RedRook1917 [he/him]

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  • RedRook1917 [he/him]@hexbear.nettoChapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Scott Adams has passed away (author of Dilbert comic strips)English
    26·
    3 个月前

    Directly copied from the ‘Political Views’ tab on Wikipedia:

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    Adams often commented on political and social matters, although he said in 2016, “I don’t vote and I am not a member of a political party.”[86] As of 2008, Adams identified his views on social issues as “[leaning] libertarian, minus the crazy stuff”.[87] After endorsing Mitt Romney for the 2012 presidential election,[88] Adams endorsed Donald Trump in the following election. During that election, he wrote extensively on Trump, praising his persuasion skills[89][90] and later described his support for Trump as a factor in ending his public speaking career, as well as negatively impacting his income and friendships.[91][92] He also spoke against Trump’s opponent Hillary Clinton, expressing concerns that Clinton’s candidacy would lower the status of men in America.[93][94] In 2017, Adams described his views as supporting left-wing policies he perceived as realistic.[95]

    Adams made various predictions about politics. Early in the 2016 election, Adams predicted Trump would win based on his analysis of how persuasive the candidates were. As Trump gained momentum, Adams’s election analysis gained media and popular attention.[21] Later (incorrect) predictions repeatedly featured in Politico magazine’s annual lists of “Worst Predictions”, including that one of Trump, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden would die from COVID-19 by the end of 2020,[96] that “Republicans will be hunted” if Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election[97] and that the 2024 presidential election would result in a “landslide” of claims the election was rigged and the results ultimately overturned in Trump’s favor by the Supreme Court.[98]

    After a 2022 mass shooting, Adams opined that society leaves parents of troubled teenage boys with only two options: to either watch people die or murder their own son. He said his comments were inspired by his own stepson, who became addicted to drugs at the age of 14 and later died of a fentanyl overdose.[99][100] Adams was anti-masking and anti-COVID-19 vaccines,[101] and he believed that people unvaccinated against COVID-19 “came out the best” compared to vaccinated people.[102]

    In a 2006 blog post, Adams asked if official figures of the number of deaths in The Holocaust were based on methodologically sound research.[103][35] In 2023, Adams suggested the 2017 Unite the Right rally was “an American intel op against Trump”.[104] In 2020, Adams said that the Dilbert TV show was cancelled because he was white and UPN had decided to focus on an African-American audience, and that he had been discriminated against.[105] In a series of comic strips in September 2022, Dilbert parodied environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) strategies. Part of the plotline involved a black character who “identif[ied] as white” and the company management asking him if he could also identify as gay.[106]

    Lol bye bye bozo

  • RedRook1917 [he/him]@hexbear.nettochat@hexbear.net•I am not happy making music anymoreEnglish
    15·
    4 个月前

    Sounds like you are burned out. An indefinite hiatus might be necessary. Music, like any art, requires your soul to be in it to truly create something great. If your hearts not in it you can’t force it to be. Just lay it all on the table and have a heart to heart with these people by expressing the feelings you mentioned in the post. If they care for your well being then they will come to accept it.

    Sorry for your situation Corgi its never easy losing passion for something you love.

  • RedRook1917 [he/him]@hexbear.nettomemes@hexbear.net•What the adult Bluey fan hears when you say you don't want to watch a 2nd episode.English
    191·
    4 个月前

    Enjoying Your Inner Child is Healthy; Living in It is Not.

    There’s a significant difference between maintaining a healthy connection to the media you loved as a kid and allowing it to completely define your adult worldview.

    The Balanced Approach: Keeping “kids’ stuff” like video games, animated films, or comics as a hobby is not only acceptable but can be a wonderful source of joy and nostalgia. It’s a part of your life, not your entire identity.

    The Unbalanced Approach: The issue arises when this becomes a core part of your identity to the exclusion of all else. An adult who only engages with children’s media, and filters complex, real-world issues through a simplistic, fictional lens, risks remaining in a state of arrested development.

    I place myself firmly in the first category. I still enjoy playing Super Smash Bros. with friends. However, I know several people in their mid-twenties who exemplify the second. While I care for them, it’s challenging to have a serious conversation. Their entire world revolves around Marvel and Disney; it’s all they watch, discuss, and breathe. Consequently, they often view the world through a distorted, childish lens, leading them to unrealistic and simplistic conclusions about how life and society work.

  • RedRook1917 [he/him]@hexbear.nettoSlop.@hexbear.net•Whiny "entrepreneur" attempts to find fault with LiChess, one of the most popular chess websites in the world, because it was founded by a French communist (Thibault Duplessis) and is completely freeEnglish
    21·
    5 个月前

    I know praising “FreePooThrowing” is as popular as ever. On the sanitation Reddit, someone shows up every second Saturday to say FreePooThrowing is the best thing that ever happened to waste disposal.

    I’ve actually contributed to FreePooThrowing myself as a demonstrator and blogger. I stopped because of their ideological stance – that’s a different story. I’m not pretending FreePooThrowing hasn’t done a lot of good. In fact, my own project, PooThrowing+, wouldn’t have progressed so fast without FreePooThrowing existing.

    Still, if you put the benefits aside for a moment, there’s something fundamentally wrong with the FreePooThrowing model: it destroys the poop-throwing market.

    Providing so much high-velocity, premium-grade feces for free makes it very hard for any poop-throwing business to charge for its services. If businesses can’t charge, they can’t pay professional throwers properly. If professionals can’t earn enough, they’re pushed to throw in poorly-ventilated, substandard arenas. Conditions don’t improve for professionals, and that eventually leads to a less splattered, less satisfying experience for casual fans, too. That’s the vicious cycle.

    Nothing is truly free. Someone always pays — with money, dignity, or the glorious, complex throws that never get built because it stopped making economic sense to try.