You sound proudly ignorant, but go off, why not?

Self censorship was not a thing one ever encountered online until people found it to be useful / necessary for favorable algorithmic treatment on the big social media platforms.

And then, since it wasn’t really policies as much as algorithmic vibes folks were trying to satisfy, folks start self-censoring the dumbest shit. Like blurring out the word “hate” and other idiotic nonsense. It’s this very stupid way of warping how people write, to satisfy a machine. And normalizing that, as a normal way to communicate.

So yeah, not a fan when I see people writing that way. Because I prefer human beings.

The very last person who is like that, truly, ya just don’t get it. It’s fine.

“offended” - is that the thing to avoid?

I’m not “offended” lol. I just think it’s dumb and bad for all of us. Use the words you mean. If you mean them, then use them. If you don’t mean them, use something else. What is this weird hack job for no benefit?

Self-censorship like this is utterly bizarre, when limitless even richer words are available, and just typing the actual word has no imaginable negative consequence. It’s bad for all of us.

You can say shit, I have no idea why you’d willingly type sh**, just use a different fucking word if you’re concerned about…something?

You’re in Australia for chrissakes. A land of sincere, devoted contributions to the development of vulgarity and obscenities of all kinds. What are ya doin.

A coke fiend with a notably calm and even slow-paced demeanor is legitimately scary. Wtf

based out of an apartheid state

This is badly understating the situation. Israel has horrific goals and works tirelessly to implement them. Cannot be trusted in any way, unless your goals align, and even then not really.

As soon as they are seen to be involved, privacy is entirely off the table, that’s the exact opposite of what that place does (and they do it well). Unraveling privacy is critically important to Israel and their genocide.

🤘

English language gets a lotta hate, for great reasons, but on the other hand, it’s just so…flexible 😉

My point is really the commenter’s seeming inability to find nuance. Or maybe more charitably, disinterest in finding nuance.

There’s this childish kneejerk response, tuned to sound aligned with “the right side of history”, that’s really just people being allergic to information and ideas too different from their own. They go “ooo scary/bad! I heard about those tankies!” and just panic ban.

I’ve seen the same flavor of it where people who happen to have signed up to .ml, knowing nothing about the landscape and just to figure all this federated stuff out, get berated for ideas they don’t share and never stated. Based on where their account is.

It’s all just very shallow and much more like team sports than anything else. Virtue signalling. Which I guess shouldn’t be too surprising.

It can be willful ignorance to do so, it isn’t always. Blocks are very useful.

Real careful thinker huh.

“I discovered a community of people disagree with me about something I think I understand quite well. It’s the same community that originated Lemmy, it’s a community of people who actually come from and live in different parts of the world, and it’s the same community many folks just sign up to incidentally when they first check out federated stuff, meaning nothing by it. Better just block the entire thing, lol, I sure know what I’m doin!”

You really sound like a jackass lmao

“Hey everyone, look at my juvenile attempts at statistics! Look how obviously bad some people seem when I do a shit job at it while ALSO failing to apply any context of the domain being studied to my thoughts, let alone to my ‘calculations’ and conclusions!”

This is a terrible metric from the fucking jump. And you did a shit job of it from there. Fuck you, truly.

[Edit: love how ya closed with “so who’s weirder guyz, the marxists, the furries, or the db0s?!” Just painfully obvious how you started the whole shebang, you hate all of the groups lol, because you’re a dumb asshole and not very happy about being one. Just remember, the option is always yours to simply shut the fuck up and read, then think, instead.]

Ridiculous on its face to say “weird why db0” in light of exactly what you said, fully fabricated images shared to attack the wider perception of the instance.

Along with the rest of the “I’m doing statistics! With crayons” nonsense.

Fuck this post.

This is delicious in every way, I really love it. Kudos!!

Here’s my tidbit - if you’re in the US and in a not-tiny or remote part of it, good chance you can find people offloading old Dell business-class laptops, workstations, all the way up to v. spendy server machines, depending directly on number of school systems, corporate office spaces (and etc), and industrial or info-tech type businesses nearby. Respectively, and with some overlap and such 😅

Beyond the obvious benefits for sustainability (reuse!) and affordability - business-class Dell have always been engineered quite well (expensively, and uhhh… opinionatedly, lol).

Arguably even more useful, all those well-engineered things were made in huge volume. You will ~always be able to find cheap parts. And, if buying a lot, by having a handful of the ~same thing (all destined for a dumpster), you already get redundancy, and…ahem…some very useful teachable moments lol.

It feels like a cheat code. Place populated enough and there will def be businesses whose main thing is snapping these up, cleaning up and etc and reselling. But I’m in a not-tiny place and I still see some deals. OTOH, all of that got a lot worse once hardware prices jumped the shark, so, maybe this tip is already outdated.

You have some wild ass interests, I like it, please report back

And when they start hiring juniors again, insist on onboarding those motherfuckers like you’re teaching a CS degree. The young’ns deserve to learn, this is some bullshit.

Lol! Yeesh. “Bless your heart” it is then, got it.

Their very first words describe their condition, why are you asking this like you’re pointing out some new or controversial information?

If you actually want to be kind and helpful, how does “hope you snap out of it and get help” achieve that whatsoever? So condescending and useless to OP, just signalling your own (shallow) compassion to other readers. Totally gross to be honest.

Eh, I understand what you’re saying even if others mostly seemed to just enjoy pointing out things you already pointed out about yourself (but done dismissively and unkindly in their case).

I think you’re saying that you believe the universe responds to our deepest intentions, creating a path for us that is shaped in some way by our intent.

And that you found a way for yourself to take the same exact stimuli (outside world + internal thoughts), and use them beneficially by viewing them through the lens of a universe directing you in fruitful and positive ways, instead of how those things once felt like they were pushing you in more destructive or unpleasant ways.

And then finding observations that your approach truly is better, and is working for you, and wanting to share those.

Doesn’t sound crazy to me. Spiritually vivid and presenting a lot of unverifiable ideas as self-evident facts, sure, which is part of what’s setting folks off, but I mean. None of us actually know what any of this is or how it works, your POV doesn’t strike me as crazy or ridiculous.

I am not a very spiritual person, preferring concrete evidence and fundamentally doubting claims that can’t be empirically verified. But with that said, we obviously don’t know everything. Electromagnetism was the stuff of ghosts and demons until we learned (quite recently) to measure and understand it. No reason I can find to assume we’ve hit the end of those big discoveries, certainly not with gaping holes in our understanding of physics.

Glad your approach and view on the world seems to be granting you peace.

Edit: I imagine you’ll want to correct my phrasing of your thinking, that’s fine of course. Was mostly trying to simplify for other readers, apologies if it doesn’t represent you as well as I thought.