oce

oce, 14 hours ago

t’s smart to have everyone interdependent, to make conflicts less appealing,

Do you still believe that after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia? It seems the less appealing part only influenced the EU who refused to see the threat until the invasion actually started. But it looks like it didn’t affect Putin’s imperialist fantasies, it mostly funded his ambitions, and still does with the oil we keep buying from them because we’re unable to reduce our dependency. politico.eu/…/vladimir-putin-russia-banked-1-bill…

oce, 14 hours ago

Most women choose to wear hijab and are defending the right to do so.

In democracies (and absence of family pressure) maybe, but in most of the world, I doubt it.

oce, 14 hours ago

Because I spoke with some of them, lived in different countries and my readings are not limited to information about my place of origin. What about you, do you come from a place that lets you know better about the world than mine, or your argument about having knowledge limited to your origin doesn’t apply to you?

oce, 4 hours ago

Shouldn’t the freedoms of women and education of men have evolved in 2000 years?

oce, 2 days ago

Shoulderster

oce, 2 days ago

DarkReader and PrivacyBadger are useful too.

oce, 5 days ago

On desktop Firefox, using the Imagus add-on, I can still see the image by hovering over the link.

oce, 5 days ago

Here’s a comment saying it’s useless from a different thread linked by a parallel comment: lemmy.world/comment/9817207

oce, 5 days ago

It’s like in American shows, they just speak English with a foreign accent (potentially unrelated to the location).

oce, 5 days ago

I don’t particularly love them, but subtitles are just part of daily life in any non-English speaking countries given the amount of English speaking media being produced, so most of the world are used to them.
I think quite a lot of English natives also use subtitles on English media because of sound mixing or sound system issues that make dialogues hard to hear.

Anyways, it’s just a little jest, if you enjoy this trope, I am happy for you.

oce, 6 days ago

I’m glad that there’s no micro transactions nor loot boxes.

oce, 6 days ago

According to the American Museum of Natural History of New York, depending on the dinosaur species, they didn’t have the same pteryx to develop a cancer.

oce, 6 days ago

You can conviniently block a whole instance from your account now, it reduces this kind of disagreement a lot.

oce, 6 days ago

If I’m not allowed to have a discussion or disagreement with you, and get kicked out instead, I’ll just go to places where they will talk with me

I actually tried to, and if it was possible to have rational and polite discussion, without straw man arguments, dog pilling, personal attacks and finally threats of violence, I would have continued to try. But sadly all of this happen, multiple times.

At some points I considered leaving Lemmy, thinking that this federation as a whole was not safe for debating. But then I started understanding patterns, either it was from the users from a specific instance, or it was communities from a specific instance that turned like that. Overall the pattern seem to be that if the instance mentions extreme political ideologies in its description or if the profiles of its admins do, then debating is not possible.

If they want to stay connected to people to avoid the circle jerk, they have to work on themselves too (ex: learning to debate politely), you can’t except us to absorb all the damages to help them avoid radicalization. It’s like walking towards a terrorist group with flowers while they are shooting around and expecting them to be inspired by your pacifism.

I do enjoy debating and questioning my own beliefs, but I am not on Lemmy to consume my mental health, so I need to take some actions to protect it.

oce, 6 days ago

I think you are correct, but not having the opportunity to participate in a thread on those instances because you can’t see them anymore is part of the ways to avoid troubles.

oce, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Lemmygrad and Hexbear are the most obvious ones, sadly lemmy.ml is also part of them in my experience despite not being obvious about it (you have to check the admins and mods profile to see the link) and having some good content when it’s not about politics such as tech. There may also be some defederated by my home instance admins that I may not be aware of.

oce, 3 days ago

Uncomfortable, mayby, for having to read information you oppose?

dog pilling, personal attacks and finally threats of violence […] I am not on Lemmy to consume my mental health

Not all violence is physical.

I think many people need to grow a little thicker skin in that regard.

Are you blaming me for not having a tick enough skin instead of blaming the behavior of attackers? Please reconsider that thought.

oce, 6 days ago

I think small internet groups have existed for a long time and will always do in different forms, for example they moved from Skype to Whatsapp or equivalents.

oce, 6 days ago

They are “medical-grade” maggots raised for this purpose to avoid germs.

oce, 8 days ago

Your knowledge might be incorrect, I believed that before too but it seems to have never been used like that, it has always been against the Jews. Word usage is sometimes not aligned with etymology.

Due to the root word Semite, the term is prone to being invoked as a misnomer by those who incorrectly assert that it refers to racist hatred directed at “Semitic people” in spite of the fact that this grouping is an obsolete historical race concept. Likewise, such usage is erroneous; the compound word antisemitismus was first used in print in Germany in 1879[17] as a “scientific-sounding term” for Judenhass (lit. ‘Jew-hatred’),[18][19][20][21][22] and it has since been used to refer to anti-Jewish sentiment alone.[18][23][24]

Bottom of the introduction en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

oce, 8 days ago

You said:

antisemitism is used to refer to Jewish people, though it is really being used incorrectly.

The present meaning as well as the original meaning when it was coined was referring to Jewish people, even if it doesn’t align with its etymology. So using it to name hate against Jewish people is correct.

That also implies that using antisemitism to name hate against Arabic would be incorrect. Though you may try to redefine the term, write a couple of articles and books and maybe in 50 years it will be considered correct usage.

oce, 7 days ago

I don’t think you have any agenda. I think nothing else that what I wrote, especially because I used to think like what you wrote before, so I wanted to help you and other readers with more information. I quoted what is the most obviously incorrect in your comment. The information you added now doesn’t change the fact that this quote is incorrect.

oce, 6 days ago

I don’t assume anything about you, I’m strictly answering to your comment and nothing else. Considering the multiple sources backing up the claim in the Wikipedia article, I don’t think it’s just my opinion.

oce, 9 days ago

I’d be curious to see if this actually enforced and for how long. I see companies cutting costs on security all the time. You can’t really trust them with anything else than creating and optimizing processes to make money. I’d rather see public regulators eat their turnover until they comply.