ZombieTheZombieCat

stupidly strict about things like pot but unhealthy drinking habits are encouraged

Hmm where have we heard that before

he was a competitive ballroom dancer

That's a new one.

When are we going to start banning flavored alcohol like White Claw and Mike's while we're at it

Is it just me, or do most top comments on this post read like astro-turfing?

I've been thinking this a lot about posts on lemmy and it's really disappointing.

But it's not just the corporate stuff that's disappointing. A post on the front page right now about Spotify not removing the intentionally hateful transphobic song has an entire comment section justifying hate speech.

I question staying on lemmy more and more because I'm seeing trash rhetoric like this more and more and it's fucking gross.

nobody ever wants to pay for anything on the internet

To your point, maybe if what we got in return were worth a shit, people would be more willing to pay. But it gets shittier and shittier, more and more inundated with ads, worse journalism with more clickbait and AI, all for prices that go up every year to multiple times per year.

It was more reasonable when you could go to the store and pay for one newspaper or one issue of a magazine. Then if you really liked it you could subscribe. Now there's no other option but to subscribe. Not everyone wants to be paying a bunch of separate subscription fees per month just to get decent news, and not everyone wants one hundred percent of a news outlets content. But we're charged for it regardless. Fuck no, no one wants to pay for that.

Maybe if it were one of the only things that required a subscription. Like it used to be. But now, almost every single thing we use comes with a subscription charge and there's usually no other way to pay for it. It's all or nothing. And it gets totally exhausting, aggravating, and ridiculously expensive, especially when they force you to pay for a bunch of shit you don't need, or they charge you cancellation fees on top of an extra month, or raise the monthly price without telling you, or tack on extra charges for shit that should just come with it in the first place, etc etc.

My point is, no one should defend the subscription model. If an outlet does good journalism, they'll have donors. PBS Newshour, NPR, Democracy Now, they're some of the best souces and they're all nonprofit. And, what do you know, none of them have actual ads.

And shoutout to local libraries to loaning current magazine issues online. I get a Libby notification every time the New Yorker comes out. And I'm sure they're losing a ton of money because I don't personally pay for a subscription /s

Wasn't Israel literally demolishing the homes of innocent Palestinian families, causing small children to become homeless overnight? Terrorist groups usually form in response to something. Like, I don't know, an apartheid state killing them if they don't leave their homes

Ok, so we've just never followed where the first amendment says there will be no national religion

I am so sick and tired of having two people standing right behind me staring over my shoulder as I'm using self checkout at walmart. It makes me never want to go back there. I actually have never "forgotten" to scan anything, ever. Yet these mfs are breathing down my neck at every store, every time I go. Target is the opposite. I swear these LPs (the plain clothes people but with walkies, come on) and workers are next to me at all times when I'm shopping. But then they usually leave me be at self checkout. I guess by then their ridiculously invasive theft monitoring system has determined I'm not a threat or something.

Fuck both of these companies. And fuck them even more for running every smaller company out of business so we have nowhere else to shop when we're sick of being treated like criminals and sick of being sold garbage at some insane markup.

What a gross comment

And headlights that blind everyone around you

I think it's part of the way we are socialized into a society based on economic competition. So it seems normal to us, but it's just another way of saying "it's not perfect, but it's the best/only system we have!" as conservatives are so fond of saying. I don't think it's hardwired at all, but we're intentionally taught that it is.

I took an anthropology class once and learned that there's archeological evidence of early tribes taking care of disabled elderly (for the time) people. It would have taken a lot more energy to take care of a disabled person in a hunter gatherer society than it would now. I feel like a capitalist would have just left them to die in a cave because that's what Ayn Rand would have done.

Went through the same thing with Ross. Absolute shit show of a company and they treat their workers like trash. Of course we had to sit through a blatant anti union video the first day.