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@ chicken @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • What's the deal with hexbear.net users

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  • I got a bit of harassment from hexbear users when I started using Lemmy, haven't in a while now though, I have blocked around 30 of them and instance block

  • What's the deal with hexbear.net users

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  • Policy is similar too, they want civil unrest and violent overthrow of current governments

  • What's the deal with hexbear.net users

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  • There is an instance block feature you can use in the settings as a user, that seems to work pretty well for not seeing hexbear stuff

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  • These billions of dollars are not held in money, but rather held in terms of things which convey control over resources and other people's lives.

    Under this scenario, one must imagine that people would eventually start growing food and making things on land that they do not “own” and trading it amongst themselves, until some new thing that people actually have access to becomes money. Even hiring security to prevent that ceases to be possible, because paying that security means giving some of that money to someone else

    Consider the plight of horses following the invention of the automobile. You might think that if the costs of feeding a horse exceeded the value that could be gained by employing its labor and the farmers therefore as rational economic actors no longer provided them with food, they would go into fields regardless of ownership and eat the grass there. But actually what happened with most of them is they were slaughtered and rendered into meat and glue. I'm sure a lot of people found the idea of a bunch of feral horses running around inconvenient, and they control the land and its access, and the horses and their movements, with fences and ropes and such.

    There is now effective mass surveillance, there are now drones with guns, and there is automation dramatically reducing the number of people required for most tasks. I don't think it's actually the case that maintaining our cooperation, or even our lives, is the only option faced by the very wealthy to retain their power.

  • Suppose we learn the CEO was killed over something ordinary and the shooter was a basic murderer. What does the reaction to this death say, if anything about this moment in history?

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  • That doesn't mean it's the truth

  • How could digitial age verification be possibly implemented with privacy in mind?

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  • It cannot

  • Catching up with relatives

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  • Well no, there's clearly a third group who is compulsively obsessed with consuming and repeating political memes in a way that isn't actually giving them any power or agency.

  • Do you think kids should be prohibited from using social media? If yes, how should it be done? If no, why?

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  • The biggest reason why not is that it requires the implementation of centralized tracking systems for everyone to confirm ID for accessing these services, which is a privacy nightmare and takes way too much agency away from individuals. If Reddit or something bans me for a stupid reason or because their broad brush modbots malfunctioned, I should be able to evade that ban with enough care and effort, and the government shouldn't help them make sure I can't. I should also have the ability to use social media pseudonymously without being subject to corporate tracking.

    The other reason, of course, is that banning children from social media cuts them off from participating in society or having any sort of a public voice. That's fucked up too.

  • Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years

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  • So they stretch it over their fin or what, how is it staying on

  • The Sunk Cost Fallacy

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  • When I took an economics class in college, the idea was broached that it could be possible for finishing a degree to be a sunk cost fallacy, if you realized that the degree didn't benefit you or wasn't a good use of your time midway through finishing it, and the effort you already put into it shouldn't be a consideration. This was a very unpopular idea and most students in the class refused to believe the Sunk Cost fallacy is a real fallacy.

  • What does masturbating or having sex physically feel like to you guys?

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  • I've felt pleasurable sensations from meditation before that are comparable to sex, you could try that

  • Just asking questions, bro

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  • Well, let's take the least controversial example from the comic: people "fighting against" destruction of the environment who are in fact fighting for it. Anti-littering, carbon footprint, personal responsibility focused environmentalism is known to have origins in corporate propaganda campaigns to draw focus away from their own role in the problem.

    My objection to the message of the comic is, sometimes "what if these people portraying themselves as fighting against X are really supporters of X" is the truth and what needs to be said, rather than just someone being a contrarian smartass. Always ignoring and silencing this sort of sentiment without considering it makes you more vulnerable to manipulation.

  • Just asking questions, bro

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  • False flags are a real thing and hateful people often hide behind emphatic opposition of what they would rightly be criticized as being.

  • What are some self care things you've learned much later in life?

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  • The idea of being a loser or winner in life, and that there is an objective consensus that could accurately rank your value as a person, is fake. People as a whole don't take the time to come to agreement on what matters, they don't understand each other, and you don't have a ranking, even theoretically. It's only in your imagination, so make an effort to cut some slack and imagine yourself in a kinder way.

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  • Personally I wish there was a way to filter out all the comments by people who haven't read the article.

  • Does anyone use in-sink garbage disposals anymore?

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  • I had one in most of the apartments I lived in, but I was always having problems with them and needing to contact the landlord to fix it (some of this was my fault but still). Now that I have my own place I'm not going to install one, I don't want to spend money if the result is mostly to get to maintain yet another thing, just to avoid shaking a drain trap over the trash every once in a while.

  • Do normal people mute the ads or just let the television keep going?

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  • When I was a kid my father would always mute the ads, which was annoying to me because the images still demanded my attention and it was frustrating not knowing what they said. Now I don't watch TV and know how to use adblockers so it's a mute point.

  • What seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate?

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  • Arguments (especially political/ideological ones) framed as personal advice

  • Your body, a choice

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  • I assume it's ultimately serious (they want to drop the pretense that it's about the value of the life of a fetus) but a use of irony poisoning on some level. Some real zero self awareness assholes regardless.