make sure they’re still paying attention.

What’s your reasoning for ACAB?

Usually, the argument goes something like: cops are selected for and trained to default on violence to control (most) situations they encounter, and are given license to use it in excess. If you passed that selection process and went through the training, you have shown yourself willing to default to violence. Hence, bastard.

But PP is describing the police doing what they are supposed to be doing, i.e. protecting people. If they were doing that, they wouldn’t be using the excessive violence I just described, therefore no ACAB?

While Nietzsche spoke of this, we will unfortunately never know if he wrote of it because I can’t read.

I always kinda hated this response. There’s certainly a lot of people who never find a relationship because they never meet anyone, but there’s also a lot of people who never find a relationship because no one they’ve met is interested in them in that way. I know a few people like this, and they’re good people (i.e. not what you’d imagine from the term “incel”).

I try and play forward this respone with someone like that and I just don’t see it going anywhere:

A) [sentiment of above greentext]

B) What did you try? Did you go outside and meet people?

A) I’ve talked to a lot of people at school/work but none of them were into me. Also tried online dating but got no matches in 6 month so I quit.

B) Those people at school/work, how did those go?

A) Well there was this girl I saw at the library who I saw was playing a game on her switch so I asked her about it. After talking with her for an hour or two I asked for her number and a couple weeks later when I asked her out she said she’s “not ready for a relationship right now”. There was also this girl I know at work who I thought I had a connection with but when I asked she said she’s too busy.

B) [What do you say here?]

A few years ago I went on one of those sites that just lists a shitton of them and one of them was like “the tides are just god pissing his pants when he sees chuck norris”, which conjured this image of chuck norris flying around the earth while god repeatedly pisses his pants and sucks the piss back up his dick twice a day like a straw. I have never seen a chuck norris joke land the way it’s supposed to lol.

How many of your friends you game with are non-linux users? That sometimes happens, but rarely. Usually they’ll still play these titles when I’m not around. In fact the most common thing I’ve seen is they’ve already bought/downloaded the game and they’ll ask if I’m willing to join, to which I’ll say it doesn’t run. Everyone I’ve met tries to accomodate for that particular play session, but they don’t extend that as far as their purchasing habits.