Well that’s just it; it’s not boring, but watching it usually is. Professional sports was a mistake.
Well that’s just it; it’s not boring, but watching it usually is. Professional sports was a mistake.
I’ve only heard of bridges that are set up to enable, say, IRC and Discord channels to replicate to a Matrix channel, and vice versa. So we can have a conversation with you using Discord and me using Matrix, which appears to you as a Discord channel and appears to me as a Matrix room.
They’re anti-oligarch and anti-billionaire. Ask them about the fall of the USSR and its consequences if you don’t believe it. They’ll tell you how the Russian billionaires looted the place and sold the children into literal prostitution. All the gains of the USSR went to waste.
Any support some of them have for the capitalist RF is ‘critical support’ based on their theory of multi-polarity, not support for their capitalism nor their billionaire garbage running the show.
Good question. It’s especially a tough one in the real world, where the people who have the power to censor are typically the ones who shouldn’t have it.
I personally don’t think there are any hard-and-fast definitions of what should be censored and what shouldn’t. It depends heavily on content and context. There’s a big difference between, hypothetically, a historian discussing Nazi ideology in a research paper, and between a politician discussing it in the presidential debate. One of those has legitimate value to society, the other is anti-social, politically delusional and harmful to citizens. Same with some forms of climate denialism - there is a valid point in permitting counterviews to consensus in the scientific method, but there is also a point where mass media is outright lying for the sake of self-enrichment at the expense of the entire planet’s population.
who should be the one deciding
One aspect of this is that communities often decide, to some degree, what is acceptable to say through social mores. This obviously isn’t foolproof and can be manipulated, but tends to be better than having just one person at the head of a network deciding.
It is a tough question, because everyone has biases. You shouldn’t have any one person or group in control of this.
That all said, my comment was meant more meant as a critique of the environment, where the owning class (that is, the ruling class) own and control the vast majority of the mass media and social media platforms. The worldview I’ve seen around which suggests their speech is comparable to the speech of you and me is naive. That’s a big part of why nonsense is now common sense, because the ruling class and their propaganda can pervade society despite so much of it being either illogical misinformation or outright bullshit.
Worldwide, people envy you. The poorest inhabitant of the USA has rights, possibilities and duties that only the richest in any other country can only dream of.
It’s one thing to exaggerate or to fall for propaganda, but this is a ridiculous statement.
This is not a country which has had mainland wars in the last century. This is the country creating those asylum seekers on rafts through their imperial wars.
“Muslims rape kids” is wrong, bigoted, and a gross generalisation.
Yes. That’s why it’s an example being used. It’s not how you inform the general public of real atrocities, and the important kernels of truth behind that wrong, bigoted and gross generalisation don’t justify making it. So I don’t understand why you felt compelled to detail them.
We allow generalized hate speech because we believe that the appropriate counter to speech is speech.
In the world of corporate mass media where money is a microphone, unfortunately this belief is just idealist faith. Overall, good ideas and speech alone hasn’t prevailed, and harmful speech has done more than counter-speech could hope to fix.
USA McDonalds is one of the worst in the world AFAIK. Actually, that goes for many of their products, from the butyric acid in Hershey’s to the HFCS in their world-famous drinks (which I assume is why ‘mexican cola’ is such a meme in the US due to their cane sugar). The Fanta in Italy actually tastes like good oranges, because they just wouldn’t be able to compete with the garbage they sell in many other countries.
Is it true German McDonald’s sells beer?
It’s also a walled garden that excludes many peoples.
https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html
This article is about collaborative projects but many of the points apply universally.
The UN General Assembly Human Rights Council 2018 report on USA’s poverty and human rights is a pretty quick and clear overview which makes it clear that parts of the USA are just undeveloped:
http://undocs.org/A/HRC/38/33/ADD.1
“5.3 million live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty”
“69. In Alabama and West Virginia, a high proportion of the population is not served by public sewerage and water supply services”
I guess my experience with open social media is that there are far too many radlibs who insert themselves into communist discussion spaces.
I wonder if the easy win for this situation is to redirect any radlibs to designated communism101 communities with learning resources to avoid them derailing discussion among communists. That way, they’re not simply rejected and banned (that is, alienated and possibly offended) for their arrogance, they have an opportunity to learn without the community either getting annoyed or wasting time in arguments.
because the techniques, practices, assets, learning material and so on should circulate and the format of social bookmarking platforms like lemmy is good for that.
I’d have to disagree, these sites aren’t really designed for archiving such knowledge for easy access. Wikis and libraries, for example, are more suited to purpose, although they’re less social and less about discussion. Even other types of messageboards, like traditional internet forums are alright. But on here, older conversations tend to leave the front pages and become near undiscoverable within days or weeks. reddit and the like are designed to for news and novelty more than real information sharing.
“They want to take away your hamburgers!”
I’ve used a lot of different forum types and it’s sometimes impressive how much of a systematic difference some decisions can make. By not putting your scoreboard on your profile, simply just not adding a couple of numbers to the page, ‘karma’ just isn’t on my mind and there’s no incentive to farm it.
It’s degamifying, and it’s a good thing.
Joined about a year or two before the reddit API fiasco.
But also, it actually had some communities at the time. If it were more dead, or unfederated, I’m not sure if I would have put as much effort in building communities.
If minor grammar mistakes must bother you, politely explaining them will help educate readers and ensure they occur less often. This kind of reply is rude and unhelpful, especially since many people posting are not as experienced with the clusterfuck known as the English language, but also since this isn’t a formal setting where properness matters at all.
if you used someone like MLK Jr. the power would turn off the second we started being nice to black people.
Well, maybe a little while after that, if their Letter from Birmingham Jail is still their position. A notable part is about how people just being polite moderates doesn’t cut it:
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
“Sorry, I got to return this video”
You say that, although it’s pretty close to the recurring joke in American Psycho, so if you’re lenient this kind of sentence was said in this comm only days ago. https://lemmy.ml/post/24140732/15784014
I completely agree. It’s tiring to ask a question and then have some low-effort absurd answer every time.
any advice on washing my cat without her scratching me?
is it two metres long and has orange and black stripes and are you in a jungle? try a tranq dart first
park it on the driveway and get a hose. oh wait u said ‘cat’ not ‘car’ #oops!!
ez bro just dress in a SWAT bomb defusal outfit. works every time.
yeah jeez thanks. It’s worse than no replies.
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