Both points are true. Honestly, I pirate stuff wildly, but donate to the authors or buy their stuff and donate it to my local library if I like it enough.

Odd, it is not loading for me

Absolutely based take, I applaud you and your nuance, darling.

Kinda funny how a lot of people downvote and denounce AI religiously for some things and not for others.

For me, this pic is just good fun.

I wasn’t /s

But seriously, it is far easier being on the outside, pointing and casting blame, but for us old enough to remember all the people who were blackballed, run out of the business, and even murdered for exposing sexual abuse, it is hard to tell.

And on top of that, there are cases where a third party has exposed the abuse, to which both the victim and perpetrator deny the accusations, and it just ends up terribly for the whistleblower.

Yet, back to the point, we’re on reddit lemmy, where nuance goes to die.

Allegedly, he was aware of Harvey Weinstein’s abuse, at least according to Rose McGowan. And since a lot of people are reactionary as fuck, since she accused him of being aware, then they act and behave as if he was undoubtedly aware and complicit in it.

I fully agree with that first half of the statement, and seeing women as nothing but things, incapable of evil, of plotting, murdering, mass murdering or any other distasteful thing.

But then on the next few lines you show similar views with collective responsibility, on how straight men have a terrible history, and that we’re doing far too little to grow out of.

People are not monolithic, and while sure, you can state statistics, judging everyone for the crimes of many or few they share characteristics out of their control with, is a very fucked up thing.

Edit: The argument about women being incapable of things should also some of the fucking amazing things women can do, and achievements that history and sexism have tried and often succeed at burying. Honestly, humans are both magnificent and horrifying, no matter what gender they are.

Or as if gay porn wasn’t a thing. It is funny when you realize how anti-men people do mental gymnastics for this kind of stuff, yet on the same breath state that sex work is real work, when pointed at OF “models”, or anything that is lucrative for women.

Odd, none of the pics you post load for me, even tried with a browser instead of Sync, and can’t get them to load

It actually works for some, but not for the reasons people think it does… If there is going to be a promotion, happy, or at least happy looking people are far most likely to get it, so they can motivate others. In most cases, this selection is based on internal biases rather than explicit requirements, but there are many people in power who actually consider it as a factor.

Another one is the impostor syndrome, those techniques make you believe you deserve anything good coming your way, and think yourself responsible for anything positive that happens in your life, so just like religion, if you got it it is thanks to you for believing in that higher power, and if you didn’t, it is beecause it wasn’t the time, your deity of choice has something better waiting for you, because ultimately it wasn’t going to be good for you, or because you didn’t pray/believe/manifest it good enough.

They try to cover self doubt with a bandaid and confirmation bias, which can work, and make the people who follow those tenants more secure, more willing to take risks, and more easygoing, but also makes them far more prone to mistakes and being too stubborn.

For the most part, keeping a happy face works just the same, and people who believe this things are so delusional, multiple people at work told me it was because of my change in attitude that I won a raffle, when that change in attitude was not because of that bullshit, but because I had given up and was already looking for a new job, and completely stopped doing work stuff on my free time just to keep up.

Not everything that you don’t like is AI, this is just “shitty photoshop” making it feel like it.

Because some people keep dragging them from Reddit to here

#ThatIsThePoint

Matter of taste. With my last husband, we just placed both our salaries into a shared account, took all the expenses out of it, then split the remainder 50/50. Each one could do whatever they wanted with their half, and we even had a flex account for house expenses that weren’t covered in the original expenses calculation, and it worked great.

It is simple ragebait to farm engagement. It absolutely sucks that so many just believe this is how everything works.

Not to be a dick but,

Shrink wrap was the most accurate at the time, especially accounting for reptiles, which were the original inspiration for said technique.

And since most soft tissue doesn’t fossilize, they were doing the best they could with the tools they had.

And while they were often wrong, I would like to see you try to guess what the animals looked like, based on skull alone, and compare your accuracy against the people you’re calling lazy, probably from the comfort of your own toilet.

Mate, wish we were closer so we could go for a beer. It is a nuanced topic, and your approach hits the nail in the fucking head. Sure, there are tons of variables, but the whole nature vs nurture is not black or white. And like you say, Who the fuck cares? It is their life, not yours, and you don’t need to understand it to respect it.

Thank you for being awesome.

Fucked up argument, it makes my blood boil. Religious trauma sucks, and that is one of their top 5 lines.

Depends on how your measure it, if by gay sex per hour, got to pump up those numbers, rookie. If by time in a relationship with a same gender person, then they need either a stable relationship, or to learn some multi-tasking through (preferably ethical) non-monogamy.

I choose “just sucking more dick” :-)