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  • What do you think of this plan to switch from Instagram to Pixelfed?

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  • On the one hand, this might help fence sitters that are like "there's no content there".

    On the other, I just don't personally care for a stream of random images like Instagram et al do.

  • PAGE TURNERS: 15 binge-worthy Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books!

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  • There's something off about a video about books.

  • Washington state progressives strike big business tax break from 'millionaire’s tax'

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  • It's not "retire and live a life of luxury" money, at least in many parts of the world.

    It's a lot of money in terms of paying down debt and covering rent for a while, though.

  • Actions meet consequences

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  • I dunno man. I've had a lot of conversations with players that go like "do you think your character is the first to come up with this hijink? If it works, why doesn't the entire setting revolve about this infinite damage trick you're trying to sell me?"

    Like, if it was as easy as casting Charm Person on the king to become the new ruler, other people would already be doing that. Therefore, there must be reasons why it doesn't work.

  • What motivated you to leave the family home when you did?

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  • My parents are difficult. Not the worst people and not monsters, but at many times unpleasant.

    Plus it was a house in the suburbs. Not ideal for socializing or culture.

    And lastly, living with parents in the suburbs would be huge negatives for dating.

  • Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk

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  • All it takes is one cop to be like "he was resisting arrest and I feared for my life so I had to shoot him 17 times in the back".

  • Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI

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  • “Top-down mandates to use large language models are crazy,” one employee told Wired. “If the tool were good, we’d all just use it.”

    Yep.

    Management is often out of touch and full of shit

  • ICE agents could be banned from getting public jobs in N.J. for life under new plan

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  • Sounds like a good start

  • How do YOU personally determine if someone is a good or bad person?

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  • I don't like to think of people as immutably good or bad, but I get what you meant.

    There's a bunch of factors.

    • are they honest?
    • are they kind?
    • do they care about things other than themselves?
    • do they try to make the world better?

    So, someone who lies, is cruel, doesn't care about anyone else, and leaves the world a mess is being a pretty bad person.

    Someone who just keeps their head down, goes to work, and is polite to people they meet is kind of middling.

  • Social Security payments predicted to be cut in 2032

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  • The cap was in place because the Social Security benefit doesn’t increase above the that income.

    I don't think that's necessarily a good reason for the cap to exist. I expect it's a compromise to get rich people and idiots on board.

  • Karim Diané from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is doing an AMA on Lemmy today

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  • The Oatmeal did a comic worth reading about this: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

    Some people are really loathe to do any self reflection or assessment. I gather their sense of self and worth is very fragile, and looking too hard might make it collapse.

    Like, some people you could say "Eating meat is bad for these reasons" and they'll just lash out. Not enough emotional HP to tank the hit.

  • Social Security payments predicted to be cut in 2032

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  • I'm not rich to the point of no longer needing to labor, but I did hit the social security cap one year. I was pissed when I learned why my take home jumped up. I would have rather kept paying.

    It's selfish to want to keep a little more of your vast wealth like you describe. That's cartoon villainy.

  • Karim Diané from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is doing an AMA on Lemmy today

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  • Right. Cognitive dissonance. We all suffer it sometimes. I guess it takes uncommon courage and clarity to work through it. Most people would rather do the least effort to preserve their sense of being a good person.

    Being sexist is bad

    They are good

    They don't like this show because it has a woman lead

    That's sexist

    But they're good

    Can't change "sexism is bad". Can't change "they are good". Only thing left to change is the reason they don't like the show. Easy-peasy.

  • Social Security payments predicted to be cut in 2032

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  • It's kind of insane to me that there's an annual cap on social security payments. If your salary is high enough, you stop paying into it partway through the year. That's ass-backwards. You shouldn't pay anything for the first chunk of money, and then pay more as you make more.

  • The economic cost of Brexit has just been laid bare – and it’s devastating

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  • Why aren't the pro-brexit people being shamed? Stripped of their wealth and made to spend the rest of their miserable lives doing community service?

  • The American Dream is turning into the American Nightmare real quick

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  • It's always been pretty bad for large chunks of the population. This seems like a low point, but there have been many lows in living memory. Civil rights movement in the 60s. Vietnam war. War on drugs. Countless cruelties done to non-whites and queer folks.

    Even the idealized stuff of "buy a house on one income" was more for white people than anything else. Redlining, mortgage discrimination, "and then the white people burned down our house" were all realities.

    This country has always been deeply racist. The wealthy ownership class has largely been soulless ghouls. Maybe they build libraries and museums for a while, but they still oversaw tremendous suffering and poverty.

  • Karim Diané from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is doing an AMA on Lemmy today

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  • if you tell people that certain opinions are not allowed to be expressed, then they will tell you another reason they dont like the show. That is what happens. If you want the actual reason, you have to allow it to appear.

    This is interesting. I feel like people are allowed to say "I don't think women should lead". They just don't like the consequences of having that opinion. They want to say something cruel or afactual without anyone uninviting them from parties.

    Many fans are seeing this star trek as being a vehicle for removing masculinity from the show,

    If that's true, it's another example of conservatives having atrocious media literacy. There's ample masculinity in the show. Perhaps they're upset that it's not exclusively the kind they want to see. Conservatives are not known for enjoying other perspectives and new takes.

    Which I guess is your first point again. They have unwelcome beliefs so they'll contort them into something they feel has less consequences. That's easier than admitting maybe they're wrong or their beliefs are bad.

  • What’s your favorite sad song?

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  • This was a favorite for a long time, by the high water marks: https://thehighwatermarks.bandcamp.com/track/suicide

    It feels like suicide or something worse

    I've got this curse on me

    It seems I only dream about the things

    that shouldn't come to be

    always I try to find a way it feels

    it seems to real to me

    I just can't let it go

    I'll let you know

    Just what it means to me

    As days go past and it all moves too fast

    And I won't think about it

    And when I do it all comes back to you

    And I don't want to change that

    Markdown fornatting is really tedious to do on the phone so I'm not going to fix that more.

    But the song sounds upbeat, but it's lyrics are a sad loop they want to break and also don't want to.

  • Karim Diané from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is doing an AMA on Lemmy today

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  • I feel like online discourse about media is spoiled by loud fringes. There's a distressing amount of people who don't like women, queer folks, minorities, etc. They won't say that's why they don't like a show. Some of them might not even realize. They just feel unconsciously uncomfortable when there's a woman in charge or two men holding hands, and they reach for a more socially acceptable reason to reject it.

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