my dad always had the realest advice. when i was an older teen he put his hand on my shoulder and said “kid, you have inherited my aggressively abnormal thought process but you’re also conventionally attractive and good at sports so just lead with that until you’re about 25.”
@SCHIZO_FREQ@SodokuPolitburo That is fair, there is admittedly utility in that it provides a "why" data point behind the "what" data point of the election result.
@SodokuPolitburo@SCHIZO_FREQ Neither of the people interacting with you on this are leftist, just critical of a method that does not provide value. It shows up in the discourse we're having right now, and there's no need to look for the polls when you have actual election results.
@deepfates In fact, in the last several years when we discovered rage captures attention even better than sex, we also discovered distributing it at scale via bots on socials can get more human users to interact with that bot (and each other).
@deepfates Skeptical bc product quality and revenue/profit are not always as correlated as users would like. Meta platforms are full of bot engagement slop, and the per-unit payout isn't adjusted for whether the engagement is human.
@SodokuPolitburo@SCHIZO_FREQ Going to take a wildddd guess that it's the "beating unarmed minorities on video" part that's the issue, not the deportation.
@steph_zunz i started doing a metta meditation a few times a week and a three page letter to a higher power first thing in the morning since november. it's done a lot for me.