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SkyNTP , to Asklemmy in Why do the vast majority of romantic comedies depict people who are wealthy?

Are they? As the article OP shares suggests, these films quietly make us compare our lives to what is portrayed on screen. This is advertisement 101: display people in enviable positions to portray a sense of longing for a lifestyle that one would not normally seek. A food commercial isn't selling you a product, it's trying to make you hungry.

If all you wanted out of these rom coms is the portrayal of a carefree life, you could just watch pharmaceutical, banking, or insurance ads.

SkyNTP , to Vegan in How to get by as a vegan in a rural area

You live in the country, but don't drive for environmental reasons, yet you are considering using Door Dash? Can we also assume you don't want to face the obvious answer: stockpile or grow food and cook for yourself?

I don't mean to be overly critical, but it sounds to me like you are trying to avoid compromising on both your ideals and modern day expectations, to find a practical solution. Your pre-industrial agricultural ancestor would have spent a week stockpiling food in the root cellar, by scrounging around locally, or going very far to stockpile food. They probably were also farming animals in a significantly more sustainable/humane way, though certainly exceedingly scarcely.

SkyNTP , to Technology in OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions

Looks like I'm installing Linux tonight.

SkyNTP , to Ask Lemmy in Question: How to Calculate Just Pay for Work

Don't forget the cost of lower and higher education in your "need for living" calculation!

Also, you'll still need a system to determine what products and services are valuable for society.

SkyNTP , to xkcd in xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas

Real answer: power density. Pound for pound, gas still contains more energy than our best batteries. The weight of energy storage is still a massive deal for anything that cannot be tethered to a grid or be in close practical proximity for frequent recharging, from rockets, planes and cars (sometimes) to chainsaws and lawnmowers (sometimes).

SkyNTP , to Fuck AI in Edward Snowden releases new message: "You have been warned"

Alternate explanation, from the normies: it's a purely speculative claim with minimal argument.

SkyNTP , to Technology in 'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement

The benefit of AI is overblown for a majority of product tiers. Remember how everything was supposed to be block chain? And metaverse? And web 3.0? And dot.com? This is just the next tech trend for dumb VCs to throw money at.

SkyNTP , to Asklemmy in People who refuse to learn how to drive a car, why?

Other than making sure to be wearing your glasses if you are near sighted enough that your local licence requires it, glasses are an irrelevant factor. It's not like you are going into active combat duty...

SkyNTP , to Ask Lemmy in Series: Conservatives of Lemmy: What do you think has gone awry in modern society and how might it be constructively addressed?

"Conservative", "right", "left", are meaningless, political relevative terms we should stop using. Instead, we should just describe our values on a select major view points, including power, economy, and social structure.

SkyNTP , to US Authoritarianism in Conservatism is Brain Damage

Conservatism is a distinct political ideology that basically says not all change is for the better, nothing more--it's in the name: conserve. This is a separate concept from authoritarianism, which is all about how power flows. It's possible to be conservative and liberal at the same time if society is losing its liberal values.

US republicans are fascists through and through that wear a disguise of conservatism on select issues to convince people to relinquish their political power so that they can do whatever they want.

SkyNTP , to memes in An Albany expression

They are neither ham nor steamed, unless that's exactly what they are having over there? Wouldn't compare it to a hamburger though... (A hamburger being a Hamburg steak, as in the German city)

SkyNTP , to movies in Robert De Niro has award withdrawn after calling Donald Trump 'monster' outside trial

Rescinding an award named "Service to America" for calling out a wanna be dictator is rich. De Niro should get a second one for this alone.

SkyNTP , to Political Memes in JUST

You could make the same chart, in reverse about progressives hoping Trump will ever be held accountable for his many crimes.

A conviction is about as close as we have gotten, but it's meaningless if there is no jail time served or some other meaningful penalty to prevent more criminality.

SkyNTP , to politics in Netanyahu and Putin are both waiting for Trump

Left, right... These are meaningless labels when progressives / social democrats / libertarians have to join forces against authoritarian trash of any kind.

SkyNTP , to politics in How the GOP learned to hate divorce, again

that government should have zero to do with marriage

Uhh... Marriage is a government affair before anything else. It's a legal status, that comes with default clauses on a wide range of issues, from wills, property ownership, parental rights, taxes, power of attorney... All secular stuff. I think you mean to keep the church out of the government's affairs?

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