What are people on the left doing.

You also have to remember that there isn’t just some single entity of “left”. And I don’t mean only the ideological divides even, I mean there’s tons of different cultures with different political cultures in them. What even “being left” means is wildly different if you compare USA or some random nation elsewhere.

This platform is mostly USAians yes, but not only. Do you mean american leftist unity? Because looking for some sort of general left unity is a lot more complicated than unity inside a single political system

Yeah I was more worried about all the work that it requires to do, since all the posts I see are basically the very popular ones, and I don’t know how they recognize the unwanted posters without it taking a lot too. I’ve seen topics with a lot of those responses and that seems very frustrating for the mods and the community itself - especially if there’s plenty of the entitled jerks. But if it’s not a problem for the community, then there is no problem

If they don’t mind all the accidental commenters there, then there’s no issue I guess? And I fully agree that it is stupid to get all pissy about being politely asked to leave, even if you disagree with a mod policy like that. Just walk away and don’t be a jerk, it’s not that hard jesus christ.

And yes I’ve made the mistake of commenting there too, so I know what lead to that lmao. Though I’m not a man and wasn’t asked to leave, so it’s not exactly the same

Aahhh, yes of course, the classic white-good evil-black problem. Thanks for the answer!

With that sub I think the problem is when the posts end up in all, which really does fit badly with the structure - then people comment without realizing which community because you tend to forget to check every now and then (or don’t even read side bars at all because there’s so many, so won’t know until you make the mistake of posting there), which then causes those unnecessary whoopsies and extra mod-work.

I fully agree that lemmy is annoyingly misogynistic which in turn means blocking that community only makes the feeds even more male-centric. I don’t know what would solve this

non-inclusive term: white-hat

Uh, sorry to comment besides the subject, but could someone explain why white-hat is non-inclusive? I’m not trying to argue it is not, but I had not heard that and I can’t find any answers by searching about it

The common solution around here has been the apartment complexes banning smoking not only inside but also on the premises outside completely, so it’s getting better these days

in their apartment

No! This is a huge problem in itself unless they have their own house. The smoke gets into the hallways and into other apartments as well, and it’s fucking awful. Even just smoking on the balcony the smoke gets inside neighboring apartments, having lived through that. I have asthma and everyone smoking inside apartments deserves a kick to the shin

It’s an exquisite book yes, but it’s from a different genre than HP is. If people are looking for light modern low-fantasy, they might not favor the deeper ends of high fantasy as a replacement

Infinity is one of those concepts that might be the most human things. Does it exist outside our perception? It exists in metaphysical sense as we can perceive it, but our senses and minds are imprecise meat, so does that mean infinity doesn’t exist outside human experience? Like bigger and smaller infinities, is that a sign it’s a human perception thing or is that itself also a quirk of human perception? We can’t separate ourselves from the reality we form. I keep getting lost in the infinity

If it’s by bus, you have to calculate and take the bus before the one that’s on time, so if something goes wrong and the bus doesn’t come or dies on the road, you still make it with the next one. This makes things harder when you have to change busses in the middle, because then there’s so many things that can go wrong, and depending on the time schedules your options might be an hour too early or betting that nothing goes wrong. And the busses are never that reliable so an hour early it is

Yeah, I basically do the same, I love seeing people have different opinions and arguments and all that (that’s why I read comments at all). There’s just some topics that drain me too much and a lot of the crowd isn’t even arguing honestly, so it’s not worth interacting with those. There’s nothing I gain from reading tankie propaganda than make myself feel worse, and arguing with them just allows them to spread it even more

Nah I’m here for entertainment, and seeing other people argue and arguing with people who support concentration camps is just not entertaining to me. Same as transphobes, I’m not going to waste my time with that shit

Thanks for the post. I got so many tankies blocked

It’s probably part of why he succeeded though. Right enough to pull those voters, but not too right (pro eu etc.) so he could pull the centrists and left-leaners as well. Since as far as I understand there aren’t really leftist parties going strong in Hungary right now

As an another neurodivergent lacking some essential emotional stuff: also being nice and kind to others is smart for maximizing your personal well-being. If people think nicely of you, they are more inclined to listen to you, and help you, and that gets you way further in life than just being a selfish prick people don’t want to be around. It is also logical to apply this not only to people immediately next to you, but to people far away as well, since being mean and evil towards them will not get you shit in the long run or might even make things worse, but it’s more likely it might benefit you later.
Or sure, you can be as mean as you want and might even end up some bitter asshole with all the money you could imagine if you have good enough start and lot of luck. But that’s pretty far from a good life in itself; you can get all your needs met a lot easier and even have nice people around you.

My theory is that we never find the actually smart sociopaths (or psychopaths or whatever the term is here), since they’re intelligent enough to hide themselves with kindness

Same around all the nordics as far as I know. Just a little jam on the side

The consistency isn’t really the selling point, yeah. What made the books any good was the kind of whimsy of being suddenly thrown into a weird magical word that didn’t follow any understandable logic and was full of cool stuff and mysteries. That’s a great hook for kids! The first three books do that pretty well. After that…

My suggestion is always “suicide clinics”, where you can just walk in. That sounds absolutely horrid, but the point is to catch the people that can be saved by intervention. They take you in, and talk with you, go through medical history, then you have to wait some hours etc. and all that. And if you still wish to die and you’re not diagnosed with having some sort of episode, they just let you swallow some pills and then you get to lay on a bed and die.

That’d be way more efficient than just letting people jump from the rooftops and on the train tracks, would save people, would traumatize less people, would cause less suffering; would overall improve the situation. Of course that could be misused, and it would not catch all people. But I’d definitely prioritize getting less people splatter on the sidewalk anyway

Also do a small test patch somewhere on your skin and wait for at least a day. Shitty way to find you’re getting a reaction if you already spread it to larger areas