When people are content what is there to say? People tend to post about topics that anger or frustrate them. The quality of the post varies on the sincerity of the user. Anything from shitposting to actually articulate arguments. You’re unlikely to find the latter on any form of social media. Most constructive conversation happens face to face. It’s just too easy to derail an online conversation and there are powers that be that are literally troll farms because it works.

There was a message yesterday about the game werewolf. An informed minority will generally control the uninformed majority. You get a small number of people to troll and that’s all it takes to derail conversation around any topic they don’t like.

It’s just water under the fridge.

Not my intent. I made an edit to address that.

I don’t disagree with you if that extends beyond borders. External forces seem to dictate what happens there.

I’m very saddened to hear about the death of this young woman. I’m also sad to hear about deaths of many, many Palestinians. I do not think it’s coincidence that Hamas decides to launch a major offensive in the midst of talks with between Saudi Arabia and Israel to normalize relations between the two after many years of relative peace. We can’t have peace in the Middle East because it doesn’t serve the ends to the major regional powers.

Both sides in this conflict are used as pawns for the political ends of others. Innocent people are those that get caught in the midst of it all. Hamas didn’t do this without a green light so as much vitriol being spilled in this thread we have to take a step back. These fights have been brewing and going on for generations. If you take the short term view much of the strife we see today is the fallout from WWII and that is used as leverage by other nefarious parties.

It’s not the Israeli people’s fault they do not have a home. It’s not the Palestinian people’s fault they do not have a home.

Some of the comments in this thread are sickening, hateful, narrow, and short-sighted.

Yeah, I’m fine with the admins using some due diligence. There is some wild s*** out there that no one needs to see terrible and grotesque without warning. The most recent example that I came across was AI generated porn of “jailbait.”

Speaking only for myself but if content like that shows up in my feed I will not continue using Lemmy. So I am appreciative of the admins being proactive and if there’s something I want to find I’ll search for it but the example that I quoted showing up in my feed is absolutely unacceptable to me.

I’m not saying that piracy rises to the level of the quoted example but I don’t manage the server and I’m not willing to manage a server so if there are people out there willing to do it to spare me from nefarious things then power to them. They have to do what’s right and legal.

In light of your statement / argument, I’ll reframe similar responses in the future. What you say makes sense. Thanks.

And pretty sure this is the catalyst for reddit’s API changes. Other companies are getting rich off of them and they want a piece of the pie.

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Maybe I’m wrong but isn’t there a drm free version of baldurs gate on GOG? Out of all the games to pirate this isn’t the one. I get that not everyone can afford it but I suspect a lot of people who do, can.

I wish we were ready for another Carl Sagan. If we are then I’m waiting to be awed.

A casual post on the interwebs about losing/gaining communication with an object that uses less power than my NVIDIA 2080 beyond the gravitational pull of our Sun.

Lawl. Fuck that. Crazy. People looking for a miracle well just read the fucking article. Mankind can do amazing things when we just put our minds to it.

(Pre-edit: I was thinking I should use the ever wise internet to verify claims about gravitational pull. I’m 100% wrong but the point still stands. Damn it we can do anything if we just agree and put our minds to it. [From: NASA Despite the probe entering interstellar space, Voyager 2, along with Voyager 1, have not left the solar system and won’t for quite a while, NASA said. The space agency said Voyager 2 will leave the Oort Cloud, “a collection of small objects that are still under the influence of the Sun’s gravity,” in approximately 30,000 years, so it is still being influenced by the Sun’s gravity to some extent.])

Came here to say this and glad someone else mentioned it. You first need to focus on yourself so a simple outdoor activity such as walking, cycling, hiking , etc and then slow introduction to social settings and tabletop d&d is a fantastic forum for that. There are tons of online games (ie roll20) that you can look into if you have anxiety when meeting people in person.