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[–] 194 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

I think he understands the problem considering he mentioned his 200k income at the start of the post.
Fur suits are expensive so hes the perfect money source :D

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  • [–] 99 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Unlike those industrial engineer peasants.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Well you see American manufacturing keeps getting hamstrung by an orange dipshit who thinks he's saving it

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He's not trying to save it. He's simply creating market fluctuations and buying the dip. He creates conditions that cause investors to worry and stock prices to fall, then he buys when the prices are low and finally he announces that the tariffs are being postponed for 90+ days (that is, into the next financial quarter). Stock prices start to rise again and eventually they return to where they started, like it never happened.

    In the meantime, people are losing jobs and their houses, but that's a small price to pay to make him and his inner circle wealthier.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    We design the stuff here and have it made in China when we want to scale. There's plenty of manufacturing engineer work, but it's not in tooling.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    This is an outdated mindset. Design and manufacturing work best together in a tight feedback loop, and China has become perfectly capable of doing their own design work. America has positioned itself to become nothing but a nation of consumers and venture capitalists.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    That went directly over my head. Apparently I’m out of touch. Haven’t dated in many years.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yeah, same. I didn’t realize being a furry was so expensive.

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  • [+] 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    However, unlike a car, you can buy it one part at a time.

    Johnny Cash says otherwise lol

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  • [–] 66 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "can I be your fast breeder reactor?"

    😂

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    I think there's a large population only because this is inherently niche. And niche things attract niche interest groups in larger quantities.

    TLDR FUR FREAK GALORE

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Or the same group of people who were going to be furries (predominately a thing developed on the internet) were going to first be deliberate internet users who then naturally discover lemmy.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Yes.

    Tumblr is the crucible in which the furries were spawned. When you think about it Tumblr was the 4chan for women/people who write fan fiction. Wild West vibe.

    When Pixar animated that lion on its back with fuck me eyes its been downhill since. They employed the people who humped their stuffed animals and werent told to stop.

    Jokes aside I like seeing the different groups that share the similarity of being irritated by centrally controlled forums/ privacy on Lemmy. My kind of weirdos (for the most part)

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Furries have been on the Internet much longer than tumblr has existed. Perhaps even longer than the world wide web has existed: I know of at least one group that was on IRC in the 90s

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They were big on usenet groups and loved talking about 90s children cartoons. Alt.tv.animaniacs and alt.tv.tiny-toon.fandom were notable and are still archived and browsable, though if you’re using something like Google groups you have to either search for key terms or be ready to flip past the 25+ years of spam posts that have been made since the groups were active in the 90s

    https://www.animaniacs.info/ata/ - an old school poster still runs a faq on the animaniacs one. The person hosting this animaniacs site has to be 50-60+ years old. Note that another section of the site shows the show had a reference to adults obsessively documenting the show: https://www.animaniacs.info/pppgalf/ which was because the network was very much aware of them because they were sending cease and desists over erotic content like fanfic and ftps with porn

    https://antifandom.com/tinytoons/wiki/The_World%27s_Biggest_Tiny_Toon_Fan tiny toons also had a similar reference, apparently, because of similar problems including tress macneille getting threatening letters and rule34 of her character mailed to her (though in those days it was just called fanart)

    Like most things it seems like the majority of the group was probably fine, just super into a cartoon, and a few bad actors crossed the line which allowed the whole group to be painted as dangerous obsessive freaks. But back in the early 2000s this was one of the bigger examples of “furries are creeps” style punching down that was everywhere on the internet (and pretty much still is tbf)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yup. That IRC group was in fact themed for one of those 90s cartoons (trying not to dox them too hard, for all I know they are still active. I know of them through a friend I've known since middle school, who doesn't talk much about the whole furry thing these days)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    A friend has made a compelling case that furries are a key indicator species in web communities. If the community hosts furries, it means things are going on there, if it doesn't host furries it's probably not worth your time.

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  • [+] [S] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Any negative comments about their weirdness will not be met kindly here.

    I'm not pro-furry, and it's clear that this statement on its own is sufficient advice — largely, regardless of its subject.

    (fuck fascists, tankies, trolls, MAGAts, hexbear, ml, etc., though)

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How does he know who's is a furry and who isn't at a party? Are they always dressed up?

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In a million years, I never would have guessed that this was an issue.

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    [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Tell em you work for Boeing.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    He's obviously in his furry suit.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I think I’ve only ever met 2 furries in my entire life. I don’t know where this person is that furries are so common. Then again, I’m not a nuclear engineer. Maybe radiation attracts furries?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    This is one of those things that might not always be immediately obvious if you’re not plugged into that specific community.

    I’ve never met a furry either. But completely by chance, I found out that my city of 160.000 people has a group who does regular furry walks. Basically, they’ll do a walk and meet the public once a month. I had no freaking clue we had that here. It wasn’t a thing I was looking for and never ran into. It was completely by chance that I read an article about it.

    So uh, furries are probably closer than you think is my point 😀

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Definitely a Seattle issue. We have a queer furry cidery—the first one in the US!

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "An nuclear engineer"? That's suspicious grammar for a nuclear engineer.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago*

    Furries are all cyber security engineers so start each conversation with your favorite windows update so far.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    The subcultures have all the fun

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Good to know PNW furries don't hit on my career.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Maybe tell them you're a taxidermist? Although that might be a different kind of turn on.

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  • I don’t see the problem

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    He should tell them he is a cyber security chad expert. That will stop them!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Whatever just don't tell Lemmy you're a landlord

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Oh brother. I'm not a landlord any more but if I was I'm sure I'd be petrified

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  • Like...has nuclear engineering been furrified? Is there an abnormally large furry bloc within the nuclear engineering community? IS SOMEONE BUILDING FUR SUIT RADIATION SUITS?

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