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  • Have you considered beehaw? Their primary focus is to "be nice"

    It's a Stepford kind of "nice".

    For example, I once referred to a bigoted minister as a “moron” and was accused of using "ableist" language.

    After a couple more similarly annoying incidents, I left.

  • but it might be helpful if rather than just alluding to some comment that got deleted, you posted what the actual content was.

    I can't recall the exact wording of my comment, but the gist of it was that three celebrities were protesting an attempt to bar Israel from a music contest because of the ongoing genocide. I pointed out that the three celebrities were Jewish, so it was kind of cynical for them to do that. Those who upvoted understood what I meant, but then someone else accused me of antisemitism -- because I didn't specifically identify them as "Zionist".

    How am I supposed to know whether they're Zionist? As far as I know, they've never publicly identified themselves as such, and it could be perceived as offensive if I did.

    I notice you didnt mention being banned.

    No, I wasn't. Hopefully you've read the two items I had posted before, which pretty much validated how I felt about what I'd experienced, and why I left.

    Listen, if you like Hexbear, fine; that's your business. I don't.

    most .world threads, which end up being incredibly hostile, childish, and ignorant

    Agreed, and that's why I also avoid them (and Beehaw, Hexbear and .ml).

  • because its rude as hell to go into someones safe space and start acting like you know better or being dismissive of their beliefs. Especially when you dont actually want a well reasoned answer, you just want to stir shit.

    You're running on a lot of assumptions.

    I made a comment that had nothing to do with any of that. It received quite a few upvotes (10+), then someone misread it and accused me of antisemitic dog whistling, which was not the case. In other words, they were stirring up shit and making a bad-faith argument.

    So I clarified my position, then other users piled on, the mod(s) deleted my comments, and I left.

    And the user who made that accusation had made what could be perceived as an anti-Italian remark in a comment a few days before. My paternal grandparents were Italian. Needless to say, I was a bit upset that this person didn't follow the very strict standards that they held me to.

    (By the way, Blahaj is also an LGBTQ+ safe space. The difference is, they're not assholes.)

    Feel free to check my post history here; stirring up shit is not my style.

    In the meantime, I'll leave you with some recommended reading, here and here.

  • Speaking of which, I was in a discussion about that yesterday:

    I specifically avoid .ml and .world because the collective behavior (i.e., hostility, downvote trolling, etc.) is so much like Reddit.

    Beehaw, Hexbear and Blahaj have all disabled downvotes, but Blahaj is the only one that's decent, which is why I'm here.

    (I would link directly to these if I could, but am having issues with that.)

    For what it's worth, Discuit is also a generally friendly place.

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    Does anyone speak any English rule?

  • Maybe they wrote the headline that way under the assumption that climate-change deniers wouldn't read past it (?)

    Of course, here's the bottom line:

    Climate models suggest Earth should have heated up about 1.3 C by now, because of fossil fuel burning and other human-driven disruptions to the planet.

    Beyond this, they're just zeroing in on variables such as volcanoes, weather patterns, ship emissions, clouds, etc. So that is apparently what the somewhat misleading headline characterizes as a "mystery".

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    Doodie rule

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    Musical chairs rule

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    Morse code translation rule

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    Bathroom break with hot mic rule

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    Layoffs rule

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    Worcestershire sauce (pronunciation rule)

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    Communion rule

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    Old-school rule - Helen Hunt's character slams health insurers -- As Good As it Gets, 1997 (NSFW - language)