Because retailers are middle-men by definition.

Hell, a large amount of local businesses’ stock is probably bought on Amazon Business.

I live in a fairly small, poor, remote suburb of my city’s district. The city is divided into districts, with a representative for each district, and the power of the city government is largely in the hands of these representatives. My neighborhood is part of a district that, due to geography, is mostly very separated from us (think like a long thin line sticking way out of the main body of the district with my neighborhood on the end of it).

Certain city boards were trying to make up revenue by taxing our neighborhood specifically in various ways. We were obviously furious about it. We have regularly scheduled community town halls, like all the districts, and our rep shows up at them.

The town hall after the taxation proposal was released was scheduled to run from 3pm to 6pm. It lasted until well after midnight.

My district rep stayed there the whole time, obviously exhausted but still asking questions and opinions of the speakers and making promises. He promised to do something about it. And sure enough, within a month, the city boards backtracked on the taxation scheme.

We’re a poor neighborhood, and we’re not super numerous either. He didn’t have to help us, he could have sacrificed us to subsidize the main body of the district. But he didn’t, he stayed all night and then went and fought for us in the city government. He later went on to higher offices at the state and federal level.

Also, I once accidentally touched the Mayor’s boob at a party rally, so that could count I guess.

In a personal sense, I define productivity mainly as objectively measurable accomplishment over a period of time. If I used time productively, I either improved my circumstances (or my employer’s circumstances, when they’re paying me for my time) or worked towards that improvement in a permanent way. Research and learning is productive, when it furthers my ability to improve my circumstances. Research and learning for its own sake is only mildly productive in that it makes me a more knowledgeable person.

Leisure activity is NOT productive, mostly, but that’s not a bad thing. The main thing is to avoid COUNTER productive activities. Leisure activity is somewhat productive when it allows me to rest and recuperate and be more productive later.

Productivity involves “getting things done” but only when those things matter. Making my bed every day has no discernible benefit to me, so that time is not spent productively. The dude in front of my house with his loud-ass leaf blower spending an hour blowing a single leaf all around the street is not being productive. Sure, it’s more productive than sitting catatonically, but not by much. It’s productive to him in the sense that he’s getting paid for that time, but it’s not productive on behalf of his employer (who is, in a sense, me via my landlord).

I doubt it. If you don’t provide context, people will provide their own context. And then the question is just a kind of Rorschach test.

It’s a pretty broad term. In a personal sense? In an economic sense? Need some context.

I highly doubt it was the fetish. Some women are just like that.

Especially if you ever date an actual mom, a lot of times she’ll just slip into “mom mode” without even realizing and start cooking for you or doing your laundry or whatever. It’s second nature.

Plateaus are the highest form of flattery.

I think in general you’re correct. However, OP noted that this problem (people constantly misunderstanding) seems to be exclusive to lemmy (Fediverse et al) and not limited solely to her communication. I’ve noticed it as well, and I it that points to a quirk of this community.

There’s a LOT of autistic people on lemmy. Way more than the average distribution in real life.

Seriously, and with no offense meant, I think there is a significantly higher than normal concentration of people on the spectrum here. A lot of conversations I see show the hallmarks.

I think this is a big part of the problem. Instead of thinking, “what did THEY INTEND to say with that post”, people think “how did I FEEL when I read the post”.

The former matters a lot more than the latter in communication. All communication should be about translating and decoding the intention of the other person first and foremost.

Nope lol

She had the shortest fuse I’ve ever seen

My first long term relationship was with a woman who could orgasm from penetration in less than a minute.

I disagree, I’d like a greater variety of topics especially on general conversation communities.

Is there research showing that? My impression was that short of chemical castration it’s almost impossible to remove.

Sure it is. A lot of people would agree that viewing drawings or AI generated CP is a victimless crime.

Or for another example, two under-18s taking nude pics and sending them to each other. Technically illegal, but morally? Probably not bad.

But just to speak to what you said, if they are non-offending, are you talking about the ones that dont physically assault children? Because the ones who are viewing and distributing csam are still harming children. Maybe not directly, but its like supply and demand, isn’t it? People make it if people want it.

I intentionally left that vague because of the nuance you mentioned. I think most people agree that physical assault of a child is heinous. Consumption of CP is more of a difficult gray area.

People don’t choose to be pedophiles. We shouldn’t hate them just for existing.

People choose to abuse children, and that should be strongly punished and I think the majority agrees with me on that.

But a non-offending pedophile is someone with a disability and should be treated as such.

We’re reading different books. Mine is called Equality.

their children’s lives are still left uncertain

Fuck em. A lot of children’s lives are uncertain.