I’m anticonsumption in general and temu just seems like the epitome of paying for disposable garbage.

In general i don’t understand why people are buying any nonessential items at all. Everyone is apparently too poor but random crap still sells. I splurged and bought a cheap tablet to use as an ereader this year but only because i can’t justify the expense of buying books and my local library is awful.

They want people to smoke, that’s the only explanation. They make money from taxing it and save money when people die early.

The taxes people (in Australia) pay to finance public healthcare are numbers on a spreadsheet and we don’t have unlimited money.

Are you saying my self medicatory alcoholism makes me green?

Excellent!

Equality isn’t treating people differently because they are different, it’s treating people the same even if they are different.

This idea really breaks down when you apply it to people with disabilities who have different needs than the norm, and that problem applies to systemically disadvantaged people too. Society isn’t one size fits all, we need to cater to everyone.

I don’t think the average person gives a toss about any of those things or sees them as adding any value to their lives. They believe that journalists are lying propagandists, universities are elitist and out of touch, welfare serves lazy immigrants and social and democratic systems have failed them. Noone really beleives in society anymore, the right would like to create a new one where they fit in.

Carry tampons at all times.

When the monthly misery ends i block out the whole experience and the very existence of menstruation until next time, when i am shocked and angered that this is happening again, already!?! I’m looking forward to menopause.

Bombing everyone in Gaza is a great way to turn many of them into hamas. How are those kids going to grow up sane and normal and make peace with Israel? Imagine a whole society with PTSD, it’s horrifying. Israel knows this too, which is they want to protect themselves through genocide. They really do think those kids are hamas.

Probably because we don’t make cars, or anything else. We dig stuff up, send it to China and buy it back in the form of goods.

I once got a message from spotify saying congratulations, your musical taste is unique, you haven’t liked a single song we have recommended. They haven’t stopped trying though.

I’m curious about what percentage of programmers would give error free answers to these questions in seconds.

I actually like annoying vegans. The truth is that you are right and I just don’t care enough about the planet. You’re far better people than I am. I also think that’s an awfully frustrating thing to say to a vegan.

The cognitive dissonance says i should really try to make some kind of vegan food… Don’t give up.

Angry boomers will love it, also the masculinists who think boys are too weak these days.

“We’ve lost everything. We lost our family life. We lost our livelihoods. And we have nowhere to go,” said the Israeli soldier

Huh? People are just turning everything upside down now.

I feel like we as a culture do not appreciate the raw physical potential of women. The whole “weaker sex” propaganda was way too successful.

This is so true. I basically carry boxes for a living and people tell me constantly that can’t/shouldn’t lift anything heavy. Too many women won’t even try because they’ve been conditioned to think it’s going to break them. One woman refused to lift anything heavy because she still wanted to have children. And by heavy i mean 12-25kg. We are not that fragile.

The tech world wants the easy money made from payment processing, as well as all the data they can get.

How is having numerous private companies all concerned with billing in any way efficient? Imagine if everyone was covered and the money and time and intelligence used to decide how much they pay and how much you pay went towards actual healthcare. The whole existence of health insurance is an inefficiency.

Funny that you’re Greek. I recently had a conversation with the middle aged son of Greek migrants where he complained that the suburb he grew up in changed because of the later wave of migrants from elsewhere. No self awareness at all.

I thought it was meant to be the new twitter, by design… wut?

The article does not address any of that, it’s your interpretation. I would like lower immigration into my country and that absolutely requires raising other countries up economically and preventing war and climate catastrophe. This was just a survey on what issues people are concerned about. It did not ask for solutions.