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DougPiranha42

@ DougPiranha42 @lemmy.world

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  • What instance has mostly reasonable moderate conservative/liberal people?

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  • Who said this is a forum for the working class? I have not seen this mentioned anywhere. Read the sidebar: this is a generic forum for everyone. I’m inclined to think you are making this up.

    Why do you want people with extreme views (left or right) in your community?

  • What instance has mostly reasonable moderate conservative/liberal people?

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  • thanks, I found it now. fwiw, I asked Perplexity if I can block instances and was told it can only be done by the admin defederating with them. can't always trust that thing!

  • What instance has mostly reasonable moderate conservative/liberal people?

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  • I see your point, and I did spend some time searching for the topics I enjoy, but let's be honest, there's not so much traffic. A bunch of niche communities have posts every 1-2 months. So naturally, however you sort, some of the more mainstream content (ie political communities, or political content injected in popular non-political communities) will show up in the feed. Which is not a bad thing in itself, but I just can't keep reading if the majority of comments are toxic.

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  • got it, thanks for the explanation. I know nothing about the content and the general crowd over there, but some accounts registered there were definitely brigading political posts over .world, and not in a tasteful way. I don't have screenshots or names because I blocked them. I'm not saying this is the instance's fault.

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  • That’s what I did, because I didn’t know anything about how it works when I signed up. I guess the big ones near the top of the instance list are more random than smaller ones (reversion to the mean), but even there, mander.xyz users tone seems different to me.

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  • Wow, thanks, such a helpful response! I’ll try the web interface for instance blocking. Another sus instance I saw today was blahaj.zone. To clarify, I also didn’t see fascist stuff, I just mentioned it because I felt it important to point out that I also don’t want to see that kind of content. I guess I saw one too many “so you are not a fan of Stalin, you must be fascist” comment today.

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    the wall street journal today literally asking "but what do dead kids mean for the GDP?"

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  • Thanks for the link, this was a good read. OP’s title still sucks.

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    the wall street journal today literally asking "but what do dead kids mean for the GDP?"

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  • I still think there are different standards for filler words during conversations and titles in writing. In this case, the post title is simply a lie. For example:

    Title: Florida Man Actually has Three Legs.Content: guy’s got such a big dick, he’s practically a tripod.

    In this case, that’s a misleading title.

    Edit: I also wanted to add that a title is parsed on its own, without context. Of course, “literally” can mean “not literally”, but one needs context to figure that out. In this title, such context is not there.

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    the wall street journal today literally asking "but what do dead kids mean for the GDP?"

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  • I don’t think OP knows what literally means. The wsj did not ask the question in the title. It asked a different question.

  • Tailscale serve and sharing devices

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  • Cool, thanks! What do you use for RSS?

  • Tailscale serve and sharing devices

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  • I don’t know the answer, just commenting because I’m curious. Can you just create a second tailnet and add your server but not your own devices to it?

  • me_irl

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  • Ffs if birth rates went up in the third reich then people should be thankful for fascism and hitler? Was west germany a poor amd depressing dictatorship and east germany a free and prosperous country, or the other way around? Blocking.

  • me_irl

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  • Ok there is too much crazy stuff there for me to take you seriously. If you’re a person and this is your genuine position, that makes me sad. People learn nothing from history.

  • me_irl

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  • That’s not a very good example, because good and bad people drink water, pretty much everyone does. Here is a list of communist states:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states_(communism)

    I’d say that all of these sucked to live in. There are definitely states that treat their citizens better than these. If something always leads to death and suffering, maybe we can conclude that it’s a bad idea. Communists are not “associated with“ communism, they are communism.

  • me_irl

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  • How can you equate “seize means of production” and “class warfare” (things in OP) with 40 hour work week (not in OP)? Are Stalin’s and Maos bloody dictatorships that terrorized, tortured and murdered millions, hundreds of millions of people, examples of progress of society? I can list a bunch of countries that are relatively free, and have high rates of literacy and strong worker protections, that are not communist (pretty much any developed democracy since the late 20th century). There is literally no communist country where people are acceptably free and don’t or didn’t want to get out to flee to one of the not communist countries. I hate the “its such a nice ideology just every single fucking time its followers came to power they had to torture and murder their fellow citizens to stay there”. You know, “seize means of production” in practice means that the government, or people who have friends in the government, go and take away other peoples shit: farmers, small businesses, house, a pig, anything they want, and all they need to do is call the victim a bourgeois or capitalist. This is how it worked in practice in every socialist/communist country that ever existed, lmk if you have a good counter example. And guess what: people get hurt in the process, lives are ruined.Class warfare. Who the fuck wants to live in a society where everyone is a worker? Economically, a worker means someone who doesn’t own anything other than their future ability to work and earn wages. Every society that looks remotely liveable has a strong middle class: people own real estate, business, investments. These would all be crimes in communism. And now you can explain me that no, that’s not what’s so fucking cool about communism, I still get to keep my house and retirement fund, just have to work less and get more free stuff from the government because the only reason I wasn’t getting those things previously is that they didn’t realize how cool communism is. btw I don’t want to read a bit about the ideology, I was born in a communist country and have a pretty good idea what it was like for people living in that system. Edit: removed an offensive statement.

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  • I will never understand how people casually throw around communist talking points like these were not the talking points of some of the worst, most oppressive regimes ever. And the same people then are very vocally outraged when they hear fascist slogens (rightly so, but why is communist shit cool?).

  • What makes Pulp Fiction special?

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  • The dialogues were also special: characters were mostly talking about mundane subjects but in a unique and very entertaining way. Who else can make a Hollywood movie scene with John Travolta telling that the most interesting thing about a foreign country where they speak a foreign language is that they use different words for fast food menu items. It was unexpected and hilarious at the time.

  • Low fertility may not be an economic threat, researchers argue

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  • Fertility is simply a concept in population dynamics for quantifying the number of offsprings. That’s what it is called, there is no covert agenda there.

  • What AI do you pay for, if any?

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  • Perplexity and grammarly