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@ Balerion @piefed.blahaj.zone

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covid isn't over, wear a mask

  • Does total privacy entail isolating yourself from 99% of people?

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  • This is part of why I've given up on most privacy measures aside from basic ones. The cost is too great, the government will most likely never look into my shit anyway, and if they did decide to look into my shit, they have the tools to find whatever they want no matter how careful I am. Also, being excessively privacy-conscious is itself suspicious and tends to attracted unwanted attention.

  • NSFW

    Why are there not any super well known nsfw community's on lemmy?

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  • If you're only looking for videos of two or more real people fucking, that may be true. But for other kinds of porn (hentai, erotica, audio porn, solo), there seem to be plenty of posters who do it just for the love of the game, so to speak.

  • Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare

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  • No one is saying THAT'S misogynistic. We're saying there are a bunch of stupid misogynistic comments in this thread, not that the app is cool.

  • Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare

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  • Yeah, this app sucks for a variety of reasons, but holy shit the misogyny in this thread.

  • Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare

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  • These alleged high standards women hold are largely imaginary. It's only kind of like that on dating apps, and that's because they're 80% male, so women HAVE to be picky.

  • Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare

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  • cats @lemmy.world
    Balerion @piefed.blahaj.zone

    In June, my mom found four kittens under her trailer. I made an Imgur album of their progress so far.

    imgur.com /a/dxnJWTn

  • UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition.

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  • Disgusting. Violating everyone's rights and privacy "for the children" (who will just use VPNs anyway).

  • Tea

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  • Fair enough.

  • Tea

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  • Come on. A lot of men being shitty doesn't justify violating the privacy of every man you're interested in. If you made this argument about ethnic or religious groups with higher-than-average crime rates, you'd rightly be panned for it. I'm a woman and I think this is awful.

  • Lemmy has a problem

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  • In addition to the issues others have pointed out, reddit was like this back in the day too. It's not that weird, even if it is true.

  • What would happen if the eugenesists had their way?

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  • That is also wrong.

  • What would happen if the eugenesists had their way?

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  • Honestly? Nothing except a lot of pointless suffering. Eugenics isn't just immoral; it literally does not work. The nazis did their damnedest to kill all people with schizophrenia during the Holocaust. Schizophrenia numbers were back up to normal within a couple decades.

    See this video (linked to the correct timestamp) for more on why eugenics doesn't actually do anything.

  • What would happen if the eugenesists had their way?

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  • Both are unjustifiable. Governments should never get to decide who's allowed to reproduce.

  • Too successful?

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  • OP, you're a nazi. I would advise you to [redacted because I'm not sure how much disgust I can express before I risk being banned].

  • [Politics] What is, in your opinion, a necessary set of minimal restrictions on freedom of thought, speech and expression?

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  • Right, but there are degrees of abusable. There's a difference between "yes, you could abuse this thing" and "this thing will inevitably be abused." In my opinion, hate speech laws fall into the latter category. I know of too many cases of them being abused... and worse, they don't even seem to do much to prevent hatred. See this article.

  • [Politics] What is, in your opinion, a necessary set of minimal restrictions on freedom of thought, speech and expression?

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  • Say what you like, but I just can't think of any way to write hate speech laws that isn't incredibly abusable. Handing the government an excuse to punish to people is inherently dangerous. While it's certainly necessary in some instances, I think we should be very, very careful about adding to the list of things you can get thrown in prison for.

  • [Politics] What is, in your opinion, a necessary set of minimal restrictions on freedom of thought, speech and expression?

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  • You claim these laws aren't a problem, then mention that governments are in fact abusing them literally right now.

  • [Politics] What is, in your opinion, a necessary set of minimal restrictions on freedom of thought, speech and expression?

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  • I think speech that depicts a real person being abused--e.g CSEM, revenge porn--should be prohibited. Credible threats should also be illegal. Otherwise, I don't think there should be many state-enforced restrictions on speech. I think hate speech laws are a pretty bad idea, because the people in power will inevitably use them against marginalized people. Laws intended to protect the vulnerable can easily be used to oppress them further. We're seeing this with pro-Palestinian groups being labeled hate groups right now in the name of "protecting" people from "antisemitism." (Antisemitism is a real problem, don't get me wrong, but a lot of people who get prosecuted for it haven't actually done anything except support Palestine.)

    I do think that communities should enforce their own speech prohibitions, though. For example, social media platforms shouldn't tolerate racism. Even if you think racists have a moral right to spread their racism (they shouldn't), you have to understand that some forms of speech inherently suppress others. If you've got a neo-nazi screaming racial slurs at an event, obviously the people of color there will not feel safe to speak up, and their voices will not be heard. You have to decide whose speech you want to protect.

  • Removed

    RANT: MAGA is imploding. Stop turning defectors away.

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  • No.

    They've had 10 years of leftists explaining to them that Trump is a nazi and a child rapist. They always knew. They made their choice.

    If they've had a genuine change of heart, I suppose that's one thing. But most of them have not. They still believe all the same horrible shit they did before, they've just stopped liking Trump as much. And even if they HAVE had a change of heart, they need to atone for all the suffering they've caused before they can expect to be accepted on the left.