I’d argue voting system is overrated.

I had quite a few comments downvoted into oblivion because my opinion was unpopular in some corners of Lemmy.

Like, go ahead and make a same political statement at .ml or .world, or come to some specific community to argue against the OP.

Or, in reverse, there are plenty of examples when hateful or wrong BS was upvoted to infinity.

I’ve seen this again and again with others, and I can confidently say voting is not a good metric for reason.

Five.

I only block people if they actively harass me online. Otherwise, I’m fine with disagreement and do not tend to rage ban.

Still, if someone follows me around Lemmy to spite on everything, I’d rather have them blocked to keep this place nicer.

Oh, and there’s Nicole in there, of course.

Then it would make such membership meaningless and will only undermine collective action within NATO?

Nice! Some minor design alterations would be great (sentence about news by the people for the people doesn’t have to go back and forth in width; selected section should be highlighted instead of news being seemingly selected at all times), but overall, it’s a great job!

Thanks!

Sad all this effort has to be put into making sanctions and then into evading them.

Any TL;DR on this? Nvidia secretly ships sanctioned GPUs to China?

While people in power are absolute evil most of the time, this is not an excuse to change your own morals for the worse.

Small acts of kindness, when taken in decent quantity, change the world no less than massive fraud and sex trafficking.

That said, one of the most moral things to do is to be on the lookout for powerful people doing nasty things and do everything in your capacity to prevent or at least retaliate. This makes abuse less common, and goes a long way to restore democracy and responsibility for everyone.

To clarify against what many people jump to assume: Collective Shout is not a religious organization. Its stated goal is protecting children against content they believe may help form dangerous and abusive behaviors in real life. (Needless to say, science does not seem to back these claims)

This doesn’t make them right by any means at all, but we need to understand our enemy if we want to be productive in fighting it.

Alright, you bought me with this

Amazing presentation and nice that you have a demo!

Could be, but how do you verify such claim?

You cannot assume gender by the position a given person takes, it’s antithetical to a productive discussion and may only serve to reinforce your (likely false) views.

My apologies, I missed that one!

This is probably going to seem wildly low-effort compared to my usual posts here

My man, you just compiled tons of obscure posters from the corners of the Internet. I admire your dedication, and this does take an effort.

Florence + the Machine - June

Just to open it gently

Short answer? I don’t.

What if your worldview just happens to align neatly with your temperament, your social environment, or whatever gives you emotional relief?

It does. The things is, though - I happen to prominently share basic human values, such as kindness, mutual aid, cooperation, and care, all of which are normally seen as “good”.

My social environment is very median, and I do understand the regular person as I am one. I know the struggles people in my group face, and am open-minded about struggles of others outside it.

I feel relieved in the world where people are good to each other, and if that’s not what we strive for, then humanity has abandoned the very core of its own morals. When such basic things are betrayed, it’s always a sign of corruption, an attempt to justify greed, or selfishness, or something else.

Then comes the critical examination of ideas that claim to lead us there, whether they could be contradictory and leave us with a very different place than we intended, either because not enough thinking went into original concept, or because it was a con to begin with, clearly serving the corrupt interest of the few.

It’s a very recent development, so no wonder you missed it. Yes, Pewdiepie went full Arch with Hyprland and made his Steam Deck into a server and I’m not even joking :D

Then it’s a good thing he owns up to his mistakes? Maybe a group of Linux haters following him will change their mind as well.