Tech companies (like most companies) want people reliant on their products, of course they’re ok with this

Hmm idk maybe I’m being too much of a purist about it but I always considered “slop” in the context of this board to be like, politically illiterate commentary and similar, mostly from libs. It’s not a catch-all for non serious content, but a specific thing in my mind. I personally think it has to cause at least some level of psychic damage to qualify as slop.

I think the memes community is being too much of a purist on what makes a meme, which at its base is just an idea/thought that people are compelled to share with one another. Regardless, if those are the rules they want to enforce over there, fair enough I guess. I think they should point to a different comm for stuff like what you shared here

It’s so emblematic, the idea that the chivalrous titans of industry would tend to the country as shepherds

How is this slop? I quite like it actually, maybe there’s something about the author I don’t know?

To fascists, liberalism is communism

Ah yes, infamous Soviet agent Genghis Khan

Yup, let’s let the industry monolith that’s trying to sell you larger, more expensive vehicles than necessary set rules on what vehicles are legal to sell. Oh, they’ve effectively banned smaller vehicles? They’ve also put in place Byzantine rules and approval processes only a large corporation can navigate without going bankrupt? I’m shocked.

My bad, honestly I just put that 3.5m number as a lower bound, as if it’s any higher, then the relative percentage is even lower.

Plus the sale price doesn’t necessarily indicate profit, which is typically what’s referenced for capital gains tax

Very true, and it is nasty though ostensibly not the angle the original linked post was going for (from what I could tell)

Everyone has their own personal 100 room temp that exists on a spectrum

reddit 🤢

No our systems are perfect the only issue is enforcing every facet of it onto the proles with an 18-karat boot

CW dysphoria around imagined body hair

Had a dream the other night that I woke up and looked in the mirror only to see a patch of weirdly long hair on one cheekbone and a chest so thick with hair I couldn’t see the skin underneath. First thought was “what the fuck now I have to deal with this shit too??” It was not very pleasant -:-

Politics aside, naming places after someone who’s still alive is gross

Don’t make me tap the sign

Because Microsoft knows if it can sell the product to your manager, that’s all that really matters

Individuals are relentlessly marketed to by targeted ads psychologically designed to get them to purchase disposable, useless slop, but sure let’s just say it’s their fault for falling for it.

I don’t understand how this post isn’t supposed to be political, or at least make reference to it/invite discussions of it. What are we all upset about, forming an army and going out there to “sort out”? Why are things bad to the point where, were this a movie, the superheroes arrive?

Because to me (and several others) the answer is clearly politics, the current political trends and movements.

We’re not angry for no reason, but in fact for a series of very valid political reasons. I won’t get into the specifics since it’s against the rules, but I don’t think it’s very fair to make a post gesturing at the state of the world, in a way that says we should get involved, and then telling people they can’t discuss what we’d actually do because the solutions are political. To insist otherwise feels to me like we’d be protesting just to protest with no actual goals.

Karl D. Marx

I dunno, when did you stop beating your wife?