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    I don’t know how you all feel about ChatGPT but I was curious if the robots would understand how silly this post was. It delivered.

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        OpenAI fed this thing a steady diet of internet forums as training data. You’d better believe that it knows how to verbally destroy anything and everything, at every conceivable level of sass and/or vitriol.

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        I am unironically going to start using “fostering gratitude loops with dish-based reciprocity”

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          I think there should be. Gemini gave me a really good giggle when I asked it to write a short story about what would happen if cops and courts started interpreting the law the same way sovereign citizens do.

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        I would be down as well except maybe discussing personal relationship issues with random stranger I just met.

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        I especially love the “cohort of 1 (yourself)” bit. Don’t think I’d dare push the parody that far myself but it works.

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    I remember before the plague it became fashionable to talk about “having your personal advisory board”. It was just a friend group for socially stunted MBAs.

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      I see it as symptomatic of something worse: the tendency to monetize, advertise, and exploit everything that you are. For anyone willing to go hard enough on those ideals, it’s (theoretically) possible to achieve more income. The thing that’s keeping the rest of us from doing this are opposing ideals like privacy, quality of life, respecting boundaries, and healthy relationships.

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    This sounds like the guy who suggested “virgin edibles” as an idea worth trying out.

    Or, to rephrase it, “food.”

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    Hey if this gets more men to make actual meaningful friendships instead of succumbing to the roganverse I’m all for it.

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    I don’t think this is bad advice. However I don’t think that it should be limited to just men.

    Also I think the group should align politically and be able to support each other in solidarity. They could also use meeting time to plan resistance to fascist regimes.

    However there are quite a few people (I am mostly thinking of men I know) that tend to isolate themselves from friends when they need help the most or once they get into a romantic relationship. This is probably not just a men’s issue however.

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      Cut it off after the first 2 points and it sounds ideal.

      A bunch of 4-5 guy friends who are open to talk about anything with the motivation being to get a better understanding…where do I sign up?

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            I don’t have Telegram and I’m in the process of abandoning Discord 🤪

            Telegram requires a phone number…? Bah

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                  I don’t care. Apps are easily installed. If it’s not a platform that’s got a strong userbase then people don’t take it up and it’ll end up being just a chat between the 2 of us.

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        If I have to explain to anyone that genocide is wrong and that human rights are good. Or if I find someone votes to promote genocide or reduce human rights. Then they are not my friend.

        I might try to talk in good faith to them, I might attempt to negotiate with them, i might even exchange pleasantries with them. But they will never have my full confidence.

        I do not have to “get along” with a fascist.

        • “Conflicting political views” doesn’t necessarily mean “fascist”. I don’t understand why this topic always causes such misunderstandings. This is something I also noticed when I made a thread on the Fediverse community asking about possible advantages or disadvantages about the mostly limited range of views on Lemmy. Some users replied in a similar fashion. Maybe it’s just a deliberate exaggeration, i don’t know.

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            If you haven’t noticed the USA is in the middle of a fascist auto-coup.

            So it’s not exaggeration. I’ve had to cut ties with members of my family. Because they believe some people are sub humans that don’t deserve rights or that regions of the globe should be purged.

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                I don’t have any first hand experience outside of the USA. But from global news it sounds like this is a global trend in places like germany, France, Italy, most of south america, Africa, and Asia too.

                Maybe I should say that you should align with friends based on your moral principles rather than politics.

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                  That’s better yes. Some of my closest friends are politically very different from me, but in the end we mostly do align morally.

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            It’s because that language is specifically what fascists are hiding behind, right this minute. It goes right along as the evolution of the ‘you’re being intolerant of my intolerance!’

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          Full agreement but I will say as a syndicalist it’s been good for me to be friends with progressive liberals and some more authoritarian and central planning communists. We all want the same thing: a better society that’s less oppressive and fairer. We each can help each other see flaws in our ideas and figure out how to advance things.

          Fascism should be always off the table. But single party approaches are extremely self destructive

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    Ngl I read this as a positive thing at first

    Like friendships should be about creating a safe space where people can talk about sensitive subjects without being judged. A lot of toxic masculinity influencers keep saying that men shouldn’t have feelings, men should just bottle it up, etc. and that’s just not a good and healthy mindset.

    Then I realized this was on linkedin lol

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    They could make some shitty startup named BroBar that creates public places where the atmosphere is chill, beer is served, and where you could find people for your “core group”. Maybe even play some pool.

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    Men need to start forming cute groups of 4-5 where

    • no clothing is off limits
    • the goal is to give headpats
    • each person is accountable to their goals (:3)
    • the group helps strategize a roadmap for the person to live into their fursona
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      Do people really do headpats? Those are just uncomfortable. Petting is much preferred. Group massages were the best part about running cross country in high school.

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    Hey, if that’s what it takes for Nathanael to have some human interaction, I’m cool with it. I don’t necessarily want to be involved, but I’m not against it.

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    I propose adding “dressing up in leather” and “worshipping the devil” to this list; Just to make it spicy.