Being purposely obtuse is exhausting, makes you look like an idiot, doesn't help make your point, and isn't nearly as effective here as it is on all the other platforms.

People working from home aren't consuming much anymore.

Of course there's commercial property leases and micromanaging bosses, but I think the uptick in this messaging is in response to people spending less money.

Less money on cars, gas, clothes, eating out, fancy coffee, hair/nails, dry cleaning, kid/animal care, gym (?), and probably so much more that I'm not thinking of.

And when we do spend money on those things, they're lasting longer and we're getting more discerning. When I do consider spending money on eating out, I'll def choose going hungry over getting something lower quality.

I don't get it and I'm much more comfortable asking for clarification here than anywhere else.

Explain?

Edit: I appreciate all the answers. I've been calling myself "liberal" just to differentiate myself from "conservative" and I think that's not quite right. I need like a test or something to help me find the right words

No one is stopping them from saying their dumb hateful shit. We just don't want it here.

Why can't all you right wingers just yell at each other? We. Don't. Want. To. Hear. It.

You already have FB and Twitter and Reddit and all the truth socials. Go there.

Or how jerks on Twitter stole anime avatars.

OMG I've never been a part of anime culture or knowledge. But anime avatar def = alt right red pill incel in my mind

I do SEO as my day job.

I've only ever done white hat, and it's all about content relevance to user intent, creating a site that loads quickly and functions in an intuitive way, and is coded so that search engines can easily understand the site.

Of course the goal is almost always to get you to buy something, but all it really is is best practices for online publishing.

Q-anon adjacent film

adjacent

I think it's relevant to note that someone mentally unwell enough to kill another person (especially their own spouse) was able to hoard such a large amount of weapons.

I guess the rest of us are just lucky that he only wanted to kill one person, instead of several.

I think it's a cautionary tale against forcing women to have kids.

We need access to birth control, healthcare (including abortion), sex education, and quality education.

These horrible things cannot be hidden, just like war images shouldn't be hidden. This is reality and we can't turn a blind eye. We have to address real shit that happens in the real world to learn from it and get better. Or at least face the reality of the things we force people into.

Because no one agreed to pay that when they were ordering. Imagine being a on budget for a night out and getting this extra charge outta nowhere

What are you seeing? I only see people happy with this, and one idiot making a comment about Loli

mmmmmmYellow

Yup. This release finally brought me over here. I haven't logged into Reddit since Sync died over there

Drumsticks are superior

Right? It's a super fun and very funny movie. Knee jerk reactions to a movie about Barbie tells you all you need to know about where the person gets all their opinions fed to them from

“No bad mugshots,” Dedmon added in another text. The other deputies understood what he meant: They had the green light to use “excessive force” on areas of a person’s body that would not be captured in a mugshot, prosecutors said.

I agree with the person I'm responding to. It's worse than you think, go read the article

Yes? If you choose to be a homophobic racist sexist asshole, you should be discriminated against.

Sexual orientation, gender, sex, skin color are all things you don't choose, you're just born that way.

Wow, pretty happy I haven't been on Lemmy for a few weeks. Thanks for cracking down on that garbage

If there was a way to do this, assault and rape survivors would have already used it to be able to come forward with their experiences (per your example).

This would have happened long before businesses had to worry about public perception on the Internet.

I def recommend a book called "so you've been publicly shamed"

It goes over how quickly things online get out of hand, how we used to publicly shame people 100s of years ago until we realized it was cruel and unusual punishment.

(Don't get me wrong, we should def shame alt right racists and push them back into their hidey holes)

Honestly we need more education and emphasis on critical thinking skills. Until then, we're all at the mercy of the dumbest among us with an Internet connection

Love you telling on yourself with that list