To allow for the Superking

I saw Exiled

I think it’s useful if it’s a feature you can choose to activate or deactivate yourself on specific groups of communities, but it sounds awful if the decision is made for you.

If we all did thay every time we saw a meme we wanted to use then the images would degrade much more quickly. Just look at what you’ve done to the lines on the cards.

This community is something lol I just asked for a template

First of all I’m on my phone until next year so I can’t just take this into Gimp on my desktop.

Even then, it’s bad practice to create templates by downloading a meme and erasing the edits when there’s usually a downloadable template somewhere.

They have played us all for absolute fools

Oh damn my laundry!

Where can I get this as a blank template?

What they can do is cooperate with the other viable competitors to raise prices together in a way that benefits each of them without the risks of competition. They’re not actually comfortable competing with an entity that might bully them out.

Thanks for finding that stuff! Yeah I suppose that “everyone was guilty of something” line just didn’t age well for me. You’re right that Vimes is certainly no fascist, especially given the other events in Night Watch.

“… A great, rolling sea of evil. Shallow in some parts, yes, but deeper… oh, so much deeper in others. But men like you build these little rafts out of rules and vaguely good intentions and you say ‘This is the opposite. This will triumph in the end.’ Fascinating.”

-Vetinari to Vimes

Paraphrased from the top of my head haha sorry if I’ve mucked it up. God what a character Vimes is. I do believe he also quoted guilty of thinking something like “everyone is guilty of something if you could only find out what,” so maybe not a paragon of privacy in every iteration but a fantastic character nonetheless. Certainly gotta be among the best cops in fiction, considering he also nearly won a sort of people’s revolution haha.

And then in a few years, after making no efforts to create a space where homeless people can live the way they want or a path for them to get a job and a home, the enforcement of these laws will loosen up and you’ll be back to stepping over people on the sidewalk.

I was responding to the second paragraph where they said that Democrats need to message better. I believe a lot of the topics they gave as examples that the Democrats could push in their messaging was in the State of the Union.

Did you watch the State of the Union?

The economy is a really easy target for someone to point to to claim a president is doing well or poorly. Really whenever someone makes a claim about “the economy” in general without specifying which metrics they’re talking about and why those are relevant, they’re full of it and just using it to make the list of pros or cons longer.

I’m still in my 20s and I’m more or less a layman as far as economics go. Ever since I started paying attention to politics, the economy has simultaneously been doing extremely well and poorly depending on who you ask, and they can use a whole mess of different metrics to explain why they’re right. Meanwhile the only thing I really notice is the price of gas, groceries, or rent.

It seems that we live in two different economies: a good one for people that support the president, and a bad one for those that don’t.

Just wanna point out to the thread in general that this isn’t just surveying a bunch of people asking “on a scale of 1-10 how happy are you?”

The World Happiness Report uses six factors as predictors of life evaluation: GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity, and corruption.

Edit: the video linked actually doesn’t make much mention of the survey mentioned in the headline.

The World Happiness Report uses six factors as predictors of life evaluation: GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity, and corruption.

Because we are better than most countries by these metrics

I’m not really in those circles but I feel like the timeline is wrong here. I don’t think young men see these figures, then venture out parroting them and crash their metaphorical bicycle. I think the bicycle crash is what makes them seek out that content. Maybe that’s how it’s working with very young men who are just now starting to talk to girls, idk.

The problem from where I stand is that conventional advice on how to get attention from women doesn’t work like it used to. Young men are entering the world and finding that they’re just not as attractive as their mothers have been telling them their whole life, and setting yourself up to have a decent income isn’t the selling point that the older generation told us it was.

So you either focus on other areas of your life and maybe you happen into some kind of relationship, or you look to adapt to this world of dating apps and hook-ups and you probably end up unsatisfied for a number of reasons, and that’s when someone turns to the manosphere.

Well sure, the BSers are insecure and deep down believe that other people are more impressive than them, so they believe others’ BS. That’s why they feel the need to BS in order to stack up. If they were secure with themselves then they would notice that other BSers are, well, BSing.

Idk, if all the discussion on Lemmy was ‘damn this place sucks’ then I wouldn’t want to share it with my friends. Maybe it is just a bad take though lol I’m not feeling too hot on it reading it back now