solomon42069

joined 1 year ago
[–] solomon42069 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Zuck is the sexual abstinence clown. No one can get horny with that face around!

[–] solomon42069 9 points 2 days ago

It's really demoralising scraping by as an IT person in a western democracy, and then realising the outsource contractors your company hired for cheaper have a much better life than you. Simply because their earnings hold up better with the cost of living where they are.

[–] solomon42069 12 points 2 days ago

Yeah and they grew up in a mansion in Argentina, or Cape Town, for "the climate"...

[–] solomon42069 95 points 3 days ago (5 children)

They need to join forces and make the Cyberplane!

The Boeing Tesla Cyberplane could be a revolution in aviation:

  • First aircraft to use afterburners to overcome lack of aerodynamics
  • Heavy and yet strangely flimsy construction
  • Cell phones and radar can ignite the battery in flight
  • Fuel efficiency can be throttled mid air by shedding parts
[–] solomon42069 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think conservatives fan the outrage over this issue because it's an easy distraction. Sex is gross and scary, harming kids is the worst thing imaginable and combining the two issues is disgusting. Some kids come from broken homes and this makes them more vulnerable to be exploited. I think conservatives know all this, and they also know that that guy who beats his wife and kids and might murder them later probably is one of their voters. So they complain about Hollywood and gay people to distract, but never go after well known perpetrators like priests and wealthy businessmen. So curious innit!

[–] solomon42069 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

Star Trek Discovery was so bad I had to just stop in the second last season... and I was only playing it as background noise at that point! I guess I'll try this movie but if even Michelle Yeoh can't save it I'm going back to old 1990s episodes...

Update: I got through it but holy shit... It had some good moments and other bits that felt like a Red Alert cut scene...

[–] solomon42069 3 points 1 week ago

"There's no business for Nazi business! From no business I knowww!" - Ethel Merman

[–] solomon42069 67 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

On Elon Musk's X, animal abuse is the safe content.

[–] solomon42069 8 points 1 week ago

In the United States, teenage kids were put on the sex offenders registry for sending each other nudes. Those laws are in place to protect minors from people who are not minors, but apparently the judges did not see it that way in sentencing. Gotta love the word of the law being worth more than its spirit!

[–] solomon42069 23 points 1 week ago

To be honest she's probably lucky this is week one and not a year in, when Trump would have her shot as an enemy of the president and criminal of the state.

[–] solomon42069 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Entirely possible, but I didn't want to assume! My dad didn't know the Village People were gay and he was a grown adult with kids when people broke the news to him...

[–] solomon42069 39 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Sorry bud, but I think you just used to be more innocent.

Just look at the celebrities and culture of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s... Even the whole outrage culture pushed by conservative media like Fox News also goes that far back!

The fashion of the day changes but humanity itself.. not so much!

 

Many of us are feeling a certain way right now—trying to make sense of the level of injustice, misinformation, and apathy in the world. In the absence of a satisfying explanation or solution, I've done my best to offer my own take on it. I hope that by opening up about some of my past and what I care about, you’ll see the human context of these issues. I hope this is the right place to post and not against the rules!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by solomon42069 to c/asklemmy
 

It feels like no matter where I turn some septuagenarian, or older, is making life miserable for myself and others. Usually these are older white Christian conservatives, obsessed with a delusional sense of reality that no longer has a basis in fact, or perhaps never did.

There is a disproportionate amount of wealth concentrated in the older generation and those who will inherit it will probably be even worse with that money than the last generation. Certainly we see evidence of that already, anyone in their 30's who has parents who help them out VS those who don't have that have radically different outcomes. For some reason those lucky enough to come from good families ascribe laziness and bad attitude to those who don't have the family support, as if they are somehow enjoying "self made success" while mummy does their laundry for them.

No generation previous needed this kind of assistance well into adulthood, but this infantilisation of working adults has happened because of the hoarding of wealth, refusing to pass on the torch in workplaces and just blocking change for the sake of stoking petty politics. Most of us will never own our own home but all the politicians want to talk about is whether it's OK to dehumanise trans people or not.

I'm 36 this year. For most of my teens I thought there'd be some kind of tipping point where the conservative boomers would fuck off or at least let the next generation step in, but that hasn't happened. Back in the 1990's you could be a girl and wear jeans and be empowered, now this is considered some kind of woke statement. As if we recently invented this idea of women and men being equal.

The faces of my two dogs, my cat and my husband are all that keep me going. Knowing they need me gives me just enough to get out of bed in the morning and start moving... but I'm struggling to do even that without having a breakdown. My husband and I have medical expenses we can't afford and are borrowing money to survive right now. I run my own business and just feel this immense pressure on my shoulders, that again is compounded by how unfair the world is right now.

Anyone got any advice for coping with this late stage capitalist hellscape?

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