TED Talks are overrated. Basically it's just a platform where self-centered pompous people take a microphone and say some of the most obviously sugar-coated shit that they can say. Then everyone in the audience all think that they've never heard this before and embrace for how 'enlightening' it is, when this guy is probably the 5th guy in line that has said the exact same things as the guy before them.
Maybe your christians aren't afraid of it. But I'm pretty sure like 5.8 billion people who aren't christian are kind of are and would not like this to fulfill some death cult's prophecy.
"Trump didn't know about it" "Trump doesn't know about it" "Trump won't allow this" "Trump has said he disavow Project 2025 huhuhuhuhu"
And lo and behold, he's already appointed at least 4 or 5 or so members that are directly linked to Project 2025, including the chief if I understand.
I can't wait for them to have the same kind of behavior that GOP voters did when they re-elected George Bush back in 2004.
"He whuh" "Huh whuh" I voted for Trump whuh" As their head spins to see that he'll do nothing for them when they believed that he would.
No. People are strapped in finances as is. My money right now is needed for expenses, I don't have that much disposable income to be tossing it around to people. There's thousands of homeless people out there. They need more help than just a couple dollars.
It's hard for me to know whether or not I'm on the wrong side of an argument. When people turn into bastards and brigade on me whenever I make an opinion on things. It's hard to tell sometimes because, maybe their asshole-ness just validates what I expressed and I' actually in the right. Who knows.
Lemmy isn't just full of political content, but it's also full of assholes too that take advantage of the small sized community of Lemmy and other instances. So this gives the impression that it's simply a clique that runs around 'running things' and by that, just kissing ass to mods and making you out to be the problem when it was started by them.
With politically charged content and just random pricks mixed in, it's going to be a hard sell for anybody to stick around here on Lemmy. Moreso, the lack of niche communities, will not give anyone a sense of belonging.
That's what Reddit will always have in spades against Lemmy. Lemmy just seems to be populated with political people, nerds into programming, jackasses and aimless wanderers.
I know what I'm on about, but you scrubbed that post away from politics. You're a Neo-Nazi sympathizer, you're proving to have been no better than the trash I've been pointing out either.
You gaslight, you instigate and you have quite a self-righteous ego to boot. And if we wanna throw around modlogs of eachother then you're not any better:
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=1499846
This includes the post you've been dodging so hard about where you protected that NeoNazi.
Enjoy the block after this.
Bruh, dodging your matter doesn't serve anything either. Consider the fact that you whitewashed that post from your history so it won't be tracked.
And by the way, you think one solitary opinion is what's the problem? When, who you protected, collectively is going to ruin the country for 4 years?
You're not seeing the forest from the trees. Not seeing the big picture. This is why you can't mod.
Love how you're totally dodging the fact that you protected a NeoNazi by continuing on your self-righteous rhetoric.
And what stance do you think you have when you've openly protected a NeoNazi?
My opinion was a meaningless opinion, at the end of the day. Your action, spoke louder. You knew how heightened things have become now politically. You knew.
Yeah, for everyone to see how fragile the mods are and can be. Were you trying to make up for an ultimate dunk kind of a response? Buddy, I know you, through you moderate some of the instances you're in. You're fragile, not allowing people to talk about some things in politics but allowing repeated posts to come over and over. You aren't that great of a moderator yourself.
Real mature of a mod, you want that politics instance to turn into Trumpland, don't you? I bet you voted for him. You even got uptight because people doxxed a NeoNazi, so you're a protector of NeoNazis.
"If it happens to us, then it's bad and the world should sympathize with us"
"But if we're doing it, it's justified if it means securing our country by whatever means!"
Floodgates will be opened, yes. It won't stop at Trump.
Yeah but you also neglect how it is on the internet. People will twist contexts, interpret things wrongly and deliberately gaslight to make up just about anything anymore to have you disciplined. All the while they get to wander around freely and continue their passive aggressive bullshit.
But I'll bet you've never been on the receiving end of that, have you? That's why you've said what you've said. And you close your comment out by saying something blatantly untrue which is a gaslighting tactic. Good to know you're one of them.
Too many of the same mods is bad for Fediverse
I'm seeing patterns and likeliness that I find on Reddit, to be happening on here on Lemmy. Too many of the same moderators and some of the ones that enact comment removals and everything seem to inflict one party but not the others.
That's just bad moderating. So, okay, you removed a comment of mine for incivility. But you allow the clear responses after my comment to stay there, that also is just as uncivil.
Because that makes about as much sense as the way things are moderated over in Reddit, right?
Please tell me I'm not wasting my time on the Fediverse if this is how things are going to be. Bad enough that moderators seem to have selective attention spans in regards to what is posted on the instances that they allow. Repetitious stuff that clutters the magazines when we want to read something new.
If this is the case, I mind as well go back to ban evading whack-a-mole with Reddit.
Microsoft, Apple and Google all collectively shed one single tear as their concerns for their multi-billion dollar profits. For the Execs that is.
"Whuh? What do you mean I voted for someone that's going to make everyone's lives hell in the next four years? It's just a vote! Why does no one like meh?" - Every voter who're in this position.
How are these Israeli better than the Nazis that did similar things to them?
Talk about not learning from history.
What ability from people did you wish you had?
Being able to just simply move on from something as easily.
What are some poor pieces of advice for life?
Quitting jobs
Everyone has a job they don't like and whenever someone complains about the job that they do, there's always are going to be handfuls of people saying "QUIT UR JOB!" not really caring about whether it'll benefit the complainer or not.
Quitting a job cold is one of the dumbest things you can do when you do not have any safety nets. No savings. No jobs lined up. Nothing planned. You are putting yourself back to a place of uncertainty and it's not pleasant when that countdown starts. That countdown is tied to how much you have left to cover your expenses fully until you get another job and how long those expenses will pile up.
Because all it takes is one or two missed paychecks to upset your financial stability and the system you've made in how you pay for things.
For some people, unfortunately, quitting jobs is not as simple of an option. People are just jammed into where they are because their job market is poor or it's highly competitive even when they went to college for that job.
What wouldn't you have minded so much if it wasn't exaggeratingly bad?
Contrary to my distaste for them, but I wouldn't mind advertisements now and then. By now and then, I mean, like once every other hour or if they're displayed in a way that isn't obstructing. Obviously that is not how they are these days.
I know companies need to still get out there and be known but I do not need to know that much and I don't really care of your business if I have to hear, see and have spoken to me of it at every single turn. I would especially love it, if everything wasn't a paywall to not see any.
Advertisements are just simply a disease.
What do you think got way too much hate than it should've?
Funko Pops, to me.
I understand that some of them are fairly overpriced, but I also really like them as is. It doesn't work on all characters, but it sometimes work on a lot and there's so much representation and variety that it's good to have a few.
If people want to talk about waste of plastic and vinyl, they should bark at the companies who make teeny tiny figurines that serve no purpose and have so little detail that spending any money on them is a waste.
Is there a generation of gaming you're just not nostalgic for?
I would say Atari but that's just low-hanging fruit because it's a generation I never really got to play as it was before my time. But I am starting to fall out of nostalgia for the NES which is held dearly in a lot of hearts of retro gamers and gamers that have enjoyed what that system had to offer for a few decades.
I know it had offered a lot of classics and gave so many games their start, most of which are still with us today like Final Fantasy for example.
The best guess I can give about why I don't care as much about that generation is because it is very oversaturated when you start entering the world of retro gaming. For retro gaming I prefer SNES and Genesis, because I technically did start playing those when I was born and they were first released. So I have more favorability towards those than the NES and generations before and during it.
Is there an age where you decide to just 'let it go'?
Not talking suicide. But, I mean more like an age where you know you won't be dating anybody and that you don't care if you let some of your health slide. Get a little chubby, drink some beers that you never did before, smoke like you never did before when you spent years avoiding the stuff when you were younger.
Stuff like that. I think I might get into smoking when I'm more into my 40s or something. I don't care, life would've long pass me by then, it isn't like I'm going to be a successful individual at 55 or something.
Jay Graber wrongly said you needed to be 18 to use Bluesky, when the actual age limit is 13.
If people were really smart, particularly in the USA, What do you think they'd stop doing by now?
Giving money to Amazon, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Google .etc
It's like, you can't have an argument for price gouging, when you're enabling them by spending. If people were smart, they'd stop giving them money 10 - 15 years ago and they'd be right now, trying to reconstruct so they can be more economically friendly than how they are now.
What options does one have when they reach the end of a car lease but cannot find a good deal at the time of it's end?
Like, do you extend the lease? Return the vehicle and try aiming for a different dealership?
What nostalgic thing do you think should stay in the past?
Dial-Up internet. Unfortunately, it's still here because the ISPs continue to fail to deliver on the promise of expanding broadband over and over.
And because of that, it's no wonder internet isn't expanded to everywhere in the country of USA.
What are you just done with after giving it so many chances?
Today I'm donating my streaming sticks. I got a ONN brand 2k one I bought for 15 and I got an Amazon Firestick 4K I got for $3 from a thrift store because they didn't know what it was.
And I love the concept of stream sticks, I really do. Too fucking bad that corporate interests got in the way and now everything has to have a bundle of ads at every damn turn. Not even some of the things I'm subscribed to is free from ads because this is the future apparently, we're here.
Shame because I don't want to let these go and even if I were to subscribe to Netflix's ad-free subscription, that's only one source. Why do that when I can just grab a long HDMI cable, plug it into my desktop and to my TV and I can watch everything that's there, without ads because of the extensions I use to block ads.
Besides with what we know that's on the table currently, what do you think will happen in the oncoming 4 years?
Some of these things may sound a little exaggerated, but I'm not going to put it pass anyone considering who we're going to be dealing with in these 4 years.
I'm expecting nutrition labels to be poorly regulated and to be informationally false or fabricated. Because we'll have health "experts" who don't care about people's health.
There'll be a lot of sissy slapping among the rich who're fighting moreso over their ideas in what the best course of action that'll benefit them, than it is to benefit country.
Domestic dispute cases will more likely be thrown out or not focused on because this country has shown as to how many misogynists and incels that there are.
I was playing Half-Life 2 recently and for some reason, the vibes of that game reflected the vibes that we're going to be facing. While not exactly, it'll be a similar atmosphere, where we'll be clinging to whatever escapism outlet that we can find to ignore it all.
(This is USA...for the people who're like "DUHHHHH")
Would you rather be misinformed, disinformed, know a lot, know a little or know nothing?
I would rather know a little, honestly. Because what pisses me off about information today is that I don't really know who's value I am to take and even be skeptical towards. So I'd rather know little.
What would it honestly take for Americans to just decide that 'enough is enough'?
If the price gouging of 2020 and everything following that too. If the housing market crashes didn't budge anyone. If the abundance of so many subscription services didn't. If poorly chosen representatives didn't.
If just the high cost of simply living life isn't doing anything.
Then what the fuck will anymore?
What opposing argument have you tried to give an honest reasoning towards, but still ended up disagreeing with it?
No examples from me, just curious.
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