Amen.
Nobody takes issue with the idea that people can't own people. Until they're in a relationship and they start thinking of their partner as their property.
The insecurity around the all-or-nothing nature of monogamy creates all of the problems in monogamy.
Plus: orgies. Like. What's the point of living without orgies?
Sex with one person, forever, no group sex, incessant discussions around fidelity driven by insecurity, gee, where do I sign up?
Hi dad, it's me, your son, but from the future. I'm 75 now and writing to you via a time machine I found behind a McDonald's Bell.
It is crucially important you need these words: do not order the fish sticks. Under no circumstances, NONE, order the fish sticks.
Agreed.
Reading the article, even when they're taking responsibility they're still not taking responsibility.
"It's my fault, but that's because it's everyone else's fault"
The thing in this post about curiosity isn't just a lemmy/online thing.
The vast majority of people are mainly interested in themselves. Like - if you have trouble on dates, making friends, getting along at work, anything to do with people in general - approaching them with a sense of sincere curiosity will completely change things overnight.
Get people to talk about themselves, be supportive in your discussions with them, and shut the fuck up wherever possible and suddenly you're interesting, a good person, kind, whatever - traits you've done exactly fuck all to demonstrate, but that people will swear are true because you seem interested in them.
It's fucking bonkers but it's true. Curiosity can change your world.
I love porn. Like. I've watched porn for 30+ years.
At no point have I ever thought: "let's talk to people online about porn" or "let's share porn I enjoy with other people" or "wow, it would be great if I could find porn of younger people".
Everything this article talks about is fucking unfathomable to me.
If you are looking at CSAM it's probably because YOU'RE A FUCKING PEDO. I'm sure there are varying degrees of that but I just don't. Fucking. Get it.
It isn't porns fault you're a twisted fuck..And not once, ever, in 30 odd years of watching porn (ive definitely seen some out there shit but never anything illegal) have I randomly stumbled across CSAM.
This isn't a fucking conspiracy. Porn isn't a fucking gateway drug to CSAM. No one is going on pornhub and accidentally viewing images of eight year olds.
People access this shit because they fucking want to.
So. I have had some recent experiences that have been....... Very educational about a lot of the less thought aspects of technology that most people take for granted. H Most faraday bags you can buy are fucking garbage. None of them hurt in the grand scheme of things but they more involved this but I can't do calculus so feel free to do the math). At around the 5 and 6 ghz range (guess what frequency wifi 6 and 5g operate at?) the gap size in a faraday cage needs to be something like 1-2mm.
Of course you're not talking about a farDy cage, but a shielded bag. So buy one, close it with the Velcro clasp, and ask yourself: how snug is sealed Velcro? How much can I roll this up? And all the other myrad questions that lead to the same fucking conclusion: this is not the radio blocking solution you thought it was.
This isn't to say you can't buy a faraday bag that works (even if it does you may need more than one) it's that as the frequency it gets increasingly difficult to block the signals coming in and out.
And I don't understand the math, at all, but I'm not sure how the power of a signal would effect a faraday bag. Like.im assuming it would but.
Anyway..my point is: if you're bringing a faraday make very, very, very,VERY fucking sure it actually works.
How do you do that? I'm not 100% be t I'm pretty sure the equipment needed is complicated and expwnaive.
Someone more knowledgeable can expand on any of this, . Since everything I've learned on the subject has been severely limited by the fact that the Internet is a fucking wasteland.
Why can't I help but feel that this is target anti Lemmy ragebait?
Oh, won't somebody please the think of the children! My poor pearls are in ever so much ranger.
This is the kind if shit you started seeing more and more of on reddit as the end vitrification started.
Stop enabling this shit.
They can intentionally take space or they can talk it out but this shit is infantile and no one with any self respect should tolerate it.
I am a male with a penis but it is a very feminine penis and I stand in solidarity with your vagina. In fact,. Ny.penis' name is Cassandra, which is neither here nor there but it is indeed a fact.
Being serious for a moment though: I agree with your rational approach here. I have found Lemmy to be more hostile than reddit overall, and while I condemn hostility based on gender or race (I very much applaud hostility based on religion though) I think we NEED THIS SO FUCKING BADLY.
The entire internet has become a bland cesspool of meaningless garbage. I think the current state of things has proven that what inevitably begins as a laudable attempt to stomp out hhate speech (which I condemn) the window invariably gets wider and wider until meaningful dialogue is silenced.
We should be very fucking hostile towards Nazis. We should be hostile towards avaricious governments and unchecked human greed. We should be hostile towards proselytization, and anyone that cant understand that freedom FROM religion is as, or more important than, freedom OF religion. And while I can see the need to ban outright calls for violence as being necessary, the ubiquity of iron-clad moderation makes me very concerned about what will happen when there is a legitimate need to react against violent acts from entrenched power systems towards the oppressed.
While the comments here about "go make your own instance" are dismissive, I do agree with then in spirit. I want to participate in communities that eschew group think and promote real dialoguue. Especially dialogue I don't agree with.
The power of the fediverse is that if someone wants to copy the bland corporate safe space that is the rest of the internet there is fuck all stopping them.
Hotter take: ban religion completely outside of religious facilities and private dwellings.
No iconography, no discussion, nothing. You can go into your temple and do whatever stupid shit you want, you can aid the poor if you want, but everything to do with your religion stays behind closed doors.