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Weirdly, I know of more women who listen to joe rogan than men (okay, the numbers are 2 to 0, so not that mindblowing). I don't fucking get it.

It was the same thing with friends who liked Elon Musk before he went fully mask off after buying Twitter. Who he was, and the function he provided, was so completely obvious to anyone who was paying attention. I don't get how anyone could miss it.

How to pull them out of the bog, no idea.

For my part I've just confessed my ignorance of what's going on on the commercial web, and shared with them the kinds of conversations I'm have on the non-commercial parts (fedi, email, chats, smol web, etc), which are usually nicer and more productive.

Although to certain extent I still consider this here a form a social media... and I'm not actually sure that it's good for us past a certain number of people. It might be "more cacophony than community" to quote one of Matthew Graybosch's blog posts.

It is better here than on the mainstream social medias, though. That's for sure for sure.

EDIT anyway, that's a total aside. I just couldn't help picking up that one thread. Good comment. I love your approach.

Even if they come back. It's not worth the labour to hold their hand through that shit. Maybe their mom or dad can talk some sense into them, but I sure as shit wouldn't want to live with someone like that while they figure out how to screw their head back on straight.

Confirmed. Sometimes I start a sentence and don't even know what my point is until I get to the end of it! I am a total fool. But at least I'm not a fuckin chud.

Still, 41% sounds absolutely critical level, like we need to stop all society and have a conversation, because that is so uncool.

Fucking 41... Like that is a plurality. That is a whole fucking lot of wrong people. That is entirely too many bros. I'm not sure I can impart just how disappointing that number is.

My friend still has his. Let me tell you, that thing has a presence.

The 90s: I used to use it back in the day, until one time I volunteered for a handicapped kids event, and saw how this one kid with Downs got really upset at someone calling him "the 'R' word" (I had never heard it put that way, or even considered it as truly harmful).

Anyway, I wiped it from my vocabulary after that. I still consider it a slur, unlike idiot, which is more generic, and not used as a specific slur against intellectually disabled folks.

Oh that's really good.

Funny you mention that, I was just reading this 2019 article on starbreaker about the hard limits of public microblogging as we've been reproducing it over and over, even here on the fediverse.

It's kind of got under my skin.

Just an FYI that you might want to get some practice in with some Affinity alternatives, because they've been purchased by Canva, and so enshittification might set in any time.

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They'll slash wages and say it's because of AI, and it is. But not because AI actually makes the process any more efficient, but just that it's a good excuse to slash wages.