I’m both cases my view on the people is the same: they do understand. The information has always been there and publicised. People wanted this.

We don’t like what they want and we call them dumb, but it is no easy task to effectively use propaganda on this many people. It’s also easy to label people “stupid”, which is not true. This mindset genuinely exists. America is a Trump supporting nation. UK is a Brexit supporting nation (I don’t know if current regret surveys would translate into votes, Reform has more support than ever and it is increasing, and surveys last time also predicted that the majority didn’t support Brexit).

There have been a lot of podcasts looking academically how this polarisation and thinking has come about in the last 2 decades. I’m really interested in getting to the bottom of answers of how people are so convinced like this rather than the simplistic and inaccurate conclusion that “they are all dumb”.

I was about to finish my training and no jobs were coming up. Then the guy in the job I wanted in my local area died just as my training was about to finish (he didn’t seem old or sick to me, and I still have no idea what happened there). They put this job out to advertise rapidly and hardly got a couple of applicants…and I’ve been here since.

Spectator sports is entertainment.

Speak to someone who knows your context. Someone preferably with some experience to give some perspective. Try some introspection. Read things written by people wiser than Lemmings.

I personally love podcasts. I’ll always be able to recommend from there:

You Are Not So Smart: 306 - I Never Thought of it That Way - Mónica Guzmán (rebroadcast). Episode webpage and Media file

I wouldn’t drop someone with such a long history and lots of positive features so quickly from my life. My parents can be racist. My family can be judgemental. My friends can be intolerant. A single aspect doesn’t define the whole of someone. If you go having deep conversations with people you know, you’ll quickly find some aspect in everybody that you deeply dislike.

If a black man can make friends with the most racist KKK members, and actually get them to change their minds through conversation, then there’s hope for anyone.

Even if you want to break off the friendship, you don’t have to do it today. The thought of that is obviously causing a lot of pain. See how things play out. Giving things time is almost always a good idea.

This is the most true statement in this whole thread and the best advice here. Don’t ask Lemmy.

Late 30s myself. Hair was pretty much individial scatrered follicles at the top by the time I was 22. Rocking a number 1. Very short length is surprisingly high maintainence as even a bit of regrowth shows quickly so it needs to be trimmed back down every 2 weeks max. I alternate between “I’m not paying someone to do this, I’ll trim it myself”; and “I can’t be bothered with this effort, I’m going to get a barber to do this”.

This is part of my identity now. Being called “bald” doesn’t sound like an insult and just sounds descriptive to me now (my pre-school had started calling me bald everyday and patting my head). I refuse to even consider any hair regrowth treatment. If it magically grew back one day, I would provably grow it to short-medium length and complain the whole time about how much effort this shit is.

Same.

Although I like to recommend RSS. 'Social " media is overrated. If people are looking for content them just subscribe directly to the source.

I’m in the same position as you. I haven’t found a good solution. I just keep blocking each individual community when I come across it in the feed.

Lemmy seems to have a very strong voice for pushing people towards Linux… But I don’t hear nearly enough about ditching Google and other mega-corps. I started Degoogling long ago and have been really happy with the result. There are lots of alternatives and there’s no reason to stick with Google the way people do. Your description of half-baked shitty products is their hallmark. Their bloody search doesn’t even work well anymore and that’s what the whole business got launched on.

Lemmy please strongly considering De-googling. It’s quite easy for almost all services.

Same for water buffalo