It is very obvious they meant it draws no power from the grid. And it doesn’t, indeed, acting fully autonomously.

Legitimate reason as in “a man is in the range of visibility”?

I’m not quite onboard with your “punishing men” rhetoric later in the thread, but here I agree

Like, how many attempts are now undertaken to pitch men and women against one another or otherwise separate them, and how far can this rabbit hole go?

Men are growing wary of women - and everyone’s cheering as MGTOW raises heads again. Women are getting increasingly defensive - and breed fear and loathing, as crowds cheer again. Both play off each other to show how much the other side sucks.

One is only seen as friendly if they support this division; anyone trying to bridge it is seen as a bad actor.

Stop it. Fuck 4B. Fuck MGTOW. Fuck that conservative dude who thinks they have a right for a woman’s body. Fuck those who put all men into sexual offenders category. Let common sense, love, and responsibility to each other prevail. Go outside and protest gerontocrats trying to take women’s right for their own body. Allow and encourage men to stand alongside and be part of the fight against forces many of them didn’t choose. Never put all people in one basket, and fight your true enemy.

Sure, but effective enough to make a drastic change to fertility rate.

Still, I see where you’re going with it

The instance has 200 users active in the last month. Not quite a trove :D

Nice!

I see. Think it’s an overkill and people can use contraception instead of going full separate, but there is kind of a point in there

What’s the point?

I understand why they would choose not to date men that advocate against abortions and stuff - that’s basic dignity and self-protection.

But why not date any other men? To hurt demographics to the best of their ability state-wise? Then this is primarily a problem set 15-20 years into the future, and may not really see the government’s reaction for a while.

My admin flat out refuses to add any donation options, citing he has enough money to maintain the instance as a hobby project. Nice!

As an actual owner of a similar thing: no

The problem isn’t even how much water comes from there (you can figure it out and not set the water jet to full power), but rather that you are expected to insert this thing back and forth, which, trust me, you won’t do since your anus is unprepared, unexpanded and, well, dirty.

So, while interesting on paper, this thing doesn’t really work the way it’s intended to. There you have it!

Riots always start with vocal minority and get more and more people engaged.

America is not lost, and has plenty of people ready to take it on the streets. They just need a push. And having others around fighting for their future is the kind of push that can wake such people up. It’s way easier to join rather than start.

That’s what happens to many authoritarian shitholes: progressives move and evacuate, loyalists remain. That’s how the country gets screwed more and more.

And US is a pretty high-stakes country, so losing that would be very bad.

So, creating a massive headache for government ~15-20 years into the future?

Or what is the point?

MGTOW is absolutely no better.

I’m not aware of how things are on the ground in the US; it’s more of a general perspective not tied to any specific country (which is my separate “meh” about strongly America-centric Lemmy, but it’s very tangential)

But seeing people actually hit the absolute mandated minimum is indeed depressing. I might expect that waiter’s income with tips is normally greater than the federal minimum, so maybe there’s a chance not all waiters will agree to work for that, which should balance it a bit?

If you believe no tipping will leave waiters to starve with no money, that’s not true. The very reason they are so severely underpaid is that restaurants know they’ll get their income from tips.

The less tips there are, the more your employer will have to pay you - in a form of salary that is way more predictable and reliable than tips.

Customers, on their end, will know price in the menu is final, and they won’t add crazy extra just so that they won’t feel like worst people on Earth.

In my country, tips do exist, but you are not expected to leave them by default and it’s totally fine and common not to. The result? Waiters get livable wage and can last a month without ever receiving a single tip (which they actually have, too, from time to time).

If it’s not gonna happen, more fascist measures will be introduced - without people’s hesitation outside Internet comments.

A solid organized riot does change the course even for most authoritarian governments, even if they happen to suppress it eventually. Politicians should feel that their position is not as solid as they would like.

But the further people prefer to not intervene, the more entrenched authoritarians become and more draconian measures are implemented. As such, the government is strongly interested in making people think rioting doesn’t help. This is part of many authoritarians’ playbooks.

Except minority rights (including, but not limited to LGBTQ+, especially T), healthy immigration policy, right to abortion, fair economic policy, environmental policies, and a million other things.

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If you are from the US and you criticized people living under authoritarian regimes for not rioting hard enough, this is your time.

You still have it easy. You won’t be taken into prison for standing with a piece of blank paper. You won’t be beaten with batons and taken into custody for reciting Constitution. Yet. Go ahead before it gets there, and may you never see a true authoritarian horror.

Otherwise, all your words are not worth a dime.