ameancow @ ameancow @lemmy.world

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100%, all of that.

I once owned and raised exotic reptiles, I remember being told "Take precautions in your terrariums, if there's a way they can harm themselves, no matter how remote, they WILL find a way to maim or kill themselves with anything you put in there."

I realized over time that this rule applies to all of us.

I am just astonished the concept of blanket safety rules is getting pushback on the same website where people routinely show gifs and clips of people suffering freak accidents at worksites.

That damn movie was one of two VHS cassettes I had as a small child, the other was The Sword in the Stone. I watched them over and over and over.

As a result, my sexuality has been absolutely maimed in ways I am still untangling.

Wouldn't trade it for anything.

You might need to take a long shower friend.

I can't believe this man exists in the public spotlight in any capacity and it wasn't the last straw for normal Americans who don't want to live inside a stupid HBO drama with ridiculously written villains.

edit: I've been informed most Americans would rather live in a fantasy world than reality anyway and that's why we're in this mess.

Then there are landscapers working in a garden pulling weeds even if there are no trees for miles. What’s going to happen?

As someone who used to be an operations manager for several work-crews, I fully understand why you would just make a fucking blanket-rule. Because the more people you put on a work crew, the more obvious and stupid risks they will take. It was a daily struggle to get people to wear glove and eye protection using hammers, and the times that I didn't enforce it as a "do it or get sent home" rule, can you guess what happened?

No really, we were on first-name basis with people at the urgent-care center my company worked out a deal with.

Sure the day that they're raking the yard there's no chance of someone suffering a head-injury. Until one of them is loading the wheelbarrow back on the truck and didn't bother lowering the lift-gate because they chose to load their buckets and tools first and didn't want shit to fall out of the back of the truck, then the goddamn wheelbarrow falls and lands on Martinez's head and now he needs stitches and X-rays and is off the team for a week and we have another worker's comp claim and everyone's paycheck suffers for it.

We wouldn't need PPE rules and a thousand other safety regulations if people were always smart, alert and watching for hazards. They're not. They're incredibly dumb. Everyone is. So we need blanket-rules.

I’m 30 but never got used to the feeling of modern smartphones against out ears.

I'm almost 5 decades into this weird mess and yeah, I still am not that comfortable with sliding a cold, smooth, oily, touch-screen with all kinds of sensitive buttons and screen options across my ear when having a phone call. I've always hated it compared to the comfort of an old corded-phone speaker that was pleasantly curved for privacy and had a solid, comfortable handle. You could throw that thing against the wall, drop it while you're talking, set it down for an hour and forget about it (for those kinds of calls.)

On the other hand, I almost never get phone calls anymore. People straight up stopped calling each other. I get maybe one a week at work, but even there most calls are scheduled Teams or Zoom calls. People hate talking to each other given the choice, everyone has withdrawn to a world of text messages and private discord servers.

Not saying things were better in the old days, but this is a major factor in our societal de-socialization crisis.

Nah bro, they actually felt it. You probably never got slammed so you don't know, but the person on the other end would suddenly fly across the room like a truck hit them, that's why we saved the phone slam for when someone REALLY deserved it. Good times.

Or start screaming somewhere near your phone that you're suddenly in the market for a new house or changing your brand of pet food, and just sit back and waste the time of all the marketing and scam calls you get.

Nowadays, we see the answer to the question "What if we made the hinges plastic?" in almost everything we do, everywhere we go.

A few old-fashioned morons go a parent-teacher meeting and scream "We never had all this psychotherapy bullshit when I was a kid!" And everyone mummers to each other that yeah, we can't impose our reason-based evaluation of reality on someone else's ignorance, that wouldn't be American!

I absolutely condone the use of violence against fascism.

hell fucking yeah brotha. We did it before, we should keep doing it.

Okay, America bad, got it, very fresh take adds so much to the present conversation and context of current events. Point taken, nobody here will ever say anything again. We're all bad and so very evil. You win.

Nobody understands a thing you're saying, I think you don't grasp the concept of "context" like so many internet drones. I'm blocking you now, have a good day

I say let it stand as a testament.

I know you're joking around, but I'll take advantage of the moment to rant on a tangent for a bit. I legit saw this attitude spreading through the moderator space on reddit a decade ago, as they started getting influenced by users to let slide more and more horrible takes so that "the community can judge for themselves" as tender, shut-in lads and lasses who were trying to manage our largest discussion forums without pay were suddenly being bombarded from all sides by people trying to subvert the subreddits and control them for their own agendas.

And largely, it worked. Many, many times I've seen subreddits and forums on other sites fall because the mods got compromised, the other mods got too burned out or emotional to keep doing their tasks, and as a result the conversations started allowing more and more incel-bait, tired tropes of persecution and misogyny, foulmouthed, delusional teenagers who have never left their houses suddenly making profound statements about the state of gender dynamics, and a whole ARMY of foreigners pretending to be normal Americans or Europeans on both sides of every argument, just screaming their nonsense louder and louder until the only users left were the ones who agreed with the delusion. I wish people understood that some of the most famous horrible subreddits and sites started as jokes and were gradually co-opted and hijacked to become unironic hate-spaces.

This was the plan all across the internet and it worked. We are all so tired of every argument and issue that most people don't engage anymore. We don't even try to correct anyone because we assume either other users know better, or will sort it out for us, or who cares anyway, what's even real? Just tune out, keep scrolling.

So now I say, no. We need to be far less tolerant of intolerance, we need to burn them out of their nests and dens. Reddit didn't go nearly far enough with banning the incel subs, they should have banned incel ideology, they should have banned redpill rhetoric entirely. I once would have balked at that kind of "censorship" but I'm now watching my nation dissolve under the stupidest movement ever created and I'm somewhere between shaking with rage and shaking with exhaustion.

Social division as a result of people not socializing anymore has driven a massive wedge between the diverse and beautiful spectrum of people who used to find appreciation and joy in each others differences.

Now every time you meet someone with different feelings than yourself, the internet has trained you to feel attacked.

This is why we're all alone, we're afraid of being attacked, and somehow our definitions of what an attack is has been radically subverted.

I get called a conspiracist for linking the actual reports and investigations into this, but this was by design.

Almost every authoritarian/fascist uprising on record has started with the indoctrination and isolation of young, sexually insecure, lonely men who feel disenfranchised with the system because they're depressed, horny and have mixed-up ideas how to be liked by others. It's incredibly easy to peel off a massive chunk of this population and get them to start blaming the government, society broadly, science, knowledge, literally anything but their own need to improve their social skills and gain some emotional intelligence.

These are our dumbest, angriest, loudest men, and thus become the major influencing factor on their peers, online and off. They set the tone and everyone else just kind of goes along with it, or leaves them to grow and gain power in peace.

This is unhinged and nonsensical, either you have poor English reading comprehension or this is a troll post. I'll let mods decide.

instead the person who called them that hears “You did something wrong for calling me that,” and they get defensive. It’s one of those things that, once you notice, you’ll see it everywhere.

And not just about language and people addressing each other.

This phenomenon has been enhanced and amplified with online discussion, so that now we all "choose" to spend our time around people and spaces that reflect how we already feel about a variety of things. So that as soon as you encounter someone outside of that comfort zone who has different preferences, you will see it as stressful and hostile.

In the Great Before Times, when people talked to each other face-to-face, we all learned pretty fast that we need to be compromising and thoughtful and actually listen to each other without presumption of hate or hostility, or we get pushed away from people and end up alone. Or punched in the snotlocker.

Yah but what use is it for kids to say weird things if we can't have 3000+ comment-deep debates about every possible angle of it online? This is what the internet is best for! Completely dismantling every benign situation until nobody even knows why everyone hates each other now.

I love reading this pedantic bullshit while my nation and modern civilization is being rolled back to the dark ages.