I think the opposite—seems like many of you on Lemmy don’t realize how bad the general population is with technology and are selling yourselves short. Even knowing what linux is puts you at a 6/10 imo, especially when compared to most folks (half of whom don’t know how gmail works).
Like the fact that we’re on Lemmy—a site that most americans probably couldn’t access if they tried—shows we’re all at least a 5/10 on the technology scale.
Red/left/bloods side is worse. My asshole is already dirty when I’m pooping, so toilet water on my ass is what it is. But my dick? My dick is clean—I don’t want my pickle rubbing up on some shit stained toilet bowl, no thank you. I’ll take the kiss.
Yeah, wafflewarrior’s description of AI is hugely problematic and is the exact reason why people are falling into this crap. AI is literally the antithesis of mental exercising.
Genuinely fucking terrifying responses. I’m a lawyer, I write all fucking day, and I’ve never once even thought about using this shit to write even a draft section of one email of mine.
I sincerely don’t understand why people act like these LLMs are necessary. I know the vast majority of yalls aren’t writing more than me on a given workday, so wtf are yalls using it for? Yall that stupid and lazy that you can’t type out a three paragraph email? Or a one-page memo for a client?
Fucking insane. Hate this dystopia.
Yalls are insane: $1/drink tip. For a sit-down restaurant, 20% minimum because that’s the expectation in 2025. There’s a special place in hell for people who decrease a server’s tip bc service wasn’t up to par. Either tip the full amount or eat at home, this ain’t 1952.
Right? Like go take that shit to twitter—plenty of maga psychos will eat it up.
EDIT: OP seems to be a trumper who reposts Babylon Bee articles. This dude is MAGA or MAGA adjacent, not worth your time. Block and keep scrolling :)
Look, I found the losers who say shit like “I could never live in NYC”!
The family responding that they’re perfectly fine with AI but just wish it hadn’t lied, like… we’re fucked. Not even direct victims of AI’s bullshit understand or care about how fucked up and these corporate generative AI technologies are… again, fucked.
I’m about to get real mean to people still on FB/insta. Wtf will it take for you people to say no to a shitty social media website?
Very interesting and informative factoids about Dua Lipa! But I watched the first 3 mins of that video, and I think that guy is in the running for most annoying youtuber voice on planet earth. It perfectly encapsulates why I avoid youtubers like the plague.
“Fixing” social media is like “fixing” capitalism. Any manmade system can be changed, destroyed, or rebuilt. It’s not an impossible task but will require a fundamental shift in the way we see/talk to/value each other as people.
The one thing I know for sure is that social media won’t ever improve if we all accept the narrative that it can’t be improved.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
-Ursula K Le Guin
Millennials damn near invented therapy with all their mental wellness shit—tf is this post?
You sound like an incel calling other men “sigma” — cringe shit dude, you don’t have to be chronically online.
Tell me this is a joke. Where’s the /s? Do people actually sincerely call other men “Chad” like that? Beyond cringe. Beyond.
Okay but Mean Girls was supposed to be ridiculous and unrealistic. They hired a 25-yr-old Rachel McAdams to play a high school junior for a reason lol
What’s crazy is that, by pure numbers, CA is basically tied with FL as having the second most republicans in the country—at around 6 million.* Only TX has them both beat. Conservatives really do shit on the 2nd/3rd largest enclave of republicans in the country 🤣
*Based on the 2024 US election turnout—not registered republicans
Disagree. In my lived experience, the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.
Very much that. Didn’t answer you at all.
To actually answer your question, people who don’t believe in the Male Loneliness Epidemic (MLE) think a lot of the “epidemic” is just shitty men complaining that nobody wants to be around them instead of doing any self-reflecting and changing their own shittiness. It’s tied to the incel movement (which is why you’re getting a lot of very snippy responses imo lol).
Plus, a lot of the champions of the MLE are insufferable dudes who maybe are lonely not because of some societal epidemic but maybe because they’re just fucking assholes?
Personally, I have no idea if there’s truly a MLE. I think a lot of it really could be asshole men online complaining that nobody likes them without recognizing that it’s their own actions causing their own loneliness. I also think it could just be the internet is ruining any sense of community and togetherness, and men are being vocal about it and tying this loss of community to men specifically, but idk, I feel like there isn’t some special issue of loneliness targeting men rn.