Icaria

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Icaria ,

Calling it a thirst trap is too innocent. These dating app companies are scum-sucking vampires designed to make most people feel lonely and desperate enough to give them money in perpetuity. People just handed one of the most important and intimate aspects of their lives over to US tech bros, pressured everyone else to do the same, and two whole generations are not just having less sex than their parents, but half of them have never had a long-term relationship as they're approaching 30.

Icaria ,

Where is the funny stuff? On the fucking streaming services, YouTube, TikTok, etc.

You may have just made his argument for him. If Ticktok is what passes for comedy today, loud, obnoxious reaction bits from people who think a bad hair day is literal, all delivered in 10 second disposable bytes, yeah nah.

Icaria ,

So what is his issue with the "extreme left" exactly if those were the shows he picked?

You could legit just read the screenshot and answer your own question.

Looks like Jerry is a pretty mainstream liberal who is okay with shows tackling issues of their own volition, but doesn't appreciate the current production model of everything having to pass through focus groups, committees, and wanker consultants, coming out the other side so impotent and safe that it doesn't arouse the intellect enough to really make a point or stand for anything specific.

Like if you watch Disney stuff and think that's normal, you're part of the problem.

Icaria ,

You don't need to use meth to have an informed opinion on it, and dear lord its popularity has no bearing on its value.

but from what I hear coworkers listening to and laughing at that is like a telephone game description of it.

No, it is accurate. The three primary sources of inspiration for TikTok videos seems to be Facebook style outrage bait, black american subculture, and anime, which all rely heavily on zany and sassy and dramatic reactions to shit. Every time someone shows me something, I just have to smile and nod to be polite.

It isn't by accident, either, every social media platform is designed to appeal to the 14-25 demographic, the rest of us are just stuck along for the ride, and you get exactly the maturity and sophistication you'd expect from that design focus. The short format and pressure to grab people in 0.5 seconds before they scroll past aren't helping, either.

Icaria ,

American television was always known for production interference, but it was mostly from advertisers, bored executives, and censors. Not even close to the same thing, widespread use of focus testing and demographic committees and having 12 different sensitivity consultants is all relatively modern, and that's on top of most of the traditional interference.

And you in all likelihood knew all this, but chose to waste our time anyway.

Icaria ,

This isn't about 'not letting people enjoy things', you straight up equated tiktok with the likes of MASH, one of Seinfeld's examples. But lets just pretend we were arguing about something else.

Icaria ,

Ignoring the my-uncle-works-for-microsoft flex for a moment, are you trying to pretend we're talking about changes that occurred in the last 10 years? Jerry was working in television 35 years ago, and is talking about programmes even prior to that. You probably weren't even born then.

It didn't take long for Lemmy to turn into a carbon copy of reddit, I barely post here and you're like the third dude in the last day to pull the same sleight of hand by trying to change the argument.

Icaria ,

This is one of the strangest sentences I've ever read, even with context. In the history of the human race, has anyone specifically accused good actresses of not being good with tech?

Icaria ,

This post is inaccurate. Neither WiFi nor GPS use FHSS, nor is Lamarr anything close to singularly credited with FHSS' invention (the earliest patent is credited to Nikola Tesla). This also implies that the Allies used her parent - they did not.

Also Richard Easton is the son of the man who invented GPS and had every right to be skeptical of this claim, and it looks like Internet dipsh*ts have bullied him into deleting his twitter account over this.

Icaria ,

I'm as much at a loss for what you're saying as the guy above you. No, this is baffling. It's like when non-native English speakers or kids use conjunctions incorrectly and try to connect two entirely unrelated things.

Icaria ,

The whole trend is nothing new. Millennials and some GenXers were stealing all their slang from American rappers when they were young, too.

Icaria ,

I can't be sure it's morally acceptable to bring a new life into the world just to struggle until death.

That has been true for just about everyone throughout history.

the game changes yet again and you get knocked back down to the peg you started on.

People in the developed world not having kids is part of how they 'win' the game.

The reason boomers were able to demand so much is because, as the name implies, they're a big fucking cohort. They were politically influential from the time they could vote. Keeping birthrates depressed and shipping in cheap foreign labour is how those with power keep everyone else powerless.

It's a weird situation, but the way to improve living standards for future generations is to... have future generations. Even if you don't feel like you can entirely support them now.

Icaria ,

I mean I agree that this is a new user nightmare, but we've been conditioning people for 30 years to download and run random .EXE files as admin too.

Icaria ,

The implication is less about white people and more about the people posting this shit.

Icaria ,

I needed a new saucepan.

I've now replaced half my kitchen.

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