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Sunsofold

@ Sunsofold @lemmings.world

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  • Oh there's no more need for any more experimental data. All further sex is canceled.

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  • I'm not saying worst thing ever. I'm not catastrophizing. I'm not saying equal. They are different things. I'm saying unacceptable. I'm saying extent, though extant, is irrelevant to the question of acceptability.

    This is an important point that keeps coming up in a thousand places and a thousand ways. The fact a femur can be broken does not make the papercut meaningless, acceptable, or excused any more than the fact someone can torture you and your loved ones for days on end could mean it's acceptable to 'only' break your femur. If we try to scale measurement of harm in relation to 'what might have been,' attempted murder is completely acceptable as long as it fails, successful single murder is negligible as long as mass killings are possible, mass killings are fine as long as genocides are possible, and so on, and so on... You do not want to live in a world which takes the idea of 'at least it's not...' seriously.

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  • I'd take it as both being 'past the line' regardless of distance. If someone is seeking to defraud people, I don't care whether their targets are made easier by desperation or not. The guy effectively robbing you is bad, but that doesn't mean the guy price-gouging you isn't. He didn't help you out of a bad situation. He moved you from one bad situation to another. They are both harming you, and both would be prevented from doing it again in any just system.

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  • They're both forms of fraud. The gift card one is misrepresenting their position to trick you into giving them money. The house scam is misrepresenting your position to trick them into giving them something worth more than the money they give you. The only difference is that when they misrepresent you, it is expected that you be aware of your own situation such that you will be treated as though you gave informed consent, even if you didn't. It's analogous to the difference between someone sexually assaulting you by pretending to be a doctor vs never promising to be a doctor but telling you how sick you look and how they're no expert but they'd be willing to condescend to feel around inside your undies as a favor to you. The only people who accept the offer have to be so dumb, desperate, intentionally misinformed, or some combination of all three as to be essentially incapable of informed consent.

  • How do we reduce toxicity on the Fediverse, and on the wider internet?

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  • You can't.

    'Medium is the message.' There are inherent limitations to the formats of social media and the way people interact with it. Text stores well for social media companies, but acts as a brutal limitation of social interaction. There is a self-selection issue for the kind of people who end up spending significant amounts of time online. There is a selection pressure created by the business model of social media. Anonymity is politically important but socially toxic. There is a problem of cultural inertia in changing anything about any of these things, even within the limits of their structures. All of these things interact with other external forces in complex ways.

    All you can do is try to make your little part of things better. Help those you come into contact with. If you can, help them also to try to be a good influence on others. The earth is too big to affect all at once. You will never move it. But you can move someone near you.

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  • I recognise this image from a ways back. Do guys still do the unsolicited dick pic thing? It's practically a meme how stupid it is and how it doesn't work.

  • (This is a really stupid question) How do you know that you are not stuck in a time loop unable to wake up?

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  • How do you know we're not in a time loop so long you can live entire lifetimes inside of it?

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  • The mental image of one if them dancing into the whitehouse like a Ghanaian palbearer just to flip everyone off and say 'I don't give a fuck what you creepy old paedos have to say. I went to the fucking moon,' is immensely entertaining.

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  • Bone apple tea moment.

    *toe the line

    As in stand with the toe of your boots along a line in the dirt with the other soldiers of your faction

  • How do you respond to "hey, how are you" when you feel like garbage?

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  • Treat it non-literally. Say 'How's it going?' which turns it into a greeting rather than a question.

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    Am I cruel for finding it hilarious when Brits say they're terrified of chavs and cross the street whenever they see a boy or a man in a tracksuit?

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  • I explained it pretty clearly in that previous post, as did several others. You don't seem ready or able to listen so I don't see much value in repeating myself. Maybe you should find a hobby that isn't arguing online.

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    Am I cruel for finding it hilarious when Brits say they're terrified of chavs and cross the street whenever they see a boy or a man in a tracksuit?

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  • Aren't you the person who posted half a dozen pictures of guys in the UK equivalent of 'thug life' gear, asked Lemmy what they would call them, and then responded to dozens of comments of 'chav' with near identical complaints about how chav is a classist slur, revealing the entire post to be mostly just a way to pull people in so you could spam your objectively false opinion?

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  • Clearly, the most reasonable explanation is ghosts. The only sensible thing to do is repeat the experiment after ingesting a spirit resonance enhancing substance, like peyote.

  • Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability.

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  • no updates How many old games actually made it to the store still needing updates? I have heard of at least one, maybe two, games which had real game-breaking bugs and could have used an update to fix them.

  • (Question) what should I do with this? Any ideas? (Preferably vegetarian suggestions if possible)

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  • The classic is to grate some on your preferred pasta dish. Had some gnocchi tossed with parmesan and truffle oil some years ago. You might love it. You might hate it.

  • Exactly

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  • Beep. Socials might be grey zone but the name of the comic is not advertising. Searching the name is basically the best way to search for similar comics if you enjoy the one you are looking at.

  • William Shatner, legendary captain of Star Trek: The Original Series, age 95

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  • Did going to space age him 20 years or did Bezos just drain the life out of him?

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  • I will not argue with you. Internet arguments are pointless. Be well.

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  • I am not an articulate genius.

    You are the one making claims of knowledge.

    I will not argue with you.

    Have a nice day.