[-] frankfurt_schoolgirl@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This makes the tech bros commodify psychedelics trend seem awesome actually

I've had kind of the opposite problem. Like I'll go to a meetup and almost everyone else is in their 30s or 40s, not mid 20s.

I'm so, so happy that I transitioned when I did, but I feel like all of my trans friends are all in our 30s and we barely ever meet anyone older or younger. We're kinda all on our own.

[-] frankfurt_schoolgirl@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago

straight women are having fewer kids and can't afford the ones they do have

The solution to this is to complain about queer people!

I guess it's comforting that my enemies are braindead and childish?

[-] frankfurt_schoolgirl@hexbear.net 43 points 2 months ago

She's always been a lib. She just gets a lot of hate because most leftists only support trans people because they think we're politically reliable

[-] frankfurt_schoolgirl@hexbear.net 69 points 3 months ago

I wasn't expecting half of the comments to be complaining that women don't have to to fight lol. If you think of yourself as a based and trad conservative or whatever and you're made that women aren't fighting in wars I think you've gotten kind of mixed up.

[-] frankfurt_schoolgirl@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago

According to the Twitter thread, they literally hired some ex-Pixar animators to create the avatars. The creator claims that this is to avoid the uncanny valley lol

[-] frankfurt_schoolgirl@hexbear.net 48 points 9 months ago

The fact that our planet's resources are being used to create this is disgusting.

But, I was thinking, if you wanted to make one of these that was actually good and compelling the problem is that they have no life outside of you. Like if you're talking to a real person, she might tell you about her day, or share a memory, or tell you about something specific she likes. None of that would happen here, because the thing only gains new context when you interact with it. All of the back stories are very generic.

You need some sort of virtual world where the sexy chatbots interact with each other or have "experiences". Then when you talk to it there will be new things for it to talk about. Which means that maybe your cyber waifu leaves you for another cyber waifu.

[-] frankfurt_schoolgirl@hexbear.net 43 points 9 months ago

The American economy is built in a very specific way to make certain things cheap and certain things very expensive. The cheap things are gas, toys, commodities, clothes, unhealthy food. The expensive things are education, good food, healthcare, and, in certain areas, housing. That means there are a ton of Americans who live extremely precarious lives, where losing their job would be the end, but they still have a higher level of material comfort than many people would in other countries.

The other thing about the American economy is that wealth is extremely biased towards older people. For a long time, the system was built around normal working class people buying a house, and building wealth through that. As long as housing prices went up at a controlled rate, everybody slowly got richer. Now, older people own most of the houses. Like I grew up in a small town that was sort of the ideal American dream neighborhood. There were a bunch of other kids on my street, including some good friends. We rode the bus together and spent the weekends hanging out in my friend's loft. Now, when I go back there, there's like one family with kids on the street, and everyone else is a retired couple in a huge house that they don't really need. They have no particular incentive to move out, because it would be expensive and they're comfortable.

So if you're a younger person without in-demand education you really are extremely poor. 5k could really improve your quality of life by letting you get some dental work or something. Although the unemployment rate is low right now, companies are able to collude to some degree to keep entry level jobs precarious.

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Most of his fans have never really read his more academic works (like the one with the grandma sex dream). So, I guess they like his vibe. But his vibe is weepy alcoholic. What's so great about that?

I was the saddest man alive, and now I'm like a twink with boobs, but whatever, I'm still much happier.

Simple solution: allow defederation from single communities and block 196 for everyone, because the memes there have never been anything but incredibly cringe.

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I have a cheap electric grinder which doesn't go very fine, and is also loud, and takes up too much space in my little apartment. I would love to have a hand powered grinder that's not too big, but also could grind fine enough to make a decent moka brew. Is this possible? Does anyone have any models to look at?

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I was kind of sick yesterday, and while I was resting I went on a long Wikipedia journey learning about this guy. I'm fascinated. Some of the efforts he led in Chongqing seems incredible, like expropriating billionaire's stuff to fund public housing. But of course there's the big scandal, with lots of lurid details like how his wife maybe poisoned somebody.

Anybody have anything good to read about him that isn't American Wikipedia? Or hot Bo takes to share? How has the Chongqing Model influenced Chinese politics today, and was it as good as it seems? What's up with his falling out with his buddy the police chief? Did Bo's dad really commission an author to write that he was a better statesmen than Henry Kissinger (I would hope so!) and more beloved than Princess Diana?

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