I am not young or dating. We do have friends that are 25 and under. They are men and they do complain a lot about the dating scene. I am also a professor and I work with 18 to 25 year-olds. I can only say that there is a greater sense of anxiety among these students and that they all pay much closer attention to their appearance than before.
Cause: societal expectations and dating apps
There are other things to note here. I do think changes occurred, and dating apps gave some people an unfair advantage and commodified dating. Leading up to the incel movement in the 90s and early 2000s, the idea of PUAs was already in full swing. That type of trend was, and still is, very toxic and I see how it messed up my brother-in-law (he still thinks negging his partner is a kind way to control her).
I can’t speak for societal expectations. I have noticed that some of my male friends, who have been single since their 20s (they are 40+ now), have things in common: overweight/underweight, bald, low income, hobbies like video games.
Possible Consequences: desperation, depression, gender standards, violence
I can absolutely imagine at least 2 of my partner’s friends being violent. They talk about women using terms like “libtard” or make assumptions based on haircuts. They are becoming openly racist, especially when they see biracial couples.
Another group of friends have given up on dating and now focus on their wellbeing and hobbies. They do not seem angry about their circumstances. If you ask them why they are single, they say they cannot afford a partner.
Solutions: balance
The responses are probably lacking. Balance might be a good idea. Pointing out double standards is a start. When speaking with couples in their 20s, I have heard some women state that it took them years to realise that they had unrealistic expectations—they should someday mention that to their children. We cannot blame social media or control it, but the press should stop sensationalizing it. Mental healthcare for men shouldn’t be stigmatized.
My thoughts
Videos like this should have some age limit on them. It does not contain all of the information required to come to a decision and could lead a younger person down a rabbit hole of biases. In turn, they could be lead to MRM forums and echo chambers. Amateur news summaries like this, no matter how many source cited, can quickly become part of an alternative information network and exacerbate the very problem they are highlighting.
I appreciate your thoughts; however, I believe that not age-restricting videos like this is crucial to initiating a discussion on this topic.
The first step towards a solution is to break the taboo around this topic; this will pave the way for higher-quality videos that are paired with awareness.
they are acting like the police are the reason that crime in major categories was their doing, but oddly that same set of crime is down nationwide, its less in NYC so they are not even on par with the nation
The most asinine part to this for me is that he brought three bags from the car, only photographed two, and didn’t even deliver one. Like why not just bring one bag, maybe the wrong one so you have a good reason to go back to the car after the picture, just why take all the bags out to not even photograph them and then steal them anyway?
It’s kind of ironic that changing the battery of cell phones were so easy back then and so hard now and finding a battery saw/grinder/any-electric-tool was so hard then and so easy now.
Repaired phones for years for friends family and for payment sometimes. Still managed to mess up my own screen replacement a week back, a bit to much pressure on one side…
Worst thing besides the right to repair adversely and planned obsolescence is the bloody prices. Folded and got a new from a second hand company ( still new in box)
That… doesn’t look easy. Or at least, I imagine this video would look intimidating to non-tech savvy users. I consider myself at least a little tech savvy and I’m like 80% sure I would forget to insert that transparent sheet thingy under the battery. I’m guessing it’s insulation?
Anyway, what used to be the norm was pulling off the back cover and then remove the battery with your fingernail. No tools required. Now a vast majority of phones are glued together, all under the pretext of making the phone more thin.
What irks me is that companies still make removable batteries, but they are getting harder and harder to find. In fact, Samsung itself has XCover line of phones that have easily accessible batteries. How easy? This easy:
I mean they’re still this “easy” for the most part. Obviously some are harder than others but I’ve changed plenty of post 2020 phones and they’re very similar to this. I would strongly argue that it should absolutely be waaaaay easier to do tho. I’ve only changed so many because it’s too difficult for most people and they know I can.
It’s ridiculous how hard they’ve made these damn things to repair and it pisses me off that it’s even legal. We’re slooooowly making headway in the right to repair department but it’s really just kind of clawing back to where we were than actual progress.
Most "high-end cellphones" have their batteries glued in (applying heat near a battery is no fun at all), and in some cases to open the enclosure you've got to remove the front glass as there's no way to remove the back cover (surprise, it's also glass).
Honestly, I felt that after trying to replace a battery, they should hand me an EOD title.
I’ve been fixing cell phones and replacing batteries for literally 25 years now.
On all the higher end phones that people like to have, it is absolutely not nearly that easy anymore. Not even close. The most time consuming part is if they’re waterproofed/resistant and glass backed. You have to be much more careful taking the backs off without breaking (much easier with a heat gun or heating plate) and then you have to remove every little bit of the adhesive used on the back and housing of the phone if you want to seal it up well, again.
Then theres often a lot more hardware you have to disconnect and remove in order to get to the battery.
Then many batteries (looking at you, samsung) adhere the batteries down extremely hard with no release tabs so you need to use adhesive removal and thin plastic to slip under the battery (use too much or pry too hard and you’ll ruin the screen) in order to remove it.
Then, if you’ve done all that, you just have to decide if you’re going to put the phone back, back on with a sticker like what it came with (aftermarket ones aren’t very good, though) or if you can lay down a nice enough bead of something like t-8000 glue. I go for the glue, because I’ve done it enough times that I’m confident I can make it waterproof again and I have stuff to hold pressure across the phones while it dries.
This is such a bummer to hear. That makes sense because I have definitely not been working on high end phones. I’ve only worked on one where I needed to remove the back glass (which was a bitch until I figured it out!) but once I popped it open it wasn’t too bad. Sounds like things are getting worse and maybe won’t get better for a bit…
I’m curious, do you ever see any type of DRM or software locks if you replace any components? I’m just a weekend warrior so I don’t work on a ton but I’ve tried to help out a friend or two by replacing components and there’s been a few times it seems like everything is in place but the phone just won’t allow the replaced components. I just assumed I messed something up but I’ve heard of some fishy business where phones won’t allow aftermarket components on some parts of the phone (I’ve mainly only had this issue dealing with switching out camera components)
I haven’t heard of any phone manufacturers that will completely brick a phone, but Apple is a heavy offender of “parts pairing” where it will give constant warnings or disable features if you swap out a part. Same for the optical drives in playstations and xbox’.
Good news is that a state in the US just banned parts pairing, so it looks like Apple and anyone else will have to stop doing it. I’m sure Apple will just do something else to make it extremely hard to replace parts instead, though. It seems like they always want to be anti consumer pricks.
Palestine is being colonized for being a bridge between Asia and Africa, not for any “religious” reasons. Theodor Herzl, founder of the “zionism” was a racist colonizer who saw colonizing Palestine as bringing ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarians’ as the rest of Europe did when they were colonizing and enslaving Africa and Asia:
“We should there form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism. We should as a neutral State remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence.” Source [II]
The difference now is that the US has been the de facto leader of the imperial core since WW2, no longer UK in Europe, hence the US being its main master.
Religions are a consequence of class society and a region’s material conditions. Seeing anything entirely through the lens of religion is not very materialist.
It’s a tool that’s often used for imperialism, so while it’s not like it had “nothing to do with religion”, pointing at it instead of class society is kinda putting the cart before the horse.
Like Alsephina said, it seems like you’re still stuck in a religious mindset. The issue of religion will simultaneously be tackled by dealing with its root causes: class society and material conditions. As is what happened / is happening in socialist societies like the USSR, China, DPRK etc.
Religion is a consequence of class society and a region’s material conditions. Seeing anything entirely through the lens of religion is not very materialist.
This. I used to associate everything with religion after leaving islam, and realizing it’s merely a consequence of class society was a key trigger for becoming a socialist for me.
Ironically, by trying to see everything through the lens of religion during that time instead of thinking materially, I was still stuck in a religious mindset even after supposedly leaving it.
and just like any other excuse, aren’t we beholden to call it out for the benefit of all?
instead, like capitalism, we seem to shrug and say “that’s just how humans are lol” while we go back to killing each other over money or made up stories from 2000 years ago.
just like in therapy/recovery/etc, don’t we have to acknowledge(and i mean actually reflect on) the problem (organised religion, in this case) before anything gets better?
And extremely violent, and prone to war crimes. But don’t let that stop Americans from grandstanding and acting like they’re a moral compass, even on this issue
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