aasatru

If we want to talk about why European countries have blood on their hand we could keep going all day.

I'd push back a little against the notion that nobody cares. You don't have many (any?) political allies who are willing to stand up against dictatorships and let go of their cheap oil supplies, but you do have people and organizations who care.

The International Criminal Court did, among other things, issue an arrest warrant on Netanyahu. I think we have managed to establish international law, but not yet international justice. As a result it's easy to give up and consider it all to be false promises and lies, and to a degree that's not entirely wrong. But I nevertheless believe that current-day international law is the greatest achievement we have made since the second world war, and establishing international law is the fundamental first step towards international justice.

I have a lot of friends working for various international organizations, and while it's one hell of an uphill battle, I can assure you that there are people out there working tirelessly to try to make a change. And despite everything, most European countries are still supportive of the ICC and in favour of establishing an international legal order.

If we want to be hopeful about Europe, it has to be judged by it's commitment to that promise, and not by the corrupt, narcissistic, or plain moronic leaders who are way too frequently put in charge.

Ah, well, fuck. Then I don't really have a positive spin on it.

Maybe the US crashing and burning will at least limit US influence on the Arab world, opening at least a slight hope for improvements in the region in the long run. It's a weird world - yesterday it was Europe and the US against the rest, today Europe stands alone and Russia is paralysed in Syria. Maybe tomorrow we'll see genuine alliances between Europe and countries in the Arab world that are not entirely built around exploitation and sucking up to dictators.

Maybe. But I'm not holding my breath.

I hate myself for being pedantic, but: You haven't emigrated yet. Immigration is coming, emigration is leaving.

I'm guessing you're from Iran? The only good thing I can really say is that they're as afraid of you as you are of them. But they are fucking terrifying, and as you well know you're right to be careful. I can't believe the stuff we seemingly choose to turn a blind eye to coming from foreign authoritarian regimes on European soil.

This looks pretty ideal in my opinion.

I think it's fine as long as:

1. Your bot is clearly marked as such
2. It only post to communities where it has explicitly been made welcome, either after you talking to the admins or in a community you run

A lot of people, myself included, are hesitant to take the time to look at content if nobody took the time to manually share it. But for a use-case like you mentioned, for a local community that is too small to be established naturally any time soon, I think it could make sense. Especially for local news — YouTube videos should maybe still go through a human screening before being shared.

That's my five cents, anyway. :)

If you want to look at things from a different angle, you could also consider signing up for Mbin (fedia.io, kbin.earth) or PieFed (piefed.social, feddit.online).

I guess it might make sense for some people, not for others. It does allow you to see things from a little bit of a different angle, especially in the all feed.

I'm not American thank god, but it matches the experiences of American women I have talked to about it. And it matches experiences of European women I've talked to. And I wouldn't be surprised if it held true other places as well.

The amount and nature of porn being consumed obviously affects people's expectations everywhere it is happening. I'm sure this argument does not apply to secluded tribes in the Amazon or whatever, but that's just not what I'm talking about here.

Large portion of [any given] society.

Of course people have shaved since they figured out how to do it, and there have been trends throughout history. But good luck finding another moment in history where a large portion of society thought there was something wrong with an unshaved private part, regardless of gender.

A colleage of mine working in the same field recently made a Bluesky post that I found interesting. The kinda stuff I'd share on a good day.

He got four likes and two shares - one of each came from me through Bridgy Fed. I very rarely get that little on Mastodon.

He has almost 800 followers there. I have less than 200 on Mastodon.

My takeaway is that Bluesky has this potential for posts to get pushed into every feed, but if they fall through the cracks of the algorithm they might go completely unnoticed. So you end up changing how you post in order to please the algorithm, losing yourself in the process.

Mastodon just feels chill to me. And I'm bridged, so I can always go viral on Bluesky anyway, I just won't be all that aware of it.

Dude, your concept of failure is my dream. I'm happy here.

I disagree with your answer, but I think you pointed to the right one.

It's porn. People's constant consumption of porn has completely changed what people perceive to be normal, and preferences has changed with it.

It's a huge change of culture driven by some pretty extreme shit, but we don't talk about it because it's still too much of a taboo to have a public discourse about. Very few men are willing to go into that level of critical self-evaluation of their sexual behaviour, and even less so to do it in public. Women are rarely given a platform to speak out. So what you end up with is women discussing in private about how their one night stand slapped them on the ass so they couldn't walk straight for three days and seemingly thought that was a completely normal thing to do, or going in forcefully cold without foreplay expecting it to be magically enjoyable for both parties.

Our expectations for shaving is just another point where the influence of porn shines through, albeit less violently so.