Sam Altman says “…”, Tim Sweeney is against “…”
I scroll past a headline like that every single day.
Pizza tastes great. Pineapples taste great. The math solves itself.
I don’t eat Hawaiian pizza because of the pineapple. It’s because I don’t like ham. Pineapple is great
If you havent, you should try my favorite 2 topping combo which is pepperoni and pineapple.
Or jalapeño and pineapple
Oh yeah, that’s a great one too
anything having to do with celebrities
Being upset that female characters in video games don’t have huge boobs and asses and the intelligence of a watermelon.
Taylor Swift. Like, I get that billionaires are a problem, and her carbon footprint is huge. On the list of problematic billionaires, I feel like she really doesn’t do that much problematic shit compared to the others.
Musk is a Nazi that gutted the US govt, Ellison has a laundry list of major issues, bezos is killing small businesses and bought a news company to whitewash himself, gates was involved with Epstein and did some shady shit to grow Microsoft, the waltons single handedly massacred thousands (millions?) of small businesses with anticompetitive practices.
I really don’t think that Swift rises remotely close to the same level of degeneracy and existential threat that these guys do, yet the only other billionaire I see getting criticised as much as her is Musk.
"Yes, but have you considered the fact that she is a woman, women enjoy her music, and women enjoying things is a problem because they’re wrong? It’s like you don’t even have a vendetta against pumpkin spice! " - general underlying factor
“her music is not deep” - the opinion of men whose only exposure to her music is the pop songs that gets airtime, not the lyrical depths of the rest of the album that directly hits women in the feels
On the first point: yeah, I didn’t even want to get into the underlying sexism that drives the critique lol.
On the second: yeah, she made a billion dollars on her music. If you want to appeal to that wide of an audience, you’re going to need to pump out some generic shit, at least on occasion. It’s not really a great criticism of her, because that’s her main skill. She can throw together 10 somewhat specific songs to cater to the fan base, then 2 tracks that get massive airtime and hook more people into the fan base. She’s literally the best at it by the numbers.
No different than Lady Gaga’s method which I feel took off a little sooner. The pop funds the art. I appreciate Swift’s singing ability, but I enjoy Gaga’s range when she makes her actual music. The theatrics, peaking with the meat suit? Just marketing to make her name the name to invite.
She’s by far out striped every other performer ever in marketing her “brand” and general business sense.
Was about to downvote, before I looked at the community. This is not an unpopular opinion
Cultural appropriation.
So… You’re offended. People are living out of their cars now. I’m more worried about that.
Also, the person being offended usually isn’t even from the target culture. They’re being vicariously offended on behalf of somebody else, when the actual members of that culture usually dgaf or like it.
Don’t get me started on “Latinx.”
You’re not wrong.
Climate change deniers.
Is climate change bad? Very bad, existentially bad. Do I want it to happen? No. Do I try to take steps to mitigate it? Yes, I put my drop in the bucket and vote for people who support policies that would help.
But we’re eyeballs deep in Brandolini’s Law at this point and by the time we get ourselves out of the quicksand, massive change will have taken its toll.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t take action, but working ourselves in to a spittle-flecked outrage everytime someone says something stupid on social media is a waste of energy when we’re already in damage control mode. The battle lines have been drawn for decades and the backlash effect is a very real phenomena.
Economics is going to win this fight before logic and debate does.
I just talk about climate change as if it is settled fact. Especially when I’m talking to someone who I know is a climate change denier, I just don’t even consider their position to be worthy of acknowledgment anymore. Sometimes, I’ll try to work in a common climate denial phrase as an example of just abject stupidity in modern society.
Example: the other day I was talking to a dude at a bar who was pretty clearly on the coal will save the world wagon, and AI came up. I said: “we lost the AI race to China back around 2008, when some [r-word], said the words ‘clean coal’ and people clapped instead of laughing at the idiot”. Then I watched the gears turn.
AI being bad.
You might want to get outraged when your drinking water runs out.
Trans people: I don’t care which sportball team you play on or what bathroom you use, just wash your hands when you’re done.
Whatever is in your pants is none of my business unless you’re trying to make it my business (in which case, I’m flattered, but in a monogamous relationship, sorry).
Ill keep this train going. I don’t care about sports, much less who is playing them.
My only real interest in this as a controversy, is bringing back single use bathrooms open to all would be nicer for all of us while leaving this outrage nowhere to go
It’s all a plot to steal my toilet paper! I’m onto you, trans dudes.
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I definitely understand the annoyance, but I let it go because I understand how “Pride” works as a concept.
Bigots and Nazis need to feel “popular”, like they live in a world of their making. One of the biggest weapons against them is showing how unpopular they are. The day that they make an offhand crass comment, and the whole room turns against them.
Pride moments, raising trans positivity unwarranted, are meant to trap and push out those mentalities; keep reminding hateful bigots that “You are not welcome. Cut it out.”
Where it gets tricky is for the many people who are fine with it and don’t care, but just get gradually annoyed. I’m partly there, but I also understand that Trans people have put up with enough of the world’s shit that they’re allowed to vent back for a generation or so at all the baseless hate.
Priority in socialized healthcare is a tricky fight. Everyone wants their cause supported, when really all of them should be. The infighting is based around fear, and not entirely unwarranted, so I don’t have easy answers.
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Trans “healthcare” is, ultimately, not health related, it is cosmetic surgery or changing your body for cosmetic reasons.
In the same way someone getting their face reconstructed after a brutal car accident is “cosmetic.” Both are ultimately about making people comfortable in their skin.
Trans care saves lives. It saved mine. I don’t know what kind of monster can look at a 41% suicide attempt rate, look at the only care proven to massively reduce those rates, and then try to trivialize that care. Trans health care is one single most effective classes of medical care in modern medicine. Gender reassignment surgery has far better long term outcomes than knee replacements.
As for why there are so many trans people on Lemmy. Most of us left other spaces, often to get away from enlightened centrists who see our lives, healthcare, and civil rights as privileges to be granted if it’s politically convenient.
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You fundamentally do not see trans people’s healthcare as legitimate. You are not welcome here.
People come to Lemmy precisely to escape enlightened centrists like yourself. Stay on the mainstream sites where you won’t have to see the icky trans people talking about their issues.
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This should be the baseline bottom, but somehow its not. If you care or not or think its “wrong”, just keep it to yourself because Trans people are not harming anyone.
I have met 4 Trans people in my entire life, and they are just normal kind people. They’re not cheating at sports, or being weird in bathrooms, or anything people are fearmongering; they just want to live their life comfortable in their bodies
All I really care about is that there’s a toilet that aligns with my plumbing when I need to pee
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What a CEO or founder of a company does off the clock. Brave, Mozilla, Mullvad, Proton, GrapheneOS - I just don’t care. If I picked a product off of the CEO not being a dick, I wouldnt have any products or services to use.
“Shitlibs”
Weird fuckin’ american paradigm. I’ve simultaneously been called a shitlib, a tankie, a communist and a capitalist. Piss.
The more someone throws around words like “socialist” or “lib” as an insult pretty but invariably can’t even define socialism or liberalism, never mind articulate what about them they dislike.
there are definitely people who treat political labels like religion. Usually from a religious background, they dropped the faith but keep the framework for familiarity. You see it over and over and over again. Politics, fandom, Queer identities…they will be left, but they can’t let go of that absolutely punitive purity politicking.
Insert latest corporate shareholder or position event here:
I have found almost none of the backlash or headlines that people on the internet, especially Lemmy, want you to be pissed off about, annoying to me enough to actually Care about.
The quandary of whether a taco is a sandwich. That’s the kind of thing some college student asked when they were high af.
If a sub is a sandwich, a taco is a sandwich.
Most things. The internet is a rage factory these past few years. I got enough real things to be upset about.
It’s more that the internet demands that I’m constantly outraged, but I want to spend the majority of my time being chill and happy. I can get my dander up for most things the internet wants me to be mad about, I just… don’t.
Rage bait is the worst internet trend to date. Yeah yeah, I know trolling always existed, but it was actually funny sometimes, done to bait assholes or uppity people usually, and done for the love of the game. Rage bait is just doing something out if pocket or legitimately bad just to get eyeballs on you which now translates to free money for them because the world is a fucked up place that rewards people with no principles now.
It got monetized. Read up on a Google published white paper “Attention is all you Need” from 2017 and you’ll understand how it all went to shit so quickly.
Yeah. Not too difficult to see how we got here. How to get OUT of this hellhole, however, that’s the real question…
IMO people will come around. Not quickly and not without a bunch of good things about the internet dying off… but eventually an equilibrium will be reached.
I hope so. On the up side, it largely killed my social media addiction. Now I am learning stuff for fun again.
I wonder if Palestinians just want to be chill and happy
The Holocaust. Khmer Rouge. The Rape of Nanjing. Global Warming.
See? Words are easy.
It isn’t that people don’t care enough, it’s that they only have so much to go around and there is no cause so important that you get to dictate someone else’s state of mind 24/7 just because you say tragic words. Keep the fire burning but don’t think you get to sneer at others just because they’re burned out at the moment.
I would be much more persuaded by this argument if someone could draw a connection between my internal experience of anger and a Palestinian’s internal experience of being chill and happy. Do donations made in anger count double or something?
I stopped using Facebook because I got tired of all of that. “You won’t believe what [other party] is doing”…
