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Well then why the fuck not bomb my country too? Canada has more open space and fresh water than we know what to do with and yet our immigration department over in Ottawa are a bunch of racist pricks. That doesn’t justify the inevitable deaths of millions of children, it just makes the number of kids considered “acceptable casualties” rise exponentially. Doesn’t make sense, does it?

Yeah, this definitely sounds more like “it would be a shame if…” than an actual attack.

The wind farm (singular) they’re tearing down have been abandoned for 4 years now because the company that owned them went bust; bad placement was apparently to blame for these specific windmills being useless, doesn’t mean they’re 100% switching back to coal.

Also, I think they’d move the windmills if it is at all possible to not scrap them.

The OpenTTD community does sometimes. Not that it matters much.

That’s not funny. Seriously. I’m getting so fucking sick of “dark comedy” or especially “deep chararacters in an engaging story” that abuses shock factor by dead dropping child death.

If that’s the case, I’m glad I keep my goddamn smartphone’s permissions locked as tight as I can. I’m so pissed off that Samsung decided to lock down their phones’ bootloaders that I bought a 512GB Google Pixel Pro and installed Graphine OS.

I will never use Google Drive as phone storage and it will be my last smartphone unless Fairphone starts doing business in Canada; I’d buy from a UK reseller but if I’m going to buy a phone I want to have access to the official warranty, which was not offered by the reseller I found, and repairable by even the best right-to-repair standards still means nothing if the local repair shops tell me they can’t order in Fairphone parts.

The fact that unsolicited ads predate television and radio is why I despise marketing so much I won’t even shill my own art projects without shame. I don’t care anymore what service I’m taking from you, if it’s worth anything I will subscribe and if its not I will use FOSS because I will look for you, not the other way around.

And if the only option is a service funded through ads, don’t be surprised when I dump your abusive asses the moment a replacement comes around, like I did when I moved from Google Earth Pro to uMap, or Reddit to Lemmy.

Then go join a Lemmy community that’s focused on activism. I get it, I’m absolutely furious at these numbers and how many kids are suffering, and that a democraticly-elected leader is targeting a specific ethnic group is even worse, it’s just that no one tapped or clicked this topic to find anything that wasn’t related to space travel.

Please, for the sake of succeeding in your cause, go post somewhere that is designed for activism like Change.org

Then why not just kill yourself now? Rhetorical question, my point is fight to live or give up now

https://newreal.miraheze.org/

Apologies in advance if the wiki is not 100% working, still in the process of migrating from Fandom.

The New Real is a near-utopian artificial afterlife created by the Descendants of Mankind in my speculative fiction setting, but perfection is boring and complacency is best kept at bay just short of an uncorrupted world.

Please keep in mind a few things…

1. Bread backs currency, or rather the energy used to produce one loaf of bread is pegged at 100 Common Objective Inflationless Negotiables.

2. The only reason Hitler was even eligible for resurrection is because it was realized 3 million years in advance of his resurrection that denying resurrection to literally anyone is a slippery slope that opens way too many floodgates. Of course, he’s barred from politics outright and barely mentioned (he doesn’t even get a wiki page, because I’m not willing to risk some fucking Neo Nazis trying to use my site to bolster their ideology) in the story.

3. Every member of the Homo genus who ever died has been resurrected, every injury can be fixed and every mental issue managed. You are not going to end up in a wheelchair for eternity, you can have your arm back or even have it replaced with a cybernetic limb, Autism can be made managable without being “cured”, psychopathy can be trained out of people via neuromagnetic therapy, and pedophilia can be managed by turning off sex drive or through the legalization of fictional portrayals (the latter is controversial, yes, and even I’m squicked out by it, but I haven’t seen any reports of rises in child molestation or other sexual assault against children in Japan and Colombia where they legalized only fictional portrayals, so facts seem to go against current prevailing views; besides, perma-killing a child in fiction is not illegal yet I think it should be). In short, this wasn’t rushed in-universe; the Gaian Holocenic Preserve in the New Real was meticulously planned in as unbiased a manner as possible.

4. While crimes committed in the Old Real are null and void, things like hate crimes are taken seriously in the New Real. Since death only ever results in respawning like a video game character, if Hitler or whatever other nasty individual from history doesn’t smarten up real fast, they can end up not only being charged for repeating history, but the crimes they committed in the Old Real can be reinstated to make it clear just how much that shit will not fly on Gaia. Same goes for anyone who was on death row for murder, especially for murdering a child.

Sorry for self-promoting this, but I honestly am considering abandoning the New Real because everyone seems to think that it’s too optimistic. God, I am so fucking sick of Solarpunk, with its winegrowing robotic farm communes and “being more responsible with the environment” when 75% of the climate crisis is the fault of five oil companies. I don’t WANT to give up my lifestyle, and I don’t own a car so the only change I’m morally-obligated to make only applies if my city would provide my neighborhood with some goddamn bus service, which I would gladly do.

Maybe its just watching from afar and only having paid attention to politics from 9/11 onwards but it feels like an infrastructure bill is more important than people give credit for. The train crashes and the rail union strike did actually lead somewhere; despite breaking the strike, apparently Biden helped get the benefits the rail union workers wanted for them even after the actual strike was off.

Aside from that, I’m not sure how even Obama would have handled a pandemic and a war with Russia. I do know that, sad as it may be, there really was no choice. Trump would literally have gone nuclear and/or instituted martial law if he could have and saw an opportunity (like a completely unchecked pandemic leading to widespread death), because it would ensure he remains in power indefinitely, there’s no doubt we wouldn’t even be allowed to discuss this in 2023 if Trump had been reelected.

As for LGBTQ+, that was a supreme court decision in my eyes and so the blame falls on Trump for that because he hand-picked them for exactly the reason that it acted as “insurance”.

Anyway, sorry to bother you. I get politics is a touchy subject and I’m not sure what else I can say that’s not tinted through maple-tinted lenses.

97? Shit, I wasn’t aware. If I knew at that time I’d be just a kid terrified they’d kill me too. I think I just found something that I could look into for the sake of helping to make sure this shit never happens again.

I don’t know why but, sketchy past or not, this President was elected based purely on “anyone but Trump” and managed to do far more than that bare minimum regardless; it says a lot to me that effort was made to improve things under the current American government when they could probably gotten away with anything and no choices would be left that weren’t “your future will be Corporate Feudalism” in the next election.

My point is that we should punish people after the fact like with every crime, but that yes, those schools are terrible and anyone associated with killing those kids needs to be found and punished for it.

As for down votes, I don’t know why you chose hexbear as your instance but I won’t judge based purely on something that’s either trivial or personal depending on the person. Interesting that admins can remove a feature like that.

I’m not going to deny that either, but considering it happened in the 60s and 70s at latest that’s like being mad at Biden about the War on Drugs, or even being mad at the British Prime Minister for children who died working in coal mines during the Industrial Revolution… Some of these mass graves may or may not be from as far back as the 19th century, IIRC. Still absolutely horrible, if I found about that when it happened (and if I had been born by that point) I would either be even more mentally damaged by it than I am in the real timeline and spend my life hiding in the woods out of fear of people, or in prison for trying to kill the entire staff of a residential school like some sort of child-avenging serial killer.

I get that prevention of any crime via privacy invasion is precrime, so at least put to death any adult who is charged with killing a child (with a slow painful death for the real culprit if the first guy who was executed was actually innocent; I am not a fan of the idea that wrongful death by the legal system is somehow okay, but honestly it’s never going to be a perfect system) once their guilt is confirmed. No, it’s not ideal, but the alternative is an angry mob demanding the accused witch pedophile (key word accused, as in, not confirmed) be burned at the stake. You want to protect your kids AND avoid totalitarian oppression? Well, that’s the only way I can imagine it happening, please prove me wrong but this culture of “people who hurt kids with sex are evil but hurting kids in any other way is okay because…” needs to stop. Hurting kids in ANY form because you know their word means less than yours and thus you’ll get away with it is sickening, especially if you’re accusing someone else of being a threat.

Believe me, violence against kids and even unfair restrictions (there’s a difference between “no TV because you imitate stupid crap” and “only 15 minutes of TV a day even though cartoon episodes are 30 minutes including commercials because I’m clueless and want to force my opinions on you”) are no less scarring to a kid while growing up than sexual assault. I would know because I lived in a foster home for two years because I was literally taken from my family by the “Ministry of Children and Families” along with dozens of other kids with disabilities as a plot to “save money” (for Gordon Campbell’s pockets) by centralizing mental health care for children. It’s high time the hypocrisy about children’s safety be taken seriously in instances where it can be: When a child is in serious danger and keeping them unharmed is such a simple decision as “bring them home from that awful place” or “don’t kill them yourself just because of what culture they’re from” and the decision is “hurt the child”, I don’t care whether it was for sex, money or hatred, they’re ALL equally monstrous to make that decision.

The “against removing downvotes” was a typo I assume? It doesn’t read logically. Also, really hoping that face doesn’t mean you’re trolling me. I get that I talk a lot so I’ll shut up now, just don’t rub it in if you think I’m too wordy.

Personally, I’d like to see “Canada’s Guantanamo” shut down. Let me put it this way, in Guantanamo a bunch of adults were force-fed protein shakes to break a hunger strike, which is pretty twisted BUT… The place I’m angry about starved families with young kids until the kids ate dirt just to sate their hunger pains, and it’s MY fucking country doing it? NO. STOP IT. They’re innocent kids and even supposed to be Canadian citizens, you arrogant french-speaking oil fund baby bastard, GET THEM AND THEIR PARENTS HOME NOW TRUDEAU.

Sorry, just pointing out a place I don’t approve of that I can actually back up with evidence and to be clear my previous statement isn’t an anti-China view so much as an anti-corruption view that happened to be based on flawed info. I’m sure the CCP has done some nasty things but I have no evidence of anything specific, and what country at this point HASN’T turned out to have done hypocritical things to people who did nothing wrong?

Hopefully that can be changed by the nature of federated social media, I kind of feel like there was an atmosphere of persecution of outsiders on Reddit that I haven’t encountered here; When I say something, I know if I’ve screwed up because a reply will point it out. On reddit, the downvoting affected things but no one ever said why. Plus I can look at a person’s post history and figure out if they hate me for my opinion and are just causing trouble, or if they simply disagree and I should consider them a valid critic.

Thanks, and thanks for letting me know. I’ll have to let that person know that, as much as I normally take their word on stuff because they have a lot of common sense and keep up on reputable news sources, this particular “fact” was a blatant lie and whatever news source they got it from needs to be vetted more thoroughly.

Oof, my bad. Info came from someone I know, evidently I made the mistake of believing them.

Blame the Chinese lab it got loose from. No, there was no conspiracy or bioweapon intentions or anything, but the rumors apparently weren’t complete BS? It’s just that after thorough investigation the world’s medical officials have found that - strangely, though not unintuitively - the virus really was already known to a Chinese bio-research lab; IIRC, they looked closer and sure enough, a canister of SARS-CoV-2 had been improperly handled and it got out of containment via the wet market where someone associated with the lab passed it on to other people.

Obviously that doesn’t help the permanent damage to your body, I’m genuinely sorry that - since the vaccine I took to try and protect people was defective - I might have endangered someone by being more lenient than I otherwise would about staying in quarantine.

That said, in 2017 I was mentally injured. By which I mean, I have never taken recreational drugs and do not have a permanent mental illness that would actually cause the complete, months long mental collapse I went through that year. I still don’t know why it happened, but after years of healing I’m basically the same person I was in 2016, before that mental anguish and constant anxiety temporarily had me acting very little like myself. I was 26 and had not experienced anything like it my whole life despite having Autism Spectrum Disorder.

It took 7 years to heal from that because I didn’t know and still don’t know what caused my pain and suffering. If that’s any indication of what lack of closure - knowing what caused your pain - does to someone who receives an injury or becomes seriously ill, I hope knowing where this whole mess started, who started it and that justice was in some sense served (a careless person somewhere near Wuhan, China who I’m pretty sure has been fired or worse by now considering how many people died in China itself and how draconian the lockdown measures became) will provide some sense of peace for you.

I listen to ~1500 different tracks from the 19th Century all the way up to the present. I loved iTunes but the “share with friends over the internet” capability has become indispensable recently.

If Spotify keeps going downhill (and let’s face it, it probably will) then I hope someone creates a decentralized playlist-sharing service so that I can put stuff up. Not even necessarily a piracy service, it would be nice to just have links to buy a friend’s playlist’s content on such a service.

Mewthree. As in “Mewthree is in the Pokémon Green Version that only exists in Japan!”

Because even just “Pokémon” is too obvious.

That’s the Y2K “lost decade” speaking to you; 1990-1996 was the early 90s, Y2K from 1997 to 2003, and the McBling 00s from 2004 to 2008. I have reason to believe cultural decades started as decades, yet were upended by 1945-65 being The 50s but 1965-69 being the 60s and never been quite on schedule since.

Since the 60s were barely 5 years, there was - apparently - a subtle difference between the early and late 70s, a noticeable difference between the early and late 1980s, and a pronounced difference between 1990, 1994 and 1999. By 2004 a fashion lasted 5 years at best, and 2008 has hardly been a similar year to 2013 or 2019 or 2023.