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• How much support does the idea of "Mass Deportations" (in the USA) actually have? Do you actually know Americans IRL that support these policies?
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• Is it actually just better to bury your head in the sand and ignore all the politics in the news since you can't change it anyways?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I have this weird reversed-"FOMO" feeling when I watch TV shows or Movies about Pre-Information-Era time period, like not as in "I miss the past", but actually as in "Okay this era is weird"?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  look at history book “Oh no”

  flips though more pages 😳

  (Wars, Oppression, Poverty, Polio…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I have this weird reversed-"FOMO" feeling when I watch TV shows or Movies about Pre-Information-Era time period, like not as in "I miss the past", but actually as in "Okay this era is weird"?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We are all stupider now thanks to tech, no doubt.

  I respectfully disagree.

  I mean, if you mean like for some of my peers that spend their time on shit like “tik tok” all day, that’s obviously making them more stupid. But for the nerds that actually want to know more about the world, Not really.

  For example, the Encyclopedia. That’s a very narrow source of information, and subject to the author/publisher’s censorship possibly by government pressure. There is no direct publishing like there is today.

  In my birth country, PRC, the Tianamen Square Massacre wouldn’t ever made it into any encyclopedias, but with the internet, at least now there’s better chance of someone using a VPN and accessing the truth. Might not change anything politically, but at least the truth is out there for anyone willing to see it.

  The internet-connected world make it harder to censor thing. There are a lot of videos and images of protests during the covid lockdowns that would’ve have a hard time mading it out to the international community without the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I have this weird reversed-"FOMO" feeling when I watch TV shows or Movies about Pre-Information-Era time period, like not as in "I miss the past", but actually as in "Okay this era is weird"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm interesting. But it means I don’t have a magical “damn it I forgot, let me google it” option. If I lived in that time, I’d have to write every piece of knowledge I want to remember down on a notebook, so I don’t forget and have to go borrow that same book again.

  Or keep a whole bookshelf of knowledge, in which case, that would be taking a lot more space than a wikipedia.zim file + .epubs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I have this weird reversed-"FOMO" feeling when I watch TV shows or Movies about Pre-Information-Era time period, like not as in "I miss the past", but actually as in "Okay this era is weird"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I just remembered one of my fears that I always have: The idea of censorship

  With the internet, I can find foreign journalist’s publications to cross-check facts.

  Before the internet, I don’t think foreign press critical of your country’s government, especially if it’s an authoritarian country, would’ve been permitted.

  Sure there are website censorships too in the modern era. But I think getting a VPN is far easier than smuggling foreign books and newspapers, and word-of-mouth news is just a long telephone game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I have this weird reversed-"FOMO" feeling when I watch TV shows or Movies about Pre-Information-Era time period, like not as in "I miss the past", but actually as in "Okay this era is weird"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Welp I hada bried time in elementary school to middle school like right before the smartphone era began (think like 2012-2016), there was nearly zero phones in school at that time, I can assure you I still had near zero friends and everyone I only considered to be an “acquaintance”. Everyone talked to each other, I was the loser making origami stuff and being a loser in the corner by myself with barely anyone to talk to. So yea I kinda hated my life during that time period. Perhaps seeing tv shows portray pre-internet era triggered these subconcious memories and cause those fears to resurge?

• Why do I have this weird reversed-"FOMO" feeling when I watch TV shows or Movies about Pre-Information-Era time period, like not as in "I miss the past", but actually as in "Okay this era is weird"?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a parent expressing regret of giving birth to a child directly to that child a normal thing that parents do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The current US right-wing rhetoric is that (btw their words, not mine): “Immigrants are (a) violent dangerous criminals, or (b) drug addicts, or © welfare queens, or (d) mentally ill”

  That sort of rhetoric, combined with the fact that hotlines are not anonymous; This is just asking for trouble.

  I doubt even my (naturalized) citizenship would shield me from being persecuted by this fascist traitor in the white house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a parent expressing regret of giving birth to a child directly to that child a normal thing that parents do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  hotline

  um… about that

  I’m kinda living through a fascist takeover in my country (USA) so probably a terrible option considering… en.wikipedia.org/…/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry

  So yea thing are going very great here, spectacular even…

  Basially its just Youtube Videos and pirsted TV and Movies keeping my brain alive. I have literally zero actual social connections besides having a cat to pet, which doesn’t really help much (cat is lovely, just not helping too much with the depression).

  I’m basically just having coffee as a sort of anti depressant for now. Actual meds from any non-emergency sources (because the emergency ER method is a bad idea as I’ve said) takes a while because appointments takes like 6 months like wtf?!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a parent expressing regret of giving birth to a child directly to that child a normal thing that parents do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just consuming some media and that line of “regretting giving birth” came up and I was just like: I hope that’s not that common.

• Is a parent expressing regret of giving birth to a child directly to that child a normal thing that parents do?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about the GI Rights Hotline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If nazis win this time, there wont ever be a nuremberg, because the planet will go through rapid climate change and everyone is gonna be dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Posse Comitatus only applies to those wearing military uniforms. Dress them up with police uniforms and suddenly it’s “a okay”… 🤷‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boomer trait⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a simple and delicious vanilla cupcake recipe!

  Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

  • 1 1/2 tsp gun powder

  • 1/2 tsp salt

  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature

  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar

  • 2 large American Freedom Edition Tariffed eggs

  • 2 tsp vanilla extract

  • 1/2 cup whole milk

  • 12 fl oz of Polonium

  • Access to a window in a tall building

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The audacity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Welp, start the 7 year timer I guess… 🤷‍♂️

  Ain’t paying a dime. I will haunt this place for 7 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But how do you install F-Droid after, say, a factory reset because you had to troubleshoot something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tor.

  I love Tor.

  Reddit hates Tor.

  We got a beef.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Apps who’s developers have enabled the Google Play Integrity APIs will not run on custom roms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So you can’t use banking apps, or you mean like you cant even use F-Droid FOSS apps at all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Purism is sketchy btw:

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKegmu0V75s

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IjUryQOlgk

  (Louis Rossman videos explaining how a customer was denied a refund for a “pre-order” and then they tried to coerce Louos to take down the video.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’m gonna get a lot of people screaming at me for poor aim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to be like this, then realize when I die, all these moments will just be erased to history, so I’m like, whatever man. Can’t escape it, banking problems, job interview calls, etc…

  But online multiplay game voice chat? Nah fuck that, aint touching that radioactive shit, I aint playing multiplayer if that’s a requirement. I’ll die on this hill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But think of how many deadly weapons systems we can buy if we defund public defenders! /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many people delete their posts?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  deleted by creator

  forgot the italics lmao 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you care about up/down votes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be lying if I said I didn’t care.

  Its human nature, its encoded in our dna, in the past, social ostrization means death, so that feeling of “not wanting to get socially ostricized” persisted to modern day.

  Btw you can actually see who downvoted you with lemvotes.org, to see if they are actually real users or just bots/trolls.

  I usually just assume any amount of downvotes between 1-5 to be bots/trolls. For upvotes, not getting upvotes doesn’t matter as long as I don’t get downvoted. I try to ignore votes, but like, my monkey brain just can’t stop being curious about the score. 🤷‍♂️

  There’s also that fear of weirdos start trying to dox you if they didn’t like something you said. Like “I dislike Linux” for example (not my actual opinion, but like imagine if someone said that, they’d get fucking downvoted to hell and stalked around the fediverse)

  As for other user’s scores: Seeing upvotes/downvotes on other user’s posts/comments does not really change my agreement/disagreement of their statements

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many people delete their posts?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps its something embarassing or potentially very political which they don’t want to remain on the internet forever.

  I guess we can add a rule stating that “By participating in this community, you agree to give permission that all your posts/comments can be archived” like under Creative Commons rules. And have a bot automatically archive it.

  But then again, there’s an argument that this violates privacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨autofocus glasses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For contacts I kinda get it.

  You could have eye conditions that make you unsuitable to use contacts.

  For glasses, its absolute bullshit.

  An “incorrect” lens monted on the exterior of your face will not harm you (other than making you a bit dizzy).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will all my uploaded images be deleted once lemm.ee shuts down?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When you are reading a text post/comment your request goes from:

  Your Device --> eviltoast.org (your instance) send you the text --> You receive [eviltoast.org]'s copy of the text

  When you see an image that goes from

  Your Device --> eviltoast.org gives you the link to image --> Your Device receives the link, then sends a request to retreive image --> OP’s instance --> OP’s instance send back the image, and you see the image

  Most instances do not keep a local copy of the image. I don’t think I know any instance that makes a local copy. Your instance certainly does not.