*Usual five apps

1. Lemmy
2. Lemmy
3. Lemmy
4. Lemmy
5. Lemmy

Lemmy has the least shills and bots

Because it’s not popular yet. Wait until it becomes so and the inevitable enshittification happens.

Me who still irons clothes

looks sideways

Let me tell you, Western women put make up much lighter than East Asian women.

Arguably, the 90s had been the most peaceful (with the exception of few conflicts) and most prosperous decade. The world was just coming out from the spectre of the cold war as a result of collapse of communism, and globalisation is ramping up with many countries signing free trade agreements. But if you ask me, the 00s is arguably more peaceful and more prosperous decade than the 90s, because there were fewer conflicts and we’re enjoying the full peak economic prosperity of globalisation and free trade. However, globalisation is mismanaged and we were living in borrowed time during the era as deregulation of free trade led us to the Great Recession. And now we’re in downward spiral since with economic austerity having been applied; more conflicts spewing again; and nativist counterculture is trying to reverse globalisation.

Found the evil one.

Yeah, some people are genuinely natural born killers. I was watching a documentary by Morgan Freeman (yes, god himself) on religion and the problem of evil. He interviewed a murderer who is sentenced to lifelong imprisonment. And the killer knows he did wrong but just doesn’t feel bad about it at all. CT scan of his brain showed that part of the brain linked to empathy is not active on him. So yes, unfortunately some people are just evil.

I remember someone asking what are good documentaries on evolution that doesn’t say “this is why religion is BS”. I cannot recall a time having watched a documentary on evolution that blatantly says that. Religion on the other hand…

Anyone with two thinking brain cells would already put two and two together and see the contradiction. When I first learned about evolution in school, I thought to myself that it contradicts what the Bible said, and my teacher and the book never even said anything explicitly. However, I somehow rationalised that god must have created beings first and evolution took course after. It is in my later formative years, through education and more reading, which made up my mind that religion overall is nonsense and the denial of reality.

Then on the other end, you have bosses who willingly took pay cut to save employees from lay offs such as Nintendo bosses Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto. They’re far and wide among the bloody sea of cut throat and greedy executives.

You mean to tell me that industries sacrifice long term consequences for short term profit?!

shockes Pikachu face

Haha. I would have expected better from Lemmy to know that it’s well studied and news long ago that younger people have lower attention span because of smartphones and internet. But I guess this is still the Internet after all with all its ignorance, despite having access to information at the touch of the finger tips.

I guess Lemmy millenials and Gen Z can’t accept the fact of having lower attention span 😂

There is a nugget of truth at times to generalisation. And it’s not a bad thing to acknowledge flaws.

You must be a butthurt Gen Z or millenial-- and you seem to be embodying the stereotype of snowflake generation even though I dislike it (I always say who raised us if we’re snowflakes?). Because there is modicum of truth; and it’s not a bad thing to acknowledge it. I cast my vote that you give the younger generation a bad name for doing stupid thing-- at times.

It “can” be stupid, means it is not always stupid but at times it is.

Learn to read, mate.

And what do you mean bash an entire generation? It is a proven fact. How does one explain the rise of Tiktok and short form videos? We have shorter attention span thanks to the internet.

I can say boomers are materialistic overall because those from the West were handed everything on silver platter and do not want to part those material gains; meanwhile those from poorer countries who gained wealth over the years have scarcity/hoarding mentality after experiencing poverty, like my parents have. How does one explain the difficulty of younger generation to afford their own home for the same salary that their parents were earning in the latter’s 20s?

Environment has as much influence on population mindset. If you are old enough to know that, I don’t need to explain it to you.

I swear, the Internet can be stupid-- and this is one of those times.

Do I think boomers are materialistic? Yes. Do I think every boomers are handed with everything on silver platters? Ask those who grew up in the 60s and 70s Asia, Africa and Latin America undergoing wars and social turmoil of what they think. Just because your country is part of the WEIRD acronym it doesn’t mean the “entitled” boomer stereotype applies to everyone else in the world. My parents certainly had to struggle and grew up in a dictatorship.

Attention span is decreasing in younger folks-- that’s the broad consensus. Thanks to the Internet and granting instant gratification. That’s just a fact, so deal with it.

I agree that generalising generations can be stupid, but it is though environment don’t shape people and culture, huh?

I’m not just justifying the use of red circle BTW, I’m just explaining as to why it’s common these days in the age of Internet.

“Useless red circle” is there to accommodate both the lower attention span and attention to detail of younger generations who have been conditioned with ever increasing faster pace of life.

Unpopular opinion incoming:

You know when you were playing hide and seek, found the perfect hiding place, and you reject anyone else who tries to hide in that place?

DON’T TELL ANYONE ABOUT ADBLOCKERS!

Seriously, corpos will crack down hard. I mean, real hard on adblockers. This is an arms race that corporations have not yet realised because not enough people are using ad blockers. However, if more and more people are using it, then corporations will also be trying to catch up and that is something they will win because of greater resources.

This will be like with VPN; as many VPN IP addresses have been flagged and blocked as the service became more popular. And some of these VPNs have not updated the IP addresses making access to many websites nigh impossible or awkward-- unless you want to trawl through countless addresses. I’m afraid the same thing will happen with adblockers. This is something that open source adblockers could not easily win-- if they could win.

You know, this makes me think why arranged/forced marriages were the norm in the past. Dating is hard by its nature even with today’s “convenience” of digital technology.

BoS has always been cultish but they’re not so much unlike what was portrayed in the show.