forcing many users to consider the unthinkable

… Death???

That’s definitely a thing I enjoy about lemmy! Old forums were nice because they actually felt like communities. The Centralization of the Internet has meant that it’s just a faceless mass of people (and sometimes robots) popping off their hottest takes at every single moment

Hell yeah! Welcome!

Lemmy is a lot of Linux nerds, trans people, leftists, and people who are really mad that those people are here lol

The block button is your friend, curate your own experience, and enjoy! Lemmy, like any internet forum, can be a bit toxic. A lot of that depends on what instance you’re viewing it from, so don’t be afraid to instance hop a bit until you find a community you enjoy, and is federated with other instances that have content you like.

Its called Livemarks

Its called Livemarks

I’m blanking on the name rn, but I’ll let you know ASAP

I use FluentReader, and an extension that restores Firefox’s old RSS functionality.

Edit: The extension I use is called Livemarks

How do you explain that 99.99% of people are super happy living their lives with just enough money to have somewhere to live and pay for food and some vehicle?

Further, how do you explain that, for most of human history, we haven’t lived in economic systems that reward greed in the way Capitalism does? Saying human beings are neurologically wired to behave in an especially greedy way, under Capitalism, is just recency bias.

Is that urge extent in people? Sure, but so are kindness, generosity, and plenty of other traits that run counter to greed and selfishness. To say that the negative ones incentivized by the economic system we live in are somehow more natural than those others, is nonsense.

A lot of the ultra wealthy espouse a nonsense philosophy called “Effective Altruism”, which asserts a kind of utilitarian “most good for the most people” ethic, but in such a way that one can basically justify any action as being, eventually, for the most good ¯_(ツ)_/¯

A decent amount of Geocities sites are backed up on the Wayback machine and/or restored via other projects.

Protoweb is really cool, if you wanna browse the internet like its the late 90s again

Do you use fertilizer on your locally grown food? Because it’s spring time, and large amounts of fertilizer are also shipped out of the Strait of Hormuz

But what I don’t get is where is atheist church

Some French guys already tried that…

So that is a real aspect of women’s relationship to wage labor under capitalism, but like… That’s not the fault of the CIA, or even feminism.

Feminists famously want women to be paid equally for their work. Alexandra Kollintai was a Marxist feminist living in Russia around the time of the Revolution, and regularly talked about the importance of equal pay for women.

Women in the United States were always a part of the workforce, but it was largely working class women, in textile mills and such, who were working.

World War 2 required many women, across class divisions, to enter the workforce, even into more traditionally masculine fields. The the post war 50s, with its emphasis on rigid, traditional gender roles, forced women back into the home, which produced a lot of resentment among many women. Their access to work, financial independence, and a greater sense of social purposes was suddenly stripped away.

This is the context that 2nd wave feminism, with its focus on women’s ability to work outside the home and financial independence, comes out of.

Issues like women being paid unequally for the same work are systemic, and often done unconsciously. That doesn’t make them less of an injustice, but it does mean that the source of the problem is often more people than blaming a specific group, like the CIA, for it.

I’ve started encountering a decent amount of transphobia in the global feed lately, so hearing that “hatred is minimal here” is pretty fucking rich

I believe that AI including chatgpt and genAI are a good thing and they bring us one step closer to where humanity should be going.

I think you’re wrong but that’s a discussion we could have

I also think that feminism was instigated by the CIA

LMAOOO Idk if this is some elaborate bit that I’m falling for, but Why would the CIA make up feminism when women gave so many reasons to be upset about things?

Hell, the concept of feminism predates the CIA by decades

Fuck that, bring back boolean operators!!!

He said that there are “Too many transgenders” on Lemmy…

If I walked into a restaurant and loudly proclaimed “There are too many Blacks here!” I shouldn’t be surprised if all the black people in the room got upset.

You’re either acting in bad faith, or you’re deeply naive

I would prefer if people don’t have to hide their true feelings if they are respectful about it and don’t hate.

There isn’t a non-hateful way to say that you hate a minority group. I told off a bully for being a bully. Those two things aren’t the same.

Its not the words themselves that give me pause in your initial comment. Its the dismissive seeming tone.

If you don’t wanna get into arguments about trans people, that’s fine, there lots of ways to curate your experience here.

But if you’re finding yourself constantly having these kinds of discussions, maybe your dismissive tone isn’t exactly helping matters. Again, i point to the “I support gay people! As long as they don’t do it in public!” Example

Not necessarily saying that this is what you’re doing, but there is a sort of bigotry against trans people that clouds itself in nice sounding language of “live and let live”.

Like when people used to say, “Oh, I don’t mind gay people, they can do whatever they want! …I just don’t want to see that kind of behavior in public”.