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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
- Comment on Gulf states refuse to be launching pad for any US attacks against Iran 1 day ago:
Well yeah, if the US goes to war with Iran then Iran is going to target oil infrastructure in the Gulf.
- Comment on Now that the US is under influence by Russia, what will happen to Whistleblower Edward Snowden? 2 days ago:
🤡
- Comment on Heroic dog 5 days ago:
Impossible. A dog would immediately eat the ham. QED
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 5 days ago:
They’re nasty pieces of shit when they don’t have to look at the person they’re hurting or putting in danger, but that only supports my theory. There’s an empathy disconnect that’s created when there isn’t a human face or voice immediately in front of them. Once they aren’t in danger of an in-person interaction all the venom comes out. Online, that’s basically all of our interactions.
I should point out the phenomenon where a minority in a community will magically become “one of the good ones” so that the bigots can continue hating minorities while empathizing with their neighbor. This is also becoming less common as we grow more isolated from each other and everyone moves online, destroying the potential for that face-to-face interaction.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 5 days ago:
But people are polite to your face. On the internet there’s no face, so that goes away.
I think part of that comes from empathy, though obviously part also comes from fear of confrontation and habit. It all adds up to offline interactions being far less hostile than on the Internet because they’re not face-to-face.
This is also known as Internet Fuckwad Theory.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 5 days ago:
I think you can overcome the empathy gap caused by the anonymous text format if you make the effort to empathize with people on the internet, but it requires you to want to make the effort in the first place.
Empathy offline or over video or on the phone is much more instinctual - in fact, it requires effort to resist empathy.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 5 days ago:
Why are people so vindictive and personal, and why do they double down so enthusiastically about taking it to this personal place where this person involved is being bad on purpose and needs to be attacked for being horrible, instead of just being a normal person with a variety of normal human failings as we all have?
I have a pet theory about this!
Humans can’t easily empathize with strings of text the way they do with voices and faces. When you read my posts you read it in your voice; I might as well be a figment of your imagination. As far as your subconscious is concerned, I am not actually a person. I’m an imaginary friend at best and an imaginary enemy at worst.
When someone beats up on me it’s because they’re imagining me as an enemy NPC, not a person with thoughts and feelings.
This is why arguing on the internet is basically pointless. We’re all just random encounters in the posting RPG.
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 6 days ago:
Imagine playing Dwarf Fortress in a recliner with a pair of these.
- Comment on Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances - fiona fokus 1 week ago:
Okay but this demonstrates why defaulting to federation is a bad idea, doesn’t it?
- Comment on Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances - fiona fokus 1 week ago:
Wait, are new instances federated by default?
I thought admins had to choose who they were federated with.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
What are you talking about?
This is clearly Digg.
- Comment on I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with. 1 week ago:
Okay, based on that article Zipf’s law seems to mostly apply to languages. Cities, for example, don’t follow it.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
Lemmy is not a forum.
Forums are structured around activity bumping, not recency and voting. A years old thread can end up back on the front page if someone posts in it. It’s just a different medium.
And it’s a medium that we need to preserve.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 1 week ago:
Raise your child to smoke meth appropriately.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 1 week ago:
Ever play as a level 1 adventurer in a tabletop game?
Getting gored by a pig is just how the game goes sometimes.
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 1 week ago:
Don’t worry, the US won’t exist in 40-50 years.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
The case right now is, if you can’t afford what you want, you can’t choose it. They don’t get to choose for themselves, the market chooses for them!
If I have to choose between market decision making and democratic decision making, I’ll choose democracy. At the very least, a democratic process leaves no one homeless.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
The incentive structure for landlords creates these conditions, it’s not some individual failing of their moral character. Individual tyrants aren’t better than corporate tyrants.
- Comment on I'm gonna be really pissed if my chtistofascist parents were right 3 weeks ago:
If you predict it’s the end times every day for 2000 years, eventually you’ll get it right.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 weeks ago:
Cooperatives are democratic, the members vote on what it means to have a nice living situation.
- Comment on Ants should replace weather forecasters 3 weeks ago:
I trust the trees. When it’s going to rain their leaves flip over and take on a silvery appearance because you can see their underside.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 3 weeks ago:
I write questions on bathroom stalls and then check back in on them every few days.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
Except the content of his post also blames the left, which is kind of fucking stupid when the government is undergoing a billionaire coup of the PayPal boys.
- Comment on Post with 22k upvotes mentions Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit 4 weeks ago:
To be honest the quality of posts, comments, and moderation policies had gone way down hill since at least 2020.
Wasn’t that when they banned /r/chapotraphouse? 🤔
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The government is being run by literal US billionaires and they’re doing a coup of all democraticly accountable institutions, but somehow it’s Russia behind everything? 🙄
- Comment on Now that Trump is getting real chummy with Putin where does that leave China? 4 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure the purpose of Trump’s pivot on Russia is to drive a wedge between Russia and China.
- Comment on Could your body adjust if you separated your macros into meals? Like all carbs for breakfast, all fat for lunch and all protein for dinner? What would happen? 4 weeks ago:
Pretty sure the fat meal will just become diarrhea.
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 4 weeks ago:
PS2 slim is now retro
👵 ➡ 💀
- Comment on nets 4 weeks ago:
And bad news: electric cars, being heavier, emit more microplastics.
- Comment on Meow 4 weeks ago:
My dog yawning would make me yawn.
Evolution is stupid.