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  • This is the exact stupid type of comment that’s been infuriating to hear during all this “boycott nintendo!” bullshit. The Switch came out 10 years ago and cost $300. Inflation has skyrocketed. When you compare the price of the S2, adjusted for inflation, it’s not even the most or second most expensive console nintendo has sold.

    I genuinely can’t believe these fucking complaints. They basically mashed a Wii and a Nintendo DS together, vastly improved the graphics and basically the quality overall in its entirety, and only charge $450. That’s the price of one single concert ticket. That’s half the price of a decent smartTV that won’t last half as long. And my Switch is still going 10 years later with heavy use, I anticipate the S2 to do the same.

    It’s just crazy. The Switch 2 is one of the only quality products on the fucking market that’s not been completely enshittified sold my a major corporation, and yalls are still bitching and whining. Drives me fucking insane the things this generation gets mad at and boycotts while giving free fucking passes to the likes of microsoft, sony, etc.


  • mienshao@lemmy.worldtoscience@lemmy.worldShould Vaccines Ever Be Mandated?
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    Answering this sincerely: there are millions of people around the world who are immunocompromised or have another health condition that prevents them from safely taking a vaccine. Some people literally can’t take vaccines because their bodies can’t handle them, so those people rely on everyone else to get vaccinated to stop the spread of disease.

    Plus, vaccines tend to benefit children the most. The problem with antivaxxers is that they’re often people who were vaccinated as children themselves, but after years of being chronically online/social media, they then decide to fuck over their innocent children by not vaccinating them. Measles, for example, isn’t nearly the threat to adults that it is to kids.

    So, letting the antivaxxers “die” won’t just take out the antivaxxers, it’ll also take out millions of other innocent people who can’t take vaccines as well as children who have no say in the matter.

    This is one area where strong, science-based policies can mean life or death, so I’m all for vaccine mandates unless there’s a compelling reason for an individual to skip.



  • Very much that. Didn’t answer you at all.

    To actually answer your question, people who don’t believe in the Male Loneliness Epidemic (MLE) think a lot of the “epidemic” is just shitty men complaining that nobody wants to be around them instead of doing any self-reflecting and changing their own shittiness. It’s tied to the incel movement (which is why you’re getting a lot of very snippy responses imo lol).

    Plus, a lot of the champions of the MLE are insufferable dudes who maybe are lonely not because of some societal epidemic but maybe because they’re just fucking assholes?

    Personally, I have no idea if there’s truly a MLE. I think a lot of it really could be asshole men online complaining that nobody likes them without recognizing that it’s their own actions causing their own loneliness. I also think it could just be the internet is ruining any sense of community and togetherness, and men are being vocal about it and tying this loss of community to men specifically, but idk, I feel like there isn’t some special issue of loneliness targeting men rn.


  • Red/left/bloods side is worse. My asshole is already dirty when I’m pooping, so toilet water on my ass is what it is. But my dick? My dick is clean—I don’t want my pickle rubbing up on some shit stained toilet bowl, no thank you. I’ll take the kiss.










  • “Fixing” social media is like “fixing” capitalism. Any manmade system can be changed, destroyed, or rebuilt. It’s not an impossible task but will require a fundamental shift in the way we see/talk to/value each other as people.

    The one thing I know for sure is that social media won’t ever improve if we all accept the narrative that it can’t be improved.

    We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

    -Ursula K Le Guin