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SnotFlickerman

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There is seemingly no threads on this on hackernews and this isn’t getting much traction here. Spreading the word will help, if you can!

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Heart of Gold.

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https://64.media.tumblr.com/04486c8832c1cc2c777629885ac50b3c/b817e742a8d8990c-bd/s500x750/39dd4849c2c420e1974aeaf74b472937f38e67d4.gif

who is on Lemmy (the sociology of Lemmy)

I dont know if this has been asked before or if this may be a little goofy of a question but I didn’t see anything relating to it and I’m kinda curious what the culture of Lemmy is like and what sort of common things people see. ive been paying attention to interactions but nothing is as good as just asking everyone.

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You figured out the Fediverse, you’re not that much of a luddite.

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Needs to have his fuckin kids taken from him, if they’re not yet adults. Psychopath.

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This country just wants to bleed us dry and then let us die because we’re no longer economically viable.

Hell, I’ve heard from friends that MedicAid (Medicare?) is a debt, and that old people who die while being cared for by it can have their houses taken as collateral after they die. Leave it to your kids? Nope, go fuck yourself if you didn’t plan overly complicated ownership schemes at least five years before they kick the bucket or need to be in a home.

Source: me, with cancer. Fuck this shithole society.

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US Healthcare: From where you’re kneeling it must seem like an 18-carat run of bad luck. But, truth is… the game was rigged from the start.

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EDIT: Downloaded and shared on Soulseek, so now there’s at least two people sharing it on Soulseek.

I’m in a queue to download it on Soulseek. m4b format all right? I think that’s the iTunes audiobook format.

I fucking swear people. Soulseek is still ridiculously useful for finding more obscure shit.

I know it’s old and insecure as shit, but holy fuck it still works and you can find shit you just can’t find elsewhere other than maybe USENET.

EDIT II: It’s even good for scene releases if you know the exact title.

Soulseek Download: www.slsknet.org/news/node/1

Soulseek Alternative Frontend Nicotine+: nicotine-plus.org/doc/DOWNLOADS.html

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Considering my parents made everything out of a box, Calvin honestly doesn’t know how good his parents are being with real home-cooked meals instead of just mac’n’cheese with chopped up hot dogs.

He will grow up a healthier kid, with better eating habits, and more self control.

I mean, they’re dropping the ball on Calvin’s breakfasts, but getting a kid to not eat cereal in the morning in the 80’s/90’s was basically impossible. So, I’ll let them have a pass on that.

Anyway, they really were written as quite good parents despite all their silly foibles themselves. They were quite realistic, but also probably better than your average 1980’s parent.

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the Founding Fathers wanting to break from kings and royal lines

They wanted to keep aristocracy, they just wanted it to be rich men, but not to strictly have a “king.”

They wanted their cake and to eat it, too.

They’re not good people for wanting to take power from the king so they could have it for themselves and keep it from everyone else.

Women’s suffrage and civil rights for minorities were hard fought for in a system that didn’t and still doesn’t want them to have those rights. These things were literally fought for not at the ballot box, but in the fucking streets (black liberation literally took a fucking civil war). Tell me how that jives with “no kings.”

I’m sick as living fuck of these power hungry dickweeds being presented as “good” because “they wanted no kings,” no they just wanted an equally convoluted system that amounts to the same fucking thing, but just for the chosen in-group, because the chosen in-group wrote the fucking founding documents. One king or two hundred kings makes no difference, if the system treats power differently, (and it always has) the system is broken to begin with and treats those with power as though power alone deserves deference. Sounds like the same shit to me, just distributed over a slightly larger group of people.

In other words “That’s just having a King with extra steps.”

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Yeah I don’t think being unable to fight against a system designed to be anti-democratic (like the Senate and the Electoral College, both anti-democratic institutions) is on us, buddy. But you do you and keep making excuses for violent, misogynistic, aristocracy-preserving, rapist dead men.

There is a direct line from them to Trump, if you can’t see it you’re naive or don’t want to see it.

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The amount of mental gymnastics people will do to suck off the image of dead dudes from 200 years ago who designed a dogshit system is too god damned high.

Like, what do you get out of sucking off dead dudes?

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I’ve voted Democrat straight ticket for 25 fucking years. What has it gotten me, chucklefuck?

Those anti-democratic institutions still exist and we literally have conservative states just choosing to ignore Federal law now. But what do I know, I guess I’m not voting hard enough.

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It’s always so cool to see someone put a lot of thought and effort into a reasonable, if not sometimes disagreeable, post only for some dipshit child to point to one thing and shit on it, because life and history exist only as good or bad, nothing is gray, nuance is dead.

How nice of you to defend my post.

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Sorry I read it and came to a different conclusion than you. I guess it’s not a shocker this place is also full of conservatives that just want people who disagree with them to “just shut up.”

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Tell me please how I am supposed to be able to improve the process when I can’t make a dent in national politics? Once again, why is it our fault when the fucking system was designed that you can only get shit done with supermajorities, and that almost never happens?

I’ve done phone banking, I’ve been involved, and what I’ve seen is an uphill battle every step of the way and I’m not sure how an endless uphill battle is supposed to be viewed as “democracy.”

Maybe, just maybe, our democracy was designed to be dogshit from the get-go.

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senate.gov/…/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner…

I dunno, we’ve always had dogshit people in congress.

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If you took that as me saying I’m not going to vote, that says way more about your assumptions of people in my position than it does about me.

I never once said I wasn’t going to vote (I literally just mentioned I have voted straight Democratic ticket for 25 years). I’m just pointing out that voting and “being involved” doesn’t defeat a system that is designed anti-democratically to begin with. Things like the Senate, the EC, first-past-the-post-voting, and so on literally make it an uphill battle.

Once again, I never once said anything about not voting, those are words you chose to put in my mouth. Think about that for a bit, Mr. Projection.

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Lemmy.world is literally where all the fucking enlightened centrists hang out. This is a lemmy.world thread. It is well known as the fucking ex-redditor instance. The rest of the Fediverse, by comparison, is deeply leftist, yeah.

Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles (www.psypost.org)

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that across all political and social groups in the United States, there is a strong preference against living near AR-15 rifle owners and neighbors who store guns outside of locked safes. This surprising consensus suggests that when it comes...

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I just came here to say I don’t understand this because while these guns are by and large used in mass shootings, handgunss cause far more death.

Handguns are less accurate, and are used far less for hunting or other sport (at least compared to rifles), partially due to their sheer inaccuracy. They are way more likely to be used in a murder, and people are way less likely to take the time to lock them up properly because they want them “at hand.”

I’m way more likely to be shot by some dumbfuck with a handgun than be caught up in a mass shooting.

Unpopular opinion: ban handguns

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Right, but fear isn’t based in rationality. Even after 9/11, we went balls to the wall against “terrorism” but like… the reality was that a US citizen getting killed by a terrorist on US land was less likely than being struck by lightning. So we had a War on Terrorism over something less likely than a lightning strike.

I’m literally pointing out that handguns cause way, way, way, way more deaths, in general than rifles.

I understand the fear of a mass shooter, but… it’s just not as likely, and we’ve had a precipitous drop in mass shootings in the last year.

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I mean, agreed, I understand where the fear comes from, and why. It makes public spaces unnerving… but so do handguns, in my opinion. Just because you can’t kill as many as quickly doesn’t mean you can’t still cause carnage and death and harming innocent bystanders.

I’m just way more statistically likely to be shot by a handgun, and so I personally view it with that information in mind. Like, I don’t flip people off for driving like assholes on the road anymore like I did in my youth. Not really worth the likelihood of road rage and some crazed asshole packing heat. Post-COVID it’s gotten way worse.

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Even if they can be trusted with a gun, even if they pull it out to save the day in a crisis…

There’s still projectiles flying that could hit people and things other than the intended target. That’s the part that it always comes back to for me. Bullets aren’t target-seeking. Even the best and most well-meaning shooter can miss in a stressful situation (especially with a handgun), it doesn’t mean they’re a bad person. It just means adding a gun to any situation complicates the situation violently. Adding multiple guns multiplies the violence.

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Thanks for backing up my position with the actual statistics. I’m aware of them too but I was too lazy to dig them up. Thanks.

People should be way more concerned about handguns but mass shootings with rifles get all the attention.

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