Appreciate it.

Philanthropy has always been a PR calculation to keep the masses from revolting against the accumulation of wealth.

Jacobin - Bill Gates Chooses Corporate Patent Rights Over Human Lives

Politico - How Bill Gates and partners used their clout to control the global Covid response — with little oversight

New Republic - How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines

I can keep going if that’s not enough to read. Also lol at you trusting a governmental committee report.

Fuck Gates, he is responsible for many heinous things, most recently encouraging pharma companies to patent publicly funded covid vaccines, which has denied access to the global population, which then encourages mutations.

I don’t care what he is saying whether it’s good or not there are better people worth listening to on the subject. Billionaires are not the answer to the world’s problems, they are the cause of them.

I was making a jab. I’m aware of market forces, but price memory is a thing and often the true cost of production isn’t reflected in consumer pricing. Especially when an industry just decides they can keep prices where they are if not raise them, looking at you egg producers.

Not in a profit driven economy…

I picked up godot because I have been using codemonkey.com to teach my son python. Enevitably I have to help him when he gets stuck and I realized I knew alot more than I would have guessed. My point is coding isn’t as nebulous as you might think, not to say you won’t get stuck on syntaxes but it is also incredibly satisfying when you get it working.

Awesome! That’s such a great feeling, find another good tutorial and keep learning!

I’m proud of you!

It’s a joke.

Just play something better and skip buying it all together.

Nightclubs are a space that preditors are active in and that skews the perception. It’s absolutely best practice to hold your drink, that doesn’t mean the chances of a random man in the forest who is going to be a threat is high. How many people just don’t enjoy nightclubs?

You’re making alot of assumptions about the people disagreeing. My co-parent has been talking about this bear tiktok since it first showed up, how disappointed she has been with friends saying they would pick a bear, how harmful the discussion revolving around it is to young men, how 4th wave feminism leans more to reactionary politics instead of building towards material change. She is a socialist political organizer and every single woman in her party is pretty demoralized by this whole thing as it says alot about the publics political consciousness. If half the population more than half the population judging by the men in this thread agreeing to pick the bear, see strangers as a dangerous other, where does that leave us to join together to make meaningful change in society?

Having lemmy be my only form of social media this is my first time encountering the bear discussion and I completely understand her frustration now.

You misunderstand me if you feel I am arguing against the data.

I don’t want to get in the weeds here, at least once in the last 12 months is not regularly, that’s my point on your misrepentation. Does it happen too much, absolutely, does the study present enough data to say it’s happening regularly, no.

Again when talking about actual threats to women it is not strangers but men already in their circle, yet that is not what the bear discussion revolves around.

Please answer: Why do you think the actual threat doesn’t shape public consciousness the same way perceived threats do?

Where like 60% of women get harassed regularly

That’s not what the linked study says: In June 2021, the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN) showed that 28% of women and 16% of men had experienced at least one form of harassment in the previous 12 months. Of adults aged 16 to 34 years, 58% of women had experienced harassment, compared with 24% of men (Figure 4).

And don’t get me wrong, I am not here to justify harassment of anyone, but you’re grossly misrepresenting the study right now. Perceptions are absolutely influenced by experience of harassment but the actual threat to a woman is not random men on the street, it’s a man that has power over her or within her circle of trust. That could be a boss, a husband or relative.

However that reality is not what is shaping public perception, I would ask you why do you think that is? It’s a very important part of this bear conversation that is completely lost on everyone.

Those assaults aren’t from strangers is the piece of information omitted, it’s men in their family or inner circle abusing power or taking advantage of trust. The perception that all men are a threat is seriously damaging our youth and in fact creating a larger issue as it radicalizes them into ideologies that don’t value others as a reactionary turn to the way they feel treated.

This shit is bad and you should feel bad for propagating it.

This whole conversation is the equivalent to stranger danger of the 80s, it is shocking how far the publics social awareness is. Just like stranger danger it enphasizes fear over rational truth, and encourages isolation over community. The truth of the matter is that some random man isn’t a bigger threat to you than a random bear, when looking at statistics and physical threat to women it’s domestic violence.

This bear shit is some whack ass 4th wave feminism that completely lacks any kind of internal self criticism. The public conversation surrounding it provides no purpose than to feed into incel radicalization of young men feeling the strains of alienation under capitalism.

This post makes me happy. Appreciate the work the Godot Foundation does and the mods of this community!

Serial killer logic.

I just beat the game after 360ish loses. It was a run I could have started going back up the mountain but since I had never won before I figured I should just roll the credits.