Sort of. I have s friend who I consider a RL friend but whom I’ve never met face to face (he’s part of an RL friend group, but he joined after I moved away so our only contact is online.)

He and I have discussed politics extensively over the last 10 years or so, and he’s gone from being a 2-time Trump voter to rejecting him outright and voting against him this time. He’s not s Democrat, but I still consider it progress.

Has anybody seen my triceratops?

Yeah, what’s even funnier is after noticing and appealing the temp ban I logged off and the only time I went back was to check my mail for a response which is when I noticed the perma-ban, so between those two time periods I was literally not even on reddit, so I have no idea what the fuck they were on about.

I’m here for you brother and/or sister, I’m always happy to preach the good word about telling other people to eat shit. I have just seen so many people giving each other shit about stuff like this that really doesn’t matter in the slightest and I’m tired of seeing it ruin other peoples’ joy. Those people need a fucking hobby.

Oh yeah, my hands are covered in tiny scars where my cat got a lil carried away chewing on a knuckle or whatever while I was giving belly rubs. Worth it.

Indeed, Nazi scum can fuck off.

It’s continued to get worse since I left a couple weeks ago? I’m shocked. Shocked, I say!

Yup. What’s left of their user-base is cranky, well-entrenched against their bullshit, and not afraid to show it. See: the APIpocalypse, etc. I would bet they lost millions of users over that, and now they’re alienating tens or hundreds of thousands more. They have a pretty shit business model which largely relies on enshittification.

Same, I’m engaging more often here than I did on Reddit because it feels less like shouting into the void. I just wish there were more active communities for philosophical/political/religious debate on lemmy.

Also I didn’t even realize there wasn’t a karma system here, but that seems like a good call. I never paid attention to it on Reddit either (I couldn’t even tell you off the top of my head how much I have.)

I had no idea that was a thing, nor who I would have done it with considering none of my friends or family use reddit. Much less how I could’ve done it without even knowing about it.

I was perma-banned like 11 hours before my temp-ban was lifted, per the timing on the messages in my inbox, so I think the admins just got a lil carried away with the fashy bullshit and then walked it back a little.

Politicians didn’t fight the Cold War. It wasn’t pasty fat men in their 60s training the Mujahideen in Afghanistan or on the front lines of Korea or any of a dozen other proxy wars. Politicians, as a rule, tend to avoid things that pose a serious risk to their health (which makes it kind of ironic that they tend to spend their careers putting other people in proximity to those things instead, doesn’t it?)

Eh… maybe one or two. But most people (like the politicians above, funnily enough) tend to have a pretty strong survival instinct. I agree it would absolutely be chaos, but most people wouldn’t think of making a nuke, much less know what kind of nuke they should make, or even how to make one in a 1m³ box, they would just get regular guns and chemical weapons and shit. Still lots of chaos. Just less radiation.

Not MIRV, a MIRV warhead - as in a single warhead from the payload of a MIRV missile. And the reason is because regular warheads wouldn’t fit in the 1m³ space.

And what joy would you have in life if you did or did things solely based on what other people thought about you? Maybe it’s just that I have a different perspective because I’m in my 50s, but one of the things I’ve learned in life is that what other people think matters so very little. I understand, it’s not easy to get there, I was very much a people-pleaser in my youth, but I have found a great deal of contentment in just doing the things I enjoy without regard for what others think. Don’t like my flip-flops? Don’t like my hair? Don’t like the way I talk? Well then you are cordially invited to fuck all the way off, but in the meantime this is my life and I’m going to live it how I damned well please.

And anyone who would shit on or kill the joy in you because you bought a pillow is not your friend. Why do you care what people other than your friends/family think about literally anything? It’s their weight, let them carry it.

The better question is why do you care? This is your life, do what you enjoy and tell anyone who doesn’t like it to get bent.

And the US isn’t? The US doesn’t exactly have a stellar record either, so if you think the US is some bastion of human rights you haven’t. been. paying. attention. And if you think LGBT rights are safe from that you’re delusional.

And that’s not even considering the many, many atrocities and war crimes the US has committed and continues to commit overseas (Yup, that’s a ChinaDaily link - if you believe US media reports about Chinese human rights violations then you must be willing to give the Chinese media the same courtesy about US violations, right?) So my advice to you is to hold on to that smug sense of US human rights superiority for as long as you can, cause once the illusion fades you’re in for a rough time.

There’s a world of difference between supporting the liberation of Palestine and praising it. I don’t think anyone is under the illusion that it’s a great place to live, but that doesn’t mean I want them to be murdered.

1. Make a nuclear bomb. You don’t need a whole ICBM, a single MIRV warhead can fit in the available space.
2. Threaten to set it off if everyone in the area doesn’t give me their fabricator.
3. Expand operations/nuke delivery range.
4. Have a monopoly on the means of production again.

This is how people brainwashed by capitalism would use it to deprive us all of the post-scarcity future. We can only hope some more reasonable people also think of making nukes first so we can at least have some mutually assured destruction to preserve the fully automated luxury gay space communism.

Hmm, Denmark seems like a chill place to live, but just hear the language is hard to learn so I might have to go with Switzerland.

Hmm, more belly to rub, I’m all about this. One for each hand!