• snoons@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      >Posts a meme about being ungovernable.  
      >Self censors to appease the tech bro corporates

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          3 months ago

          Someone always says this like the intention being engagement bait doesn’t make it even worse.

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            I don’t think it’s any better, just that it’s part of the standard playbook. Up there with the unnecessary red circle and arrow pointing at nothing.

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              I’m entering a phase where I’m not sure if the red arrow is pointing at nothing, or at something I’m just too old to understand/notice/care about

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          The fact we live in a time where engagement creates more push for the algorithm so more videos can be viewed by more people rather than just making good content that people share because it’s good is literally the fucking problem.

          Because it’s so much easier to make shit and have a cum stain over the word Fuck than just make good content.

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        I didn’t make this. I just stole it and it already had the cum stain.

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    As an Australian I am horrified at this. What kind of city forbids public barbecue?

    What’s next, forbidding public displays of joy?

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    3 months ago

    Regulating public life is always a balancing act between assholes ruining the fun for everyone and the regulations ruining the fun. You can bet that if public barbecuing was allowed, assholes would dump their trash everywhere and start fires by being careless.

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      Great idea, instead of punishing the people that dump their trash everywhere, just go and outlaw some unrelated activity!

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        Well, you have to catch people dumping their trash to punish them. Most often, you’ll only see the aftermath of discarded packaging and sometimes whole grills.

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      3 months ago

      Hi from Australia, where free public barbecues have been around for decades and that doesn’t happen. Maybe you just live in a country full of arseholes.

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        Maybe you just live in a country full of arseholes.

        I mean, it’s likely the US so yeah no shit

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        In my neck of the woods (in the US) every public park has places for grilling. These places are usually kept clean. Local culture can vary a lot tho

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      Some other societies do a better job of policing themselves via social pressure. Unfortunately in the US it’s “fuck you, you can’t make me.”

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    Don’t know what this has to do with religion…but this is excellent. I’m tired of the insidious phrases that normalize and modernize religion as being relevant and central to everybody. Especially Christianity, which can fuck right off. We need to all be more conscious of casually centering religion in our language, and do our best to move away from it. I know I’m definitely guilty of this, and many people around me are, too. It’s in our exclamations and swearing and normative thinking, and is going to take a lot of work, time, and deliberate consideration, it’s going to face resistance, and will run headfirst into many cringe moments and require awkward at first decisions. But, I still think it’s important and will be good for all of us.

    Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. Carry on barbecuing.