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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 :DUnlike those industrial engineer peasants.
Well you see American manufacturing keeps getting hamstrung by an orange dipshit who thinks he’s saving it
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.
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.
This is an outdated mindset.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.
Maybe they want to get a spiderman style radioactive dog bite to turn into their ideal puppy form.
Unironically yes. Lots of variation in pay and prestige among different engineering disciplines. Manufacturing engineers are not typically very well paid from what I’ve seen.
That went directly over my head. Apparently I’m out of touch. Haven’t dated in many years.
Yeah, same. I didn’t realize being a furry was so expensive.
Yeah average fursuit costs around as much as a small car or motorbike. However, unlike a car, you can buy it one part at a time.
However, unlike a car, you can buy it one part at a time.
Johnny Cash says otherwise lol
Didn’t cost him a dime.
You’ll know it’s him when he comes to your town…
wait, cash was a furry?
He got a car one piece at a time
A sugar buck?
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?
I don’t know where this person is that furries are so common.
Seattle.
Lol I was gonna answer this too, even have a dedicated furry bar
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 😀
I don’t know where this person is that furries are so common.
Idk maybe he’s at a furry convention?
Furries are all cyber security engineers so start each conversation with your favorite windows update so far.
“can I be your fast breeder reactor?”
😂
I wonder if they’d help me work out a system to pump some hot waste fluids in my bedroom.
Tell em you work for Boeing.
Only if you really want to blow their doors off.
Maybe tell them you’re a taxidermist? Although that might be a different kind of turn on.
Nope, Chuck Testa.
Now, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
How does he know who’s is a furry and who isn’t at a party? Are they always dressed up?
because he is at a furry party. they are all dressed up. him too.
In my limited experience, they’re pretty up front with it even when they’re not wearing a fursuit or furry merch.
Is Lemmy a furry?
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
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.
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)
I looked it up and the first convention was in 1989
Love being wrong
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
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's_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)
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)
AFAIK, it was Disney’s animated “Robin Hood” that did it first.
I’m sure it’s been around longer, but if you’re going to give anyone credit, it’s gotta be Disney.
Here’s a NSFW 1970s poster for you that doesn’t look very different from today’s. https://ebay.us/m/lC8tOr
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.
The hacker known as Lemmy?
The hacker formerly known as Lemmy, written 𓁁.
Atleast from my own experience there is alot of it here. For some reason, top comments about sexual restriction-related posts on Lemmy tend towards the fear of bans coming for furries. Make of that what you will.
Any negative comments about their weirdness will not be met kindly here.
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)
Ooh, blanket “fuck communists”? We really are gearing up for another world war.
Aw, you’re so tired on the keyboard front lines, you can’t even quote a single line accurately?
Honey, you need a nap. You sound like a fucking idiot. Do better, Felisha. Bye.
When people started first migrating from reddit there was a TON of furry porn.
Yes
Yes
In a million years, I never would have guessed that this was an issue.
That’s because you’re not a nuclear engineer.
“An nuclear engineer”? That’s suspicious grammar for a nuclear engineer.
I was a peer writing tutor at a top engineering school. I would be surprised if an engineer had verb-noun agreement. (That said, my kid was a nuclear engineer and is a great writer, so that is the danger of stereotypes…)
This is how you know its not written by chat gpt
Whatever just don’t tell Lemmy you’re a landlord
Good. Landlords should be scared.
or beans
You got your rent check written up yet boot sucker?
He’s obviously in his furry suit.
Definitely a Seattle issue. We have a queer furry cidery—the first one in the US!
A building turning furries into cider? And people are happy about this?! I mean, we in he US will give miles of leeway to anyone if they check one “minority” box.
but it’s queer, so you know… it’s really well designed, clean, the neighbors love it…
Which one? Over by cap hill?
It’s called Slightly Furry. It’s in north Becon Hill, just north of I-90 right off the exit!
Is it for queer or furry or queer furries.
I think non queer furries are a tiny minority in that game
First openly queer and furry (together) was my understanding.
He should tell them he is a cyber security chad expert. That will stop them!
The subcultures have all the fun
