#public approval

[dgspeaks]

Life Commodified: The Price of Constant Self-Promotion

In today’s digital age, every aspect of our lives seems to be commodified. We’ve entered an era where even the most intimate moments are opportunities for financial gain, and the line between personal experience and public persona has become increasingly blurred. This relentless drive to monetize every facet of our existence has profound implications for our well-being and sense of self. The…

[portmantofu]

Digital Nuance, Public Discourse, and Public Approval: The Steady Decline of "Having a Dialogue"

Being on the internet as someone who operates from a place of nuance and complexity as opposed to simplistic and impulsive knee-jerk reactions feels like being a masochist because there's so much you could say but it would take too long to write out and mostly fall on deaf ears.

It also doesn't help that although there are many people out there that are happy to have these complex discussions, you're much less likely to find people who are capable of doing so in a way that doesn't convey the idea that the only perspective they're open to is theirs.

This mentality is not just aggravating to deal with as someone who wants to contribute to these discussions, but actively drives people away from having them, which is incredibly counterintuitive given how much stress and importance is constantly placed on speaking on issues.

This, if anything, calls into question why stress is even placed on having discussions about any topic. If there's supposedly only one right view and thus solution to an issue, why even start a dialogue in the first place? To talk in circles? Unless, they're not that simple...

It's a rare occurrence, but my faith in humanity is slightly restored whenever I see what could've easily turned into a heated argument about a topic beautifully and amicably resolve itself with each party respecting each others views without attacking them.

Though, I feel like the concept of "ratioing" people is what holds us back from these occurrences happening. I can't help but feel that people on the internet are less concerned about actually defending their argument, and more about whether other people will back it up.

Saying this, I can already hear people defending ratioing because of how it supposedly "puts people in their place" and makes them feel shame for what is mostly agreed to be the morally or intellectually incorrect way of analyzing a topic.

Again though, why should the focus of having an opinion be attempting to "prove" that it's the so-called "right" one through public approval which is also nothing more than simply a larger group of people's opinions?

[zombie-bait]

"old man yaoi" has become one of my new favourite phrases which is unfortunate because it is inappropriate in roughly 99% of real world scenarios

[alwaysbewoke]

[constelationprize]

Who do you guys think was Kateaaron's real biggest hater: Andrew or the Vixens groupchat

[cheesenames]

anyway I think the flip side of the “after her death Padmé becomes a symbol of the revolution” idea, the part where her family, in addition to the actual death of their beloved daughter/sister/aunt, have to deal with the memory of her also being lost because she’s transcended personhood to become a symbol, is interesting and should be the hottest new trend to examine

[snaplight-anxiety]

what the fuck kind of edit is this. it’s so stupid but i’m so pissed why would you cut that out.

[shannonsketches]

Toei does not like Vegeta part #12849, this is their Vegebul moment.

vs Toriyama's Vegebul moment:

I will continue complaining under the cut (with additional samples)

toei's vegebul moment:

Toriyama's Vegebul moment:

toei's:

toriyama's:

ykwim??

I'm don't even want to talk about how bad they fucked up the Goku Black arc from what I can tell so far so just have this instead

LIKE THEY EVEN CHANGED WHERE VEGETA WAS SITTING??

WHY?

FOR WHO??

ANYWAY it's fine if you like the anime I'm just gently loudly suggesting reading the manga if you're a fan of Vegeta and Bulma separately and/or together

[morverenmaybewrites]

amazing chapter as always! langstroms devotion to francine is so beautiful and so so tragic :(

I'm glad SOMEONE still likes Langstrom after this chapter. 😁

[covington-shenanigans]

christ alive I love my parents and I'm glad I got to see them but they are just. so fucking exhausting

[valtsv]

why is it that i love socializing on my own terms and go out of my way to talk to strangers (when my paranoia isn't seriously acting up at least) and get excited when my friends message me or ask to arrange to hang out and love dressing in weird outfits that i personally think look nice even if everyone else finds them weird and judges me but the second i get invited to a party my brain goes full carrie white about it

[awkward-teabag]

Love (cannot emphasis how much sarcasm there is in that word) that an official Canadian government response to high cellphone rates is to switch carriers.

Switch it to what? We basically have three companies since one was allowed to eat the forth (with the government saying it wasn't anti-competition and the company eating the other pinky promising they wouldn't jack rates up). Even the smaller companies have to rent infrastructure from the Big Three so there's only so much they can do if that rent costs an arm and a leg.

And that's not touching on how many "small companies" are actually just subsidiaries of the Big Three. You may save $5 but you're still with Telus/Rogers/Bell.

Or that the actual small companies tend to have shit coverage because they don't have the infrastructure available to them and are prevented from getting it. Or their traffic is throttled in favour of the Big Three's customers. Or both.

Or that they're extremely regional thus aren't an option for a huge chunk of Canada's population.

We have no true options and the government has shown time and again that they're fine with monopolies, in multiple industries, and don't care when said monopolies jack up prices to make shareholders and the c-suite more money at the expense of everyone else. At most there will be a verbal slap on the wrist and a giftcard for $25 that people have to register for, for a decade and a half of price gouging.

It's not talked a whole lot about outside the country from what I've seen and heard but Canada is a country of monopolies. A handful of companies own nearly everything, every province has a family or two that owns a hell of a lot (Nova Scotia is basically owned by one family at this point), and our government ignores it. Even the branch that is supposed to be against monopolies is fine with mergers and takeovers in most cases.

Because, you know, the company said it totally wouldn't use consumers' lack of options to increase prices.

[grecoromanyaoi]

im gonna write an academic paper this semester and by god i will find a way to make it about gay sex

[ephemerasnape]

Dark ________? 🤔

Maybe you girls missed it.. but there's already this evil guy in Hogwarts Legacy. This intentionally-hot "dark wizard" guy that is actually canon and doesn't require anything extra.

BEHOLD - THE OFFICIAL HOT EVIL GUY.

So, you see, there's no need to make other characters unrecognizable.

You've got a hot dark wizard to abuse you already... 💜🎩

You're welcome. 😘

[transthadymacdermot]

And although that we are single & free we take great delight in our own company etc

[askblueandviolet]

Can I ask Aigou something? If so then...

You finally meet "the needy lunch date". What do you think about Macaque? Do you approve? Do you think he's the one for mayor? Will Public Relations do anything about it?