I am feeling a bit chernobylite…

Americuh’ should be no1 on the list! (None of the other countries on the continent matter.)

Doc’s lying. We all do, some just don’t linger on them.

You should have faith in humanity. But faith is illusory and reserved only for things that are highly unlikely to happen. So your faith was well placed, it just didn’t pan out. Which is pretty standard overall.

I too watched a documentary on the US civil war. I learned it was about power, greed and fear. The southerners had complete control over their slaves and losing them meant becoming completely dependant on northern machinery. They likened this to becoming slaves themselves, which was obviously horrifying considering their own behaviour in this regard. So war was their only option, not only to maintain and then grow their properties, but also to destroy or take over the northern industrial capabilities.

Sounds evil, which it was, but at the same time it was a matter of survival, as proven after the war when many plantations and businesses using the former slaves collapsed.

The war happened because the southerners had nothing to lose and everything to gain from it. Or at least, that’s how the documentary portrayed it.

Hello there. If you’d like to go on a wild goose chase, I can tell you that some years back on the PPSSPP forum there was a thread asking about this sort of thing. If you can find it and if it received an answer, then you might be able to solve this conundrum.

Have fun!

It’s normal to attack and be attacked, it’s also normal to have a friendly exchange of ideas and it’s very normal to communicate through memes and soundbites.

What isn’t normal is to communicate through emojis. We need to shun those people! They must not be allowed to propagate a second hieroglyphics age! Archeologists will think it was aliens all over again!

Shun them!

Kid loves you because you’re still there for him, for better or worse. If he doesn’t feel abandoned or less important than material things, then he’ll keep on loving you just the same.

Still, long-term, you need to plan for building him an independent life while getting one for yourself. It’s a tough gig but you have experience. Your work ain’t done yet pops, so good luck!

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Can’t fix what ain’t broken or is fundamentally broken.

Currently, intelligence and the ability to reason seems to be an unintended side effect of evolution. At its core, the sense of self is in contradiction with the natural state of things, because it can and will go against the other at any point.

If we consider the natural state as a river flowing in a set direction, then free will can be considered as an object within that river which can divert its flow, obstruct it or even aspire to reverse it. However, swimming against the current is tiresome and rarely brings out the sought results. So, eventually, the obstruction gives way and is smoothed out into nothingness.

Sadly the natural state is currently seen as hurtling inescapably towards decay. Due to this, it’s easier to self-destruct, it’s easier to accelerate the flow and it’s easier to be horrible than to take responsibility for decency.

Honestly, we indeed are our worst enemies. But the natural state of the world itself ain’t that much of an inspiration either.

Not everyone wants to be a hero and seeing the ones we have being destroyed left and right, well, it’s kind of hard to want being one. So we fall. Because fuck it, we deserve to, don’t we?

Thanks for the high praise. But also quite accurate.

I’ve been a mod before, in other places. My rule always ended up biased and unfair, but thankfully I was quickly overthrown. There’s a degree of separation when being part of the staff that alienates my view from that of the user base over time. Also, as said above, i am a bit of a cunt with people I don’t like. Can’t help it really…

It’s a tough gig, combating hatefulness, and most social media would rather pay fines than actually do their job in this regard. And constantly being exposed to the stress and negativity, well, it changes you.

I wish you luck and remember to visit the wholesome side of Lemmy more often, to keep in mind why you do this thankless job.

Ps: Thank you

Well shit! So no fucking around anymore? What about Australians? Are they still allowed to go “cunt” this and “cunt” that? I think it’s part of their cultural identity and forcing them to stop might harm them on an emotional level.

And what about the Polish? Or was it Poles? I forget. Anyway, “kurwa bobr” is an international sensation. We cannot censor it without it being called abuse and attracting a different kind of "kurwa"s posts.

Insults that are part of one’s cultural identity should be protected. And as such, I propose that the mod team should sacrifice a small amount of time in their day to learn culturally appropriate swear words from languages across the globe and share them with the rest of the users so that we may all know the socially acceptable way of insulting one another in a polite and friendly fashion.

A pleasant non-fucking day to you all. (They say abstinence makes the heart grow fond)

“Before you say anything, just hear me out. There’s like tons of prisons everywhere, so what if we march the prisoners at gunpoint to work the fields, for free?” ~ Trump administration, probably

Yay.

No worries. The people in question don’t even know Lemmy exists. This is just venting in the wind.

They never went away because their ideals were not defeated. They went away into a USA that segregated blacks from whites and had Japanese internment camps. You blame Nazis as the source, but they are merely a symptom of a human condition. And as long as we don’t collectively uplift ourselves, it’s never going to be overcome, no matter how many proponents are killed off or muffled in the background.

Well, I’d like to call them people. Wanna know why? I’ll tell you even if you don’t. It’s because despite our choices in life, we are all people. We can hate each other, renounce our humanity or run away from the truth with a myriad of excuses, but at the heart of the matter we are all people.

As long as you never let go of that concept, you will understand that those that do let go become capable of incredible harm to one another. And when that happens, the main point to be wary of isn’t when they will do incredible harm, but whether to join them in letting go as well. Because once you join them in this, you too will be capable of causing incredible harm.

Is that train of thought wrong? Or is killing each other the only real answer?

Sounds like a bunch of shitty historians.

Of course the motives matter, most of all for a good historian. Those who wish to reconstruct the past shall not be deterred from their goal just because “nobody cares anymore”. Fidelity to an accurate representation of the past is the only acceptable rendition of history, otherwise why even bother.

One family member each for every kind of difficulty in life.

I’m sorry, but that method isn’t plausible. There’s simply no way of achieving a high score through it anymore. Maybe as an ISS cannonball, but that’s a little difficult to get started with.