crackajack

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christians think gay people are trying to convert them to being gay *because Christians try to convert people to being Christian*.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I agree overall with your points, but there is just one caveat: your points are spoken from American and Christian perspective, and there is homophobia in some cultures that are not Christian-based. Majority Chinese, for example, describes themselves as atheists, but they are by and large homophobic. I might be wrong, but I heard CCP is cracking down on fashion, aesthetics and male celebs that might be “too feminine”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data contamination expert 👌⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Why does Spez want tocs to sell data? To buy a new yacht?

I will delete my data from Reddit then.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The early 00s was pretty mysoginistic.

I originally came from a conservative country, and yet there were plenty of ads for softcore porns in TVs and billboards in those days. Even as a child, I questioned why do they show such images in front of full view to everyone.

The thing is, such mysoginy was the norm without us even realising it. I remember reading an article of a woman reminiscing her college days in early 00s. There were pictures of college girls on pin up boards and they get graded on how beautiful they are. The author said no one thought bad about it but looking back, it was very degrading and also invading privacy. There was also the matter of the infamous wardrobe malfunction of Janet Jackson. She got all the public spotlight afterwards because she is a woman, but Justin Timberlake pretty much got away with it for free. JT also shamed Britney Spears about losing her virginity to him, instead of keeping his mouth shut, while Britney was branded as slut.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game fits this?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Any RTS game for me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The kid in the picture looks under 13. We all thought he’s not high school, lol.

I’m not American but i saw a South Park episode poking fun of children working, as those older refuse to work under bad pay as the result of pandemic. Is there any truth to this despite the satire?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
My coworkers talk about various TV shows and movies. I may not be able to keep up with the shows and miss out on the discussions, but fuck FOMO.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This might work but on the other hand, the brand name “X” doesn’t have a nice ring for the younger generation unlike TikTok or even Vine. “X” is so… Gen X…(sorry, boomer for the young 'uns for everything before 2010).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nic Cage through the years⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Nic was really good in KickAss. Not going to spoil it for you, but there was a scene where his performance pulled my heartstrings. And I thought to myself “I did not realise he can be that good as an actor”. I also heard Nic is excellent in the recent movies Pig and Dream Scenario.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Who woulda thunk Lemmy users is a bunch of tech nerds!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Parents could not keep up with fast pace of emerging technologies.

I’m not defending the ban on porn, I’m just saying.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sophie's choice 70s edition⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Should we tell him?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, some instances turned to be haven for these tankies. It took me a while before I realised that lemmy.ml is pretty much run by them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The lamest countries⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
How else does the word “wrong” mean. You braindead jackass.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

I’d say a left-wing activist type

Which is cringe inducing. There are more tankies here than in other Internet forums. I’d be rich for penny I get for meeting tankies in Lemmy. They call out American imperialism, but then simp for Russia and China. Two wrongs don’t make a right and they expect to have one but not the other. Though, I wouldn’t be surprised if Russian bots have also infiltrated Lemmy to sow disinformation.

whose into tech

Doesn’t sound different from the early days of Reddit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The lamest countries⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Two wrongs don’t make a right, you cow.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two sides to Korea⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
North Korea had higher standards of living than South Korea until the 1980s. Bombing hasn’t really got anything to with how bad North Korean system is.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two sides to Korea⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
NATO intervention in Yugoslav wars, too. And American involvement in World War 2.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think people should read more about media theory.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think people miss the keyword “social”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well, people have been sending mails before just for fun. Hence the phenomenon of “penpals”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
No matter how much you rationalise it, forum is still a social media. You are still socialising after all. You can still post pictures in forums if you want, but modern social platforms just have better UI and convenience to post videos and photos than older forums.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t let others know of your hiding spot.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Not banning a group of people that is intolerant and promotes killing people they don’t like is totally a good idea. That worked well before…

If anyone can’t tell, my first paragraph is sarcastic.

I am aware people outside of Europe and Rwanda are absolutist on free speech but that I think it is because they have not experienced first hand what it’s like when hate speech becomes unbridled. It’s a classical liberal value to promote free speech at all cost, believing that good ideas will filter out from a stream of bad ones because they believe humans are inherently rational. Well, for many in Germany and Rwanda before, it made sense for them to kill “others” because those at the top said so. I am not going to call old school liberals naive, because of course they did not foresee free speech morphing into hate speech and then making unspeakably evil action into reality centuries later.

As a side note, the US actually thought about electronically interfering a Rwandan-government run radio station that propagates dehumanisation of Tutsis, but the US opted not to out of principle for freedom of speech. That radio station contributed to fomenting hate that led to the Rwandan genocide.

So, no-- an intolerant being intolerant has no place in society. Giving the intolerant platform will eventually stamp down others and ultimately free speech and liberty. Banning Nazis in a platform is no brainer. Like, after all they have done, why on earth would the intolerant be tolerated?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There are still propagadists here, and they are leaving no stones unturned by covering as many platforms as possible.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FastCompany: E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Thankfully, the only ebooks I have only gotten so far are classics from Gutenberg website.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Thankfully, NASA is non-profit so they won’t ever do that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most legible scottish person⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The least politically loaded and agenda-pushing peopletwitter. That sub encapsulates the lightheartedness of Scottish people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most legible scottish person⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I understood that, surprisingly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And this is why I no longer have cable.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
So disappointed to hear about what happened to Discovery channel. Though their Youtube channel is still amazing!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
A friend who is senior by two years found out that a new hiree was getting paid more than he does for the exact same role. Understandably, he was pissed and left.