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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

freaking and burn are bad words now?

[–] Jeremyward@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

What in tarnation

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Something I think we don't talk about too much that has additionally fallen to the throes of Late Stage Capitalism is the dissolution of nuclear and extended families, as well as the normalcy of shared households.

Before, the everyday tasks of any one domicile could be reasonably expected to be split up amongst its cohorts. Kids do their chores, dad mows the lawn, mom does the wash, nana does the cooking, auntie takes the kids to school/shopping, or your housemates help out, etc etc.

But most of this generation is living in isolated pods, single-serving everything. You are solely responsible for the cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, studying, working, running to the bank, filing taxes, trip planning, car maintenance, home repairs, and your godddamn mental health. Of course it's too much work for just one person, but it's become so normalized by now that people hardly even notice there's a problem, much less any viable solution to it. Instead, we all resign ourselves to being "tired all the time", physically and emotionally, and not knowing why.

[–] relianceschool@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

And not to go down the conspiracy rabbit hole - I think this is more of a blind "race to the bottom" scenario - but it makes a lot more money for the rent-seeking class when we're socially isolated. A couple shares a house/apartment, shares chores, may even be able to share a car. When they break up, that's now 2 apartments, 2 cars, individual trips for everything, etc.

It's not quite that clean of course, and plenty of folks live with roommates. But there's definitely a perverse economic incentive to keep us detached from community and partnership, and everything from AI/social media/online dating to the gender/culture wars seems to be pushing us farther in that direction.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 104 points 3 days ago (5 children)

WHO IS CENSORING THE WORD "BURN" ???

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago

FREAKING? FREAKING. NOT FUCKING. FREAKING. WHAT.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Our lives wouldn't be so complicated if we had financial freedom via a UBI and didn't have that metaphorical gun put to our heads to make us keep working forever.

Most animals do very little every day, humans are one of the only animals to have no resource scarcity but still work ourselves into an early grave from stress.

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Uhm. Most animals live by the grace of chance and circumstance. Barely getting enough to sustain life.

I think I understand what you're trying to say, but you can't seriously think that pre-industrial age people were sitting around and doing nothing? Post-industrial age came with an explosion of people to match the new amount of resources. If we don't produce the resources then people die.

Do you want a simpler life or an easier life? Those are two very different things.

[–] Ogy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

There are theories that hunter-gatherers worked significantly less. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society

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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 238 points 4 days ago (7 children)

So glad they censored fre*king. I almost had to read a minced oath.

[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 166 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm more concerned about the "barn out"

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 66 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I’m just glad they censored

Trigger warning: non federated platform/r/AskReddit

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[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 57 points 4 days ago (5 children)
[–] ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

gasp! such language! burn!? as in burning!? for shame!

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[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

why did they self censor "burn"?

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago

Engagement bait

[–] Branch_Ranch@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

To my knowledge, it's because advertisers don't want to be displayed next to potentially negative posts.

That then means that commercial social media platforms would rather display posts for which they get paid. So, potentially negative posts get downranked by the content curation algorithm to the point where they will be seen by virtually no one.

And that then means that users self-censor, and also potentially overdo it, because they don't know for certain which words will get punished.

This is similar to the phenomenon known as algospeak, where words such as "unalive" are used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algospeak

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yet they are fine with being seen next to Nazi propaganda.

I fucking hate goddamned social fucking media.

Fuck advertisers.

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[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 137 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

My kid got in a fall and I had to leave work to go to Urgent Care. Three hours for a doctor to give my kid a pain med and a bandaid, and costing us $2k.

Ive been helping my unemployed ex-teammates find work and stay motivated.

My wife's side of the family messed up on their paperwork and because they're also dark skinned, I'm worried about ICE.

I took my other kid to the park last week and was called a sexual predator by another mom. Ive been pretending to be okay as the women in my family all blame me for "looking how I look".

My cousins have called me twice in the past month concerned about bills, and I'm sending them food money.

Oh and the Europeans on Lemmy is yelling at me for being an American because I'm not doing enough to stop Trump.

[–] Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 67 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I took my other kid to the park last week and was called a sexual predator by another mom. Ive been pretending to be okay as the women in my family all blame me for "looking how I look".

I'm very sorry for you, and fuck the women in your family for saying something like that. Someone who thinks you look like a sexual predator and says you deserve to get harassed for your looks is no family of mine. I'm a woman, but I'd slap the shit out of someone if I knew they said that to their male family member.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 37 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I appreciate the kind words. Thank you.

I feel like the manosphere is so loud right now that average dudes is caught in the crossfire. All I can do is politely apologize on behalf men for all the toxicity. Which again, a tiny fraction of the many things going on in the world.

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 92 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What the fuck, here there are no algorithms to please, there's no fucking need to censor "freaking" or "burn".

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Get a significant other, share the pain.

It's on my to-do list.

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Why the fuck is burn censored?

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You mean,

W*y the f*ck is b*rn censored?

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Smashmouth tried to warn us. The years keep coming and they do not stop coming.

[–] Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (7 children)

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

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[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 35 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Fuckity cunt, lickety clit screw this god damn censorship shit.

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[–] kahvimaster@lemmy.world 50 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 60 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Have we really reached a point where censoring "Burn out" is necessary?

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 36 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

And freaking freaking. The self censorship is at the point where even the self-censor words are being self-censored

Edit: actually just realised it's probably interaction bait which I fell for

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[–] WallsToTheBalls@lemmynsfw.com 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We’re censoring the word burn now? Fucking what?

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[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

While this is an issue everywhere, America dials it up to 11 by making you deal with all sorts of overcomplicated nonsense.

Healthcare in the US:

  • Annual Prep: Open enrollment
    • Figure out what HMO, PPO and HDCP means, and what it means to you (which one is better depends on both your needs, your job, and also your spouse's job, so good luck coasting on knowledge from last year)
    • Figure out what to do with HSA and/or the various FSAs, requires mapping out what you're expecting to happen with your health, childcare and elderly care that year
  • If your chest hurts and you're worried:
    • Go to the ER (not urgent care, they'll forward you to the ER even if you seem fine)
    • Get lots of unnecessary care (like three EKGs, a chest X-ray and some blood work) before they conclude you're just stressed from living in America
    • Receive five different bills several weeks later
    • Keep those in mind for another week or two until your health insurance sends their version of events
    • Receive the explanation of benefits, which does not match the bills
    • Call both the provider and your insurance a few times to figure out what's going on, because of course you have to mediate between them (they don't talk to each other)
    • After thinking about these bills every day for about three months, you can finally pay them and be done with it

Healthcare in Norway:

  • Annual Prep: None
  • If your chest hurts and you're worried:
    • Get a same-day emergency appointment at your doctor or call an ambulance, depending on how worried you are
    • They listen to you with a stethoscope and maybe do an EKG, conclude you're fine
    • You pay your copay on the way out, and never think about it again
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[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Why is Pepe AI

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