oce

oce, 22 days ago

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

oce, 22 days ago (edited 15 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, 22 days ago

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

oce, 22 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, 22 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, 22 days ago

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

oce, 24 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, 24 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, 24 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, 22 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, 25 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.

oce, 26 days ago

Refrigerated butter is too hard to spread. i don’t know how people do it

If you need to spread it, you take it out a bit before.

oce, 27 days ago

Are you sure the majority of voters (plus the weird intermediate system) would vote for him?

oce, 27 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

Good old *pteryx operating systems.

oce, 28 days ago

I made myself blind before voting to improve the result quality. I hope you are also blind op.

oce, 28 days ago

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumance
Not to be confused with transhumanism.

oce, 28 days ago

Similar thing with the French revolution, it’s the bourgeoisie who found nobility privileges unfair that led most of it.

oce, 29 days ago

Doesn’t that make him run with the devil?

oce, 29 days ago

15 years ago it was big data (Hadoop time, before cloud).

oce, 29 days ago

Would you consider reducing according to carbon footprint? https://jlai.lu/pictrs/image/4c5c26c3-4635-451c-a5ff-621b2f5c7c92.png

oce, 29 days ago

It’s perfect for cleaning human skin off of my hands.

oce, 29 days ago

Some meme potential
https://jlai.lu/pictrs/image/26377e3c-2a7d-45b8-a5f0-275fb374c1ec.png

oce, 1 month ago

Thev