When my niece was a toddler I taught her her first joke: “Why did the chicken cross the road? To escape the capitalist regime!”

Of course she had no idea what it meant, but man listening to a toddler clumsily pronounce “capitalist regime” was funny 100% of the time.

Gotcha, thanks for clarifying.

Vivaldi browser, desktop, 4k screen, window maximized, lemm.ee interface here, and they look the same to me.

My state was red until it was purple. If all the potential blue voters in your state took the time to vote instead of just assuming it was futile, you might find out that your state could actually be purple too.

So what, you’d rather just cook alone in silence?

I’m with you, and I’m worried about it because I see this sexual puritanism as both counter to good efforts of the sexual liberation movement and frankly as a trojan horse for future conservatism to take root.

I’m of the radical acceptance, not abstaining from the topic mindset on this topic, personally.

I think a huge part of the problem that not enough people are talking about are these kids grew up in heavily corporate controlled spaces and have begun to confuse advertiser-friendliness for social acceptability, and I think that is a huge problem.

The whole thing is full of that kind of “drink their own kool-aid” propagandist thinking. It’s wild they expect anyone to take them seriously here.

Honestly at this point it’s just engagement bait. Yes, the trend is awful and terrible and stupid, but also people cannot resist the temptation of calling that out as well, so now it serves double-duty of being easy comment farming (note: this applies more to places like reddit than here on Lemmy, but I’m speaking in generalities here).

It’s a kind of damned if you do, damned if you don’t thing in terms of responding to this stupid self-censorship.

I blame Meta. My Oculus Rift CV1 was working great until some random software update and now for some reason it won’t read my sensors as being connected via USB3.0 cable despite them being so, instantly rendering my expensive VR device a giant paper weight.

I’m still salty about Oculus starting out crowdfunded then selling to Facebook. What a fucking betrayal.

To be clear though, I also agree that the comic book version of Thanos’s motivation was way better. Like not even a competition. But I don’t think the MCU version is so nonsensical so as to be unbelievable as a motivation.