andyburke

At this point does Google ever do anything that isn’t awful for the consumer?

Eject, friend, eject!

this is how the fediverse starts to take over and I am here for it

Both sides are all just humans being the worst we have to offer as a species.

Egged on by ridiculous stories about men in the sky, they fight for no reason when we could all just treat each other as human.

Not going to agree with the commenter above, but I want to point out that this happens a lot:

A person who holds views that are detrimental to others comes to a community of those people and cries “why, when I am not quite like other people who hold these views, but agree with them on the detrimental stuff about you, do you not accept me?”

The people in the community try repeatedly to explain why holding views that harm others is harmful and that the person asking may need to revaluate their own views.

The person then says they’re being attacked. Everything they predicted about this community is coming true! They feel like they’re being kicked out!

And they are! Because when they came to engage then didn’t change, let alone evaluate, any of their own views, the community rightly showed them back to the door until they are ready to actually listen and put themselves in someone else’s shoes.

I am sure you feel like you have been badly treated at this point. What you do with that now is up to you. I’ll say this: I have no hate for you, I would like nothing more than to give you some feedback that might help change how you view some things. I hope there is enough food for thought here for everyone.

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At what point do we start to discuss how evil the Russian regime is? I mean, this is feeling like we are approaching the lines in the sand that we drew after WWII, if we haven’t already blown past them.

I have no desire to lose more lives, but this is evil. How can any country support Russia in this?

I’m not an expert, but I think kbin could implement UI to allow you to view events (things) from those other instances.

I assume right now kbin is only looking at a handful of the types of stuff that can be shared in the fediverse.

At least, that’s my layman’s understanding right now.

I am an 80s child, my friend. I have seen Krull more than once. I understand what I am saying.

Yeah … have we forgotten who JJ Abrams is?

One becomes a significant person in politics by writing things like this. This is a Russian politician who is saying the things you want. Was only trying to help make sure you are aware.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/11/russia-post-putin-democracy-window-nuremberg-lustration/

Vladimir Kara-Murza is.

Reasonableness on the Fediverse is so fucking refreshing.

FWIW: my only problem is the with the pseudoscience, your picking up his odd behavior is totally correct. I wouldn’t trust this guy as far as I could throw him, just not sure what we can decide scientifically from clips like this.

Can you cite some studies for this, please? Preferably reproduced, peer reviewed ones?

I don’t mean to be mean, but I have heard things like this and from everything I have been able to gather, there’s no evidence for being able to tell how someone is thinking just from their movements or tics.

This is why Ukraine is under immense pressure to get results out of the counteroffensive.

I know you don’t want advice, but I want to share some information that may be important and helpful for you: recent studies have shown ulcers are essentially an infection and antibiotics have some success in treating them.

For too long doctors thought it had to do with stress or diet, but it’s an infection.

As an outsider with no horse in the race, I thought this a good discussion.

In the end, I think maybe Quebec gets what it wants: I have no interest in visiting a place that tries to police its “culture” that much.

The problem here is arguing on the Internet.

It wasn’t an attempted coup, though, it was more keystone cops action from the Russian Federation.

I tend to agree with OC that these opinion polls don’t matter. Putin is in control and until people closer to him change that, Russian citizens are along for the ride.

The sad truth is it will need to get much worse until conservatives will admit there is a problem and let progressives solve it.

It has always been this way. You either live in a progressive, upwardly moving state with improving quality of life or you get stuck in a conservative, stagnant or downward trending place where people are more concerned with “others” than they are with doing anything productive as a society. As a species, we seem to slowly wobble back and forth between these extremes. It’s maddening.

“The West” is essentially the group of nations attempting to abide by a moral code. It is not always, or maybe even often, successful, but there is a vast gulf between their morality-based approach and what China, Russia, DPRK, and other fascist/semi-fascist nations are doing.