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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump picks vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy as health secretary⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse.

  They’re going to have to go to China to get the seals for those.

  I mean it took a Chinese maker to get seals for one of the few remaining living people who needs an iron lung: www.wired.com/story/iron-lung-maker-community/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, whether something is “extreme” or not depends on someone’s background context, and I would definitely say that the content on lemmy.ml is considered somewhat extreme for someone on America.

  Weirdly, I find a lot of the content on America-centric sources (not just in Lemmy) to be pretty damned extreme myself. Like the casual assumption that guns are the right way to deal with all problems. (Slightly exaggerated, yes, but sadly only slightly.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is that there’s nothing specifically objectionable about .ml. There’s many instances out there, after all, and all of them are at some risk or another form over- (or under-)zealous moderation. If a community is on .ml and seems to be valuable I’ll go to it, unlike, say, a community on a hypothetical instance called youngnazisforfreedom.sieg.heil or whatever. If the moderation causes issues, I’ll switch to a community (or make another community) on another instance.

  THAT is to me the principle of the Fediverse: the ability to choose and to move on at need or will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the case of the “tech”-oriented instances it’s actually the user base I find distasteful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, before lecturing me you might want to check out which instance I’m coming in from.

  I said “I don’t have issues with .ml” … but I’m not coming in from a .ml account. So when I say “I have no issues with .ml” it’s in the context of the original question: do I refrain participating if the community is hosted on .ml.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a surprise. A japanimation fan from a japanimation instance cheering on genocide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But there’s no such thing as “politically neutral”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most political slurs (“tankie”, “Nazi”, “fascist”, “communist”, “leftist”, “liberal”, “centrist”, etc.), if they ever even start from a position of actually knowing what the words mean, rapidly transform into a general slur that means “someone that I disagree with who’s in a different political tribe from me”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not going to name them. The point of this isn’t to expose which instances I dislike, but rather to show that every instance has its fans and its antifans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whichever instance you choose, someone will have complaints about it. Personally I don’t have issues with .ml, but there are quite a few “tech”-oriented instances over which my trigger finger is itching on the site ban trigger.

  It’s all a question of which subset of human stupidity you’re willing to deal with. Because all humans are stupid, we’re just different in how and where we express it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Political discussion and commentary - self posts and opinions welcome!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s spelled !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, right? It’s like irony is a lost art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also a reason why votes in parliaments aren’t secret.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the lazy drive-by and rage votes specifically that I would love to see eliminated. If you’re too much a coward to defend a position, maybe you shouldn’t express it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arthur Is A Piece Of Shit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got the site blocked in my settings and I still see posts from them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To me the anonymity of voting is the problem, so the solution is to make them public for all, not to find ways of making them more private.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arthur Is A Piece Of Shit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a user, not an admin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arthur Is A Piece Of Shit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm… I have hilariouschaos.com blocked in my settings, but I keep seeing posts from the site owner’s sock puppets.

  Is there a way to block ALL USERS from a site, not just the communities?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. An advocate and ally of LGBTQ+ groups in definitely onside with Xi.

  You fucking idiot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Liberal” means “the left” almost exclusively in North America (specifically the USA and Canada). In most of the world the term “liberal” means what Americans call “libertarians” (read: capitalist assholes).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “No, you’re wrong, and should suffer for it”.

  How very Abrahamic of you. Indeed if you didn’t continually and loudly bleat your politics from talk like this I’d assume you were a fundamentalist Christian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Liberals decisions are based on marginal benefit and rational decision making based on a combination of large and small scale unbiased data and historical outcomes.

  [citation needed]

  Liberals have their own idiotic biases and foolishness. Biases and foolishness that have led to the “disappearing” of many LGBTQ+ activists in China, incidentally, which is why so many such groups in China are distancing themselves from their western counterparts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  WTF is “ammenmend” supposed to communicate? I have genuinely no idea what you’re on about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This would be your straw leftist, I assume? 'Cause I’ve never seen a single leftist anywhere who says that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it equal parts of entertaining and disturbing that you’re trying to drum up hatred just so you can feel less lonely. Here’s a genuine question, but don’t answer it. Well, don’t answer it to me (or anybody else here). Answer it for yourself.

  Why are you so fucking dead set on hatred?

  The answer to that question is for you and your therapist to work out. (If you don’t have a therapist FUCKING GET ONE STAT!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Say “I’ve never read history” without, you know, saying it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To amplify from the other side of the world:

  善為士者，不武；善戰者，不怒；善勝敵者，不與；善用人者，為之下。是謂不爭之德，是謂用人之力，是謂配天古之極。 —老子

  A good scholar is not a warrior; A good fighter is not angry; Those who are good at defeating enemies will not compete with them; Those who make good use of people are inferior. It is called the virtue of not competing, the power of using people, and the extreme of matching heaven and ancient times. —Laozi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2949: Network Configuration⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of those times when even having it explained doesn’t make things any more comprehensible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2925: Earth Formation Site⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Instigator! 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2925: Earth Formation Site⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can get pretty fancy brass, bronze, aluminum, etc. plaques made pretty cheaply.

  …

  Now I’m getting the urge to make something like this and put it on my apartment door.