If an artist is an evil asshole, I don’t support them anymore. I may still think their art is good, but I don’t buy from them, because I don’t want to support them financially and I also don’t want to spread their twisted message and normalize their behaviour. I don’t want to be connected with their evilness in any way. So separating art from the artist is possible for me only in some cases of artists that are long dead and that I think can do no more harm.

TV, newpapers and facebook is what I’m talking about. I’m the only lemmy person in my real life bubble.

I wonder where you’re from. In the parts of Europe I know it seems to be everywhere, all the media, all the information channels, just inescapable. And it’s not US politics, it’s international politics - tariffs, visas, research financing, USAID, military alliances, new territory ambitions - these are not US internal politics, it influences other countries in a massive way.

Unfortunately that’s not the way it works.

Many people lose the mental capabilities they used to have when they were young, so they become unable to act the same way as they used to. They often lose the ability to learn new things. We’re talking 60+, so there are hormonal changes that can influence both the physical and psychological side of a person. Just stay young in your head is an advise similar to saying “cheer up” to a depressed person. The mental decline is probably partly genetic, partly pure luck or lack thereof, and a minor part can be influenced by lifestyle. So I guess try to influence what you can, excercise, eat healthy food, read, meet younger people and hope for the best.

One thing is to identify the bad behaviour in others, to see you’re doing it yourself is much harder though. People often don’t realize they’re doing something they hate in others.

I believe it does. It’s really hard for children to buy hard drugs.

Banning hard drugs doesn’t solve the underlying problem, but it makes them less widely available, which is a good thing. Ban him.

That’s not the same as just letting an LLM to halucinate a whole article from nothing - which it sounds like when you say it was written by AI. LLMs are not a bad tool for translations, they have to be checked well though. Working with a language is the one thing they can actually do - unlike giving real answers.

Even nazi Germany was allowed to host the Olympics. I don’t think it’s good, but that’s the way it works.

No, they were not. AI was probably used for translation.

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I think it’s actually really great to march in liberal countries to support communities from less tolerant places. In this interconnected world, it makes sense to support each other across the borders.

Do go for the shitty admins with no mercy though. We don’t need Wiki to slowly rot from the inside.

You can FORCE them if you stay on the good side. Always look on the bright side of force.

Not everyone knows. This information should be everywhere.

The meaning of bread is pretty loose as it is, especially internationally.

A society that does not accept the blame of not being able to curb the pressure of foreign propaganda also has no hope.

I think this kind of anger can be healthy in some way. It’s just way too intense now. But it’s completely understandable - the world seems to get fucked in many ways lately. There are and always going to be many people needing help in this fucked up world. I find it good to be able to be helpful or just do anything nice for them. Just little things that won’t mean a huge change but can be a tiny bit of light for someone. It helps me to ease the anger a bit.

Ok, I get this and agree. I’d argue though OP probably is genuinely silly. The problem is when you use dating apps, you have to present yourself in some way. Taking pictures of yourself and choosing the good ones is really quite a killer of spontaneity and truthfullness. And everyone knows you want to show off your good sides in the profile. Taking silly pictures with his cousin that he may end up being a bit embarrased about later seems as genuine as it gets.