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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I was certain that a gander was a group of geese. Why? Because apparently everybody who has ever used the phrase “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander” around me was using it wrong. I just learned this week that a gander is a male goose. So based on misuse, I thought that the phrase meant that what’s beneficial for one is beneficial for the greater group, but what it really means is that what’s acceptable in the case for one should be equally acceptable for others in the same situation.

    I’m nearly 36 and I would say that I’m smarter than most people, but this was a gaping hole in my knowledge that was pretty damn humbling to learn of and correct.






  • Gotcha, yeah that’s the best of both worlds then.

    I didn’t mean that you will be in an echo chamber so much as that they will be in an echo chamber because if everybody ignores them then they have nobody left to challenge them. There are a ton of lurkers reading but never or rarely posting or commenting, so I’m mostly challenging bad faith arguments for their benefit. Without challenge, somebody casually reading might just accept that bad faith argument as fact or at least valid. Idk how effective it is, but I’m doing what I can to reduce the radical right wing incel neckbeard population. 🤷‍♂️


  • You’re doing the right thing for your mental health, I think. The only reason I don’t do the same thing is that I want to be aware of how prevalent the toxicity is. It’s pretty easy to wave off fringe stuff as being insignificant only to find that you were in a bubble and that fringe shit has grown really big. And it gets to grow bigger without somebody there to challenge it.

    10% of people believe that the moon landing was fake, the earth is flat, and covid vaccines contained tracking microchips. 10% isn’t the majority or anything, but it’s significantly higher than I would’ve thought. With the habitual defunding of education, increased misinformation and disinformation in media, reduction of in-person interactions with strangers due to online shopping and streaming, and encouragement by algorithms that show people only what they want to see, we’re driving people deeper into echo chambers. We’re forgetting how to respectfully disagree and discuss thoughtfully. We’re backsliding societally to solving problems with our fists. As much as I think Nazis deserve to get punched in the mouth, I think proper discussions would prevent them from becoming Nazis in the first place.

    Fascism is on the rise globally, and part of it is because fascists can find fascists and radicalize people into fascism more easily than ever, and part of it is because it’s easier to ignore fascism than it is to publicly challenge it. Even outside of fascist moderators who will ban those who challenge the ideas in the first place (my ban from r/conservative was a badge of honor when I was on reddit).

    I’m glad you’ve found a way to keep it as a palatable experience. I still have some fight in me, but I’ll probably need to filter some of this garbage out soon.





  • MrVilliam@lemmy.worldto4chan@lemmy.worldHe is a ghost
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    Kinda makes you wonder what’s on their drive that they’re so concerned about being uncovered. I’m all for privacy as a right, but people don’t usually go balls to the wall on their computer security just to protect cat memes or tax documents. People won’t even assume just regular porn stuff. People will assume terrorist plots or sex crimes or stolen classified stuff. Idk, if my NSA agent cares enough to break basic security just to find out my porn search history, then I’m just thinking that that’s wasted tax dollars. I’m not that interesting.

    Edit: I’m not saying don’t do simple encryption, I’m saying that putting up ten barriers and having paid services and using multiple vpns has drawbacks of cost and performance, so what are the odds that somebody would go to all the trouble for data that nobody would care about. If you saw a giant vault in somebody’s basement, you would assume there’s something interesting in there.





  • The fact that it didn’t is how we all know that his cultists will forgive anything he does. They have zero shame. The election is about appealing to independents and people who aren’t paying attention. Nonvoters will decide this stupid election. You can see it in the astroturfing of “both sides are the same” and “our votes don’t count anyway” and “if Biden wants my vote then he needs to stop supporting Israel”. Trump will objectively be worse for you individually, America, and the world. If you want change, hammer it in the 2028 primaries. It also starts at local levels, so vote now to give chances to people who are trying to get experience to eventually run.


  • Ukraine wants to fight for their nation. You think that if they wanted to surrender, they wouldn’t have done so by now? Stop pretending that trump is giving them a choice rather than taking away their choice to defend their nation. Yes, the US and Europe can benefit from helping this proxy conflict, but if a fire were burning up your next door neighbor’s house, would you deny that helping them to put out that fire helps keep your house safe too? Withholding aid is what is getting Ukrainians killed, and trump should know all about that since it’s what got him impeached. The first time, specifically. And now he’s a salty, petulant child who wants Ukraine wiped off the map because of that, plus he will do anything to please Putin, and Putin wants to steal that land back to force a strongman legacy.

    Don’t be obtuse. This isn’t complicated. The former president has the temperament of a 6 year old by his own admission. He wants to sucker punch Volodymyr after the 3:30 bell because trump got caught copying off his worksheet. It’s like connect the dots but you only need to draw two very obvious lines.




  • It’s a gamble because they don’t list games until streams are broadcasting, but I have a probable source for you. Pull up a browser. Type into the URL the word foot and then the letter y and then the word bite. Next type a period, and then the letter c twice. Hit enter. Hopefully spelling it out this way keeps it from getting ruined.

    Using a laptop connected to a TV via HDMI works pretty well, but be ready to refresh or choose a different link once or twice per half if there’s a lot of web traffic.