ContrarianTrail @ ContrarianTrail @lemm.ee

Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

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Fuck ads and fuck subscriptions

How do you imagine developers and content creators to get paid if neither of these two options is acceptable to you?

Why do you assume I want to be alone?

You're free to go thru my comment history, find one with lots of downvotes and point out to me where I wasn't 'adhering to basic decency.'

I feel Lemmy is a far kinder, more balanced community where you can have a polite discussion about stuff.

My experience has been much closer to what you described reddit to be. Lemmy is extremely unwelcoming of differing opinions.

Why?

Well yeah, I can see that the thread has received more replies than what I'm seeing.

Also, even if I did see their comments, I don't see how it contradicts my statement about how I don't care if they see mine.

Contradiction to the statement before

How so?

I'm not necessarily against that either but personally I couldn't care less if a blocked person can see my posts and comments. There's even one commenting on this thread. What I use the feature for is to get them out of my sight. If they want to write me angry comments that I'll never see, then have at it.

As if the default Lemmy experience isn't a massive filter bubble in itself. I doubt hardly anyone here would want to federate with Twitter and Truth Social even though that would make your feed, in fact, less of an echo chamber. Hell, a huge number of inctances don't even federate with Hexbear, Lemmygrad or Threads.

I can already block entire instances along with every single user there. I don't see why I should care if that's what someone wants to do.

After about two weeks you will have blocked everyone who isn’t you, your alt accounts or a bot.

Why is this an issue for you?

I haven’t seen that movie, but you’d need to hold the match there for a while. Inside the sprinkler head, there’s a small glass vial with liquid. When it heats up enough it expands, the glass breaks, releasing the water behind it.

I agree. Lemmy is the most unwelcoming social media platform I’ve ever been to. It’s why I no longer recommend it to anyone. People be like, “just leave Twitter,” but then don't have the tiniest bit of tolerance for views that even slightly differ from their own. This doesn’t just apply to the comments either - my highly curated feed, with over 500 of the most toxic users blocked, still mostly consists of people complaining. Look at me; I'm complaining too.

I have a picture of that moment:

I'm trying to summon my inner Ben Shapiro here. This isn't my opinion but my understanding of what he has said on the subject.

While Trump lies a lot, he's fundamentally a bullshitter, which is different. A liar knows the truth but chooses to deceive, whereas a bullshitter doesn’t care about truth in the same way. When Trump says something like, "We’re going to withdraw from NATO," he’s often expressing a sentiment or creating leverage rather than making a literal commitment. He treats politics like business deals, where you start with an extreme offer, then meet somewhere in the middle. He has argued that in the case of NATO, for example, this approach worked: other member states did increase their defense spending (though the war in Ukraine played a role too).

So, the point is that Trump’s statements should often be taken as rhetorical posturing - ways to push for certain outcomes - rather than literal promises. From a Republican perspective, his actions during his first term ultimately aligned with their goals, which explains their relative tolerance of his exaggerations. In contrast, they see Kamala Harris (and Biden) as engaging in misrepresentation that has led to policies Republicans find harmful, so there’s a greater focus on what they see as her inconsistency between words and actions.

Yeah, absolutely. All bets are off once you go from just thoughts to actions.

If I remember correctly, the strongest correlation with offending is proximity to children. So if someone has these tendencies and works in childcare, teaching, a church, or, in this case, as a 'youth leader,' then we're on a bad path there..

When replacing thermostat valves or radiators in buildings with steel-pipe radiator lines, the water that comes out is often as black as ink. It’s surprising how dark it can get.

And for anyone wondering why steel is used, yes, it does rust, but only while there’s air in the water. As the pipes start rusting, that air gets used up, and the rusting stops. Same applies to sprinkler lines. Steel pipes in radiator lines can easily last the building’s lifetime, whereas copper pipes for drinking water usually need replacement every 30 years or so.

Just a friendly reminder that pedophile is not synonymous with child molester. It's a term describing sexual attraction, not behaviour, just like 'heterosexual' is. Simply being a heterosexual doesn't make a man danger to women any more than being pedophile alone makes them danger to children. They have a sense of morality too.

The vast majority of people in prison for child abuse are not, in fact, pedophiles but just good-old rapists. Children unfortunelately simply are an easy target. The capability to rape a person - underage or not - generally requires some levels of narcissism, psychopathy and/or machiavellianism i.e. the 'dark triad' personality.

I fired an assault rifle in the army without hearing protection once just so try how loud it was. No need to try that one again. I knew it's going to be loud but not that loud.

I just keep my radio off and instead listen to the worrying noises from the engine and suspension.