Not right now, I’m sorry. I’m working on other platforms, though, and will post as soon as I have them sorted, thanks!

where are you looking, specifically?

I was in that scene in the 80s. Been thinking about it a lot lately, it’s hard.

Bon Jovi’s crew had a designated chaperone, and I thought that was weird at the time. It was cool, though. I do appreciate it now. They wouldn’t allow the drugs or the sex – some roadie crews had that, and others didn’t, there was none of that (eta: the really bad stuff) in my circles, but I heard about the bad ones. I was like 15 at that time.

Because in the grand scheme of everything ads have so little effect on life

That’s objectively untrue, though. It’s just so effective, you don’t notice it anymore, and that’s kind of scary.

I haven’t, and I’ll have a look at those, thanks!

Edit: Also, tankie really? Y’all motherfuckers don’t know what words mean jfc.

Prrrr, shhh, let them have this. It’s been a pretty good thread, and they stand out as weird. It’s fine.

It’s not, though. There are extremes in all human thought patterns, and some have extreme low empathy (sociopaths), whilst others have extreme high empathy (which can also be detrimental).

All humans are somewhere on that curve, but when we give people with very low empathy a lot of power, very bad things happen.

My point was that these extremes aren’t necessarily ‘mental illness’ – they’re natural extremes, but giving them a lot of power is absolutely detrimental to society, because they can’t understand how the rest of us work, and they need to inflict their unnecessary and unconventional rules on the rest of us.

But it’s mostly sociopaths that insist on that hierarchy. Something like 3% of any population are sociopaths, and they’re not ‘mentally ill’, they just have a diminished capacity to feel empathy. Because of that, they don’t understand altruism and think the only way society can function is if everyone is in their place – if there are strict rules governing everything, because in their worldview, they see others like themselves, and they would need those rules to keep themselves in check.

It’s very similar to people who think without laws against raping and pillaging, everyone would rape and pillage. They’re mostly telling on themselves, as most of us rape all we’d like, which is never.

Billionaires are often sociopaths. That’s how they became billionaires – because it’s all me, me, me.

It’s crazy to me that many people think ‘this is what communism does’ when it’s actually what authoritarianism does. You can get authoritarianism all over the spectrum, in anything from communism to fascism.

This isn’t a feature of any political ideology – rather it’s a feature of letting sociopaths gain power.

The US is trying to do this now, what with declaring the bogeyman known as antifa a mental illness AND a terrorist threat.

Monotonous, or if you’re hopelessly stuck. If I can’t get past a puzzle or fight, and I’d otherwise stop playing because it’s not fun anymore, I’ll look up a solution. The alternative is not finishing the game and not seeing the rest of the content or story.

I could curl up with that movie and a warm blanket if I had the flu. I wouldn’t necessarily choose it, but I wouldn’t resist it, either.

Many family movies also work. Plus Scooby doo for some reason.

Uh… yeah?

ALL those stories are based on previous stories.

I’m really not sure what your point is.

This doesn’t tell you anything if they were all derived from earlier stories – which, it turns out, is actually the case. We have the earlier stories as proof, in many cases.

It’s a good thing trump isn’t dumb enough to think US debt is easily solved by printing more money, right?

Wouldn’t that be crazy?

(I really hope this isn’t something he can actually do. It shouldn’t be possible, but neither should a lot of things he’s done.)

Lemmy does have value, because the demographics are a bit more focussed here compared to much larger but more mainstream platforms, not to mention that larger platforms like reddit are already so bot-infested, they start to interfere with each other. It’s so trivial to make and deploy bots now with LLMs, I’d be very surprised if there weren’t bots here.

I think the reason we don’t notice them as much here is the quality of moderation tends to be higher (on average, so far).

I’m an ugly bag of mostly water.

It’s not about making something useful. He and a few others are cloning everything any of their cult might use to further fence them in from external information and entertainment.

They’re having a harder time in entertainment, because artists tend to be more liberal, but they’re gaining ground there, too. After a certain point, they’ll just radically censor everything else.

looks inside website

It’s a Wordpress wrapper over an autogenerated CSS wrapper on their 2002 website written in HTML-1 and Perl. On Angelfire.

They had to switch to buttons because men had trouble calling numbers beginning with 9.

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Twisting those coils between your toes when lying on shag carpet, talking for hours, was the best.

This should be marked nsfw.