DuckOverload

joined 7 months ago
[–] DuckOverload@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is all just about normalizing poor decisions, right?

[–] DuckOverload@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Ya. I got Century Club on Reddit based mostly on AdviceAnimals posts that hit front page.

Thing is, if this is "relatable", then people are nodding along and normalizing it. It's a classic half-joke. Only not actually funny.

[–] DuckOverload@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Call me crazy... but maybe find a way to deal with your emotions that doesn't involve compulsive spending and damaging your marriage?

[–] DuckOverload@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Better yet, offer to help them with their time management. That way, it's a positive and friendly offer, not an overt criticism. And it jams in a little more condescension.

[–] DuckOverload@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

I come back tired and missing home. Maybe because I travel cheap and rough.

[–] DuckOverload@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

...and yet, here we are. I left Reddit recently because of the drop in quality, and a lot of folks I know agree that it sucks even if they aren't yet tapped into the fediverse. The internet still has a lot of friction and inertia. These things take time. But the momentum has shifted. These social media cesspools can't last, even the most idiotic knuckledraggers will eventually smell the stink.

The downside is that they will find their way here. Lemmy will be bigger and less cool. Eternal September, am I right?

[–] DuckOverload@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Harry Mack does freestyle raps about his sponsors. I think his bars about Keeps hair medication service and Nord VPN are just as entertaining as the rest of his stuff.

[–] DuckOverload@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, it sounds like you have a lot of reasons to not have children. I think that's maybe the great understated tragedy of the economic fuckscape we live in: that a lot of good people can't afford to properly have a family. There's still plenty of room for happiness though, and I wish you the best of it.

[–] DuckOverload@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Right. There's also a huge difference between taking measures that affect birth rates and actively rounding people up and culling them. Eugenics has got to be the most equivocated term in the English language. Except maybe god.

[–] DuckOverload@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Generally, people that are less educated or with shitty values. It's not about genetics; it's about the perpetuation of bad culture. If I were to name some groups that typify this: religious fundies and under-educated rednecks.

[–] DuckOverload@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Ya... the only problem is WHO is having all the kids.

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