Delete your account and create a new one. Problem solved.

But also, two things. First, always be questioning yourself. Those jerks might have a point. But second, jerks are jerks and you shouldn’t listen to them or be bothered by them.

If you can balance those two ideas, you’ll do really well online, and probably in real life too.

Apathetic participation

Well, you know what they say. The sun even shines on a stopped dog’s ass twice a day.

Or something like that. I don’t fucking know anymore.

Humanity is too broad a grouping

The trick is to pick someone else’s identity and use that. I’m Dale from Ohio.

With this administration? Prepubescent.

Still better than coal

roblox tho no social media for them

Oh boy… in sorry to be the one to point this out. Roblox is a problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/feb/20/los-angeles-sues-roblox-la-county

When the government is run by criminals, and the corporations are run by criminals, and the law enforcement are criminal, you think the rest of us should play by the rules?

How is that fair or right?

Manipulation

Assuming you’re in America, it’s impossible to outright ban ads.

You can make whatever laws you want, but those laws can’t supersede the Constitution. And the Constitution says that companies and people have the right to free speech. And that the government, I.e the laws you just created, can’t infringe on that (with some reasonable exceptions).

At best you can make certain advertising types illegal. I lived in a wonderful town that banned roadway signs, for example. You could ban billboards over a certain height. You could regulate the color palette used for signs on shops. You could say no signs posted on roadside easements.

So progress could be made, but not an outright ban.

unfair transfer of power from local criminals to international ones

I prefer local, heritage, free range criminals.

The purpose is not “some gotcha”. The purpose is that, by calling it unskilled labor you devalue both the role and the person doing it. Then it’s easy to justify not paying them a living wage, not respecting them, and treating them as lesser.

Plus, you literally said “sweeping is a skill”. So it’s not unskilled. It’s a quickly learned skill. Let’s not be both demeaning and inaccurate.

In the first part of your edit, you explain why there’s no such thing as unskilled labor.

I think the confusion here is that you are saying “unskilled” when you mean " skills that have been picked up without education", or “skills I assume can be picked up quickly”

Find me someone from an ancient civilization and see how well they vacuum without any training.

can be effectively performed on day one by a new hire.

If such a job exists, I’ve never seen it. A first day worker on ANY job won’t be as efficient as someone with experience. Even a ditch digger has skills.

I’m the other way around. For me, the UI can be chonky frameworks or whatever as long as the user experience is good and it works on lots of platforms.

But keep every bit of UI out of my back-end systems. The data and business logic layers should be so divorced from the UI that they didn’t even get visitation rights with the kids.

Lots of bad decisions due to unmedicated undiagnosed mental issues. Almost cost me my education and eventual career. Thankfully I sorted it out in time.

Right now. Just grab some of your friends and sign onto contracts to buy and share things together.

Food coops are the most common. I imagine tools would also be pretty easy to jointly own.

I think this is my boomer moment. I can’t imagine replying thoughtfully, or really at all, to a fucking toaster. If the stupid AI bot did a stupid thing, just reject it. If it continues to be stupid, unplug it.

My bet is on him selling cars to himself somehow