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Good points to be honest.

Yeah that makes sense. But on the other hand, jailing people for life costs money and there's the slim chance they can escape. But I suppose if you have good security then a full life sentence would be an effective deterrent, so maybe you wouldn't have to pay for very many people to have such long sentences, so it might not cost so much.

I'm not sure, but the UK's National Health Service mentions depression as a potential side effect.

Drugs can have all sorts of side effects through mechanisms that we might not fully understand (maybe scientists do understand this particular mechanism though, I don't know).

I guess I'm being downvoted due to just mentioning the death penalty. The only reason I asked is because callers on LBC (radio) were mentioning the death penalty so I wondered what people on Lemmy would think.

Do you guys on here think this is an acceptable sentence, or do you think Britain should have the death penalty for cases like this?

Yeah I've heard of that, maybe I should look at it more. Hopefully the Lemmy codebase is fine though. I'm just saying it's possible, even if perhaps unlikely, that something could be lurking in the code which nobody has discovered yet. The XZ Utils backdoor was well-hidden and happened to be discovered, but maybe malicious code isn't always discovered.

Even a technical lead of an instance may not have read every single line of code because codebases these days are pretty large. Typically you might look at the code you're working on, but not necessarily the entire codebase.

Hopefully Lemmy doesn't have anything malicious in it, but it's possible to sneak malware into open source projects. This sort of thing happened to XZ Utils last year.

I'm not raising a conspiracy theory point, I'm raising what is surely a valid point: everybody assumes that someone else will read all of the source code and understand it all.

Codebases are large, and malicious code can be obfuscated. Hopefully Lemmy's code is fine, but I definitely don't know for certain that it's completely clean. I just hope that it is.

Have you read all the code though? Everyone assumes that somebody else will read every single file of the source code, and understand it all. Malicious code can be obfuscated.

Maybe there's something in the codebase that sends all our data to North Korea... who knows.

Male loneliness has probably always been a thing. Lonely men were expected to work difficult jobs, or fight in wars for kings, or just kill themselves.

Some women would have experienced similar issues, along with probably greater rates of sexual abuse, etc.

I think there have always been quite a few people with shit lives throughout history; it's just that society doesn't want to acknowledge these people. People who are doing fine in life want to pretend that life is fair, when actually it isn't.

I guess it's because many young adults move far away from home to get jobs in cities.

In the past young adults probably would have stayed living near their family, so they could see them easily.

Ethernet is obviously better but running ethernet around your home can be a pain in the arse

I miss Maplin, I still use stuff I bought from there

I'm not saying you do. I don't use Twitter anymore. What I was trying to say is that I find the state of the world worrying.

I looked a Bluesky but I noticed a lot of MAGA people trolling in the comments. Maybe they can be hidden with account settings probably but I haven't looked into that.

Sure. Maybe it's worrying though that social media is splitting on ideological lines. This didn't really used to be the case. Twitter was intended for everybody, so was Facebook, etc.

Maybe the divisions in western societies are becoming sharper and more bitter. That's probably not a good thing.

Can't I get a return trip? It's going to be annoying to get a train or plane to take me home.

Someone could create an instance if they wanted right? The code is on GitHub

Maybe there's more to it though, I dunno.

People thought the first Trump presidency was a politically divided time, but maybe we're now entering an even more divided time, given that social media is now fragmenting along political lines, more prominently than it did before.