[-] VerticaGG 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Is anyone talking about the fact that it's the predatory, short-term-quarterly-gains oriented behavior of the platforms themselves which is in fact rampaging though democracies, massively affecting and survielling Adult's behaviors on a loop of ragebait-induced dopamine/seratonin manipulation?

Because Kids are going to connect with one another, on whichever the next platform is that's not banned. What's more, the institutions they attend will inevitably ask them to do so as...things like Youtube arent exactly 100% avoidable.

Pretty pathetic to clamp down on Youth Liberty in a society that has basically none, when centrally-hosted platforms owned by corporate behemoths are all-but-physically trampling the landscape like some kind of fucked up gentrification-glorifying-voiceline-repeating Megazord

[-] VerticaGG 58 points 4 months ago

"Left wing" as defined by someone's magahat FB uncle ig 🙄😷🖕

[-] VerticaGG 48 points 4 months ago

Passing this on:

A uterus is NOT disposable even when you don't want to have kids - it serves a purpose in women's bodily health. If you need to get it removed for health reasons then absolutely do it, but please don't ever think uterus + breasts serve no purpose when you're not having kids. They greatly participate in the hormonal health of the body & brain, in the lymphatic structure, keeping other organs in their place, and it has been now proven by studies that if you do a hysterectomy when young it greatly affects your risk to get alzheimer's/dementia. This is not to say you shouldn't take care of your reproduction or get yourself sterilized if you want. But patriarchy has already commodified every body part of ours; please, let's appreciate our natural bodies and health and not take it for granted. Please do not think your bodyparts are disposable if you are not having kids. That's what men think. Your body parts are valuable and an important part of YOU. They serve YOU and your health, no-one else. You are not a barbie doll that can have parts taken out without consequences. You do not consist of parts, you are a whole person. You are a lovely, important human, and your health and body parts belong to you. I know we are taught to think about ourselves as a collection of body parts and to nit pick them apart, but I want to stress this is a patriarchal way of thinking. Your womb does not suddenly become irrelevant if you're not in relationships with men. It is still hugely important to YOU.💜

So yeah, as usual, why in the world should anyone except the person with the uterus, getting a say in the matter?

[-] VerticaGG 19 points 7 months ago

Yeah honestly like idk couple dozen strips in it just totally beat the joke to death. Swing and a miss.

[-] VerticaGG 16 points 8 months ago

For whoever's interested in long form vid essays about likely root cause

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2R8q8GDwZ0

Looks like they have at least one more about Ireland but ive yet to watch that one.

As a tech professional, fuck AI, fuck Neoliberalism, and we need unions:

https://www.techradar.com/computing/i-watched-nvidias-computex-2024-keynote-and-it-made-my-blood-run-cold

[-] VerticaGG 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Counterpoint:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221113151723/https://www.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/comments/n4cvkn/they_get_the_boot_and_nothing_else/

Scratch a TERF, find a nazi.

Nazis/Fash will appropriate everything.

So hey, good for the author if it works for them, but for me? Fuck that. I claim dyke, proudly. I go to the Dyke March. Dykey Dicked Sappho Pantastic Lesbo with a brick in her hand and the knowledge that if you're queer (and open/honest) long enough, all the binaries boil off. Even ABCD has it's (granted, extremely rare) exceptions.

I get where they're going, but ultimately this just boils down to, on a communal level "Labels work for people who like them, dont force them on people who don't identify with them." and on a personal level "Dont be reclkless with other people's hearts, dont put up with people who are reckless with your heart."

You define you. You will be limited and framed into boxes, but in truth your heart, intentions and identity are yours to explore, to show and be known. Dont put up with those who would seek to control that.

The bigotry, disinformation and fear-propaganda moral panics, too, will pass. It sucks to have to fight just to exist, but it's a life worth living, so spend more time happily. 👭🏝

[-] VerticaGG 17 points 9 months ago

"IDGI, this person has the option to be the worst version of themselves. Why dont they choose to do that?!? Also why does noone want to be around me? Could it be that marinating my brains in a writhing compost of clapbacks and dunks is desensitizing me to my own dehumanizing? No. Clearly this is because woke."

[-] VerticaGG 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Really hoping to see a surge in demand for "Anti-AI" software/services/community.

Fuck the Hype and the bubble cant pop fast enough

[-] VerticaGG 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Machismo culture: Maim yourself and your familial property to own the libs. Now that's what I call husbandry 🇺🇸🫡🦅🎆🐢🏝

[-] VerticaGG 35 points 10 months ago

I dont see whynanyone's surprised, anything Elon is touchung is tainted by association. It's not rocket science.

[-] VerticaGG 16 points 10 months ago

This is Not news for queer* people.

I am in this instance using "Queer" to mean an umbrella for all who are othered by society.

I'm telling you that people with lifelong chronic disability, people who are sex workers, and people who are dispropotionately targeted by the law enforcement or the state, AND disenfranchised casually in everyday society because of their appearance and/or melanin levels...All have networks of contacts they have relied on for over a decade in many cases.

It was easy for me to get off Twitter but for a lot of people I care about, it'd mean severing so many important bonds...and I just thought this sentiment is something that someone reading might apply too, as well

[-] VerticaGG 39 points 10 months ago

Its the Data harvesting that's irking me. Not that data harvesting is new; but that i have a dreadful sense of M$' "AI" scheming just crosses a rubicon of data harvesting.

I'm backing away slowly. Dont care what games or executables i wont be able to run. Get ready for the accusations that im the "radical arch-loving myopic lemmy elite": it's finally time to run *nix as host.

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