If you look at how many things Google is dominating, it makes sense. You probably don’t even think about how dominating they are, but they have global search, global email, global Android, global maps, global tracking of cars, global video service (YouTube), global language translate, global chrome os… It’s really hard to even see anything Google is not dominating.

Apple… What, makes the best hardware and makes it’s own operating system? That’s about it.

The amount of data Google has on us is much worse than that science function has imagined. They are the big brother, knowing every intimate detail about billions of people.

And they have ties to the US intelligence service, and probably have given them direct access to all that data through some patriot act or whatever. It’s fine but make no mistake here, apple is nothing compared to that.

I don’t watch the news, because it’s not like you get unbiased facts - it’s the entire behavior of the news anchors and the people, and the editing, that creates a form of programming of people’s minds.

It’s also almost 100% negative. And you can’t affect anything.

I guess people watch it because they are scared of not knowing what’s going on? I don’t need to know what’s going on. If I lived in Thailand, I would miss all western news and it wouldn’t matter at all. So why not act like I live in Thailand.

Let me know if the news ever help someone feel better about themselves, or how to get better relationships, how to love people more. Because that’s what my life is about. And how to have fun. :)

People are being exploited and screwed over left and right. Piracy is not even a blip on the radar.

If society was built on moral rules and honest behavior, then maybe people should feel bad about pirating. But this society? Lols.

I struggle to even see the difference from slavery on most days.

Ah ok. Yeah I guess they don’t make it a priority for some reason.

The word consumer is so demeaning… But yes.

Humans are actually the only real producers in the world if you think about it. Everything around you is built by other humans.

We rarely think about that.

It’s great how people are gathering and having discussions under heavily censored platforms owned by billionaries, just amazing.

It’s more like they don’t make fun games.

It’s a failure of leadership, as usual.

Yeah because they screen people, not just let anyone come in.

To be fair, they are pretty bad, unless you do like America and only allow people with certain skills and intelligence. Allowing refugees from war torn countries is very nice, but ultimately brings that war to the country itself and changes the culture into something very different.

Source: Sweden.

I’m sad I missed the days of girls wearing no bras. Must have been nice.

Not to me, it just sounds normal. The reason people feel apathy is because there is a difference between expectation and reality that is very big for them.

It’s the thought of “I need the world to be different for me to feel good” that is causing the apathy. You can change the thoughts on this and feel much, much better by being very grateful for having so much choice as a human being to find things you enjoy.

It’s always been wars, always been slavery, always been sickness.

If anything, we have it much better than before. How do you think it was growing up during the world wars?

It’s from experience. Older people know this world well. Doesn’t matter what you vote for, power stays with corporations.

Young people tend to believe you can change things by voting, which is naive and a bit cute.

I used to feel apathy until I realized there is one thing I can control - me. I can choose to do fun things, replace bad friends with new ones, learn new skills, grow as a person. I can put my phone down and read books and stop watching social media and porn. I can change who I am right now. And I will feel good from doing so.

The society will stay the same, but my perception of my life will be enjoyable, which is all I can actually do. You don’t have power over anything except yourself. Once you get that through your head, you understand how to not feel apathy anymore.

Amazing, we have so much choice now. /s

Don’t think too much, you get depressed. Do like everyone else, buy shit you don’t need and get likes on social media by bored strangers.

And watch Fight Club.

My plasma 6 desktop has absolutely stunning icons, and im like you - I like proper icons that look more interesting.

Try plasma 6, I’m sure those icon sets are also much more complete. :)

It’s simply the fact that different people have different experiences on those apps, based on what they look like. It’s not a generalization and has nothing to do with incels. It has to do with human nature.

There are in fact many people talking about how they stopped dating because of these apps. It has changed the nature of the game. It’s actually very interesting if you care to look into it.

Love seeing friendly people like this. I would replace Musk and Trump with you on the planet.

Those apps are toxic and will kill your confidence unless you are really good looking. Girls have hundreds of matches for showing up. But they are so shallow so they filter out most of the guys and most likely miss a lot of people they would really like. :)

Actually I would go as far as saying that social media has made girls think they are some kind of a super creature, deserving of thousands of guys just admiring them. Lols.

I went full Lemmy for a while but have to admit I’m reading reddit again, but without their dumb app. Just the web browser.

Looking through a few subreddits, see what’s new for five minutes. I don’t post anymore, don’t have an account.