Did you read the whole comment?

This isn’t an inherent flaw of man. Economic conditions are getting worse for most people (western pov) and women rights have been scapegoated for it.

Naturally, men who don’t know better will turn on women for this reason and when left isolated in their own groups they will reinforce their bubble.

People can be incredibly decent, but under the wrong social/economic context act incredibly inappropriately.

To be fair, as a man who naturally interacts with other men, most guys when left to their own groups become very toxic/sexist in the long run.

This isn’t any inherent flaw of men, it’s a natural outcome of the influence social media puts on men through algorithms.

Makes a lot of sense. If I (an urban dweller) moved to the middle of nowhere and have to help build up all infrastructure while attempting to (barely) survive, I’d be pretty depressed.

In short, yes

Most games on steam are drm-free or have a very weak DRM which is easily removed. Not great, but not the worst.

Lootboxes kinda suck, but at least they only use them for cosmetic items, it’s not pay2win, more like pay2lookgood.

About the child gambling… Pretty awful, but I think the ones who should bear most of the blame should be the parents. I have younger family members (not my kids) and their parents couldn’t give less of a shit about ensuring they only have access to age appropriate content. Steam has parental controls implemented, USE THEM. Starting to think that allowing kids to access these features (when parental control is available) should be considered some kind of negligence.

To be fair those are cosmetic only items. I’ve played a ton of those games and didn’t spend s dime, because I don’t care about how cool my gun looks.

The male loneliness epidemic isn’t only about the lack of romantic relationships.

It’s about a generalized lack of connection between men and other people, a lack of community where they can find support when times get tough and where they can find meaning by helping others.

I’m not too savy on the social context in the far west, but I’d wager that although there was a lack of women the relationships between men would be very strong. Since the environment is hostile to human presence (lack of water, infrastructure, no large settlement or very far apart at least in the beginning) men would need to rely on others for help very often.

He did not say it’s the only system where it happens

It seems he was just saying that in the current socio-economic model for most of the planet the elite of that system (the “capitalists”) push for that behaviour, not that it wouldn’t happen under any other

If I say I get wet when it’s raining outside, I’m not implying I can’t get wet during a sunny day (I might just have bad luck and someone dumps water out of a window)

No one said it’s unique to that particular system. As I said feudalism would do the same for different reasons

But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to have a system that disincentivises harming others and even if it’s implemented it doesn’t mean no one will be harmed.

Socio-economic models have to do with pretty much everything that happens in a society. They define the preferred end goal of most actions. In feudalism it would be to better expand and defend the territory of your liege, for example.

Check the website translation tool great use of local “AI”

I personally found it a somewhat interesting use case, although rarely needed it and they have also implemented other “AI” stuff like the website translation tool which allowed me to avoid Google translate (and is fully local)

The customer doesn’t know what they want, and they are always wrong.

Do you want enshittification? Because that’s what the authors of all the enshittification have said in the last decade

Providing a solid product and trying new things (specially things that can be toggled off in the settings, although it could be easier) is not incompatible and might uncover new useful use cases. I don’t love all the recent developments but all the hate is overblown

So it’s a PR problem?

I hate how everything depends on marketing (manipulation)

Thank you for your input

I still don’t understand the hate towards the AI features in Firefox.

Could they focus on other topics? Yes, but to get new users they have to meet them where they are and since Firefox is Foss you can remove what you don’t like by joining a project focused on that.

IMHO some of the features are cool, specially, because it’s local AI with no dependency on any provider

Could someone explain in a civilised manner why you don’t like the AI features?

Due to the release of some emails sent by Jeffrey Epstein’s brother about Trump blowing “Bubba” (a nickname for Bill Clinton), people are making jokes about how Trump was the other lover of Bill Clinton and that the 2016 election was so fiery due to that whole dynamic

What’s his fediverse handle so I can congratulate him on this comment?

I know literally nothing about him, what has he done?

I just heard this song for the first time yesterday. This feels like a glitch in the matrix 🥴

For OP: This is one possible way to handle this situation, but it’s not the only reasonable one