intensely_human @ intensely_human @lemm.ee

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I was permanently banned from reddit for “threatening violence against places” when I made a sarcastic comment about someone else’s plan to fix the housing crisis by destroying housing as it was being constructed.

I can’t believe these people who are openly calling for mass murder aren’t being banned. My reddit account had zero problems for twelve years and then I was banned over that one comment, for a rule that doesn’t exist (they told me I’d broken the rule against “violence against places”, but no such rule exists).

The obvious bias over there pisses me off.

Never forget

Misinformation is a plague

Yes they do. I follow an astronaut on X who’s got tons of photography equipment on the ISS and regularly posts shots of various cities at night and weather formations as seen from space. It’s pretty cool.

https://x.com/astro_pettit

🎶🎵

Do you have roommates or live with anyone?

I know this is dark, but if there’s someone else with access to this space, this could be a gaslighting attempt.

Basic strategy would go like:

• Hide your thing
• You look for it for months, eventually give up
• Put your thing in a very obvious location

I know this is just a goofy post, but I’m worried for you if you live with someone else who’d be in a position to do that.

A friend of mine is a federal employee, and hates his job. Has felt trapped for a while.

Just got a letter offering him the option to resign and be paid through September 30.

He says it’s a huge relief.

Go to work, work your shift, then come home and set a timer for 30 minutes.

Use that 30 minutes to work on your resume or send job applications.

Fulfill your obligations to the world so you don’t starve, then also fulfill your obligations to yourself because man does not live on bread alone.

Life is only hell when you have no destination worth getting to.

lol we got Robert Kennedy Jr and you got Dick Cheney and Neslte.

Nice trading with you, no backsies.

You’re leftists. You’re just expressing your rage glands.

Why “50501”? What’s that mean?

That’s actually really insightful. You see hatred as primarily having an effect on the target. I see hatred as primarily having an effect on the hater.

Any day now, Elon Musk’s failures will catch up with him and then we can dance on his grave of failure.

Stupid nerd who never accomplished anything!

If you don’t watch your youtube, how can you have any lemmy?

That’s not how I see it. I used to see it that way, but as I switched sides that coincided with me daring to hope again, and seeing the good in people.

I’m sorry all you see when you look at your country is shit. That’s a terrible place to be. I hope you can at least intellectually understand, even if you don’t feel it in your gut, that such a worldview is highly dependent on the filters in your own perception.

I think you probably know that, but my hunch is you only think of that self-deception as operating toward the positive: that goodness can be an illusion but badness must be reality because why would a person project badness onto the world.

I will propose that a person can be motivated to hallucinate badness, because a world with some good in it can hurt a lot more than a world with no good in it, because hope is painful.

It’s like trying to light a fire when you’re freezing in the middle of the woods. Moving your frozen fingers around, trying to light a match, uncurling your body to stack up the wood, it all hurts far more than just curling up in a ball and going to sleep.

Obviously there’s always going to be evil in everything, including you and me and including the entire country. But the existence of evil doesn’t make the world dark; it makes it a place of contrast.

Of the things you mentioned — freedom, happiness, well-being — which would you say is the highest one? If you had to pick one to put at the top of your own hierarchy, and have the country stand for it above all else, which of those three would be the highest ideal?

Also ask ChatGPT. Always a solid move

No more giving money to homeless people. You get a stale baguette. Best of luck to you.

Because artists now serve a younger generation who are far more authoritarian than Generation X. Selling out meant giving up the punk ideals that made one cool, and those ideals aren’t what’s cool any more.

What do you think the US should stand for?

Doing an aikido roll at the last moment?