Michael

name one bad thing about it.

Okay, the wages and working conditions of plantation workers (modern slaves). The cost of bananas in first-world countries is ridiculously low, and is demeaning to those who work hard to enable this privilege for us.

Truth is all just relative now, shifting like sand in the desert.

The truth is truth. It’s not relative, it’s not subjective, it’s not ideological, and it’s not partisan - it just is.

Glad to hear it! I’m happy you are in a better situation now.

Regardless if somebody has a mental disorder, a developmental disorder, a physical disability, a mental disability, etc. they deserve respect and understanding.

Empathy is not to be confused with sympathy. Empathy is putting yourself in another person’s shoes and trying to understand their situation and feelings to the best of your ability.

Sometimes what people need is patient instruction, not judgement. If you are as competent as you seem to be at whatever you do, it should be extremely easy.

Venting to an online stranger unsolicited shows that this is bothering you a lot, so hopefully you consider heeding my advice and take it out for a spin.

Truly great people don’t look down on other people or see themselves as superior. They’re busy, y’know, being great.

You’re right to say that the current trajectory is unsustainable. The idea that we are all on our own in an indifferent society will also not last if the dominoes keep falling in the way they are.

People will step up and build something sustainable instead of continuing to empower and feed the rich in their pursuit to dominate every aspect of our lives.

Communities building up and connecting is exactly how this sort of propaganda dissolves.

Best case scenario, this gives communities the push they need to step up mutual aid efforts.

Don’t feel bad for them. Stop judging them while believing otherwise. Mind your own business and stop meddling. Consider that you might be engaging in ableism. Be their friend (if they are also friends to you) and enjoy your life with them when the opportunities present themselves. Don’t see anything you do as “enabling them” - it’s not your job to give them tough love or to intervene in any way, unless they are asking you specifically for help. In that case, it’s reasonable to set conditions or limits to the help you may choose to give them.

Not everybody is worried about achieving things in life or living in ways you approve of, their regret isn’t guaranteed, and there are always ways for them to start anew and to live with dignity e.g. like the people showcased on the CheapRVLiving YT channel.

Society isn’t healthy, so it may be wise to direct your energy towards improving it and encouraging others to do the same. Their level of integration into our incredibly unhealthy society is not a measure of their personal health.

Does somebody need a diagnosis for you to give them empathy?

Installing rootkits on your computer i.e. kernel-level anti-cheat

I agree.

As an American, I don’t find those groups ridiculous at all - they are incredibly sane, actually. They can imagine what our world would look like if we reduced our reliance and dependency on cars and I believe there is a lot of value in that.

I believe that we need high-speed rail for freight and passengers in the US. A nationwide push would create a lot of jobs and tractor-trailers would likely be vastly be reduced on our roadways, which I’d consider to be a big win.

This may seem like a bad deal for truckers, but their jobs are already threatened (in some part) due to self-driving tractor-trailers.

Thanks for that!

Yep, exactly! This is a best-case solution as it is presumably easy to scale and adapt.

I suppose I’d want to see comprehensive lab reports, but it’s nice to know that fungi can digest plastic.

Maybe it makes for undesirable training data?

What’s your evidence? Liberal media telling you what to believe with weak, one-sided arguments and some cherry-picked facts sprinkled in to twist the narrative?

There very likely would be concrete evidence if Bernie contested the primaries, but he didn’t. He endorsed the winners and went the extra mile for them. There were essentially no investigations. The DNC argued in court that they don’t have an obligation to follow their rules and the court found that they were unfair to voters, which is a gross understatement.

Whatever, have a good one. This is my last response. Call it cope, but I’m not crying over Bernie’s loss. My general point was that progressives have popular policies before they get ratfucked from all sides, are smeared, are said to be unelectable, and receive waves of negative (if not hostile) coverage to shape opinion - if they receive coverage at all. Again, you are free to disagree and believe that partisan media bubbles are reflective of reality.

I’m sure that the wapo also failed to see what a random on lemmy sees so clearly…

Yeah, I’m definitely sure Jeff Bezo’s outlet is doing fair and accurate reporting too.

I wasn’t a rabid Bernie supporter, but honestly when contrasted with you it might seem it. I’m only interested in the truth and it rarely can be found in mainstream media, especially in regards to subjects like these. Your “sources” are opinion pieces.

From your “source”:

None of the thousands of leaked emails and documents show the DNC significantly influencing the results of the nomination.

It’s naive to assume that the emails revealed the whole story. The resignations of top DNC officials surrounding the primary shows the guilt - and it wasn’t just the DNC meddling. As evidenced by the DNC memo that was leaked, they definitely strong-armed the media to take Trump seriously; I wouldn’t be surprised if the smears and constant negative coverage of Bernie also came from them (if only in some part) with their bias towards Hillary on their sleeve.

I’m disengaging here - you are free to disagree with my perspective, just as I am going to disagree with your opinion pieces. I highly doubt I could convince somebody who takes liberal media as gospel.

My suggestion for you: think for yourself and consider all perspectives before forming beliefs.

They do want a riot; that’s why they are talking about enacting the Insurrection Act. They want their use of force and illegal tactics to be justified to their base.

Don’t believe your lived experience and lying eyes, Vox disagrees!

You do realize there are essentially no facts or good faith argumentation present throughout this paywalled abomination to support their premise and conclusion?

I thought this was going to be a bombshell that was going to rock my world, but that was just more smug gaslighting that doesn’t fairly address or even present almost any of the relevant context, facts, or arguments made by those paying attention.

Democracy certainly isn’t alive in the Democratic party and there’s no amount of partisan slop that can convince me otherwise.