That’s a super good point!!

Those countries also have semi-planned economies

I don’t disagree at all, Information has always been out there for those who seek it out, the problem lies within capitalism, which only values education that has been paid for.

Often jobs will require a degree and experience, even trades that you say require informal training often require some sort of red seal or at least have an apprenticeship program.

You can get that education however you like, but its a bit more difficult to find an employer in a labour flooded market that is willing to let you prove your knowledge if you don’t have the recognition to back it up.

The education isn’t any less fruitful, but it is just valued less by the ruling class simply because it didn’t require money.

You’re 100% right, and I’d like to add that these problems men are experiencing are caused by capitalism and the patriarchy, which is ironic because the manosphere is clearly capitalizing on their loneliness. It’s a cycle of abuse literally just to take their money.

The solutions the manosphere is offering were never intended to work.

I would argue that primarily youre paying for the recognition of your education, as in your diploma, which is often what employers look at.

Capitalism

Oh haha fair enough, I always run it down the list in my head when I see a meme that seemingly doesn’t make sense and “is this loss?” Is one of them

It’s a reference to an old comic called Ctrl+alt+delete

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_(Ctrl%2BAlt%2BDel)

Is this an earnest question?

Yeah that’s pretty much what I’m getting at

I think they fear the social consequences (hence masks), ie. What happens when people they know find out what they do? Surely not everyone they know thinks what they’re doing is good.

It’s also easier to just program a computer to do these things if you have the knowledge base, in most cases.

We need to recognize what “AI” or at least what is colloquially referred to as AI is: advanced predictive text using machine-learning.

It’s a Large Language Model and therefore it excels at language.

I love that its still kind of lore-connected with Mr Door/Hatch and other similarities like that

Quantum Break, the only thing keeping that game from being as good as it could’ve been was that Microsoft owned it

You might enjoy this:

I have several trans friends (am cis woman myself) and I take photos at a lot of local fests and I like to make an extra point to get really nice photos of the trans people in our community smiling because I think they truly deserve it, and it always makes me extra happy when I see them use my photos as profile pictures :)

Ugh I didn’t think I’d cry this morning yet here i am. Thank you OP, that was a lovely read.

Capitalism. Always.

God I love this game. God I love Remedy.

I’m annoyed at you so im responding to this thread just to raise your blood pressure.

Rooting for ya, bud