I enjoyed some few-days bans for saying that USA is not a greay country to live in. And a bit longer bans for saying Israel is doing warcrimes. But never permanent. Curiosity brought me to lemmy but this platform feels tad empty

Not a monarchist, but I definitely have one big gripe with democracy.

Who is responsible?

I feel like there is no responsibility within democracy. Politicians just point at abstract things like party, commission etc. They can sell the country to the outsiders for cash money and nobody will be at fault. Or perhaps it’s the voter, his fault for voting. And when there is too much “guilt” put on party they just disband it and start a new one. Same people, same issues, just a different name.

As for British Monarchy - they are literally pets. I wouldn’t mind a permanent big-brother house with royal family for my country. Would certainly save up on production of telenovelas.

Progress isn’t driven by peace and cooperation. Most of human inventions, improvements, everything you may call “progress of civilization” boils down to “how can we fuck over other people for our benefit”. No matter what kinda change you may try to call “positive progress” it was really someone profiting by fucking over others.

There is a road in Poland. A4 it’s called. It’s officially a highway but never in it’s history did it satisfy requirements for that title. Label of highway cannot be removed for as long as road is under repairs, renovations or upgrades.

So there is a highway that shouldn’t be one, permanently in construction and never finished. It’s also paid road, one of the most expensive roads to use in EU.

And yet people still pay to use this road because alternative is a slower route through smaller roads and varied towns.

Software is the same - your application can be buggy shit, but as long as it’s best buggy shit available people will prefer it over more finished ones.

I made a free esoteric knowledge app for android. It’s named Baba Yaga. It has tarot, runes, astrology and some shamanic guides.

Currently I’m in the progress of reworking visuals to look better, after which my goal is to add herbs and dream symbols.

Pacifism, like democracy and capitalism, are functional only if everyone participate in them in good faith. There was never in human history a group of people where everyone participated in something in good faith.

Poland

My country may be poor backwards post-soviet hole, but social media and news present USA as Fallout-style post-apocalyptic dystopia.

Every member of my family has a family doctor assigned (it’s the same one for convenience). This doctor reminds us about mandatory vaccinations and tips us if there are any diseases spreading (for preparation sake). If anyone is seek we can usually schedule visit within a week, and most standard medicines are fairly cheap due to governmental control.

If I wasn’t against it, social media would not show me this.

Lack of expectation that wherever I am and whatever I do anyone can just call me to get instant answer.

Also - less societal control. Kids nowadays can’t go anywhere in public without their parents. They either get kicked out, have police sicced at them, or spaces where anyone can hang out for free are regularly erased. Case in point - even online spaces are now slowly closed from non-adults. In my youth one could go to any of the public spaces and hang out there for free with nobody troubling you.

World now feels like it’s strongly geared towards raising slaves - always available, always under control, even rest seems to be paywalled.

AI was supposed to take my job last month, last year, last decade…

Yup.

At work, at home, perhaps not on the internet.

Poland. 30-something years old. I am the only one with a house, half of my friends have flats in the city and the other half rents or lives with parents.

I found Royal Republic way too late in my life

Skyrim, firefox, blender, libre office, heroes of might and magic 3

To be fair, I don’t think I would date someone whose whole personality is just their gender…

Aside from that - depends who they are, how they behave etc.

Foxes are cool. Like cat software on dog hardware.

Media been minimizing crimes for years through the concept of “sensitive topics”. Many users are so used to them they even self-censor. There is no murder or rape in media nowadays, people are simply “unalived” or “having involuntary sex”.

Regulate advertising space and personalization algorithms.

Yes, it will kill a large portion of current economy, so maybe do it slowly. But generally speaking you should be able to find what you want on the internet, not what advertisers want you to see.

Top be fair, it’s quite likely that half the stories of vampires are really about people like this.

Just imagine, you are visiting someone important. They do anything violent, they aren’t particularly hostile. Just being in their house or around them makes you tired quickly for no apparent reason. You return to your home exhausted and pale.

Yup, must have been a vampire.

Sitting at home with my kids while my wife takes another course about horses. I think this time is for license to be a judge at competitions.