@obelix@obelix@lemmy.world this explains why they’re making age verification a thing on both social media and operating systems as well as capturing “rogue” platforms the become sufficiently significant enough like tiktok.

if they can prevent the youth from obtaining information that contradicts the indoctrination they’re getting from their environment; they can control the narrative and discourse in the future.

my experiences have taught me that an overwhelming majority fo people mimic the behavior that they’ve seen others perform (and mostly from tv/movies) and this conclusion gets reinforced every time an “A-list” bottom rejects me at first and then later invites me in when their expectations and/or selectiveness inevitably leaves them wanting. the amount of time it takes for this to happen varies from person to person and the experience (or lack thereof) they’re having at the moment, but it always eventually comes.

i’ve also learned that we’re taught to form expectations around things like romance and classifications of people (ie E-list, C-list, hot) that only have surface level at best relationship to reality, but we’re still conditioned to HEAVILY prize nonetheless. like a ruling class, there certainly are people who benefit from these expectations, but it’s as much luck as it is effort (if not more so).

it also took years of therapy for me to realize all this after also mimicking the kind of partnering we’re all conditioned to expect from ourselves and others and i doubt very much that i would have had any of these realizations if my mind and body had the same responses/reactions that most people seem to have from social and physical interactions.

Does El Calientador correspond to Heath Burns in English?

it literally translates to heater, but a specific or favorite one (or atleast it does in mexican border spanish from the 1950/60’s) and your translation is accurate in other spanish variations and also because you can get burned if you don’t take common sense precaution with it, but you can get warmth from it if you need or need it. i feel that this describes me.

el calientador. i feed off of the intense levels of energy i get from the masses of community bottoms due to the sheer volume of their existence and it’s a symbiotic relationship as each interaction fulfills our respective needs.

from it i gain insights into the human condition that helps me understand the world that could not have happened otherwise.

it’s given me back doors (pun not intended) to realities of human existence that are so HEAVILY guarded off otherwise that most believe that i’m making it up and it puts a smile on my face every single time someone not so inclined rejects what i’ve shared with them.

i don’t think i’ll ever stop being surprised by how much access you get just from some basic human horniness. lol. i would be a unstoppable if i had the conventional attractiveness of movie stars and a neurotypical mind.

it seems to be the same as all of the other hit-and-run bombings that the us empire has been doing for the last 20 year. the only difference is that it’s against an adversary that has sufficiently prepared for it including a strategy that hits the empire where it’s the weakest with its economy.

I’m glad they didn’t; the morally bankrupt and depraved lengths to which American capitalists will go to for profit is slowly killing this world and they’re in full knowledge of that fact.

They can afford the finest talent money can buy and I bet that China’s primacy had little impact on their plans. I also bet that’s why they opted to delay instead of deny China; it doesn’t matter anymore.

Exactly. So it wasn’t that they ignored navigating, it was that their hegemony took priority.

we slowed them down by using super high tariffs on electric vehicles and solar panels and it makes sense from a geopolitical perspective. the united states & europe uses its economic leverage to control the world and letting people buy chinese electric vehicles, solar panels, etc. would give the chinese this same type of leverage.

trump, biden, obama, both bushes, etc. consider china to be the enemy, so forcing people to stay dependent on fossil fuels instead of green energy is a way of making sure that the united states stays in control; the same is true for europe.

that’s also why we regime changed venezuela, libya, iran, etc. because they started selling oil using other currencies besides the american dollar and that would make the united states lose some of this leverage too.

eventually… lol

Your corporate shackles

i came here to say this, but you did it better. lol

yes, it would be better, but we didn’t because we lack the industrial capacity to provide both at scale and affordably so. so instead we just doubled down on fossil fuels and carved out legal corporate & governmental protections for harming people that we predict will get fucked over by climate change.

it’s not actually comic sans, it’s something like this and i think i like this better; thanks for making me aware of it.

it makes perfect sense

one that’s no longer extended and i’m glad to hear you do it.

you’re a unicorn! lol

had decades to navigate the changes needed and just ignored it… Insanity

it is insanity, but not for the lack of navigation; it was about preventing china from gaining economic leverage with affordable electric vehicles and scalable renewable technologies.

if you want feedback, don’t bother doing any of the coding challenges/tests and they’ll send you a “we’re disappointed” email. lol

i though that was just a canadian thing

i last saw it the last time i was a system admin tasked w spec-ing out hardware for our offices in austin, ft. lauderdale, denver, and inland empire and i remember being surprised at how much worse they were than the thinkpads i had grown accustomed to supporting as front line tech in mountain view 10 years before that.

and now w that in mind: it would have been circa 2015 so the landscape should have changed by now; maybe they reversed course like they did the rubycon capacitors that caused the capacitor plague 15ish years ago.

the batteries are being soldered onto the motherboard now-a-days

it already has niche communities but they’re on topics that most people try to avoid; namely leftist politics and open source technology.

if you don’t like either, then i image lemmy is fairly dull for you.