"It crashed!"
"Yes but it did it all by itself!"
Bingo, though the r*ddit fuckcars certainly took the name literally which has given the one here something of an inherited reputation to shake free of.
I love cars and would likely continue to own them even if I no longer needed them day to day. That's vilified on the other site but seems fine here, as it should be.
There's some distinction to be made too between cruelty, and just plain apathy, dissociation, or whatever (I'm tired and struggling to word today).
When you mow down a heap of homes in Sim City you feel nothing because you're not linking your actions to a real impact on actual people. All you have in mind is that if you do it, you'll be able to use the space for something else that works better for you.
To some people, that's how they view the world.
Is this interrupted a Star Trek marathon you were streaming from your Linux server you are hereby Lemmy royalty