In a hyper-individuelistic society where everyone is constantly being compared and judged, the feeling that you’re better than everyone else brings incredible relief. Of course the concept of being better than others is deeply flawed but you never learned to question these things. So how do you achieve the feeling? Study hard, lift others around you, save your money. Sure, but that takes years, and it’s hard work. So what if you’re inherently better than others-- that solves it. Race, language, gender, nationaliry… All things that cost you no effort. There’s another shortcut to these feelings. All you have to do to in order to become better than most of the population and get into to heaven is say that you believe the Bible. That’s it. Just gotta say you believe it and you’re in the club. Zero effort, all the dopamine. Supporting some sports team. Buying a particular car. Using what you buy to signal to others something about you. Bumper stickers, adding a ribbon to your profile picture, posting some cringe on LinkedIn, attention seeking on your birthday… All attempts to showcase how excellent you are with minimal effort.

So if your entire sense of self worth is based on attributes about you which you were either born with or cost you no effort, you’ll want to support anyone who places importance on those things. Nationality, consumerism, race, gender, religion, etc.

That’s where you find the bisexual she/theys in hetero relationships.

I don’t think conservatives endorsing the “left” candidate is the good news you think it is.

Do you think it’s more cuz of drivers on their phones, pedestrians on their phone or equal parts both?

It’s incredible to me how many republicans have been happily giving their rights away in the name of boogeymen.

Abortion isn’t about abortion, it’s about bodily autonomy. You don’t want to government to force a vaccine in you, or sterilize you or…? Well, don’t give them precedent by letting them force half the population to do things with their bodies against their will.

If being a decent person isn’t enough motivation, then support trans rights because they’re people making choices for themselves and you want that for yourself. Jesus. This should be a conservative position.

That’s a good point. We can start with what we control by not buying crap from them directly.

This list aligns pretty well with mine… It’s easier and more satisfying than you expect to boycott companies like amazon.

I found the American

Fahrenheit has too much precision. Humidity makes the difference between a degree F virtually meaningless. 0-100 is nice but then the minus degrees don’t mean anything. In F you go from already fucking cold to even colder. You can think of C being 0-30 with minus being a threshold of more serious cold, poor road conds etc. Celsius is more elegant than it might first appear. Also using it is less confusing and cringey for non-USians.

My brother in Christ, finding a different service isn’t the difficultly. It’s moving everyone else. Fb holds the keys to a network of literally billions of ppl, which for many is the only feasible way of keeping in contact with their loved ones. Yes if everyone just left the enshittificated network suddenly and all went to the same place… but you need incentives, alternatives and coordination. “if everyone would just…” could solve a lot of problems, but we need to find realistic pathways to get there. Also your tone sucks, maybe open a window and let some fresh air in. I’ll do the same.

It may not be fb’s fault directly, but they hold the keys to an enormous resource which should be properly regulated. Telling op to just make the choice ignores the structural issue at hand. It’s a bit like saying if you don’t like all the problems of your country, just emigrate. That’s everyone’s choice, but it isn’t practical as a general solution. Emigrating in a digital sense is far easier, but do we wait for these common goods to be enshittificated and reinvented or can we skip some suffering and seize control already.

I watched the first 10-15 episodes, but I couldn’t continue because it was just so dialog dense. There’s maybe 10 total seconds of episode without someone talking, which made it feel more like an animated table read. That dialog is witty af, but just let me think and enjoy it for a moment here and there.

He reignnnnnns…