You can turn off the scan, which by the way is that it takes a screenshot every so often and checks if it matches known content so as to make you watch through their platform. Really recommend changing that setting.

Secondly, block *.logs.roku.com with a pihole was my solution. That TV is the single most banned traffic on my network still.

Everyone misses the elipses at the end of the group name.
They are actually the "Save our children… so that we have some to stab later group.

Its really a cry for help of self control.

“mildly”

Yeah thats why it feels so visceral. Just mild.

You know whats infuriating?

How many cameras there were supposed to be active in this high security prison that for some reason had an outage and left us with only 1 angle that doesnt even actually show the door, entrance, or cell block Epstein was in.

Yeah, we find a way around or say fuck it cause its not worth the interaction with a company so messed up.

Life is a lot of making the best options you can based in your morals and hopefully someone gave you some good ones.

Ha ha. I got your mass produced shit and i didnt pay for it, and then shared it with people so they dont waste their money.

And

Oh hey wanna buy that bluray for Toxic Avenger cause its a great movie?

Are 2 thoughts im completely fine with holding in my head.

*✋

Yeah i mean that seems likely with how things are going but also things rarely go exactly to plan.

Im a realist so, i accept that it is entirely possible its gonna keep getting worse. I’m just also a sucker for optimism and maybe someday it will be better.

Probably not tomorrow or next year… Probably gonna be a lot more of this for a while.

Yeah. Agreed but chicken or the egg right?

It’s easy to say we just need the unions and groups but we need to build them by people just starting.

We definitely need to pick people to lead us better and not lazily accept people saying they are the right person to lead simply because they are.
It helps when we have a shared idea of what better is.

Im actually fine with “just do something” mentality.

Cause if every person did to the limit of what they are capable of things would still change.

For Rossman the limit of what he is capable of might be changing laws via his followers so he can keep his repair shop running. For others it might be legal efforts. For some it could be talking directly to their parents who are the wealthy overlords, and for some it might mean running themselves. And for some its just beinf oart of a chorus that shouts what they believe in.
It has worked for religion for so long.

We are a numbers species. We arent as clever as we think and individuals actually rarely get anything singularly done themselves. But we cant stop at whats easy but what is within our reach.
If everyone “did what they can” to make the world a better place, we just might have a shot at it.

I do really think that one of the things we have to do as collective, is something somewhat impossible but,
We need to pick the things we really care about. Limit ourselves from the everything that we have been offered for so long and find what brings us joy specifically and start following and protecting that and doing it off the Internet, or at least the at large big players.
Find artists in our spaces locally that make the comedy, or comics, or stories, the developers that make their own games and movies that dont outsource their work to others so that it no longer feels like art.

We can still have globalised sharing and our spaces can support that by raising up the best of the best naturally through communication and sharing but not just by being told it’s gonna be big or given to us easily.

The only way out feels like we as a collective need to start putting work into cultivating and tending to our fandoms and we cant be as greedy as it will take more work. Im fine with us being an insatiable species craving for more cause its how we don’t stop, and i want new artists and new creators and new spaces. But i think we cant be lazy about it anymore. And i think doubly so we cant think we can do all of it.

I swear the biggest lie is that America is somehow a better country because it has houses that are expensive and fast food so that it can import what essentially accounts to slave labor when they finally come over excited to work for lower wages and live in cramped housing without their social networks other than the other slave laborers.

Its probably how we make it how people not climbing financially can still feel superior. No one has to pay the debt if you can keep getting new people on a lower rung.

A bunch of people see that their government is full of pedophiles and predators but are untouchable so they decide to attack people they think they can get their hands on to feel like they have power and think any mistakes and murders they commit wrongly are justified if they even get one pedophileis not a type of vigilantism i am fine with.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/29/vigilante-murder-paedophile-bristol-bijan-ebrahimi

He was quizzed at a police station but officers soon realised he was blameless and released him. By then rumours had begun circulating in the Brislington area that he was a child abuser and two days later he was murdered.

A neighbour, Lee James, 24, beat Ebrahim unconscious and then with the help of his friend Stephen Norley, also 24, dragged him into the street. He was doused with white spirits and set on fire.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-17/albert-thorn-guilty-of-bradley-lyons-murder-lakes-entrance/102426248

The attack on Mr Lyons stemmed from Stefani’s belief that his landlord was sexually abusing children.

No evidence was ever provided to corroborate his opinion, and prosecutors in court labelled them “flimsy claims”.

On the afternoon Mr Lyons was attacked, the gang of four balaclava-clad men led by Thorn armed themselves with a metal pole and a sawn-off shotgun, and took turns beating him.

The court heard Stefani organised the attack with Thorn, and put out a cigarette in Mr Lyons’ eye.  Thorn then backed his mother’s Toyota Corolla up to the front door of the house, and Mr Lyons was bound, thrown into the boot and taken to Thorn’s mother’s property.

And Trump is just doing what he has to, to make the world great again right? Every bad action is easily excused cause sometimes you have to beat people, torture them and burn them to find out you made a whoopsie. So what. Just another person. But think of how badass it would be to be so powerful to kill another person because you feel better about it.
Really great logic.

If only any of the crypto bros actually wanted it to be a functional payment and economic system instead of a just “line goes up to further enrich myself” mlm scheme.

It cant be both.

Except you already pay taxes this is just to bleed the poor dry faster, qnd drip barely anything towards the debt so they can claim the finances are fine, to keep the real government happy, investors.

Yeah it’s fine to not have the answers. Honestly I don’t think there are any just actions you can take and consequences to figure out after.

I do agree we could probably do more to separate distracting news from useful news since there is a lot of it. And I think that’s a pretty interesting suggestion. And I think that kind of creative consideration is exactly what we need to make actions that we think might work, since it’s smaller than the huge goal all at once.

There seems to be this concept that humans do their best when under pressure and I really think that is wrong, heck science literally agrees with me and so does history.

When people are uncomfortable and struggling they really just suck. Short fuse, anxiety, and uncreative. But during extremely peaceful and well funded times people prosper and contribute better. Look at how much we got out of the post world war 2 era of just funding and building more that gave us new genres of music and art and it’s from free time and comfort that people can get creative. Humans love to be lazy but get bored quick. It’s the center of all our innovation.

So, I agree that a better world would give us better everything but not really actionable advice for the moment in here though right?

If you want something great for being funny wholesome and weird while tripping I can’t recommend a sub but I always really like this Jacob Wysocki video and just sketch comedy channels like Door Monster and Chris and Jack, etc…

Otherwise on here I like the comic communities. They have been pretty good.

I’ve noticed that people seem to agree with the person they “think” is winning the argument and turns it into a game of butting heads, when I don’t think that is how social media should be treated anyways.

The whole point is people don’t know what you do and these spaces are supposed to be for coming together and communicating in a digital space instead of a physical space and then you share. But because it’s all practically to an audience people treat the conversation like a gladiator combat where someone needs to speak more confidently and belittle the other as to show their strength and get the upvotes. Or their humor to show they don’t care and are more funny than the other. It’s so competitive.

Honestly the best interactions come from the people who don’t use the platform as much and just talk like a person asking what other people think and responding reasonably. No assumptions of using the platform as a stage, no attempts to “win”, shouldn’t even be thinking you will get the other person to agree with you just that you both leave with more than what you came in with.
And that needs to be especially true for the fact that new younger people will come in and having no expectations of what they should already know or be but welcoming them in anyways is how it will have to continue.