Far less open flames around your average household. Less fireplaces being used, electricity is far more available so it replaced candles, you don’t see wood stoves pretty much ever anymore, and even gas stoves are being replaced with electric ones nowadays.
Fire used to be far more prevalent. Prometheus would be sad, at least until he discovers the fire emoji and tinder.
Thank you for actually getting the point. It is just like that transphobic panic about bathrooms, people pretend to come from a place of love and care, a “Won’t someone think about the children” kind of stance, to justify battery, assault and harassment of anyone they suspect to be the target.
Honestly, mobs are beyond stupid and fail to even comprehend the fact that they can be wrong, but in their own echo chambers, where their own voices and support for their points gets amplified a lot, which leads to even further extremist thinking.
I post common sense stuff, and a bit of bait. And admit it just to troll.
Personally, I don’t see any valid point being made by the other person, other than agreeing with me about trans people needing protection and conversion therapy being fucked up.
Someone who’s opening statement is promoting violence and acting like assaulting people on the street is an appropriate response to those glasses doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt from me, so I just bait them a bit to kill some time.
I don’t mind the down votes, anyone rational enough would see how escalating to assault is straight up insane. I already knew I wasn’t going to convince the other person, so might as well have some fun, No?
Also, whatch this comment get down voted by the herd mentality and the people angry enough to keep coming back to continue down voting me, as well as going into my history just to downvote random older comments.
Sure, Why do you believe so, why should I care, and what is the goal of your comment? Are you also pro assaulting people or something?
Darling, you are responding to a mob, those things don’t think and have the reading comprehension of a starfish. And as usual, they don’t make a single, logical point, only stupid comments trying to chase for upvotes, without thinking of the valid uses that a device like yours can have.
Don’t let the stupid wave wash you away.
Wow, with that level of reading comprehension, you’re gonna get far in life, kid. Have I defended the glasses at any point? Hell no.
But as I said before, go touch grass, clean the foam out of your mouth and perhaps, get your blood pressure taken.
All I have been saying is that committing straight up assault on people for wearing those abomination glasses is stupid. But if you stan for violence so much, it won’t be a surprise when you stop posting because you landed your ass in jail.
Rage forever, sweet cheeks.
So funny, rage more. Now go have a meltdown or block me or something.
The genie is out of the bottle, and there is no way to put it back in. Instead of useless violence, things should be legislated and regulated.
Do I think those glasses are stupid, infringe the right to privacy of anyone around them and are being used for nefarious purposes? 100%.
Do I believe that committing indiscriminate violence on people one believes to be wearing meta glasses will make them disappear? Absolutely not.
But there is no way to have a logical conversation with someone who is foaming at the mouth. Especially when it involves topics such as AI and surveillance, that are so massively polarizing.
How great. It is the “You can always tell” bias all over again. With the variety of VR glasses that are out there, good luck memorizing all of them, and feeling like you’re playing Pokémon.
Just like with AI and trans people, a loud minority of irrational people turn to violence, instead of asking for proper legislation. (For the record, I think the legislation on Trans people should be to protect them, making gender affirming care become law, and ban things like hate speech and conversion therapy).
Oh, sorry for the misunderstanding mate, and same here. I see no sense or value in those things being on display but at the same time, I do respect them because it is legal.
You do see things just as revealing in many straight spaces though, such as cheerleaders, and while not as openly sexual as some of the things one sees at Pride, to me it still looks like a bit of a double standard in that regard.
“My gripe has been more in the lines that why the fuck do you need to show the world HOW you love someone?” Because I believe in equal rights.
If a straight couple can hold hands and kiss on the park, Why would I have to hide the same behavior just because both me and my partner are of the same gender?
Additionally, for normalization and for communal support. A lot of people feel like passive support is enough, but then going into social media gives you a glimpse of how trans killers are celebrated, how Pride events are mocked, and how attending to one of them, or even being found to be gay or Trans can get you assaulted.
We need visibility if we are ever going to reach integration and freedom.
That is part of the fallacy, and why so many good looking or female pedos go under the radar or have their crimes minimized. Some people simply have a predisposition to look like that to no fault of their own.
Because it is the same as renting or using AI. They are the triggers of Reddit Lemmy dogpiling.
All that text and not an ounce of empathy, this place really is turning into Reddit 2.0. But no true Scotsman, Right?
“Look at any city that currently exists that has at least half decent public transit, or town where its reasonably safe to walk to common places you’d need to go.”. I live in one of those, and it is still prohibitive as fuck, so you will probably just say something like “Well, not there, I meant somewhere like Japan”, and buddy, been there too.
You’re like the people who sees someone with depression and just tells them “Just go to therapy, they’ll fix you”.
Don’t you think I have been trying for the last year and a half? The market out there is brutal, one position opened yesterday, and they already got over a hundred applicants, although with how dire shit is at the moment, we might as well be called supplicants instead.
I got an offer a couple months ago to hire me for min wage, despite having multiple certifications and over a decade of experience in the specific field.
Seriously, things are very fucked up out there. You need to be realistic and grow a bit of empathy, or at least research a bit into what other people are going through before being so judgemental.
Just for that, I am going to add an extra prompt to my daily AI queries for today. Just to make you rage harder.
One third of my coworkers were laid off, and the ones remaining are forced to use AI to compensate. My salary isn’t enough for me to even pay my mortgage, keep myself and my cat safe and healthy, so I need my job.
Should I starve for my values? Should I stop supporting my mom and my niece for them? Should I just become another statistic and kill myself, to die on that hill? That is my choice to make, and fuck you for making sanctimonious assumptions.
Honestly, I wish there were proper places for people like us. I don’t have the grace to write as much and as well as you, but you hit the nail right in the head, and see the whole picture.
And that stuff happens pretty much everywhere, I got lucky I am autistic, bisexual, got raised by a very hands-on dad, and therefore, far more open to male bonding than your average guy.
The whole system has flaws, and most people are too blind to see we are all being pitted against each other and farmed for content, attention and ad revenue.
I would like to find a true MGTOW community without bullshit strewn in. Last time I tried joining a community of that sort, all their looksmaxing stuff made me feel very uncomfortable. I’m almost 40 and a little bit pudgy, but I’m happy with my current body.
Exactly, thought of that after finishing the comment. That, fire extinguishers, houses being less prone to fires, fire and electric code updates, smoke and fire alarms being so prevalent now, there are fewer and fewer children going up in flames nowadays.