SocialMediaRefugee
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- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 1 day ago:
Trucks in general have gotten so big they are pedestrian deathtraps
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 2 days ago:
He sent his tech bros in to fix the database. Now they’ll use the same skills to fix the SS databases.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 days ago:
They see them everywhere except in their own home
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 3 days ago:
Mixed case, brilliant rebuttal!
- Comment on What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. 4 days ago:
Let’s hope he makes a backup first
- Comment on What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. 4 days ago:
Reminds me of when I worked on satellite c&c and the operating system was from the 1970s. I asked why they kept using such an ancient system and my boss said reliability was far more important than performance or optimization. It had a proven track record and on-site support calls for satellites were very expensive.
- Comment on What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. 4 days ago:
Democracy should give a ROI
- Comment on What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. 4 days ago:
We’ll just put it all in one giant table. Think of the space savings!
- Comment on What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. 4 days ago:
The problem isn’t the 1% skimming off 90% of the wealth, it is someone’s old mom or dad getting a few grand a year.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 4 days ago:
Extremists on both ends demand purity of thought
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Only in the official public sphere, off to the side it is very sexualized. Ads and tv shows are full of sexual references. You hit strange limits though like genitalia cannot be shown in movies (not X rated) but you can use a fake penis on men and a merkin on woman which is ok for some bizarre reason. The US forced its prudishness with genitalia on the Japanese after WW2 which is why they pixelate it. It likely has its roots in the US as a mainly evangelical Protestant settled nation vs the more Catholic and reformation Europe. Eastern cultures also have their own rules about nudity and sex but it isn’t seen as inherently sinful.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
If you go to the roots of it the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism) see the natural world as corrupt and a barrier to god. Nature was something to be “conquered”, human impulses are sinful and sexuality is especially impulsive and therefore sinful. It encourages all kinds of stuff like adultery, kids born out of wedlock (a big problem back then), and STDs (generally considered a divine punishment for sex). Clothing also denoted social rank and was even enforced by law.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 5 days ago:
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 5 days ago:
I’m amazed any of you get told why you were banned
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 5 days ago:
If they don’t block you for asking
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
The same mods who arbitrarily ban users while without showing what rule they claim was broken?
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 6 days ago:
He’ll cry his way to a trophy home and yacht
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 6 days ago:
Hmmm, better push more ads and restrict discussion more
- Comment on Papua New Guinea shuts down Facebook in test to stop 'pornography, misinformation, hate speech' 1 week ago:
Hussies!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The 700 Club. It was on constantly during the day when I was a kid.
- Comment on Papua New Guinea shuts down Facebook in test to stop 'pornography, misinformation, hate speech' 1 week ago:
What porn? Girls in bikinis?
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 1 week ago:
People are very willing to donate other’s time
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Hitler was very narrow minded when it came to international politics. His mindset barely extended beyond Europe. To him the US was “over there”. He thought though that Britain would side with him as racial peers with similar attitudes (i.e. colonialism).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Stalin wiped out the officers in the Red Army because he perceived anyone with any authority to be a potential threat. Anyone who had been around for too long was a threat. This set the stage for the Germans to steamroll them in the opening of Operation Barbarossa because you had a Red Army that was completely dysfunctional due to the slaughter of its leadership. He probably would’ve turned on Beria (NKVD) too if he had the chance.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
So they started the project to dismantle education in America.
I’d say it was more of a pushback by the religious right against what they saw as liberalism in the schools. Starting with the late 70s then the election of Regan you saw a huge rise in the evangelicals and they became affiliated with the republicans.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
In the 60s the counterculture decided that all authority and anything taught to them was wrong and they thought they were smarter than anyone else and their gut feelings were just as valid as education. Hippies and conspiracy obsessed right wingers converged towards things like quack medicines, conspiracy mongering, etc. Anti intellectualism has become the norm. No one with a normal personality would run for office now because the knee-jerk response is to pile hate on them so you only get dysfunctional people running for office. The internet has only made things worse by allowing these people to find each other and reinforce their beliefs.
- Comment on YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life. 1 week ago:
More likely forget where it is. How often do you need to use it? Likely it gets stashed in some place and forgotten.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
People have been stupid for centuries.
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The average education level has been low or nonexistant for most people through most of history so everyone was equally dumb. Public education is a relatively new thing. People have been vulnerable to greed, deluded thinking, etc since day 1.
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The internet has allowed stupid people to find each other and reinforce each other’s stupidity and create a race of conspiracy obsessed super morons.
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The internet has also distilled everything into negativity to the point where everyone and everything isn’t just questioned but warped and rejected. Even the most basic advice on public health is now rejected. You’ve got people rejecting basic facts and science. Everyone who runs for office gets subject to so much hate and lies that no sensible person would want to run for office now leaving only questionable personalities willing to do it.
I’ll add that America’s obsession with individualism, which ironically becomes groupthink like with MAGA, has become extremely poisonous. It is making it impossible to do even basic things like improve public transportation, gun control, education, healthcare, public health, etc. It is like we’ve become a nation of children who can’t handle being told to go to bed and brush their teeth.
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- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 1 week ago:
Sorry, I’ve spent months telling chatgpt that Arve Hjalmar Holmen killed his kids for a school project.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
I got banned from a bunch of subreddits because I had the nerve to leave a comment in a conspiracy sub (I was calling one of them out too). It was done by automods, no humans taking context into account.