a lot of tech companies are operated like cults.

have you met tech bros/broettes?

i live in a city full of them… they very much do weird shit like this to signal to each they are more hardcore cool than the other brogrammers. like they get into bragging fights about really stupid and absurd stuff

this is the reason. but it makes ordinary people look greedy and awful… and we can’t accept that.

despite all evidence to the contrary. half my my socialist friends who bought homes are now 100% NIMBY, because they want the value of their house to go up, and that ‘value’ trumps their socialist ones by a large margin.

because everyone should have housing, but not in their neighborhood! but no, it’s not THEIR fault housing prices keep going up, aferall they ‘made an investment’ and it’s not their fault that other folks aren’t as ‘wise’ as they are…

95% of the peopel here screaming about housing prices not being fair, would 100% support no more development the second they owned a home, because now they are on the flip side of the equation, and everyone pursues their won self interest above all else. the ‘rationale’ will just go from ‘housing is a right’ to ‘preserve the neighborhood character’.

excuse me, my pronouns are if/then

No. Only way to not use AWS is to not use the internet at all.

It’s like saying how to use the internet without Akami or Cloudflare… you aren’t in 2026.

Well, IME people who talk like you, who boast about how truthful and honest they are, are the same ones who lied.

Weird how that works out, isn’t it?

Almost as if folks who boast about how honest and great they are, typically aren’t either of those things. And their need to boast is projection/overcompensation for their true behaviors.

amazon is backbone service of the internet dude.

These are pulled from the item descriptions. OP probably bought something ‘for flat butts’ and boom it goes in their preferences.

Mine is literally just all things I bought from amazon. So yeah.

It thinks I’m married with two kids, because well, I buy lots of toys and things for women for the holidays… well yeah because I have nephews/nieces and two sisters… so of course I buy things for kid and women regularly as gifts.

what i find creepy af is women who tell me i remind them of their dad and it turns them on… on a date, or worse, in bed.

it’s so gross and weird. another bizzaro double standard, because I’d be a huge creep told them they reminded me of my mom.

if you aren’t taking care of your health via exercise, you’re not that smart, are you?

your mind can only function as well as your body can. a good diet and exercise increases your mental capacities.

you realize it’s incredibly common for folks to do this? of any gender?

i broke up with most of my exes because they false presented themselves to me. they saw absolutely nothing wrong with it, and to them I was the one who was awful and terrible for not ‘loving and accepting them for who they really are’. i had one ex who specific said ‘you’d have never dated me if i had told you the truth’.

was I sexually assaulted by those women? who deliberately lied to me to have sex and engage in a relationship with me?

I don’t think very many people would consider what they did as sexual assault.

yes,but it’s only used by boomers anymore.

because it’s anti trans or something because JK rowling or something. and people are gooning to it.

basically jerking it to trans malfoy is endorsing jk rowling and therefore anti-trans bigotry.

they are just making up reasons to be upset about it and desperately trying to police other folks fan art/jerk off material. if i recall there are some variations of this with loli girl malfoy, which means it pedophilia too, or something.

there are some good you tube videos on it. it’s legit a big deal for folks on twitter/HP fandom, some are loving it and having a good time, and others are claiming people who are doing that are evil degenerates destorying society.

tale as old as time.

there was a similar issue earlier this year about the game Pragmata. People were making fan art about it and angry internet mob was accusing anyone who enjoyed the game or mad fan art about it as a pedophile. a lot of the big twitch streamers took sides on this.

reminds me of bowsette/booette. i can guarantee you there are cosplay porn actresses prepping for their up their girl malfoy vids for OnlyFans, if they haven’t already made them.

sounds like the plot of a manga. teenagers of various zodiac birthdates come together to avert a solar system disaster with the power or friendship and shared trauma.

they were never thoughtful. they are just bait for people who want to feel they are thoughtful by consuming them.

sort of like when people think buy a book by a black female author is fighting racism and sexism simultaneously, or paying back some debt they feel they owe. It’s neither, it’s just feelings.

what are you talking about, they charge people for the tickets to go to the live presentations.

and some folks pay TED to have a talk, esp the TEDX stuff.

I notice that TED talk fans are always people obsessed with ‘optimizing their productivity’ or similar corpo buzztalk.

I’ve never met a normal person who enjoyed them or thought they weren’t weird.

god i miss craigslist.

Don’t have to, that’s a service escorts provide. But it costs a lot more.

i did that on my last date when she started talking to me about biotec startups to invest in privately because she wasn’t getting enough return on her stock portfolio and she was expected a double digit return or how else could she retire comfortably?