SanctimoniousApe @ SanctimoniousApe @lemmings.world

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OP didn't specify "human" life...

Politics is involved in EVERY aspect of life whether you realize it or not - particularly those involving any other person. It affects through what kind of lens things are viewed - factual or not. Even trying to avoid given topics reveals your political leanings. THIS fact is DEFINITELY something you should know.

So you're telling me you're cold-hearted? 😳

What's that saying? "Cold hands, warm heart?"

Conveniently, this post was in my feed just a page or two later. You got a bug up your derriere, Nougat?

"I'm sorry, I can't accept that. Well, except maybe this once."

Does it count if my pet peeve is that I inadvertantly wound up having to do myself?

Deplorable.

There's so much out there because there's no one (or even just a few) right way(s) to proceed. Everyone is unique, and so there's are just as many paths to enlightenment. Just take a stab at whichever intro looks good to you, and if it doesn't work for you then move on to another - they'll all contribute to your knowledge even if they don't fully work for you.

Yet still cheaper to remove - no matter how many Decks you have to do it to.

They'll accept it, but won't tell you they ignored everything after character n, and their login page won't take anything but the "correct" password so you'll be spending some time figuring out the actual character count limit...

Same boat here. My spouse has numerous health issues that are mostly manageable, but the physical limitations make employment difficult and the Medicaid health plans are such as PITA to deal with that they may as well not be there. My spouse has extremely low self-esteem beat into them since childhood by an asshole stepfather (that over two decades I've only minimally been able to improve), and thus no drive to fight for the help that is needed. Me going would likely mean the end for both of us.

At this point I've already long since been dead inside, so it's well past time that my body finally joined my spirit. At least I'd go out happier knowing that I wouldn't actually have to live through the second coming of Repugnican-induced hell - a.k.a. "this time we're gonna hit the ground running and do our damnedest to thoroughly destroy what's left of the country in under four years."

Few people care at this point - some may claim they do, but the cost to them virtually always wins in the end. Never mind we were sold out so long ago that exceedingly few things are genuinely made in the USA anymore, so people don't really have a choice anyway.

The sad thing is that the fact Republicans twisting anything to absurd lengths as "justification" for their evil bullshit has become so de rigueur that it's no longer news each time they do it. My reaction each time something happens is "what else did you expect?"

Humans too often prefer the lies as it drastically "simplifies" the very complex reasons behind the topic at hand, AND it lets them blame those people who DO get the actual truth and cause them to subconsciously feel stupid (which - let's face it - by choosing lies over truth, they are).

All I'm reading is the ramblings of a typical thoroughly in denial of actual reality Trumper who couldn't make it in a world driven to destroy itself by those he worships. So he offed himself in a manner he obviously deep down knew wouldn't make a damned bit of difference, but continued spouting defiant bravado in the face of said reality because that's the ONLY way he knew how to deal with what he couldn't control.

So fucking typical, pointless, and pathetic.

I think it was more hoping we could dismiss the period as a fever-driven nightmare that wasn't actually real. The fact he accomplished so little during that time kinda helped the idea that it wasn't real.

This time around they're coming in hot & heavy, fully prepared to make the most of their chance to destroy all the checks & balances that have kept them at least somewhat at bay up until now. There's not only no way to deny the forthcoming reality this time around, there's just no way to overstate just how real shit's gonna get.

Brigading actually occurred to me while writing that comment, which is part of the reason I said it wasn't the best written (but was too tired to try to do it right). It definitely would be a fine line to walk, which is why I said the users should have the power to override the mods at least to a certain extent. It's not a fully fleshed out idea because it only occurred to me just before I wrote it.

To address the question you just posed, my first thought (also just now) is that it might be addressed by allowing either side to appeal to "a jury of their peers" - some sort of randomly chosen group (in an effort to reduce the possibility of stacking the deck) equally made up of moderators and users across various instances that have all opted in to be a part of the pool of potential jurors (this system would obviously need some time to build up the pool before it could be implemented). Exactly how many people would be required for a proper jury and pool of potential jurors would need to be hashed out.

This is just spitballing off the top of my head, however. Setting up such a system would be a significant undertaking. But I think it's at least a start down the road of coming up with a way to solve this thorny issue.

(I'm going to try to get a little more sleep before I have to get up & get going so I'm unlikely to respond for a good while, just to let you know.)

Sorry, I meant to reply to you with [this comment] (https://lemmings.world/comment/12766392), but - further proving what I said in it first - I inadvertently sent the reply to the wrong person (I'm only noticing it this quickly because I was woken up by the call of nature).