Trump will just turn it around with a sharpie.
I never thought I’d say it, but I don’t even use YouTube anymore. I might go there once a month to watch a tute, but only if I absolutely can’t find help from any other website.
Why weren’t any of us invited? Fucking selfish, bro.
Well, I disagree. I didn’t touch Reddit for a year and finally went back about a month ago.
• THE ADS. Fuck me, the ads now!
• The corporate plug-ins. I had a legit, verified business comment on my post and then PM me after it.
• The videos freeze more often than makes me comfortable clicking on them.
• The pop-up trash now; “follow this”, “click here”, “did you know”, “ICYMI”. The U.I looks like Yahoo’s home page now.
Is it dying? I don’t know. Is it exhibiting every square inch of desperation, turning the corner from what was once cool, to what is now every pixel monetised and sponsored? Yup!
If you stick it out here for long enough, three things will change.
- You’ll begin to really like it here. It’s different but it grows on you, and it’s growing with its users.
- Your addiction to these noticeboard-type socials will dramatically reduce. There’s something about Lemmy that’s less addictive in a good way.
- You’ll eventually go back to Reddit and see it with new eyes, realising just how quickly it’s dying.
When I’m hanging out with the lads I like to announce that I’m going for an [insert friend’s name] out of my [insert other friend’s name].
I’ve gotta push a Steve out of my Bradley.
Linux users and vegetarians. Neither can shut the fuck up. Both have made it their identity.
Are you a Linux user?
Hey everyone, shut up! This guy is a Linux user and he’s here to tell us about using Linux.
Piece of shit doesn’t contact piece of shit about piece of shit, shot by piece of shit.
Next.
I was referring to the Bronze Age, urbanisation, and civilisation, genius.
In Australia.
“Got a spare smoke there, bro?”
“No, mate. Sorry.”
“FUCK YOU, YA WHITE CUNT!”
I’ve had this word-for-word interaction probably 100 times this year already.
Endlessly eat, shit, fuck, fight, and consume for 5,000 years without any regard for anything but ourselves.
Religion.
You’re all like Star Wars fans to me.
Yeah I truly hope petitions work but everything I’ve ever signed hasn’t done shit. I think petitions are just a way of letting us think we have a voice.
Well, in essence, propaganda is advertising. And advertising leans on satisfying perceived need.
So if I’m selling you shoes it’s to satisfy your physiological, social, or self-fulfilment order need. Shoes are functional, make you cool, or make a statement.
Propaganda is fulfilling some need to be effective - probably fear based in the social, safety, or belongingness orders, and carried via viral channels like word of mouth or social (viral).
I haven’t really thought about it too much but it’s just a communication or a reinforced message; it’s just advertising. Think about it that way.
And with regard to Russia, they are all ‘fear the West’ and ‘national pride’ driven, compounded over 3-4 generations. It would be such an easy spin.
Shit, my guy or gal.
That’s put my mind massively at ease. Thank you for putting the time in.
And yes, behavioural/clinical is exactly the path I’d go down.
I’m not. I’m aware of how selfish it is but something in my system of belief that I have (undefined? spiritual? no idea?) says that when I’m dead, I should be ALL dead.
Like, if there’s any kind of afterlife, will leaving a functioning part me behind hold up the transition? This even sounds fucked up to me because I’m 100% not religious at all.
I would just prefer all of me to be dead or all of me to be alive. Not fractions of both at the same time.
I’m thinking of changing careers completely from marketing to psychology. I’ve worked in marketing for 15 years and studied it at university level for 6. I’ve reached the top, mastered it, and I’m ready for a career switch up.
But I’m worried I won’t have what it takes.
To me, studying and applying marketing strategy has always been about working in the ‘grey space’. There is no right or wrong answer - just a best justified and executed one. Like if you want to sell shoes to 15 years olds there are 100 ways to do it.
Will studying psychology be vastly different? I assume it will be more scientifically ‘black and white. Like if a 15 year old presents with symptoms of anxiety, there’s 1 exact way to diagnose her problem and 1 answer I must know to solve it (like math).
I have a very ‘grey space’ brain and way of learning and executing. This is what has made me a brilliant marketer. But will I struggle with a hard science discipline like psychology? Is it even a hard science at all?
I guess in essence I’m asking, can someone who’s been conditioned to think and learn and work in marketing for almost 20 years easily adapt to learning and working in psychology? Or is this apples and oranges?
Will my marketing career compliment psychology or present a learning barrier to it?
Personally, I think every woman should go to jail for keeping her eggs in her ovaries. That’s child imprisonment.
How dare they.
When the war started it was seizure-this and sanction-that. I’ve read that $350B in Russian assets were seized and held, while major companies exited the Russian market, the ruble crashed, and inflation rocketed.
Meanwhile the cost of the Russian war must be astronomical to maintain, imports/exports have halted with Europe, there’s no financial aid to Russia (that I’m aware of) and multi-billion dollar resource supplies were cancelled.
All this, and Russia seems to still be having a good old time. Russians are on holidays en mass, the country is buying up arms and fossil fuels like its church Sunday, and their war machine still powers away and is prepared to keep fighting for a decade if it has to.
How? How does a country take that much of a financial beating and still be thriving? Where is the point of being broke and not being able to fund a war anymore?
Since the big iOS 17 update I’ve noticed that text selection is a real nightmare. As in, if I make a spelling error it will identify it with the red underscore, but clicking on the word or long pressing does everything but select the word.
It’s just shit now to navigate around text editing in general. Anyone else noticing this?
Australia has a lot of foreign businesses and it has a lot of immigrants. Both earn Australian dollars and huge amounts would be sent back their country of origin.
His does Australia balance its books on something like this? How do the economics of it work? Would it lower Australian inflation but shortening the money supply, and raise inflation of the destination country as it prints more money to exchange the Australian dollar?
My nickname for her daughter was Chicken Little.
I hope I’m in the right place to post this.
I’m subbed to !afl@lemmy.world where there’s currently no posts. I’d like to kick things off and post something there but when I select ‘new post’, the loading wheel just spins indefinitely. Is that sub broken?
