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    The people who believe "progressiveness is just a fad that one grows out of" are the same people that grew up getting brainwashed into regressive politics. The belief is only true for them.

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  • When right-wing people see the statistics that educated people are more likely to be left-wing, they apply the obvious incorrect logic that 'education is indoctrinating our children'.

    The simple fact of the matter is, that in high school, college, and university, I was exposed to people. I played sports with people from every culture, shared classrooms and completed group projects with them. I was taught by people with different cultural backgrounds and I can promise, not a single word of it had anything to do with politics.

    Meanwhile, the uneducated are born in their small town, they go to work in their small town, they are surrounded by the same people they went to high school with (presumably from their own cultural background) and ultimately, they listen to mass-media telling them that X people are bad.

    And if you explain this to them, they'll still say that you're brainwashed.

  • too many creators not enough destroyers

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  • The new style is actually worse. They cut / paste other people's work (usually entire scenes from a movie) and then have an AI talking in the background. Normally the AI is so quiet you can barely hear it, but I guess it's enough to bypass any censorship.

  • Why didn't the mother just use her private doctor on her yacht?

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  • Whether you are a hardcore capitalist, or any other political ideology, I just don't understand how anybody can be against social policies.

    In my country, people complain that our benefits system is crippling us. SOME people take advantage of our disabilities and childcare benefits, but it's a small price to pay for having them -- at the end of the day, if I had a disability which meant I could not work, my country would take care of me. For that, I am more than happy to pay more tax.

    This extends to healthcare, childcare, education, etc. it's easy to sit and grumble when you see the tax bill every month, but god forbid you ever actually need these services. I am VERY happy I do not require disability benefits, and I am VERY happy that I pay into a system that makes this (and other services) available for those who do.

  • A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.

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  • Yep, should go without saying! I didn't list every company but there are plenty more who belong there.

  • A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.

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  • not just chatgpt.

    Stop using Amazon, Meta products, Netflix, Spotify, etc.

    All of these massive corporations are actively making life worse for people, and it will only get worse and worse as people continue to stay subscribed.

    The only option is to log off and find an alternative.

  • The curse of being right

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  • And people will still continue that 'Conspiracy theorists are nutjobs' rhetoric.

    Yes, don't get me wrong, believing that there are lizard people or aliens pulling the strings is questionable. But when somebody points at something highly suspicious and says, "hey, look at this, isn't that weird?" if your first response is, "go get your tinfoil hat" then you're being closeminded. So much in the Epstein files was called years and years ago, and even today people are reluctant to believe it.

  • What's an objectively terrible movie that you love anyway?

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  • I definitely wouldn't class it as "objectively terrible" but I have been seeing a lot of sentiment that the tonal shift in Click made the movie awful, and if the script had been taken more seriously from the start that it could have been a great movie.

    I actually found the movie to be great, it was one of my favourites when it first came out.

  • The world is trying to log off U.S. tech

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  • As a QA, I raised the very real risk that should tensions with America escalate, they could effectively cut us off and our business would be kaputt.

    What happens if AWS goes down? We use Google. What happens if both go down (or cut us off)? We're fucked.

    The answer to me raising the risk was a, "Haha, yeah, true, we'd be in big trouble..." but there's no actual appetite to do anything about it. We're so tied up in AWS that I can't imagine there ever will be.

  • TL;DR dumb girl says "Mr. Rogers is just an entertainer."

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  • People are genuinely brainwashed. Try to explain that left = for people and right = for profit and they will spout out whataboutisms or just reply with the laughing emoji.

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  • I'm not sure why this is getting so much hate. I find it to be quite true for many peoples perceptions.

    How many dads have been called our for hanging around a play area, when there own bloody child is on a slide?

    How many mums have been called out on social media for posting a video of their child enjoying a burger?

    I think there is truth to the comic. Is it true in every scenario? Does it capture what we all think and feel? Is it profound? No, no, maybe not. But it's still a commentary on a real divide between parents.

    I mean for goodness sake, some people describe a father looking after his children as "babysitting" and mums often have so much expectation on them to be perfect. We all benefit from societal commentary like this.

  • It gets easier from here(?)

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  • I feel I'm too old for this meme now. The Christmas period passed me by like a breeze, and then January vanished behind it.

    In roughly two or so days I'll be saying, "I can't believe it's 2027 already" whilst 2030 waits around the corner to whack me over the head with a baseball bat.

  • Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE

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  • thing you just can't buy elsewhere anymore

    Yes and no. For example I had to buy double-sided tape and went into four different stores in different areas of my city and only found it in the fourth store after researching.

    I checked on Amazon after the fact, and could have had it delivered to my door same-day lol.

    I don't believe there's anything you can only buy on Amazon... but it IS so bloody convenient.

  • Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE

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  • I am looking at using Eufy, no subscription. Unsure of potential of it joining the darkside.

    Edit: China-owned, so it's a pick-your-poison kind of deal.

  • Time

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  • groceries

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  • Unironically a sack of potatoes should be an S tier ranked grocery. They are extremely versatile, can be as healthy or as unhealthy as you want them to be, make some incredible delicious things, and are also one of the cheapest things by weight.

  • What's the dumbest/silliest reason you got in trouble for in school?

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  • The first thing that came to mind wasn't actually in school, it was at home, but it was when I had just got home from school so I hope it's okay.

    I was eating nutella from the jar, with a spoon. Like a goblin. I had a huge amount on my spoon. Suddenly, the front door opens and in my embarrassment for eating this large quantity of hazelnut sugar, I quickly shoved the jar away in the cupboard, and snuck by my parents with the spoon behind my back.

    Uh oh. I was planning on eating the nutella in my room, off the spoon, but I realised it was far too much nutella. Maybe I lost my appetite. Either way, the only recourse in my mind was to dump the contents of the spoon down the toilet, and stash the spoon to be returned at a later date.

    Not only did the nutella not flush, but I also didn't notice that it hadn't flushed, leaving a sight that I'm sure we can all imagine. My parents were furious, we actually had guests so they were livid that they could have seen this. They pulled me to one side, were basically yelling at me: "We're not mad you did it, we're mad you're lying to us about it."

    I didn't know what to do. I just kept telling the truth. I was eating nutella and didn't want to get into trouble for the gigantic spoonful so I tried to hide it. Resulting in a stalemate.

    Anyway, I'm not sure they actually remember this happening, but it was quite traumatic for me because I was otherwise quite a good boy.

  • this is why I have trust issues

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  • What is the best Firefox alternative?

  • What thing at work made you rage quit your job?

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  • I have rage quit two jobs.

    A long time ago I worked in a supermarket as a personal shopper. It was a pretty decent job, early start (4am) but an early finish, so it felt that I had the whole day to do whatever I wanted, though I was tired.

    Skip ahead to Christmas eve, where everybody apparently has left their huge shops until the very last minute. Not only through our online service, but also in person.

    Imagine this: You are being pushed to complete orders as quickly as possible and being called out for being slow, not only that, but every aisle is so full of people that you literally cannot push your trolley through them. I literally couldn't move or do my job. I'm fairly embarrassed to say that I walked out, didn't even tell anybody, and to my surprise I never got called out for it (I think it was too busy to notice) and the way the system worked, one of my colleagues would have just got the order and completed it without me.

    The first job I ever quit, I must have been 16 years old. I was working as a promoter for a bar in a small town, essentially walking around with a sign, hanging out flyers, etc. ironic that a 16 year old is advertising a place they wouldn't otherwise be allowed into, but it was cash in hand and pretty dodgy.

    On my first night I was promised $50 for my work, but ended up being given $25 because they said it was a trial night. Suddenly my nightly salary is $25 and as a 16 year old, I'm a bit too scared of this dodgy guy in his car that was paying me to ask for the full amount.

    Skip ahead a couple of weeks (I work maybe 3-4 nights a week, hours are like 10pm-5am) and tonight, it is pouring down with rain, I'm freezing cold, my uniform involves a t-shirt, and it is genuinely just a horrible experience.

    I go to my boss, and tell him that I'm gonna go put my coat on and he says that's not part of my uniform. I get a bit ballsy and tell him I want the extra $25 for the night before, and he said he never promised me anymore money than $25. So I walk home, in the rain, feeling hard done by but also like I learnt a valuable lesson. I never worked for less than I was worth after that.

  • ICE Shoots Minneapolis Observer in the head

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  • It's easy to hand wave and say, "the other people are idiots who never free think" it's harder to sit and rationalise why people that disagree with you might actually have valid things to say.

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    What is your own personal meaning of life?