Personally, I think the concept of “talent” comes from people who think they were created by a magical man for a specific purpose. What I think talent is, is just practice, perseverance and passion. I’ll use guitar for example. Everyone fucking sucks in the beginning. There’s this very difficult barrier at the start that you can only get through by forcing your way through, before it starts becoming ‘fun’. And a lot of people don’t make it past this beginning phase and think they’re just too untalented, when what they’re actually lacking is the perseverance and the passion to want it hard enough.

Sure, some people have longer fingers (which also isn’t ‘talent’) but you don’t have to play on a wide neck classical guitar, there’s plenty of guitar shapes and sizes that are more suitable.

Because they’re burger citizens.

Mine’s a British woman. And the volume of that voice always seems to be much louder than whatever I was listening to, so it gives me a slight fright every time.

Screenshots also credit the OP or source (if it’s not a copy paste from someone else, that is).

Yeah I’ve seen people saying the creators are TERFs but apparently that’s just a lie because the creators are actually trans.

Can someone explain what the issue with this is? I’m sure there’s some legitimate gripe but so far, in between the memes about people joining forces to stop this cartoon, all I’ve been able to surmise is that people think the style is ugly (even though it looks the same as 80% of cartoon network stuff), and that there are people calling it “heterophobic” and crying that the villains are straight or something.

Are there any non manosphere people that can explain what the big fuss is?

I’ve been following this English teacher on Instagram, who has had every attempt at getting kids to read thwarted by the school admins, who don’t want anything ‘woke’ or ‘political’ or too challenging in any way. Which left this teacher with an empty library by the time the admin was done.

So it’s not the kids’ fault, it’s not social media’s fault, it’s not even the teacher’s fault. It’s pearl clutching, conservative, anti ‘woke’, horse dewormer enjoying, piss drinkers that want these kids to stay stupid and unquestioning, and to have the reading ability of 5th graders.

I guess that if you put a bunch of religious fruitcakes that think science and education are woke devil magic in charge of things, you’re going to end up with poorly educated children. Who would’ve thought?

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As a single player gamer, I’m already dealing with aging hardware and the expensive prospect of ever replacing it by sticking to mainly ‘retro’ style cosy games. Or actual retro games via emulation.

I’m already so far out of the loop with modern 3D games with ray tracing and individual strands of hair rendered that need billion dollar super computers to run, that I ran out of FOMO long ago. That’s stuff for rich kids or people who landed a job that pays more than just to survive.

Yeah, the way the history books painted Hitler was like he was a supervillain with the power of convincing people to do what he wants against their will. Now I know that’s probably not true and that the Germans were probably just dumb as fuck pieces of shit that would’ve hammered their own faces if they were told to.

And guess what, in the ‘real’ world, you would get punched in the face for saying the wrong thing to the wrong person. And if you enter the club and spend your time insulting the owner and all the regulars, a bouncer will throw your ass out into the street and no one will be defending your freeze peach.

Your consequence free version of ‘free speech’ has never existed and never will. It’s just a fantasy that you basement dwelling 4chan wannabe losers cooked up because you’ve never actually gone out into the real world or interacted with real people. Spoilt, entitled brats.

You’re free to speak, everyone else is also free to tell you to go fuck yourself. ‘Free speech’ doesn’t mean that everyone should be forced to kiss your ass 100% of the time, regardless of what you say.

I will be watching this thread with great interest for people to block and make my Lemmy experience better.

After spending the last year or so exploring mainstream social media, one of the biggest differences between Facebook and Instagram, is that Facebook has multiple reacts. And certain people, notably men, love to use the laugh react to bully people. You’ll find laugh reacts on everything from a trans person posting a selfie, to feminist pages posting about rape and abuse stats. On Instagram, the bigots are still there in the comment sections but they’re a lot easier to ignore because there’s a lot less noise in that regard, on how they’re allowed to react to things.

After this experience, I 100% believe that the people who rely on the downvote button so much on platforms like this and Reddit, are actually exactly the same kind of fucking people that laugh react news stories about rape. Stupid, mean, cruel, stupid people who can’t spar with their stupid ideas, so all they have is a panic button to make them feel better.

People downvote for absolutely stupid reasons. It’s original intention was for handling trolls and off topic content but most of these people just use it as a ‘dislike’ button. These days more than ever, I feel like it’s something that should just be done away with because it gets proven over and over again that it only really ever gets used in bad faith anyway, and therefore adds nothing of value to the platform.

That’s why I’m quite happy on an instance with downvotes simply disabled. Personally, between Reddit and Lemmy I’ve probably purposely downvoted about five things, when a person doesn’t know when to end an ‘argument’ and just becomes a troll.

Last time I was more active here, I did end up getting into the habit of checking votes and honestly, it just makes me want to block people, even if they haven’t been downvoting me. If you’re the kind of person that goes around downvoting everything all day for stupid fucking reasons, you’re probably an unlikeable, insufferable turd in ‘real’ life too.

The way I see it, this is just the nature of the meme. People make memes, people take memes, and they travel around the world wide web, and end up with ifunny and 9gag and collegehumor watermarks, and in the form of badly cropped screenshots. That logo is just a scar that this wild meme picked up somewhere along the way. It’s just nature.

“Stop making it political!”

• People with the worst politics that don’t want to be outed.

Yeah all my MySpace friends were people I made friends with on forum sites. And we were actually friends that actually spoke and messaged other. Novel concept for ‘social’ media, I know.

If they can’t get the zombie of Karl Marx risen from the grave to run, they would rather be led by right wing christian nationalist pedophiles.

I’m 40 and I also do now, just to piss off my peers that turned into their parents, and to remind myself to keep exploring new music so that I don’t become one of these people that get stuck in time and unable to relate to newer generations.

I like '90s music (it’s my childhood decade) but I also dislike people who act like things “back in their day” are objectively the best, because I heard all that shit before from old people when I was a kid.