The odd circumstances aren’t really relevant, though I admit they’re a bit odd.
If you break up on good terms, I think it’s healthy to stay friends. This person has valuable insight to who you were at a certain part of your life and unique perspectives.
You gotta be able to be respectful, though, both you and your ex. Don’t weaponize the intimate knowledge you have with each other to score points with their friends.
It’s only awkward if you let it be. I have a very good friend who is an ex because they wanted to move to another continent and I didn’t. Foolish in hindsight but whatever. By total circumstance, I’m now dating one of their ex’s. That pairing split because of different emotional desires. We all hang out when we’re in the same country, hell, the four of us (our shared ex married after moving) are going to the sauna together in a month or so.
It’s all very normal as long as you let it be.
Is that… Neelix? I’m struggling to remember this episode but it sorta looks like Neelix mildly dry humping the air to avoid being sucked off out of the elevator.
The thing is, a business, of any size, is utterly incapable of being genuine, as a rule, as their only purpose for existence is to seek profit.
If they are being genuine, they are being honest about that and I don’t want to see their content anywhere my eyes land ever.
If they aren’t leading with that premise, then they are being deceitful and I absolutely don’t want to see their content anywhere.
This is what I’m saying, companies should not feel welcome posting on the Fediverse.
They should feel nervous and like the fediverse is a hostile place to conduct business.
It is only if we create that kind of culture that the Fediverse will resist becoming a piece of shit marketplace like the rest of the internet.
Hence, fuck every brand, fuck every company.
This is a call to action. If you see any post you so much as smell as being from a business, it’s your moral duty to attack and bully that poster. They are a threat to the human element of the platform and they should be treated as a threat.
Yeah he primarily posts English language content because his humor is mostly based off English speaking stereotypes instead of, well, jokes.
Profit seeking is a poisonous mentality that corrupts and ruins everything it touches.
Opening the door to even a little is opening a floodgate.
I’m not a fan of creating hard and fast rules about what size a company should have to be or anything like that, I mostly think it’s important to create a culture on the Fediverse that is inherently hostile to branding, monetization and advertising and then allow exceptions as they seem socially acceptable within that framework.
But it’s important to build and maintain that culture first and foremost. Tumblr has done a pretty good job at that and people should learn from those communities. Being unprofitable and worthless to advertisers is very important in creating a space by humans for humans.
Becoming a target for business, advertising and entrepreneurialship is a 1 way ticket to shitsville.
Politely, shove it.
Don’t tall about growth or luxury. Those are masks for what business really does, monetize and enshittify.
It’s clear what happens when you allow that kind of behavior from businesses. The Fediverse won’t be any different, businesses of any size will ruin it.
For what it’s worth, I also found those opening court room scenes in SFA absolutely maddening. The whole scene made so little sense. Why was Caleb even in that room? Why did the Federation rip a child away from his mother like that anyway? Even if his mother was arrested, why did they go about it in the most trauma inducing way possible? If Nus is so dangerous, why was he just allowed to stand next to the person accusing him of abuse?
I feel like we already have solutions to so many of the issues in that opening scene alone in the backwards 21st century, why were we again struggling to solve them in the 32nd?
Profit-seeking is a cancer that rots humanity and there’s nothing else a business truly strives to do other than seek profit, every other action is a means to that end.
Can’t give em an inch!! Even the ones you like!
We gotta actively be mean to companies or else we lose what we have as humans and this becomes another soulless marketplace like so many other spaces in the digital and physical world.
Maaaaaaan part of the reason I like the fediverse is that there aren’t brands posting and when they do, they get their posts deleted as spam and banned.
Fuck every brand, every company! Social spaces gotta be made wildly hostile to businesses or else they ruin everything. Just look at any other social media site.
Oh yeah absolutely I ain’t denying that, I just don’t like that this dude is doing this for content.
This dude is a comedian and calling things kinky is one of his catchphrases.
Another reason I don’t like this idea of this dude being used as any source of information, I find his comedy routine exhausting and overly laden with tired, old stereotypes instead of actual humor. A lot of his jokes are “Germans are fetishists”, “Germans used to be Nazis”, :Germans are rigid and rules following" and “my wife is Jewish, isn’t that bizarre?”
Kinda misleading. This dude is a comedian and “influencer” (not really in the typical sense but he films a lotta stuff for online content). He cuts filming just as people are moving out of the way for the ambulance.
I ain’t saying NYC doesn’t have a problem with what he’s saying, but I am saying you can see how he’s not being entirely honest and he’s incentivized to be dishonest.
I’ll take more workplace comedy with Tawny Newsome.
Lower Decks was the best of the newer Trek series and her podcast had been a real hoot. It was fun seeing her in the Lower Decks x Strange New Worlds crossover, so I bet she’ll do well in a series.
It would be cool to see more SNW, too.
More raves.
I mean, I’ve been to many, and yet still feels like a better use of time than this career I’m building.
What them Breen do, huh?
Whats with the title?
Better start eating more duck! It’s far cheaper than beef these days anyway!
What a stupid world we’ve allowed to be concocted.