🤭 thank you!

Honorable mentions: I miss rickrolling and ytmnd

I still talk like this sometimes

I don’t love it. I think, generally, some of the ideas are really good.

I did a fund raiser really recently for The Life You Can Save which is very much under that umbrella, and the whole philosophy kinda starts with the idea that you SHOULD give to others, that if you see someone drowning, and you don’t do everything you can to save them, you’re fucked up as a person and you should view charitable giving the same way: People are dying and you can save them, so you should try to, even if you might have to give up some luxury to do so. I think that’s a good framework to start with.

But the idea of giving to the most EFFECTIVE charities really loses me in general. The trolly problem is interesting because you can iterate on it in really complex ways. It’s stupid to say that people who cost $100 to save instead of $1 to save just aren’t worth saving, at least not until all the “cheap” people are saved. Like, even talking about it like this, one sounds like an asshole, so it’s no surprise that assholes are drawn to it.

Like I said, I did a fundraiser for The Life You Can Save and I think that was energy well-spent, but I also don’t wanna be closely associated with the kinds of weirdo tech bros with messiah complexes.

Sex stuff is just not that shocking to any emergency response worker

I think there are multiple other problems with this story scientifically

Gotta be RealDoll

I hate AI too but nothing this person is saying rings untrue to me. Even the article admits that data centers continue to be built, albeit slower. I know we all want the bubble to pop, but that could still be a ways off.

Piefed, I like it a lot better than lemmy so far. That’s it! I don’t think that bluesky counts because everyone’s just on the default server. I’d like to jump on pixelfed, but I can’t find any servers for NSFW content.

I’d argue it already does

Most of that is not especially relevant. Being one of the girls or one of the guys has nothing to do with gender as an enclave or misandry or whatever. Clicking with any group of people isn’t even guaranteed and you can absolutely hang out with a diverse mix of people and be considered one of either or one of both. But it’s up to the group and the group dynamics, not you.

Being annoying and pedantic is a pretty good way of never getting picked as either, though.

That’s kinda like saying you can pick your own nickname through behavior. Like, yeah, you’re probably never gonna get called big tuna if you never touch the stuff at the office, but not really

It’s something that other people chose for you, you don’t pick it yourself

Being one of the girls > being one of the guys