I'm 100% sure he has no idea who they are by name. I'm also 100% sure he would never admit he doesn't know something. So my assumption is, he would just start talking. I don't know what he'd say, but I'm certain it would be hilarious.

I got jealous of the people playing the new game so I dug up my old 3ds and it's just as fun as I remember, this is awesome

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This might sound cheesy, but the (spy parody) film Kingsman: The Secret Service changed the way I approach online discourse. At one point in the film, the mentor spy tells his protege that rudeness should never have happened, so a gentlemen ignores it, pretending it didn't happen, because it shouldn't have.

I got a PM either this morning or last night saying some rude things. It was just three or four words. I initially ignored it, but I went back and reported it, because the person probably said similar things to others and someone should look at that. But, it didn't bother me.

We are responsible for our words and actions, and sometimes we say and do things we regret. We're only responsible for how others make us feel when those feelings manifest into actions. There's a word we used to use, I'm not sure if it's fallen out of favour with the millennials, the Gen-Z, and Gen-Alpha groups, but it's tool, which is to say, someone who is easily manipulated. To be someone's tool is to take action on their behalf. Someone is rude to you, so you're rude to two other people. You're the tool of the person who was rude to you. And if the tool breaks (you do something really bad, or you get busted, like banned from a comm or something) they will just get a new tool. Don't be a tool. When someone is ugly, that is them and their responsibility. When you react badly, you take that responsibility from them; now you own it.

The alternative is to simply do nothing. On Reddit, you could downvote them, and if enough people did, it would limit how often they could post. (This system was frequently exploited by bad actors.) On Lemmy, it doesn't do anything. I hide all the vote weights and sort by new, and I suspect others do as well. It's exactly what I'd do if I were trying to bring others down, but I do it for my own mental well-being. So you can downvote them, but it's best to just ignore them. If you must reply, reply to anyone else.

Fire needs fuel and air to burn (and one other thing, the key to fire fighting is to "break the triangle" by removing one element). Give online fire neither. And you will have effectively fought it. Because people who spew vitriol are waiting for you to respond. Not just you, but they've got several irons in the fire. They're hoping someone responds, so they can needle them to action they wouldn't take otherwise. And once you see that's how they operate... you can safely ignore it. And if everyone could have that wisdom and strength... I think a lot of them would stop doing it. They'd think they were shadow banned (allowed to post but no one can see what they say) until they post something productive and people react.

They say every man is your teacher. Teach others through example that rudeness should be ignored because it should never have happened.

That said, some people deserve to be blocked. Browsing /all and sorting by new, I see way more dick pics than I should (and I block the gay and dick related communities!). If I had a way to send those pics to their mothers, I would. But I don't, so I just block them. I think a lot of people do, so they just make new accounts. Not much you can do, but you can block what you really don't like. It's still better than fanning the flames by telling them off.

And you can keep that same energy in real life. If someone cuts you off in traffic, just let them go. Eventually, they'll get the wrong one. Don't think you're the wrong one, because they might be the wrong one. It's not worth it. It never is. Let them go. Your peace of mind is worth more.

Anyway, just wanted to throw that out there. Wasn't sure where to post it, but then I saw this comm. So there you go. :)

I don't like the fact that they are trying to put in place Work Requirements and being allowed to live in Public Housing 2 years before needing to find another place. So I urged them to reject the proposal and suggested some other methods of increasing affordable housing...

This is going to affect a lot of people, creating housing insecurity at a time when it's fucking terrible out there! The point is cruelty, making yet more people homeless, and desperate because the social safety net is very limited in the USA.

In my neck of the woods, apartments are limited, out of my price range (usually owned by foreign landlords), and restricted to student housing. This has had a damning impact on housing availability, this HUD proposal is only going to make the situation worse. I honestly don't know what I am going to do if I am forced to move...

Not sure what to do with this information. So. Justpost i guess.

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here’s the deal with this ‘Door Dash Granny.’ her name is Sharon Simmons, and she got flown into DC from her home in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to appear in Donny’s dog-and-pony show.

she’s actually got a pretty grim story. this poor woman had to take up being a DoorDash driver in order to make ends meet after her husband ran up medical bills due to treatment for cancer.

the lesson we’re supposed to take away from this bogus White House photo-op is that because Big Benevolent Dear Leader got rid of taxes on tips, Sharon Simmons was able to save eleven grand on her tax bill — and yay, Donny, you’re the hero of the working class!

wrong answer, fuckface.

the real lesson here is that we live in a shithole country where any of us could get thrown into bankruptcy in a hot second because of a medical emergency — and if it happens to you, you’re expected to try to make ends meet by working your ass off in a shitty piecemeal gig-economy job.

Simmons, a grandmother of 10, began working as a Dasher in 2022 to earn income while maintaining a flexible schedule. Since then, she has completed more than 14,000 deliveries.

fourteen thousand deliveries in three-plus years — that sounds fucking idyllic, doesn’t it? this woman has ten grandchildren. she should be enjoying their company, not racing around town trying to beat the clock so she can make as many deliveries as possible and come home exhausted.

what in the actual fuck?

but instead of doing anything meaningful to solve the problem of crushing medical debt, Donny stages some useless stunt and preens for the camera. problem solved, Sharon — now get the fuck out of Dear Leader’s sight.

are you kidding me? look, eleven grand saved on taxes is nice, absolutely — but no fucking way does it even begin to cover treatments for cancer.

we’re the only industrialized nation on the planet that treats its citizens like shit and throws them to the wolves — and our unfeeling overlords should be ashamed of themselves.

AI is here and taking job tasks constantly. We have extremely low taxes for the wealthy so every public entity is running out of money or is in debt. We are entering into a period of serious gasoline shortages. When the clear solutions aren't implemented due to politicians being paid off, the only path forward becomes to break things. This is what we'll see more of as time progresses. We are in the depths of late stage capitalism in the US, and the laid off workers will do something about it.

What are your plans realistically?

EOM means End Of Message..

it's all there in the title.

The not-including the within-limits clause, was an error on our-kind's part: the limits-of-validity NEED to be kept front-&-center.

As the XProgramming people understood: wrong-model makes one's instinct/intuition wrong!

& we need to outgrow that false-model-habit, now.

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"May I Please Enter?" is a short film that addresses topics such as housing insecurity, race, & religion. I've watched it several hundred times, and found a thousand+ hidden elements or meaning; the director is known for productions with these hidden layers.

I made a 'Just Post' recently, "I'm planning on a walking tour to the Navajo Nation in three days". There were three expectations I wanted to continue staying in the current living space, that I couldn't tolerate otherwise. 1) a commitment to non-violence with whom I'm living with, plus an apology for previous violence. 2) a bike repair, e.g. so I can leave the apartment more freely. 3) A Linux laptop replaced that was previously destroyed in violence. (1) has been met, and (2) the bike is currently being repaired. I'm still requesting the laptop be replaced (in the least, a commitment that one will be ordered in the upcoming days; the current laptop is damaged and often crashes with just a single internet tab open trying to send an email). As an incentive for this, I promise to create a close-reading (something on the scale of a 20-ish page essay) within a week, from the perspective of a furry-bodhisattva. The living space has been an active refuge for many animals that may be harmed if I leave; also, I'm tired of having to re-establish living spaces because people can't refrain from violence toward me or know how to communicate civilly. I've done hundreds of close-readings (poetry, art, movies) before; am experienced & capable. I'm planning on starting the walking tour tonight otherwise; have walked several thousand miles the past few years without other unforced option, and am used to living outside.

Maybe there could be a joint effort of strangers online helping, plus those within my family, to fund the laptop replacement. The person who destroyed it is regarded by himself & others to have mental illness with emotional volatility, and is also currently dependent on me.

Hello. Over the past few years, there hasn't been a consensual, unforced, permitted way to sleep, to acquire food, and to obtain other basic requisites. I live in the Phoenix, Arizona metro-area. There's also been regular violence & gaslighting toward me, that seems quite normalized, even within family & police; this includes being attacked with weapons & death threats, and having belongings destroyed.

Someone living with me destroyed three of my laptops in rage. I've been requesting for this person to simply apologize & commit to non-violence toward me, and for (another) replacement Linux laptop. I've been requesting for family to replace the laptop, because this seems appropriate, though I also think it's appropriate if it's replaced by others online. I'm unable to tolerate the precedent that people can just be violent toward me whenever.

Without commitment to a replacement laptop plus non-violence, then I'm planning to go on a walking tour to the Navajo Nation on the third day after today. A Navajo man invited me to visit his place when I was homeless & in very poor sorts. There's also places to visit from there too - e.g. a Buddhist monastery that says they accept those even if unable to pay. I know there's many others in this city/state who are struggling to survive or find hope; qua anāgāmi/bodhisattva, I will allow anyone to join me who wishes to take refuge. If anyone takes issue with this plan, they may say so here.

For the sake of animals peacefully using the apartment space (e.g, to prevent mass-extermination), I do want to stay; I wish to continue developing the small backyard qua wildlife refuge/sanctuary, though this isn't possible with current levels of violence. There's also lots of other projects I'm trying to resume/finish.

The logic:

IF Netanyahu is committed to nuking Iran when Israel's ability-to-enforce-aggression on others implodes..

& he plans to then nuke ALL Muslim countries when ANY retaliation is launched against his nuclear-mass-shooting, THEN nuking Netanyahu before that 2nd-strike is launched, would reduce the total-dead-by-nukes.

( in this scenario: 1st Iran, then "Israel" nuked )

Therefore, Netanyahu would be more-logical to nuke not-only Iran, but ALL Muslim countries, in the 1st-strike, as the absolute-mass-shooting "the Samson Option" ( be CAREFUL what your-religion glorifies! ), as a means of proving that Netanyahu's "Israel" is "CHOSEN by Netanyahu's 'god'"..

( in this scenario: ALL Muslim countries nuked, Netanyahu finding some other prey to carve-up then, or suiciding to avoid accountability for rendering all Isreali lives radioactive )

But to reduce the produced-death then, would oblige a 1st-strike against Netanyahu's "Israel"..

( in this scenario: ONLY Netanyahu's "Israel" nuked )

( Amendment: there is another, & that is that Netanyahu either fails to nuke anybody, XOR is removed before-he-can nuke anybody, & that'd be ideal, obviously, but it isn't something that the other geopolitical-players are likely to be able to control, & I was seeing this & working-it-out-while-writing, so that didn't get mentioned until later in the post.

I don't want nukes hitting the Middle East, but if nuking's inescapable, then I want it minimized! End-amendment )

IOW, having allowed a DarkTriad/DarkTetrad { narcissism, machiavellianism, sociopathy-psychopathy, sadism } person to rule, it automatically becomes TOO LATE to mitigate once they've escalated sufficiently.

Putin proved this.

Trump & Millei & Orban are demonstrating their understanding of this principle.

It all now comes down to if anybody can remove Netanyahu, in my opinion: the ONLY way he can win in competitive-nihilism, is to annihilate as many "others" as possible, .. before/while going down, himself.

The ONLY way to cut-short competitive-nihilism which has authority & has already-begun mowing-down-others'-lives, is to cut them down, directly ( don't "play pattycake" with mass-shooters while they continue assassinating everybody! )

I'm stating this stuff explicitly, because

1. it's fscking obvious, to some, but not most
2. only when people are IN correct-framing, CAN people do correct benefit-cost calculation & calibration, on their real available-options.
3. I don't want ANYBODY nuked: it's now up to people within Netanyahu's "Israel" to either UNaccommodate Netanyahu's escalation-endstate XOR accommodate it.

Exactly as we, all of us, are indebted to a couple of Russian officers, 1 in a submarine off of Cuba, who both refused-to-launch-nukes when the systems malfunctioned.. we ALL weren't imprisonned-in a post-nuke poisonworld. We OWE them: they are HUMAN Heroes!

But now millions of lives are in the hands of a few people in Netanyahu's "Israel", & I hope there's a coup or something, soon, to prevent nuking-millions-of-lives, which really looks to be his actual goal.

To the aggressive-pacifists, who hold that holding-oneself-helpless is the ONLY morally-responsible course-of-action..

Wake-up to discover you've got cancer, & if you WON'T fight cancer, then YOU are cancer's accomplice, in obliterating as much of your-life's-future as it+you can.

That is betrayal-of-YOUR-OWN-LIFE.

Fight!

Fight cancer, fight rabies, fight ebola, fight abuse, fight DarkTetrad's having-authority, fight evil-itself, fight corruption, fight malnutrition, fight poverty, fight shoddy-"education", fight ALL the obliteration of G-D GIVEN LivingPotential among humankind!

this world-situation is now stupider than any comic-book story, ever.

even as absurd as it is, to have to say what I've put up above, .. because NOT saying it would, at this point, be morally-criminal.

& if nobody prevents Netanyahu's nuking of Muslim countries, then .. it was visible beforehand, & there is NOTHING that will "protect" the continuums/souls who indulged in accommodating such shit, "biblical"-narcissism or anything.

Our souls/continuums DO Reap what they have Sown, to use benJoseph's terms!

& fundamentally, that's what zionism is: "biblical" narcissism:

contrast the Judaism shown in Daniel, Jeremiah, and Isaiah. Exactly as they made-clear, "Israel" periodically turns against their G-D, & their-G-D waits until there's zero excuse in Eternity's eyes, & then it strikes, annihilating their-establishment.. again.. I have ZERO hope for Netanyahu's "Israel" being .. ALIVE .. next year at this same month, now.

This is insane. ALL of this is insane. The inmates have possessed the asylum. PLANET-scale!!

  : C

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Someone announced several times for others to hear outside that I have HIV. I took a mouth swab test twice, which showed 'no HIV'.

If wasteful spending and fossil fuels become more expensive, less people can afford them, thus being more careful with their spending. Alternatives like electric vehicles and nuclear power become more desirable, and efficiency overall increases.