“it would likely have a stable government in Hamas”

…re-read that to yourself a few times.

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you will own nothing!

if you had to state something, probably over-bearing, over-nurturing mothers. but i highly doubt anyone would say that is the sole factor. it’s a combination of many things. even just being small or less masculine than peers can contribute. heck, being a completely normal person who is just a late bloomer can do it.

what they did was clearly terrible, but at the same time, this is what happens when you make the age of consent for this stuff 18. you could make the exact same argument about military service, they use all the same tactics. I hope they win and get some money and a piece of their dignity back, but what’s done is done. raise your kids right, and don’t normalize objectification of women, teach your daughters to be strong, and they’ll never have to respond to a sketchy ad about “modeling” in the back of some city rag.

its the internet. im not going to waste a bunch of time doing research for you. you can either go to the Pew center or not. If you were interested you would. If you aren’t interested, why do you care?

not going to google search for you, but it was Pew research center

that sucks im sorry. not all of us are like that. i became a christian while tripping on psychedelics. jesus said we are all made perfect in the image of our creator and that we aren’t to judge anyone as god will sort it out later. “vitriol” was never a part of the gospel. however, i must also point out that you are just as capable of judging and hurting people as anyone else. i would humbly suggest that your paragraph above is highly judgemental, lumps large groups of well-meaning people in with extremists, and is not an example of the tolerance and open-mindedness that you value. would you like to hear about my psychedelic experiences where i found god?

smart move. make sure to back up everything on multiple hard drives.

well, at least they paid you back for it. that’s actually quite respectable of them. and if they didn’t, it would have been a class action lawsuit, so kind of a moot point all around. You got your money back. I recommend using it to obtain several tiers of backup hard drives and make sure you have two physical copies of every piece of media you feel is not replaceable. Because some day, you won’t be able to replace it. the corporate dream is nobody owns anything, you just have to jack into their “stream” and consume whatever they feed you. the funniest thing is, people are already getting a head start on that dystopian future. they’re doing it to themselves, by actually paying for shitty streaming services. You really shouldn’t do that, as it only emboldens them.

love the UPS and healthcare workers stuff…but…fast food? I’d like to see every fast food place go out of business. Celebrating a bit higher wages from mega-corp fast food places seems a bit…odd, considering fast food is a cancer on society. although i guess if paying the higher wages squeezes them more, i’m all for it. But seriously…who in their right mind even goes to fast food places these days? it’s basically setting fire to your own money and health.

you need to get off the Internet. seriously. fellow human.

for sure that’s true, but the data does actually show faith based activities have even better outcomes. it’s not just a coincidence. to be fair this is very hard to study. but at least anecdotally, people who have beliefs and organize around them always strike me as the happiest.

this won’t be popular to the “better living through chemistry” folks on lemmy, and Reddit. except for the fact that mental health issues are at an all time high, and so are prescriptions. so no one is actually better because of them. while it is proven that people engaged in faith activities have better mental health outcomes.

i switched to milk from local cows that are happy and grass fed… and damn does it taste better. like measurably better, in everything i use it for. grocery store milk now tastes strange to me. it’s more expensive, but who really needs to use that much milk? i don’t drink it casually, just in baking, etc.

non dairy milks are a scam to sell water to rich city people.

lol. edgy. look it up it’s true

let me check my post…looking for where it says I vote for republicans…hmm, don’t see it.

fair enough! i shall humble myself :) and tell you that the last time I tripped on psychedelics, the idea of coming on the internet to…influence other’s opinions…seemed childish and naive to the extreme. I only come on here now in the hopes that one tiny number of people might see a comment and be motivated to “get off the internet” and do something “real”.

but they are nowhere close to as thin, and nowhere close to the same complexity

its not some conspiracy. the more complex, durable and water proof a phone is, the harder its going to be to repair or replace a component or battery. the nice thing is that now that the technology is mature and basically good enough to do anything fairly well, people won’t need to upgrade for tech or feature reasons anymore. Now it will just be a trade-off between durability and water/dirt resistance, and repairability.

Also, people have no clue how to care for batteries. phones get left in hot cars at 100% charge, left in the sun at the beach at 100%. There is no BMS or hardware battery protection mechanism that can protect against that. Those batteries are fucked and will need to be replaced. And replacement means breaking the water seal around the phone, so it’s annoying and expensive. it’s just the way it is. you are responsible for your battery, and the better you treat it, the longer it will last.