Depends on your circumstances. I plan to start a degree or PhD when I retire just to keep the brain active.

User name checks out.

Ruzzia must really be hurting to get this brazen.

She did?

Yep. https://youtu.be/WfIRo92DyXA

I smell the same flavour of bullshit about RedNote that I do/did about Bluesky. The articles are so obviously Astro turfing.

I’ve been pretty happy with my Apple AirPods Pro

Why would we let another corporation take control? Recovers is where it’s at.

I’ve noticed a significant change in my Facebook feed recently. It’s almost all content creator content now, which I’m taking as a sign that my network is no longer posting there.

I like the one when he had a single ass hair transplanted on to the top of his head.

bloviating

I love this word. TIL it.

“Asshole resistant”

I love that concept.

Love your sense of humour. :-)

Being nice to people makes them happy to be around you.

It’s almost as if, hear me out here, the Norwegians are right…

Who’s that?

Interesting. Might be cool if Lemmy allowed mods to apply a NSFW tag that only a mod our admin could remove.

discredited

Do you have any references for this?

The nuances on this issue are challenging. On the one hand, there are those that simply see the murder as being abhorrent. On the other, there are those who see it simply as being comeuppance. I believe the issue is one coming out of deep seated and wide-spread resentment at structural inequality and in many cases, personal stories of suffering caused by the failure of the existing system. The victim was a key player in that system, but he was also a human being with children.

A key function of social media is to provide a space for debate about social issues, and to facilitate discussions about how we can collectively build a better future. The challenge for moderators is to try to find a line between extremes that balances conflicting perspectives in a way that respects the community, and I believe the intent of the fediverse to be free from corporate control of discussion. In terms of rules, the key sentence in the ToS seems to be “We do not tolerate serious threats or calls for violence.”

I would suggest that:

• comments/posts that actively call for violence should be removed. e.g. “Someone should shoot all CEO’s”.
• comments/posts that more reflect a dissatisfaction with the system should not. e.g. “He contributed to untold suffering. I’m not surprised someone took matters into their own hands.”

The Eastern Bloc suffered an enormous drop in living quality following the dissolution of the USSR. Far from reaping a bounty via free market liberty, the people in these countries found themselves the subject of a historic privatization and looting of national treasuries and resources.

This is a black and white perspective. You have to keep in mind that citizens of these countries were significantly worse off as (involuntarily) being part of the USSR than the countries that were not in the Eastern Bloc, and most of them are now significantly better off as part of the EU. Most citizens remember the repression, shortages, and russification all too well.