Make it Tylenol to level up your special interest.

I’d settle for “Not the worst year”.

I’d say that capitalism manufactures the chains

It maybe depends on the particular culture/context around you. When I was growing up I was usually in explicitly Christian contexts, so it was probably more repressive than what some people experience. I think that toxic masculinity is pretty widespread, though.

I think the issue there is that male friendships in general and especially with females are culturally discouraged.

My personal experience might be taken with a grain of salt because I’m a trans female (and my wife clocked that before she started dating me, even though I didn’t realize it myself until later), but from my personal experience being raised as a male I had very few friendships with girls and women and I never dated until I developed a close friendship with the woman who is now my wife. She expressed interest in dating me, and eventually we committed to it.

So, I think that breaking that cultural norm and encouraging men to have more friendships would help a lot.

Some of the Epstein files were released. Not all. And it’s nowhere near the first time that that headline could be run.

Maybe once people look through these files there will be more to say, though.

I don’t think it’s good to have outdoor cats. They’re very destructive to small animals (songbirds included) in the area.

Well, for reference, the city I currently live in has a -19C/-3F minimum average temperature.

I generally prefer cats over dogs for other reasons, though.

Clearly you don’t live as far north as I do. :P

Just a small one, as a treat.

Karma on reddit tracks the accumulated likes and dislikes a user has gotten on all of their posts. Lemmy does not have a number like that.

Edit: What this means in practice is that on Reddit there are some users who make a lot of low-effort posts to get that karma number to go up and get a sense of accomplishment from that (even when they get a negative reputation among the other users), whereas on Lemmy that’s not really a thing. Lemmy has power-users that become well-known, but they’re more well-liked because they aim to gain actual reputation instead of just farming a karma number.

Blahaj!

I would just call him a child rapist. IMO that actually sounds worse than “pedophile” because you could apply the latter to someone who was attracted to minors but didn’t rape any.

Regardless of his attraction, he raped children, so he’s a child rapist.

That’s a narrower time period than the US. A decent number of people have Christmas decorations up already in the US, and Christmas stuff has been in stores for a while already.

I disagree with both of those takes.

The air at my workplace could definitely use more humidity.

Imagine if he waits for people to panic and sell off and then buys back into the market.

In this case, I expect that the market is due to tank for real soon, so that would maybe be a stupid move, but it seems like in general someone could literally trade on the perception that they’re an insider (regardless of whether they have real inside information or not) to manipulate the market in their favor.

That makes more sense. I can see how it simplifies things. It still seems like a decision that is lazy and disregards the players.

What is the reason for this? Laziness?

Reminds me of the time Google decided that “Don’t be evil” wasn’t their vibe any more.