Veraticus @ Veraticus @lib.lgbt

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I just realized this too. Depressing.

I'm not advancing a claim here, I'm just calling your claim rightfully bullshit. Until or unless you have something better to offer, leave. You are a detriment to this community.

Yeah; as you point out, the extant information certainly doesn't mean what he thinks it means, and there is zero evidence of government censorship here.

Basically the OP has brainworms and is trying to infect other people with them. Hope they're banned from this community as this is not the first instance of them doing it.

What research? There's not any proof that what you're saying is right; the Facebook post is not evidence for itself.

What it is evidence of is misinformation, to which you have fallen prey.

Stop posting idiocy like this to try to lure others into these idiotic beliefs.

There’s no proof the papers are real, and additionally no proof the government is censoring them.

This is simply misinformation.

You're assuming the video is correct when you say that. Is there any actual, verifiable, sourced information that there even are vaccine side effects (of the sort claimed by this video)? And above and beyond that, the US government is censoring said information?

If not, it's not a plot about censorship. It's just misinformation.

Why do you think a video or Facebook posts are accurate sources?

I think this study more shows Republicans (and to a lesser extent Independents) have been successfully indoctrinated to only accept propaganda sources, rather than that media has become worse over time. These are the people who think that COVID vaccines don't work and that Trump is still President. They are factually wrong and they seek out biased sources to confirm their prejudiced untruths.

And that's exactly why this competition exists now; to use fools for political power. And, as usual, to separate them from their money.

So actual news sources are bad, but YouTube videos, memes, and Ben Garrison comics are okay?

You really need to readjust your truth sensors, because you are being lied to. And it is not "the MSM" doing it.

So they can inject their versions with malware.

I switched to Windows for gaming this year. With advances in Wine/Proton it was super easy; there's nothing I play that isn't perfectly convertible to Linux anymore.

Even using an Nvidia card in my desktop seems fine.

I want to believe...

Fair, I only know a little bit about the drama that led to it.

But I do know of and have participated in other servers that have been brigaded by alt-right and fascists and they’ve moderated their way past it. I feel like closing the community entirely was letting the trolls win; in my experience, at least, with haters, you have to show them their bad behavior won’t and can’t change you.

Also I’m sore because I’ve been in the queue for literally months and just want to talk about this amazing game and can’t.

Live and drink, water-sib!

I love this game and its crazy procedurally-generated world. If you did too, and also like tabletop RPGs, allow me to suggest Vaults of Vaarn, which is inspired by Caves of Qud and does a great job at bringing the same feelings to your gaming table.

Qud's only real downside in my experience is its bonkers Discord community, which requires not only an application process to join, but the queue of applications is apparently so long it can take upwards of a year to be approved to join. I just want to talk about the game and what builds are optimal...

Luckily there's pretty good chatting about it on the big Roguelikes Discord.

I didn’t find it more unstable or bleeding edge than anything else. All upgrades had to be tested and scripted anyway so the process for upgrading stuff was basically the same as any other distro. I honestly never ran into any of the problems people talked about here.

As for why it was chosen, the person in charge liked it and used it personally.

The older generation has basically always resented the younger generation for:

1. Their lives being easier,
2. Their music and clothing being awful,
3. Doing sex wrong.

It's like a constant of recorded history. The Romans said these things in ~300BC.

I had a similar situation happen to me actually.

The rabies shot sucks but the most annoying part is returning for the follow-ups. The tetanus booster I had to get was much much more painful.

Good luck, sending positive vibes your way!

Do my views need to perfectly align with every single one of those?

No, definitely not.

When does it become not okay to follow someone?

When their objectionable opinions are pointed out to you and you seem to be basically okay with it. For example, not unfollowing the person, not stating your disagreement with said objectionable opinions, or offering why you think whatever they posted does not actually contain said objectionable opinion.

I follow several online accounts and politicians specifically because I disagree with the content they post.

On Twitter, a follow is viewed as a passive endorsement that you like someone's content and want to see more of it. You can disagree with this but I think that's fighting an uphill battle. I mean, it's 2023, Twitter is two decades old, and as far as I know this cultural more has been true for most of that time.

You don't have to follow people to see their content, after all. It is a positive act which does mean something, and I've described what it typically means in the vocabulary of the Internet.

Other people have said it, apologies for pinning it on you. :)

Those don't talk just about left/right bias, but also about accuracy and correctness, which is more why I was referencing the fact checkers.

I guess this depends on what you mean by "propaganda" to a certain extent. The usual usage of the term is to refer to information that is simply biased or misleading, advanced in service of a particular political point of view. In that definition, I would say VOA is not propaganda; it reports truth, even when the truth is uncomfortable to the United States or its government.

That said, it is certainly doing so in espousing the values of freedom of journalism and information and hoping to inculcate those values in its listeners by virtue of example. If you think that mission is itself American nationalistic propaganda then I guess yeah, you could say VOA is propaganda. I don't think this is a commonly-accepted definition of the term however.

This looks great and I love Dracula! Thank you!

If you wind up doing this for Catppuccin as well let us know, that's what I migrated from Dracula to a couple months ago.