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Couldn’t predict the horror of ad overlays!

It is not ethical.

Next!

Don’t forget a second bucket for all the blood.

Yet another better option:

What?

People get frustrated by circumstances they don’t necessarily understand. Fascists give them easy targets based on lies that feed the people’s prejudice to place their blame, and introduce more and more oppressive social restrictions based on those easy targets while riling up public fears and so on.

That is how lies about immigrant and minority crime have primed the US populace to be ok with the military occupying the nation’s capital based on blatant lies about crime rates.

The US population is grouped together in one giant pool instead of spread out by state like Europe is grouped by individual country. We focus on national news that affects the large population, and stuff that happens on other states becsuse of the shared identity, while European countries don’t have the same kind of European Union shenanigans that affect all of Europe and mostly post about country level stuff. Communities in languages other than English also tend to be posted in separate communites further separating their discussions from the general purpose communities.

We are also louder, which also contributes, but that is not as big of a deal as the sheer numbers.

Because the tech he makes is inherently terrible and despite being used in a positive way it is still centralized and ripe for misuse by people like Musk. On top of that the long term feasibility is based on advertising potential to get the funding.

He says positive stuff most of the time but his actions are the opposite. Blusky is supposed to be decentralized, but the structure as it exists requires it to actually be centralized when implemented. Plus his most recent ‘secure’ thing wasn’t even tested for security issues because he is a hype man who constantly lies.

Jack Dorsey should just fucking stop.

People can’t see the community rules when browsing All you fucking donkey.

Also, down voting is NOT against the rules unless they were changed recently recently.

Off the top of my head.

unruffled at dbzero hypes up the conspiracy that everyone who gets banned for vote manipulation/whatever deserves it. I think they posted something about the brigade menace and treat a handful of down votes on something as the end of the world.

cryptagion at dbzero does mass bans for one or a few down votes

mystic mushroom at dbzero does mass bans for one or a few down votes

Also jet at hackertalks does mass bans for one or a few down votes

Think there was one other too but can’t remember their name. The complaint is that they don’t understand what lurkers are (vote but don’t comment) or that people might browse all and not care about AI but down vote something because it is awful. Then they make ridiculous accusations and accuse anyone who disagrees with them of being a troll.

If they just banned down votes and banned anyone who down voted with the reason ‘down votes not allowed’ then they would not be getting the widespread negative reaction that they are getting by accusing people of brigading or vote manipulation or ‘anti-ai harassment’ and all their other stupid and insulting made up ban reasons.

Also one of the YPTB mods is in a group with like 3 others who all:

Flood user modlogs with unfounded accusations of vote manipulation and trolling.

Think that people browsing All should know the size and history of every community before downvoting a single post. Also don’t understand what lurkers are and assume intent.

Take downvoting very personally.

Mixed up metric and imperial again!

Not knowing their age, I still go with anything PG13 or your local equivalent is likely to be fine for most kids depending on what they like and how they react to different situations. My kiddo liked Jurrasic World at 10, but couldn’t handle Jurrasic Park because JP did a better job at making scary scenes scary.

I enjoyed a lot of Rated R movies as a kid, especially when the rating was from language. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles wasn’t any more adult than Uncle Buck except for the F bomb laden rental scene. Both are completely appropriate for kids around 10 years old with parental guidance if needed.

We never hid cursing from our kiddo and she didn’t repeat it elsewhere, so it really came down to what held her attention and what seemed like something we felt might need some explaining.

As always with the exception of ADHD communities which every single member feels like I knew them for years no matter which site.

I think that the ADHD community takes things that other posters say at their word instead of making a bunch of assumptions. That is my general experience as someone with ADHD, things in a conversation are being said in good faith unless there is an obvious contradiction. Many conversations with neurotypical people feel like I’m participating in a conversation where the other person’s past experiences are being projected on to me instead of listening to what I’m saying.

Communication is a two-way street. If one person fails to understand what you’re trying to say, that may be their fault. But if nobody seems to understand what you’re trying to say, if this is happening to you regularly enough that you have to ask this kind of question, maybe you’re not being clear enough.

While this is a great thing to consider, sometimes it is hard to figure out because people are responding to a bunch of things other than what you are saying, or because they assume what you mean is different than what you are saying. In those cases maybe the topic isn’t worth discussing.

Hell, I’ve even read over things, submitted a post, and then gone right back to edit because I saw something else needed.

/s

Getting any sentence at all > no sentence.

I was commenting on the quality of the decision because different people are at different development stages in their late teens and there is a massive difference between dating someone one’s own age and twice their age. Hell, there is a huge difference between a 16 year old dating a senior in high school and a 22 year old in college.

You first: What is the minimum age you think someone should be able to make their own decisions about having sex with a 42 year old?

Having the right to control their own choices and making a poor decision are two different things.

16 year old dating someone more than twice her age = absolutely making a poor decision.