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Cake day: April 17th, 2026

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  • You seem to be misunderstanding the entire premise, I just can’t tell if you’re doing it on purpose or not. They don’t make money from your purchases. To oversimplify everything, they make money when a company pays them to show you an ad. They also make money by watching everything you do and building a profile about you that they then sell to the companies so they can pay Google to show you ads that they think might tempt you the most. There are very complicated metrics running behind the screen that determines how likely the purchases you have made were affected by ads shown to you, whether you clicked on the ads or not. You might think you haven’t been affected by ads or made Google $16,000 because you didn’t spend $16,000, but that’s not how they make money from you.





  • Having views and experiences from multiple perspectives and being able to use them to understand a complex issue is not ‘gross’. In fact, being absolutely hostile without reason and making assumptions to back up your hostility and minimizing the experience I had growing up as a woman is what is gross. I do identify as a man now, and I identified as a woman before and so I have a view on both



  • Okay, not that this is your business, but I actually was born with a vagina, so nice assumption making you’re doing there. I’m taking horomones and have a beard now, sure, but still. You’re acting like the stereotypical idiot that everyone makes fun of and uses to belittle your entire opinion. I’ve not talked down to anyone nor have I made any assumptions about anyone or anything. You’re being overly hostile for no reason


  • So because you had troubles makes other people’s troubles invalid? I wasn’t crying about anything. I was sharing an experience relevant to a topic at hand. Kind of a shitty double standard there and doesn’t really help either side. Having 5 sisters and mostly women friends, I very much am aware of the fears and struggles women face, even if I haven’t experienced them directly myself. Which is why I said the only thing I can comment on is that decent/innocent men do, indeed, worry about accusations. You are certainly making a whole lot of assumptions and are apparently pretty bad at nuanced understanding of complex situations.



  • The only thing I can comment on about what you are saying is that yes, innocent men are actually worried about being accused. As a small personal anecdote, I had an ex that was angry at me for telling her she needed to get a job after several months of just deciding to not work after we moved in together. After we broke up over it and I told her to move out, she told her entire family and new boyfriend that I had raped her and that was why we broke up. I’ve never done that and even the thought makes me nauseaus. Her boyfriend and 77 year old grandmother came to my house to collect a few of her things and her boyfriend tried to attack me. Her grandmother had to intercede to stop it because she knew that it wasn’t true.



  • Knives are absolutely terrible for self defense. It not only takes a certain type of conviction that most people end up not having to stab or slash another, but they also do not always immediately disable an attacker. Unless you stab or slash the throat, eyes, or a tendon, you’ll more than likely just piss an attacker off. Pepper spray is a much more useful and easier to use self defense tool