[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 14 hours ago

I can't wait to be called on a Amazon's Levy to give my life conquering some Microsoft's chip factory.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Let me introduce you to the wonderful concepts of feudalism and slavery.

You think that people have nothing to lose but their chains. They think people will have nothing to sell but their bodies.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

I'm already smart and beautiful.

Isn't there a genie out there that cures anxiety?

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Bro thinks Startship Troopers is actual army propaganda.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fun fact. At no point in my comments you'll see that I referred to "male friends" or "female friends".

Plenty of men had female friends that got away because they fell in love with some other man/woman. And I don't think toxic masculinity would have any impact in a friendship between a woman and a non-toxic man. And those relationships also break apart anyway.

It makes no difference the gender of the friends in my theory. And if course I don't think that woman (or men) are, as a gender, the cause of male loneliness, or that women are to blame for anything, much less for also wanting to have a romantic relationship.

The only gendered part of the issue, and the reason on why we call it "male loneliness" is that women seems to have an easier time achieving romantic relationships when they want to. While men tend to have a much harder time and their loneliness tends to be involuntary more often than not. (Again not that women, as a gender, is to blame for this situation).

The thing is that you can be the best friend in the world, a partner will always come first for the other person. It's not a matter of lack of empathy or any other"toxic male behavior" here. It's just people having different priorities in life. And a problem with some people being no one's priority. And I don't think there's nothing wrong with feeling bad about not being anyone number one priority in life, it's just a plain sad fact that's normal to make people sad about it.

I'm not convinced that my theory is true. As this is an incredibly complex topic. I just think that the whole "male toxicity is to blame" is just an easy scape goat or political dogma. "Toxic masculinity and sexism is bad so it must be the cause of every gendered issue in society", and then constructing the argument needed for that statement to maintain true. And while sexism it's obviously bad, it does not need to be the source of any and all problems. Some problems, I think, have other sources.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

English, no.

Spanish, sí.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago

None. All are biased. The best way is to read multiple news sources being aware of what their biases are.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Toxic masculinity is definitely not a part of relationships falling apart.

Anyone who had live through being in a group of single people through their youth and, as years pass, became the only one single on that group could probably confirm the experience. Friendships do not fall apart just because some male toxicity. It's way simpler, it's just that when two people do not have partners they can devote a lot of time and emotional energy to each other. When you are single a friend can easily be the most important person of your life. When you have a partner the amount of time and emotional energy that you have for friends is inferior, as you want to spend a great deal of that time and energy to your partner (as it's natural). Then relationships became different. It's not that it's impossible to have "married friends". But it's certainly not the same as having a close single friend. And toxic masculinity does not take a part in any part of this process. The process is just a natural thing to happen on these situations.

Yes, people can cope trying to make new friendships. But that's just a way to cope. Same as filing your live with hobbies and social activities can help coping with the lack of a romantic partner. But it does not solve the base issue. It's like taking antidepressants for a depression, it helps, but it's no solution, and the lack of antidepressants was not the issue.

Having a romantic relationship is important for many people. Denying that can be alienating, as you are denying personal experiences and personal feelings. I don't think that solution is convincing people that their natural desires of being as loved as they see other people to be is just wrong and that they should live with even wanting that love (while they see plenty of other people enjoying that kind love).

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Feels more like an explanation looking for a question that otherwise. Explanation doesn't seems to emerge from the problem, but from the solution.

Again not talking about the main issue that every men that feel alone will tell you as the root of their problem:

-Lack of a relationship.

-Lack of friendships due other friends being invested in their relationships.

I haven't meet a man that accused male loneliness because "others expect me to act manly" or because "I don't know what I want because toxic masculinity". Toxic masculinity may cause anxiety, discomfort or things like that in not complying men, but I don't see it causing lack of romantic relationships. The cause of the former must be other.

The whole "men are wrong for wanting to be loved and they should be happy being alone" feels a little too much invalidating on people's wants and desires.

While sexism and male toxicity is bad I don't see how ending that would improve in anything male loneliness as it's solution does not address what's making many males feel lonely.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

I'm actually using searxng and just blocking any website with blatantly written AI shitcontent.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Ok, lead boy.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think that many of the approaches that tried to explain it are mostly dangerous.

Like blaming it on gender norms, and toxic masculinity, the most common answer. Because plenty of men who do not comply to gender norms or toxic masculinity (or masculinity at all) still feel alone. And their experience get invalidated by this explanation.

I think a more neutral approach is needed to explain it. Instead of trying to take some explanation that fits your political views and then try to push it as a solution to the problem, the problem should be investigated by itself, and once an explanation is reached accept it even if it does not fit your political mindset.

One hint is that most people that feel alone lack a romatic relationship, the most common approach seems to be that "nah romatic relationships are not needed and we will not even consider them part of the problem". When it's pretty obviously that the lack of this kind of relationships is fundamental in male loneliness.

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This is not a question about if you think it is possible, or not.

This is a question about your own will and desires. If there was a vote and you had a ballot in your hand, what will you vote? Do you want Artificial Intelligence to exist, do you not, maybe do you not care?

Here I define Artificial Intelligence as something created by humans that is capable of rational thinking, that is creative, that it's self aware and have consciousness. All that with the processing power of computers behind it.

As for the important question that would arise of "Who is creating this AI?", I'm not that focused on the first AI created, as it's supposed that with time multiple AI will be created by multiple entities. The question would be if you want this process to start or not.

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I cannot stand google news any more, too much spam, clickbait and advertisement. So I decided to try to selfhost an RSS aggregator to make myself a news feed that I would be comfortable with. Being RSS such an "ancient" thing I thought there will be many mature systems, but I'm not sure that's the case..

As far as my investigation goes there are two main options out there** TT-RSS (tiny tiny RSS) and FreshRSS**. There seems to also be miniflux but it supposedly have very few features.

So I tried the both main ones and I ended up kind of disappointed, I hope that I'm missing something. My requirements are:

1-Have a nice interface, card view, phone friendly. Basically being able to look the same as google news looked. So both have a pretty dated interface. And terrible responsive UI for phones. I was kind of able to make a "card view" with TT-RSS but looked hideous and didn't really work on phone screen, also applying themes broke TT-RSS, this will be recurring theme but it looks like TT-RSS is constantly breaking a rolling release system makes it very unstable and many plugins, themes and third party apps don't work right now because some new update broke everything. So native theming wasn't going to be a thing, so I tried third party apps. I found many that worked with FreshRSS and settled on Feedme, it looked exactly as I wanted, great. One point for FreshRSS. Feedme was supposedly compatible with TTRSS but I could not login, I have the suspicion that one update broke integration. I'm not even try to attempt to ask in their forums as I see that some time ago somebody asked the same question and got banned from their forums.

2-Being able to filter or prioritize feeds The problem is that I would love to suscribe to very diverse feeds, some would post maybe over a 100 post per day and others maybe one post every week or even month. So if let everything by default the former would flood the feed and I would never see the post from the little feeds. Here both offer categories that I could use but ideally I would love to have a curated main page. FreshRSS supposedly have a priority system but it seems quite simple and not effective for my needs, AFAIK you can put some feeds in "important feeds" but it only would show those feeds in that category then. TTRSS does have an advance filter system that is complex enough and with some fiddling I think I could make a set of rules that satisfy my needs. One point for TTRSS.

3-Being able to suscribe to any feed or even scrape webs that doesn't provide feeds. Here FreshRSS wins, I have zero issues subscribing to everything I wanted. With TTRSS I couldn't even subscribe with some pages that did provide with a feed, even if it was in an unconventional way. TTRSS devs say that is the webpage problem (even if FreshRSS had no problem with it). Here another point to FreshRSS.

And that is it, I do not exige that much. But I wasn't able to find a system that ticks those three checkboxes. FreshRSS was so close. But unless I am missing something you can't really create a curate feed that prioritizes and sorts feeds and posts in the way you can do with TTRSS sorting, if there is a way please let me know. And without that the whole thing becomes useless from the flooding feeds. And while I'm in love with TTRSS filters and sorting system, the whole app seems to unstable and with so many bugs to be usable, at least in my desired usercase (and I've seem many people complaining about TTRSS updates breaking things all the time).

My two main questions are:

-Am I missing some other self-hosted app that could do all I wanted?

-Am I missing some FreshRSS feature or extension that could curate a main feed with my own rules?

Any thoughts?

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