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ParsnipWitch

@ ParsnipWitch @feddit.de

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    Disgusting that anybody would destroy a person’s life like this

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  • I highly doubt that. Why not give it a try? Post an article about a case from 2013 where a man was sentenced for raping a woman 6 years after she first tried to get a conviction. While you will find cases like this, you probably will struggle to even find a flashy article about it in the first place.

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  • Is this 4chan now?

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  • I feel the issue of false accusations is only brought up when it is a woman falsely accusing a man of rape. No other type of false accusation gets that much attention, it's own Wikipedia page, multiple blogs, etc. etc.

    I would like someone to make a study about how much false rape accusations are talked about on social media like Reddit, Lemmy, etc. in comparison to, for example, rape cases that never get any conviction. Or convictions for rape that got laughable sentences.

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  • For some time it was. People wrote longer, more elaborate posts and were overall a lot less aggressive.

    I only lurked on a smaller Lemmy instance before the great Reddit exodus, but even in the first few months when people started pouring in, it still was like that. It became more and more like Reddit over time.

    I wonder what exactly makes internet communities turn like that. What is the connection between having more people in one (online) space and it starting to get more and more toxic?

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  • You also wouldn't be able to post about an actual rape case from 13 years ago and get 600+ upvotes. People aren't interested in that.

  • What game fits this?

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  • RuneScape, Ark, ... DOTA2 (especially with that cry for help).

    Some people get lost for thousands of hours in grand-strategy games like Europa Universalis. Or MMOs like Eve Online.

    But feeling like the game consumed you is grinder and MOBA territory.

  • It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life

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  • What a dishonest bs. It's not the scientists who communicate these dumbed down "theories", it's journalists and trivial science books and shows.

    Makes me loose all respect for the author.

    At the university where I studied professors were constantly talking about what we don't know. Formulated every theory extremely carefully, there was no "it is like that". What kind of scientists is he talking about?

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  • Katsura da!

  • ‘Andrew Tate is a symptom, not the problem’: why young men are turning against feminism

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  • My male colleagues are in the same situation but they don't have this issue. It's also not all or the majority of students, but each semester there will be a group of young man behaving this way.

  • In the near future, it is projected that contrarians will gain self awareness.

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  • It's usually some rant about "brains are just probability machines as well" or "every artists learns from thousands of pictures of other artists, just as image generator xy does".

  • ‘Andrew Tate is a symptom, not the problem’: why young men are turning against feminism

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  • Surrounded by groups supporting and helping women do all this

    In what kind of reality are you living? Manosphere-dimension?

    Men are btw not failing at university at all. The number of men successfully attending higher education continued to grow over the last centuries and it still does, with no significant change in rate.

    It's just that women's successful attendance grows at a faster rate in the last ~10 years. And the reason isn't that you have a handful of programs teaching girls for a few days "how to code". It's that there are simply more women who believe that higher education is worth it.

    More of them decide to go to university lately. If you want men to also decide more often that higher education is worth it, instead of blaming feminism, you should encourage that more boys and men turn their backs on the idea that it's unmanly to do your homework and learn.

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  • In theory I can always do a short verbal test. But apart from the shock effect that doesn't have any consequences...

  • Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ?

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  • With the difference that the industrial revolution created a lot of new jobs with better pay. While AI doesn't. I see people suggesting that this has happened before and soon it will turn the economic situation into something much better. But I don't see that at all. Just because it's also a huge revolution, doesn't mean it will have the same effects.

    As you have written, people will have to switch into manual jobs like layering bricks and wiping butts. The pay in these jobs won't increase just because more people have to work them.

  • Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ?

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  • Your fear is in so far justified as that some employers will definitely aim to reduce their workforce by implementing AI workflow.

    When you have worked for the same employer all this time, perhaps you don't know, but a lot of employers do not give two shits about code quality. They want cheap and fast labour and having less people churning out more is a good thing in their eyes, regardless of (long-term) quality. May sound cynical, but that is my experience.

    My prediction is that the income gap will increase dramatically because good pay will be reserved for the truly exceptional few. While the rest will be confronted with yet another tool capitalists will use to increase profits.

    Maybe very far down the line there is blissful utopia where no one has to work anymore. But between then and now, AI would have to get a lot better. Until then it will be mainly used by corporations to justify hiring less people.

  • In the near future, it is projected that contrarians will gain self awareness.

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  • I've often seen people on Lemmy confidently state that current "AI" thinks and learns exactly like humans and that LLMs work exactly like human brains, etc.

  • ‘Andrew Tate is a symptom, not the problem’: why young men are turning against feminism

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  • Can you give a more concrete example what, in your opinion, gives them a feeling to not have a voice or to not be heared (on comparison to other groups)?

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  • If you read online about current discussions regarding nature VS nurture, people are actually influenced more by a combination of peer pressure and media/cultural influence than their parents.

    Sadly this also means that it's unlikely that, as a parent, you have much of a chance to work against those influences.

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  • Sadly, this is even an issue at university. As a lecture assistant I will just get ignored or not taken seriously by some groups of young male students. They will talk loudly, ignore my request to not talk during lecture or exercise. My male colleagues don't have such issues and it angers me more each year...

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  • This is the same argument as with "All Lives matter". Why do people have to be against feminism to talk about issues men face? Because that is what I am seeing. On Lemmy or even Reddit, I didn't see people laugh about male domestic abuse victims. But literally every discussion about it had misogynistic and anti-feminist comments.