I hear you and agree with that concept.

I think that, if your goal was ultimately to further the conversation (in it’s format, I don’t see anything wrong with what you initially wrote), adding examples of what you mean by recent interactions pointing towards the user base being more skewed towards teenagers. That might have deterred anyone who was unsure of whether you were being genuine or just bashing on the next generation the way we’ve seen historically.

I don’t know man, Lemmy seems to downvote people who make generalizing claims, period.

Your comment didn’t seem to ring with the community, that could be because they’re of the age group you’re citing as the group supportive of this shitty behavior (distracted driving), or it could be because the base of your stance didn’t root itself in examples they could identify with and so they downvoted an opinion they disagreed with.

I’d say the most likely reason people downvote is because they disagree, I wouldn’t have much knowledge on their age though so I won’t make claims on that part.

I swear that birch was 18

If it’s the ones pictures above, they’re actually really decent at keeping things cold/hot, not overpriced at all at their performance. This guy I follow does a lot of weird shot for shot tests and tumblers were one of them.

https://youtu.be/3S51X9h6K6g?si=AWzUx2zIV8Rzx5WX

So then make your music, schedule less tour dates, and drive a tour bus like everybody else.

That’s a hilarious geopolitical joke and I’m so happy you exist to make it

You never responded to any of the points called out in the article you linked. You can’t post something, and be mad when no one “believes your truth”. If you do, you’re not asking to change people’s minds, you just want to shout into the void too.

‘Shut up’

No, that’s a window. Malcom isn’t in this shot

I mean, Jon Stewart is pretty left if you consider the majority of Democrats to be Neoliberals. Jon lambasted everyone, and that’s fine, bit then he lambasted companies and “centrist” talking points, and THAT was too far for some.

Hell yeah, I’d hate to move to a lame ass planet when we fuck up this one. Hopefully they’ve got like, Dino sharks or something

Yeah it’s not exactly a major loss to me if countries that are only held back from atrocities by economic sanctions decide not to trade with us

The problem is that I don’t believe there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, that statement encompasses the argument of “there’s no ethical consumption of meat” which seems to be the one you began with. I’m willing to agree there’s an over consumption of meat in US diets, I myself struggle to shove more veggies into my life and cut back on the steaks and burgers, but to frame all meat consumption as “needless slaughter” underneath an article about a teen dying in a processing is drastically tone deaf.

You just going to sidestep the other points above that talk about exploitation of children and the planet or do you just want to talk about cattle? Because if cattle is more important than those things, please let me know so I can write this off as a conversation not worth having.

For some, but it’s just that it’s diminishing returns as you go up. 60 going to 120 is about as visually distinct as going 120 to 240, and then 240 to 480.

I have had a 120hz, 144hz, and 165hz monitors in my house, and although the 120-144 jump was pretty much undetectable to me, thr 120-160 was smoother but not like when I first moved to 120.

I’m colorblind though, so color accuracy doesn’t always do much for me until my wife points out people’s skin looking weird if I’ve switched to a color palette that’s easier to track for me.

Or, you know, regulate it for safety like any other industry.

If you’re paying for ANY clothing you didn’t make yourself, you’re paying and driving demand for underage laborers in impoverished countries to make your stuff.

If you’re using the internet, that costs electricity and that’s (on average) produced by fossil fuels at power generators, spurring on demand for further pollution and destruction of our planet.

The above are examples of silly arguments, but do you see how you might have propped up an unrelated point about veganism/vegetarianism during a story about a dead teenager?

That really stinks, I remember the feeling of not wanting the thrifted Hollister or other big name branded clothes my mom would try to get because I knew the other kids would think I had money and treat me differently (poor rural town). It was kind of surreal to be poor, but my parents were fighting the image of poor, only making it harder for us to blend in with the poor community around us. She insisted that they were nice clothes and her children would go to school in nice clothes. To be fair, those clothes were uncomfortable and had print/designs that made it too warm for sweaty pig me. I also had a stutter and an accent from another part of the country, so it wasn’t doing me any favors.

I’m glad your parents were able to take advantage of a program that helped them, but man does poverty leave such weird marks on every age involved.

Every full moon, she transforms into a were-american, guns sprout from her hands, a dual 64-oz drinking hat bursts from her skull, complete with Big Glug Gator-aid (freedom flavored), and she howls the US constitution into the night while driving over protesters in her lifted somehow-dualie black escalade.

When I’m feeling particularly spiteful, I quick apply to hybrid jobs I see that aren’t hybrid and waste time until I get an email from the hiring manager about a first call. Then I tell them I just wanted to be sure they knew they had an incorrect posting and that I wasn’t interested in a company that didn’t understand modern workforce trends at best, maliciously baiting and switching at worst.

So far, 1 company has changed their wording, of maybe 20 I’ve gotten this far with

Yeah I like to bring up when talking about WFH, there should be a pay bump for required on-site workers. If that means physical laboring jobs get a yearly % increase or whatever that I don’t get, no skin off my back, and then it’s harder to pit worker against worker