i got no problem getting rid of bots, it’s the audience of human NPCs which really concerns me, something which is aggravated by illiberal speech policies

telegram (depending on the channel) or kick (same thing). Forums like 8chan are mostly just intel-agency honeypots and manipulation operations pretending to be organic and unvarnished interactions, to lure in future ‘lone wolves’ or to scare normals away from unmoderated speech and spaces, ‘chemotherapy’ basically.

i wish there was a way to ‘mute’ instances and users which do not respect freedom of speech. If you shut down good faith speech from others, then i literally don’t care about anything else you have to say

yeah i still remember when sony lawyered lik-sang.com out of existence for having the temerity to sell sony games outside their intended regional markets.

you can either go to full-on gore sites (where you’ll have to watch many gross videos to find your relevant one, plus there will be no context given probably for safety reasons) also some of them you have to login to use so enjoy getting added to whichever national security list. Your other option (assuming the videos you’re looking for are political in nature) are dedicated telegram channels.

people take gay reddit too serious man

“cnn.com”

google becoming evil and enshittified made the internet feel much deader

‘i’m glad your family lost their property’

not a movie, but the american remake of ‘the good doctor’ is an almost complete inversion of the south korean original. Instead of a wholesome and inclusive community accepting the talented weirdo and humanising him as a character over the course of many humanising interactions, we get a talented actor going full regard as his character spergs out and shows through his work performance how superior he is to normals.

Also the original had a quite substantial subplot about their hospital beuarocracy dealing with a larger threat of privatisation. The issue is never fully resolved and the audience is left to linger with the uneasy sense that health outcomes are jeapardised by more than simple non-conformity. The american version celebrates the individual without addressing anything of substance

the only thing that’s changed is that today gas is not cheap

taxation removes money from the overall monetary supply. Central banks can’t ‘run out’ of money and do not require that spending be ‘matched’ to a tax base. There is a practical limit on how much money can be printed, in terms of productive capacity but also inflationary pressure, but mostly the boomer narrative of ‘fiscal responsibility’ is there to discipline popular expectations about social services and public spending generally. The logic of austerity is a leash around the neck of the working class, working silently to condition them to interpret spending which benefits their class interests as being ‘irresponsible’.

they always put in lots of effort

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anyone with over let’s say, 100 million dollars of private wealth, should taxed at 100% (with a strong enforcement mechanism) and that money should go directly into public equity. What should the public equity be spent on? my vote is a UBI

i think we are in agreement

what i’m getting at is, your social disguise is going to mostly be effective on people who rely on appearances to judge the interior quality of things (including people). You will turn away high quality people who can see through your disguise, and to retain around you people who either can’t tell between you and the mask or don’t care. It’s a good survival strategy but not a good way to find deeper, worthy relationships.

If i wanted to be a little more cryptic and spooky about it i’d say something like ‘there is no ‘real’ you under the masks, it’s just masks on top of masks all the way down, the stack of masks in a literal sense is the reality of you.’

even if the ‘real’ you is just the one who is fashioning the ‘masks’, which masks you wear and their details says everything about the ‘reality’ underneath. The masks are there to obscure our faces from ourselves as much as for the social other

pavel not complying with russian or french requests gives me some confidence that if some agency subpoena’d telegram for user records, they might actually have the spine to say no

Isn’t signal basically just a honeypot for feds these days like TOR? i didn’t know telegram was also hosted in the US, which is kinda heartbreaking but such is life in the imperial core i suppose

this is very disturbing to learn, thanks for sharing