Myself, I am becoming as much "anti-consumption" as possible. I am removing myself from capitalism, as much as possible.

I still have to eat, of course, so I buy food. But I don't buy food from corporations. As an example, I don't buy anything from Nestle, nor from any big corporations. Gadgets and tech, I will be avoiding as much as possible, and if I do find myself needing to buy, I will do so but not from the usual corporations.

Social networks: only lemmy and mastodon sometimes. Fuck reddit and instagram and facebook. Don't have an account there and never will. I don't go there anymore.

I try to keep a "solarpunk" attitude. I do things for the good of the environment. I do/will-be-doing things such as composting, reducing the use of plastic, avoiding cars.

I am also trying to get people on board with my view of things, but I haven't been much successful. I think principled people are very rare. People just don't care.

This is absolutely insane to me. AI is destroying society.

Now is the time to stand by your principles. And if you don't have principles, maybe raise some. Become anti-consumption and remove yourself from capitalism, as much as possible. Hate those people. You should hate them as much as possible.

I think we should collectively, the whole society, bully this guy to suicide.

Another word for "marketing" or "advertisement" is Manipulation. Shady, manipulative, tactics.

Fuck them. I love Lemmy because it seems like the ratio of like-minded people is much larger here. Nothing better than seeing other principled people that would rather give up some comforts than deal with ads and bend the knee to the pieces of shit that try to push them.

Even products in the supermarket (such as bread!!) come with ads in the fucking plastic wrapper. I have changed my bread brand due to this. I will absolutely give up any comfort to avoid your manipulation. I will fucking shower in cold water if it means I don't bend the knee to pieces of shit.

I have no words. I am literally speechless at what is currently happening in the US. I have to force myself to have words and they are all a mixture of vengeance and justice. Like.. holly fuck.

There is still a long way to go. A long way to go. But after all this is said and done, if there is an after, I hope you never forget these pieces of shit. I hope you force whomever comes next to hand you these people. They do not deserve jail, they deserve justice as given from the community. They are evil behind comprehension. Seems like you cannot give an inch to the right, as they will let their evilness take over and go after everyone, mercilessly.

I hope there is good work being done on identifying and preserving whoever these evil pieces of shit, motherfuckers, morons, idiots, pedophiles, are. And when this is all done, you fucking drive all of them out of society. You bully them as long and as hard as possible.

Pieces of shit motherfuckers.

To my American brothers, I am truly sorry for what is happening. I don't know the right thing to say. I want to motivate you to do what needs to be done, but at the same time, I am fully aware that it is hard.

Ya... I just lose any remaining faith/hope after seeing this kind of statistics. How is it possible, after all that has been happening under the Trump name, to still think that the country is "ok".

I am in the EU, but we have Trump apologists here as well, and our own version of right-wing people. They are basically all the same, a copy of each other. And every time I try to get some sense into them, I just find out that that is not possible. They just live in a completely different reality. Their brain is not receptive to facts and truth and any sort of empathy. They are highly emotional people, and their emotion is hate. They hate all groups of people that are not them. They are homophobic, they are transphobic, they are sexist, they are racist and they are xenophobic. They have no principles other than hate. They are not coherent in their beliefs, only hate. They are tribal.

I just don't see a way forward. I think we have to go without them. Maybe some of them, the ones that are not quite yet lost, can be reasoned with. Maybe the way to get them to change is to show them that their personal lives would improve under a leftist government. But convincing them of that is just so hard to do. You have to turn off their hate, which I have not been able to do it yet.

Me for Bill Gates and Mark Cuban, back when everyone loved them. Bill Gates was basically idolized on reddit, partaking on reddit santa and all that.

They keep making right wing mistakes though. I think that points to something.

This should serve as motivation to move away from any and all corporations. Do not lose your community. Find a proper free-libre-open-source alternative and move the community there. Communities are important. Corporations are not.

Slightly Off-Topic:

I never liked Discord. First and foremost, nowadays, I cannot log into it when I am using a VPN. And back when I could, it always felt so laggy and clunky.

I think todays society is not used to performant software. Everyone just buys a new computer/smartphone every year or every 2 years or so, so they probably have compute power to run whatsoever. I run old shit. 13 year old desktops or so, with no dedicated graphics card, old smartphones, etc. I need software to be performant.

KISS: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.neamar.kiss/

Greta is honestly one of my heroes. The amount of hate that she got growing up, from right wing pedophiles(-protectors) is astonishing. And she persevered! All she did was point to the climate science. She tried to improve the world for both everyone alive and those yet to come. And she got hate for it.

Whenever a person tells me that they don't like Greta, I know that I won't like that person.

Agreed. I will never understand how these people got famous. I do understand that they are manipulative and all that, but still... For manipulative people to be successful, one needs to be manipulated. I think this says more about the manipulated (and society overall) than it does about these manipulative, stupid, pieces of shit.

We will always have unscrupulous pieces of shit. The fact that society is choosing to make these people famous, and "powerful", is dystopian. Absolutely pathetic.

I found these links in a mobileread thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=358795

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (26 MB) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b2Z8qs8BU5k9U6le8VnvsyA4wdSfZ9TG/view?usp=sharing

Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Ed (203 MB) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YQ6eqWD5mCkQ3wYsSUhyayA_rpKF-dHB/view?usp=sharing

Edit: Here's a link to the color version of the SOED if anyone is interested in that one https://archive.org/details/soedrich-star-dict-2022-11-11

I haven't tested them yet. Maybe it would be nice if some other people saved them, to safeguard them.

I found the link to be very poor in details. The study itself is available here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735630. It seems to be behind a paywall though. If someone has the pdf/link to a non paywall, please provide it.

The most important paragraphs from the link OP provided are these:

The results showed the most successful persuaders bridged identity divides, were able to view another person’s perspective and utilized personal narratives and the highlighting of common ground.

“What matters is meeting people where they are. Persuasion is most likely when the would-be persuader can see the issue through the other person’s eyes,” Naunov said. “The most effective arguments bridge identity divides through personal narratives and a respectful acknowledgment of the recipient’s perspective, which lowers defensiveness and increases openness to the persuader’s viewpoint.”

The least successful approach, the researchers found, was when would-be persuaders emphasized their political knowledge and engagement, traits that can be seen as off-putting and lead to negative results. Similarly, bombarding people with facts to prove them wrong was not effective.

“We tend to feel less hostility toward out-party citizens than out-party elites. Unlike political elites, ordinary citizens aren’t running for office, they’re not paid to advance a partisan narrative, and their careers don’t depend on toeing the party line. This makes them come across as more authentic, less strategic and ultimately more persuasive,” Naunov said.

Importantly, the study also raises big questions about the kind of divisiveness that is so common in the public space and social media platforms.

“However aspiring authoritarians and techno-feudalists might benefit from this kind of divisiveness, ordinary people do not,” said Naunov. “On a practical level, we should be asking what specific platform features shape whether people can even attempt persuasion in the first place. And how can we create alternative spaces that encourage more respectful and constructive political engagement?”

Perhaps a good framework for this sort of rhetoric is Marshall's Non-Violent Communication (NVC).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Mangione

Allegedly, killed a bad person. The "allegedly" refers to the idea that Luigi was the killer, not that the dead guy was a bad person.

The only way for society to improve, is for people to be willing to sacrifice their comfort with the goal of improving society. Luigi was willing to sacrifice his comfort for the better of everyone else. The opposite makes a bad person. The dead guy was willing to sacrifice everyone's comfort for improving his own life. One minimizes suffering. The other maximizes it.

Honestly, at this point, something needs to seriously change. AI is wrecking complete havoc to the job market. It is apocalyptic. I really wonder what the way out is.

This is a good way way to put it, and I hadn't though of that. Switching "apolitical" with "fine with the status quo" is elucidating. I will be doing that from now on.

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