violetsareblue

@violetsareblue@beehaw.org
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How is it defamatory if it’s true?

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Reading that article was a highlight of my day. I dislike FB/Meta but at least Zuckerberg can string a sentence together than doesn’t make him sound 13 and going thru a phase.

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It really brings me down when I think about how many people died due to the orange turd.

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Irritated this is in the title of post/article. Spoilers…

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I would like to echo this. Without getting into specifics, beehaw was one of the few spaces taking a nuanced take to a political topic that pretty much kept me from descending into the despair of thinking there was a lot of heartless people out there.

It helped my level of cynicism and I can’t overstate how impactful that’s been.

It's the new NFTs and Crypto re: dropping buzzwords to make stock line go up.

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I guess I just don’t see 10 years as old enough for a reboot. Or even that old for a tv show. I think reboots, I think like She-ra or Saved by the bell or something. Rebooting the office while people still rewatch it heavily just seems weird.

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Gross. Wth Best Buy

Humanities isn’t to teach people to be good. It’s to teach people to critically think, communicate well, and understand each other through various lenses. People may be inclined to act more ethically when they do these things however. And can more clearly understand other perspectives.

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I mean, I’m sure there’s people’s jobs it is to monitor marketing at these companies? Unlikely they’d go thru the trouble of setting up an ad campaign just to cancel it and claim nazis if it wasn’t true?

I don’t know though, I stay off twitter - especially now.

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That may not be the why, but making it more difficult gives people time to stop and think.

Imagine how many snap decisions we make in life due to just ease.

Not to mention, it’s probably harder to save someone from a gunshot to the head vs a OD.

Good for them! Hopefully more Americans take notice

This is cute. I hope she enjoys the gift.

The office isn’t even that old….is it?

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That is so insane to me. Even if you were a rich mofo, you really okay living in a bunker? Like do they think their life will be just as cushy without the sun or nature? No matter how many swimming pools or tv screens underground with golden toilets or whatever the fuck they put in their bunkers - life without the planet will suck. Humans aren’t meant to live underground for an extended period. There’s a reason my therapists keep telling me to go outside and get some sun and fresh air.

Too many overdue promises. I say this as a long time neopian. Every couple years would play for a few weeks of nostalgia. They’ve promised a lot over the years and I was willing to keep waiting, but the nft drama and disrespect it conveyed to the community really disillusioned me. Haven’t logged on since. Would love to be proven wrong.

I was questioning myself when I started paying close to $25 for Netflix. Cancelled once I heard about pw-sharing no longer being a thing. Couldn't justify the cost of 4 screens if my family couldn't use it.

Now for most things, It's either self-hosted/FOSS/ or proprietary one-time fee. else I do without.

and then the triple-tapping a well-connected chef’s aid workers.

I’m sorry this happened to you. I think you should disable images on beehaw. Not worth compromising your mental health and it’s too big a job to moderate that level of stuff - which you will have to do if images can be hosted.

I’m really sorry again that someone traumatized you and others with csam. Some people are beyond effed up - I’m really angry hearing about this.

Stopped reading a third of the way through when I realized this felt like a non-critical piece. Seriously going to repeat Musk’s lie of caring about free speech and then, without any note of criticism, discuss how he wants to get rid of the “woke mind virus.” Like, he shows who he is, and it’s not someone who cares about free speech. And the writer is a crappy biographer if they’re going to let that go unchallenged.

I also found the writing style boring, but that’s more subjective I suppose.

This looks great!

I’m personally trying to use less google products - for both privacy and reliability (I’m pissed my domain is getting moved cause google just decided to be done with google domains)

Yea, I wonder the same. It’s hard to keep some plants alive- especially if you genuinely have little knowledge about plants.

I have a garden but it took a lot of research to learn how to keep my plants alive and that was after killing the first set, because it turns out “just water” isn’t actually all there is to it.

There’s a reason a freshman writing course is required at a lot of colleges. High school education is inconsistent, especially when you consider how poorly resources are equitably split amongst schools. Critical thinking doesn’t involve just the type of thinking in STEM.

As someone who studied in both STEM and humanities, I’d say this conversation is an example. The fact you genuinely believe precise thinking = critical thinking is why these courses are needed. Too many stem students think they have it figured out, when they don’t, and then go on to embarrass themselves in their careers cause they’re poor communicators or ignorant of others perspectives. Or unwilling to listen because they think they already understand something someone else is expressing to them when they don’t. And they don’t even know how much they’re not understanding cause they’re convinced they are critical thinkers in all the ways that matter, when it’s beyond just the type of problem solving involved in STEM.

Define hassle? Can be different things for different people Did you check megathread already?

no, he can’t. That’s why Fox freaked out and wanted to raise the voting age after last election.

But apparently, he doesn’t care.

They DO have free choice to choose. Just as the site is free to choose who they list and what criteria they use for such. They’re not entitled to get listed if they don’t align with the site’s policies.

Choices doesn’t mean free from consequences or entitled to anything you want.

I don't think the MBA-types care about the differences though. They just want to say new words that sound impressive to shareholders

Yea, I agree. I’d be willing to give it a chance.

Just seems creatively lazy when there’s so many new stories/ideas yet to be written.

I wonder if a password manager that fills in for you would count. I’m guessing yes, thst it’s different than a key logger?

I’d like to point out that there’s few times scarier/more life threatening than interacting with a cop - esp as a black person. Something about knowing someone can murder you and people will make excuses for them.

I don’t blame her for driving away at all. Exactly because of the bullshit cops pull- aka their guns. There’s no amount of following directions that will save you if the cop is racist/trigger-happy enough.

I use both but my Reddit usage is down. There are communities there that don’t have a replacement here yet

Yea…anyone who has asked chatgpt to help them fix a piece of code or write one would know it requires a lot of human editing/good prompting. And a lot of time, what I was trying to accomplish still wouldn’t work.

You know, it’s fine to dislike religious people and believe different things. But you’re acting pretty intolerant here. Insulting others beliefs and intelligence isn’t cool just cause you disagree with it.

“Level of discourse…from someone unfamiliar with the concept of critical thinking.” “Magical sky faerie” “fallacious appeal to authority”. You sound like a pseudo-intellectual who gets off on putting down others and you found a population that you feel you’re allowed to do this to.

Reported your comment as well. You don’t have to be nasty just cause you dislike someone’s perspective on life. And don’t hit me with “well they hate xyz people”. I know you know not all religious folks share the same view - or I’d at least hope so.

I feel like that would be really bad for their business and so they’ll be not inclined to do so…

Someone should tell Biden that. Cause i fall into 2 of those 3 categories and I’m pretty discouraged with how he is responding to the protests and his handling of Gaza (supporting genocide).

I’m sure minorities don’t like it when other minorities get treated like crap and bombed with our $$. And young people on campuses are getting tear-gassed and arrested while Biden refuses to change direction or even send a message to the colleges cracking down on their students.

People can say he’s not Trump all they want - but at the end of the day, when people are getting beaten for protesting and exercising their free speech and citizens desires ignored by their reps so that money can go to mass-murder….. being “not Trump” isn’t enough. You’re already 1 foot into the grave that ppl say Trump will lead the country to.

Wtf, csam photoshopped in? So gross and evil. How are people not arrested - idk about other places but i thought it is illegal in us to own it at all. So if someone photoshopped it - they should be in jail.

You’re in a thread that literally is about churches not going along with homophobic takes. People keep saying “religious people should stand up against the bigots” and because they are in the example, you have bigots splitting off. And then turn around and insult the intelligence of said religious people still.

Who really is the person showing a lack of critical thinking skills? I’d argue the one whose take lacks any nuance.

Is the connection to iptv providers typically not encrypted? I understand the vpn if you just don’t want to be shown interacting at all - but beyond that does it matter?

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I’ll start saving up then. Still on the XS max but this is finally worth the upgrade.