This is bad enough, do we really need to play the yellow journalism card too?

I mean yeah, but that’s kind of how it works always. It’s just more protracted now.

Lemmy.ml was/is my first foray into the whole thing and the dogma/irrationality/hivemind has been really disheartening (for a community I had figured would filter people like that out due to its’ size relative to reddit or other normal websites). Thanks for this, i’m going to try it.

Who is “everyone”? I haven’t seen it here much.

It does seem line a case of the vocal minority, and one end of the bell curve just so happens to have strong influence over the means of communication.

It’s a dick move to say something like that to someone else, especially in a public setting.

I developed prosopagnosia (face blindness) after a brain injury in the military. As a rule I try not to bring up my work history, but that phrase pisses me off enough that I’ll let myself break the rule under those circumstances.

Thank you so much for taking the time to lay that all out for me. I’m sure you’ve had to do it once or twice already, lol. I’ll absolutely start curating the stuff I’d rather see. Maybe part of the friction I’m feeling is a procedural rub with marxists/leninists, and it would make sense/be hilarious if I’ve wandered into the middle of their space.

Do you have any less political servers you’d recommend? Besides the servers/services you recommended? Or is it largely an issue with the server i’m on?

That you know of

I don’t keep up with the news, is this something someone like mr. Beast did?

I think this is a little bit outside of the ask, but I’d like to find a place that is both positive and relatively politically neutral.

Part of what drive me here was that the tip of the iceberg (facebook, instagram, tiktok) feel so deeply infused with ads/ai/influencers that even the content I like is likely deceitful. This bums me out and makes me not want to use social media.

Places like reddit and any of the #chans have less of this, but the baked-in politics in both make of them bum me out.

I like that Lemmy feels like it’s actual people, but the politics and negativity can get to be a little much for me. I don’t like to think about things I don’t like, and while I can the value in being informed of things that I may need to act on, I don’t think that constantly bringing up things we take for granted is helpful.

What I want to be doing is getting to build and be a part of something positive and purposeful, something people do because they’re passionate, something that is so cool that the shitty stuff outside kind of pales in comparison. I’ve met lots of cool people on here that are that way, and I’ve been able to filter some of the negativity out by ignoring posts that I know will bring that out in people, but still, it would be cool to see something like that.

I hope it’s as simple as finding the right instance for me.

I love this idea. It would also be a lot of fun to load in niche locomotive sounds and see the secret train nerds light up when they hear a DC-10 or whatever

Interestingly, I just heard this on another lemmy post about alcohol. It wasn’t well received there, lol

missing this_tbh

It could be; but, the ones advocating for the punitive punishments rarely consider that their own heads could be next on the chopping block (sometimes literally).

There’s also a bunch of research that seems to say that rehabilitation is typically better at preventing crime.

It has to do with recognition. For instance, Sealand meets all of the requirements: a permanent population, a defined territory, an effective government, and the capacity to engage in relations with other states (I believe this is codified somewhere in the UN’s laws and policies).

But, most places don’t consider Sealand a real country because other countries don’t officially recognize it. Which is kind of weird to think, that being a country is like being a popular girl: if the other popular girls say you’re a popular girl, then you are. If they decide you’re not, then you’re not.

So, while there is a quantified threshold, the de facto rule is whether other countries recognize you. It’s also similar for honorific titles.

I, too, hate job hunting, but I’m having a hard time seeing where unemployed people have to work full time for free, unless it’s a working interview.

ok

is this problem limited to people who act like that in the South, or people in general who act like that? In other words, if someone was from Oregon or Colorado and was mentally ill and pro-criminal, would you feel the same toward them?

That’s really interesting and I think you’re right. I like your term, “visual vocabulary”. Rad reply

I don’t really know what to make of that but congratulations or that sucks I guess

that’s crazy, I didn’t know over 100,000,000 people who lived in a bioregion are mentally ill and also advocate for a criminal, damn. Or am I missing the point you were trying to make?