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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • It has several earmarks of low effort, karma farming, shitpost, and it holds the attention of the lowest common denominator of people (people who only think with the blood between their legs).

    • “sexiest thing you ever sexted” is the epitome of this kind of engagement.
    • ask lemmy has been about so many aspects of life, the universe, and the social condition of different cultures (I hope it will remain that way)
    • why do you care or why does anyone care on a semi anonymous forum and link sharing site ? (No karma, no research or help in this kind of question, and there already are places for people to celebrate kinks)

    Thus, it should probably stay on u/spez’s r/jailbait proxy site (reddit). It totally belongs there.














  • All the key provisions of the antitrust laws (sherman antitrust etc) have been effectively invalidated due to the incredibly high bar set by court precedents before a large company or (making a monopoly or oligopoly) can be sued effectively.

    As such the large companies can dance in an effectively no competition space (well some parts have competition still, but other parts no). Any small business with actual innovation is going to have to pay in competition, and inertia, and harassment by incumbent monopolies to get a hold, and the monopoly is most likely going to copy (Whatsapp to Snapchat) or acquire (Microsoft store to blizzard Activision). So any small business owner will get to look forward to bankruptcy, or lawsuits until someone else eats your lunch.

    Write your congressman about the antitrust laws? Start a business and hope you aren’t noticed doing something copyable?


  • There are 5 problems with this question:

    Dating and marriage requires a “double coincidence of wants” where both you and your wife want to commit. (This is the whole reason that we stopped bartering because barting requires this for every transaction, and it sucks)

    Your problem has a requirement of a quadruple councidence of wants: you, your wife, your friend, and your friend’s partner need to commit. That is 4 problems.

    Additionally you are over age 30. Once you pass that age, people are generally of the attitude of “relationship maintenance”. So new friends are considered costly investments that have ongoing costs. (New Friends are neighbors or friends of your children/hobbies)

    Here is a joke: why did Julius Caesar get stabbed? Because he thought he could have a friend after age 30.

    Here is another joke:what miracle did Jesus perform that cannot be replicated? He made 12 sincere lifelong friends after the age of 30.

    Loneliness is a contributor to early death and there are tonnes of products that want you to buy to alieve. Good luck!


  • I am currently part of a church that loves these types of questions because it means that I can bear testimony of God and bring the holy spirit into the conversation. I don’t like doing so online with a profile that I try to keep somewhat anonymous.

    There are two “science only” reasons for my faith:

    • outcomes. Everyone lives longer, has more education, has more wealth, has more kids, but stays away from self medication (alcohol, tobacco, caffeine) so a bunch are on prescription antidepressants. Umm “by their fruits you shall know them” and (last I checked) education in this church is the only one that is positively correlated with church activity.
    • pascals wager. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_wager

    I have struggled with depression myself and have found the best solution is service. Church is a great “batteries included” way to serve. I also have a day of the week where I call up family and ask if I can help with anything. I was able to help my father in law renovate his house by making these calls.

    Regarding politics. I hate political party “vendor lock in”. I have no clue how any of the issues get discussed based on how much astroturfing and bought/compromised news outlets. I imagine that my interactions with politicians is like reddit’s “upvote” where it really does nothing unless you sort by new. So I follow the money only.