It's an inheritable condition. It's very common for parents of autistic/ADHD kids to think they're 'normal', because their idea of 'normal' is themselves or their own parents, who also have them.
OK people really do backflips to justify why their version of gender/sexuality is the best one so I can see why the top person exists.
But the bottom one HAS to be satire, right? "Reproductive sex is forcefem" cannot be a real viewpoint. They're mocking the top person, by baiting them into abstaining from sex outright.
I guess it's because when I'm up at 1am, I'm actually doing something, like playing video games, out with friends, or working on a project. It would take me a couple minutes to reply, and create a new timestamp.
It's less likely a person is just sitting at home on their phone at 1am, ready to text back immediately. Or a person reading the news at 1am and deciding to text a friend about it. That sounds so.... hollow.
Its possible, because boring night shifts and depression and phone addiction and increased lonliness etc etc, but imo its still likely that the texts are fake and the person who made it was too lazy to add another timestamp. The single timestamp is the biggest tell for fake texts because people don't think it add more, but IRL they're very normal.
Part of internet literacy has to be skepticism, because it's very easy to generate fakes. If you believe something is true/real just because you agree with it, your worldview will be easily manipulated.
But that's also what holds them back, because without socialization, they can't accrue and pass on knowledge through communities or down generations. They're incredibly intelligent, perhaps rivaling our own; but they're perpetually stuck in the Neolithic Era, because each has to learn tool use from scratch.
There are several fake text generators so I don't trust any 'screenshots' with only one timestamp, especially one for 1am :/ why are you both up at the same time to exchange messages that fast
I can believe exchanges like this are happening, I'm just also fully aware that people like making up fake Everybody Clapped posts too, and this strongly looks like one of them
Yeah I remember thr same thing. Everything else was suppose to be a package update.
But back-end technology and usage expectations change, and there's a limit to what front-end changes an existing user tolerates. That was never a promise they could keep.
It has lasted a really long time, though. I don't decry 11 existing. I'm upset they're sunsetting 10 without giving us a chance to wait for 11 to get better, let alone for 'oops we fixed the fuckups' W12.
Nope, will probably avoid 11 as long as I can though. I have an Mvidia card (drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux). And I need professional design software for work (as in, industry standard: Adobe or Affinity).
But I put 11 on my laptop to try it and I hate it. So many terrible UI changes, UX noticeably worse. Like they changed stuff just to say they changed stuff.
I considered going Linux for personal use and development, and then using another machine or dual boot for Mac for design software. But i learned about the Nvidia issues after I upgraded my card :/ and swapping to Mac's walled garden after avoiding it for decades is.... a sign of how bad W11 feels to use.
This is what I do, except I would add 700 and 236 at the end.
Well except I would probably add 700 and 116 or something, because my working memory fucking sucks and my brain drops digits very easily when there's more than 1
The only people who care about that shit are common folk. Tesla is still doing well because those who care about money still think he's a tech genius that will invent the next great idea - robots, AGI, space colonies - and investing in/high evaluations of Tesla is investing in Elon.
Elon's feelings might be hurt if commoners reject him, but he's still going to have plenty of friends and opportunities. Once you're wealthy, your social circle stops being about other personal values and become entirely about money and power. Which he still has plenty of.
Yeah it feels like a weird way to say that humans still have vestigial signs of a cloaca. It's understood that evolutionary ancestors did, so humans' ancestors would need to have separated the functions during their evolution... I guess the news is that there is still genetic evidence even today.
Alternatively, creationists can take this as a sign a creator considers butt stuff to be natural sex also 👍
I think that social media (which is much broader than most people think) isn't really the issue. It's a tool being leveraged by the real danger. As you say, Lemmy hasn't been bought and sold by special interest groups.
The way social media is leveraged is very harmful, but those groups are also leveraging other media (particularly the news). I would blame our ibcreased social division on the special interest groups that benefit from, and promote, social division.
IMO blaming social media itself for our woes is like blaming the ocean's plastic on straws. It ultimately let's the real damage continue while blaming the everyman's suffering on their own consumption.
Most people vote Conservative because they are afraid, and are drawn to leaders that seem strong, powerful, and promise to destroy or protect them from the things they fear.
They might've been dumb enough to be tricked. Now they're too afraid to admit they were. They're in too deep, and they'd have to sacrifice standing, community, stability, and their understanding of their place in the world if they were to admit they were wrong.
That's too scary. Most of them aren't too dumb to understand, they're convincing themselves because the alternative is too horrible for them to admit.
How do you reconcile that with how social media platforms like Lemmy allow people to collaborate across groups also? Or to educate?
Like, I do agree that social media plays a hugely pivotal role. But that's because humans are social creatures with pliable perspectives and are reactive to the views of those we call our peers.
That means special interest groups can tell us what our views should be and sway millions, but it also means that small towns have always been extremely insular and would reject 'out-group' people, with or without social media. The 'liberal redneck' can only exist now because they can have contact with diverse and nuanced people outside of their local communities through online platforms.
I think humans have stunted relationships with their local communities in favour of fragile online ones, but I believe bad actors are leveraging the power of humanity's propensity for community groupthink. Social media expands the size of our 'tribes', but it's engagement algorythms that are enforcing echo chambers, to keep us on platforms in profitable ways. That is a property of for profit Capitalism, more than of remote peer-to-peer interaction.
I've noticed if you click the button to "make an exception', and refresh the page, you can watch the video anyway. But it's possible that their server can record you doing that several times and might eventually suspend you.
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It's an inheritable condition. It's very common for parents of autistic/ADHD kids to think they're 'normal', because their idea of 'normal' is themselves or their own parents, who also have them.