MyNamesTotallyRobert

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In the US, being white on its own without also being rich doesn't really help you out much anymore. It's different if you're very obviously living a 1950s lifestyle, have a tradwife, a bunch of kids and are a neurotypical Christian of course. Employers are seemingly more interested in hiring those types of people above all else even when there are more qualified candidates. I need to start lying about my life and maybe using ai to back it up with pictures.

[–] MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I kind of wonder this sometimes too. Maybe not from an organ harvesting standpoint but enslavement. If I were captured/kidnapped and became a sex slave or a scam call center slave or something, my #1 goal would be to escape and if that's not possible, go on a violent rampage and murder as many of my abusers as possible before they kill me (they'd just kill me when I outlive my usefulness regardless) and if that's not possible, the s-word, as a last resort. Does this type of thing happen more often than they make it sound? Perhaps they are really efficient at going after the families of victims that don't fully submit which keeps victims in check? Maybe victims are kept in holocaust-like conditions so they aren't physically capable of anything in the first place, but then they wouldn't be capable of work, so idk.

Human trafficking disturbs me enough that I try not to think about it.

[–] MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I thought about posting that here but decided not to because its too far-fetched and absurd ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

be careful with this one because the types of people this applies to will just twist its meaning into "people need to own less/nothing. Minimum wage is too high. The Bible says having enough money to survive is bad"

[–] MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If the sorry state of the broken society we live in isn't express incentive to not have kids at all cost, I don't know what is. I'll chop my dick off before I ever cum anywhere near a vagina. If the next presidential administration strips employers of various freedoms they've been using to abuse people and forces them to treat people better (which would never happen), MAYBE then I'll reconsider but even then probably not.

[–] MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (17 children)

well I sure am glad gen z and swing voters decided to throw away my future in exchange for putting a stop to this OH WAIT THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN, AS ANYONE WITH A SINGLE FUNCTIONING BRAIN CELL COULD HAVE PREDICTED.

[–] MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

no fucking shit

[–] MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Unpopular opinion but graphics do matter a little bit or at least more than the meme depicts. Dwarf Fortress was unplayable before they added actual graphics to it. I wish things moved between tiles fluidly like in Rimworld instead of it being a slideshow, but I can actually stand to play Dwarf Fortress now. If the only video games that existed were text-based, I'd probably never play video games again. Ps2 era graphics on the other hand, hell yeah. 90s era dos graphics are passable too. But PLEASE no text adventure games.

Computer engineer here (well I have a computer engineering degree and have worked on several computer engineering projects at least). The only point of fucking with an i486 in 2025 for reasons besides "vintage computing" or playing MS-DOS games is that it's probably the most powerful cpu that can still run on a cheap 4 layer circuit board. This cpu is also simple enough that a i486 chipset can be DIY'ed without ball grid array components. Electronic devices with 4 layer circuit boards are less susceptible to getting ruined by tariffs because they can be manufactured for a reasonable price in places besides just China. Ball grid array components require specialized equipment in order to put them on circuit boards. The easier surface mount (quad flat package) chips required to build a viable and performant i486 motherboard are simple enough that all you need is a cheap soldering iron and a steady hand to solder them onto a circuit board.

What I'm getting at is that prior to them dropping i486 support in Linux, it was possible to use cheapo microchips from Mouser, connect them to i486 cpu and singlehandedly DIY a modern-Linux capable computer, in theory at least.

With Linux dropping support for i486, the bar is now much higher. It's still possible to completely DIY an ever more powerful, non-i486 based Linux-capable computer yourself if you REALLY know what you're doing (and people HAVE done it).

I wanted to build one just for fun and maybe to use it like super high performance arduino but now there's a lot less of a point so meh.

[–] MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

I don't know, but I know of one thing citizens SHOULDN'T do to prevent their country enabling genocide. That is forfeiting their future by electing a dictator that might genocide poor people on the other side of the world a little less in exchange for giving up freedoms. I get it. Voluntarily making our lives worse/harder because it might help poor people in another country sounds like a grand and noble thing to do. But now they're sending American citizens to concentration camps. If you think this was a fair trade, just block me right now. Don't be like gen Z and swing voters in the 2024 US election. Sometimes you just have to choose to save yourself first.

[–] MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean, his enablers are just as guilty. The entire christofascist movement would have had a hard time getting anywhere if it weren't for a few key corporations providing the services and technological development required to enforce or at least facilitate the enforcement of this ideology. I am being intentionally vague here.

All I know is that I go out of my way to discriminate against and fuck over people who support things that fuck me over.

[–] MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

People always cry "communism bad" when anyone suggests anything having to do with any type of reform. Communism is shit and all but there's only one thing worse than communism: feudalism. You have to be subservient on someone more successful than you because all the prices and job wages are fixed in order to force this on as many people as possible. This can be in the form of joining the armed forces just for the guaranteed housing and healthcare, continuing to go to college and racking up endless debt just because it allows you to survive for a little longer, or living on your maga cousin's farm so you can do farm work in exchange for being allowed to live there for a price you can afford. It's literal feudalism.

Fuck all the idiots that have been brainwashed into fighting to "conserve" how awful and broken everything is. I have skills. I have a college education. I haven't ever been employed in anything besides fast food or retail. Corporations are too busy running the entire economy into the ground because it makes the stock go up to care about saving the economy or human rights.

If I could start over I would've spent all the money I spent on college instead buying a plot of land to legally be "homeless" on and maybe bought an rv. Unlike owning a home or living in apartment, it may be possible to keep costs of living low enough this way to be sustainable. Seems to be the last method of living they haven't colluded and price fixed to the point where no matter what, the costs of living are higher than jobs that are possible to actually get and keep, for now at least. Just wait until the "right" of land ownership is tied to proof of religion, neurotypical status or a thc drug test, I'm sure no one will even bother to fight back.

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