Some of society's problems that concern you?

Turquoise wrote
Lokorfi wrote

Society's nearsighted bias towards any type of world issue is a big no-no.

It's hard for people to understand what life is like in other parts of the world when they're so detached from it. It's easier for people like us who are used to interacting with people all over the world and seeing all kinds of perspectives, but for Dale Everyman who has a 9-5 desk job and comes home to teach his son how to play baseball, the $0.20 increase in gas prices is a bit more concerning than the kids getting shot up in Syria.

Americans have a bigger problem with this I think because we're so far away from any other major countries. In Europe you can meet people from multiple different countries and cultures just by going for a drive, but here I'd have to travel overseas or a couple thousand miles down to mexico. Personally I haven't traveled farther than one state over in the past 12 or so years.

I don't really know how to fix it though. It's easy to say globalization is better for the world, but Dale doesn't want his jobs being outsourced to India.
ramblerambleramble

Incidents close to home, even if minor, will always be more important to people than something, even a massive tragedy that happens halfway across the world. It's simply how we prioritize things. I don't even think most people mean to be biased as such, either.

>It's easy to say globalization is better for the world, but Dale doesn't want his jobs being outsourced to India.

It is easy to say something is better when you're not the one that will lose your livelihood and possibly your life as the result of someone else's decision about what's best for you.

tn5421 wrote
Turquoise wrote
Lokorfi wrote

Society's nearsighted bias towards any type of world issue is a big no-no.

It's hard for people to understand what life is like in other parts of the world when they're so detached from it. It's easier for people like us who are used to interacting with people all over the world and seeing all kinds of perspectives, but for Dale Everyman who has a 9-5 desk job and comes home to teach his son how to play baseball, the $0.20 increase in gas prices is a bit more concerning than the kids getting shot up in Syria.

Americans have a bigger problem with this I think because we're so far away from any other major countries. In Europe you can meet people from multiple different countries and cultures just by going for a drive, but here I'd have to travel overseas or a couple thousand miles down to mexico. Personally I haven't traveled farther than one state over in the past 12 or so years.

I don't really know how to fix it though. It's easy to say globalization is better for the world, but Dale doesn't want his jobs being outsourced to India.
ramblerambleramble

Incidents close to home, even if minor, will always be more important to people than something, even a massive tragedy that happens halfway across the world.  It's simply how we prioritize things.  I don't even think most people mean to be biased as such, either.

>It's easy to say globalization is better for the world, but Dale doesn't want his jobs being outsourced to India.

It is easy to say something is better when you're not the one that will lose your livelihood and possibly your life as the result of someone else's decision about what's best for you.

It's not even about being close or far from home. It's about influentiating your life directly or not. And some random people dying in some random place couldn't be more abstract to your everyday guy.
And in that sense globalization doesn't help even a bit on general. Atleast on major countries you get products and news from all kinds of places. But it still doesn't matter to the majority of people if kids are dying or earthquakes are happening or planes are crashing.
Just take a look at urban violence in general for an example. It's unacceptable, and that happens everywhere (which means it's going to affect everyone at some point) and it's a problem since always. But it just gets buried under other problems until it gets "you".

I can't get an "entry level" job without 5 years experience.

When men have to pay for a meal, like boiiii I can buy my own food (just feed me treats tho)

Yuka wrote

When men have to pay for a meal, like boiiii I can buy my own food (just feed me treats tho)

My girlfriend and I switch off on who pays. I hate when people tell me I have to pay because I am a man. This isn't the 1940's anymore.

floattube wrote
Yuka wrote

When men have to pay for a meal, like boiiii I can buy my own food (just feed me treats tho)

My girlfriend and I switch off on who pays. I hate when people tell me I have to pay because I am a man. This isn't the 1940's anymore.

I've heard conflicting voices on these sorta issues. On one hand, you have girls on Reddit who recall the annoyance when their date kept bringing up how wealthy he was. Yet on the other, you've got older folk who'll bail on a marriage just for being not as well-off as when they started; or so I've heard.

Maybe it's a generational thing. I'll bet the Great Recession shook up a lot more cultural guidelines than we'd care to admit.

Backlash wrote
floattube wrote
Yuka wrote

When men have to pay for a meal, like boiiii I can buy my own food (just feed me treats tho)

My girlfriend and I switch off on who pays. I hate when people tell me I have to pay because I am a man. This isn't the 1940's anymore.

I've heard conflicting voices on these sorta issues. On one hand, you have girls on Reddit who recall the annoyance when their date kept bringing up how wealthy he was. Yet on the other, you've got older folk who'll bail on a marriage just for being not as well-off as when they started; or so I've heard.

Maybe it's a generational thing. I'll bet the Great Recession shook up a lot more cultural guidelines than we'd care to admit.

My girlfriend and I make the same amount so it isn't that big of a deal to us lol. And it is for sure a generational thing. My dad told me that I always had to pay when I first started dating my girlfriend, but that was 3 years ago and she hasn't broken up with me so I guess it doesn't matter.

Backlash wrote
floattube wrote
Yuka wrote

When men have to pay for a meal, like boiiii I can buy my own food (just feed me treats tho)

My girlfriend and I switch off on who pays. I hate when people tell me I have to pay because I am a man. This isn't the 1940's anymore.

I've heard conflicting voices on these sorta issues. On one hand, you have girls on Reddit who recall the annoyance when their date kept bringing up how wealthy he was. Yet on the other, you've got older folk who'll bail on a marriage just for being not as well-off as when they started; or so I've heard.

Maybe it's a generational thing. I'll bet the Great Recession shook up a lot more cultural guidelines than we'd care to admit.

For me, it's if you went out with the intention of not paying because you haven't got the money, you shouldn't of gone out. When someone pays for your meal it's like a gift, not an expectation

11 days later

I'm exhausted by all of the hostility; hostility over anything and everything. I'm scared to give opinions, hell, even just talk due to the fear of backlash. It's so tiring...

Noriko wrote

I'm exhausted by all of the hostility; hostility over anything and everything. I'm scared to give opinions, hell, even just talk due to the fear of backlash. It's so tiring...

Yeah, I'd rather stay on @[deleted]'s good side as well. He can be pretty scary 😉

3 months later
LucianDreamer wrote

I hope there'll be no third global conflict.

You won't ever see anything like World War II or even something like the Korean War again. It's all proxy wars from here on out and things like WanaCry and the Dyn attack but on a much larger scale. The latter is what's likely to become more significant as computers are more and more integral to society.

2 months later

So is Net Neutrality dead for real this time?

I must say I'm disappointed, but not surprised.

2 months later
Backlash wrote

So is Net Neutrality dead for real this time?

I must say I'm disappointed, but not surprised.

Not yet, but they're getting close to winning their reversal despite 20+ million filings. This is because of Pai now saying it's the quality, not quantity, and the majority of these filings in their docket doesn't seem to change their mind.

I'm still crossing my fingers, because once it gets passed into law and still don't know exactly when, this place and everywhere else we use to go to that we hold dear won't be around forever.

Bonus: I was browsing on 4chan around that time when the post occurred.

LucianDreamer wrote
Backlash wrote

So is Net Neutrality dead for real this time?

I must say I'm disappointed, but not surprised.

Not yet, but they're getting close to winning their reversal despite 20+ million filings. This is because of Pai now saying it's the quality, not quantity, and the majority of these filings in their docket doesn't seem to change their mind.

I'm still crossing my fingers, because once it gets passed into law and still don't know exactly when, this place and everywhere else we use to go to that we hold dear won't be around forever.

Bonus: I was browsing on 4chan around that time when the post occurred.

Things are gettin' real bad, real fast. It doesn't help that corporations pay big money for tremendously retarded articles decrying Net Neutrality.

What really gets me though is that despite the overwhelming majority of consumers (including most Libertarians, for Pete's sake!) being strongly in favor of Net Neutrality, our representatives continue acting purely in the service of private gain. This is, bluntly put, a spectacular failure of American democracy, and is symptomatic of larger issues with our political institutions themselves.

This is entirely expected, of course. Accumulation of material wealth is the greatest virtue under Capitalism, and it's in the rational best interests of ISPs to divvy up the web as they see fit. If anyone, Ajit Pai included, tells you otherwise, show him this image. And if that doesn't work, I'd recommend acquainting his head with the pavement.

Here are the results as of last week, there might be more comments coming, but in the end starting tonight, this will be used for their final 'weighing in' decision, in which they have to do it by law. Without the duplicates, there are only 1,794,159, with a 98.64% majority favoring net neutrality. Still, Pai will have the final say when the time comes.

https://www.recode.net/

a month later

the adolescents and technology itself has made a big impact on society's productivity & factors that pertain under crime.

Looks like the Senate is going to do the final vote hearing on Net Neutrality starting at 17:30 today. Pai still thinks he may have the majority votes, but we all hope he loses and gets fired from his job if the Democrats have at least 51% or more.