[-] toad31@lemmy.cif.su 4 points 8 months ago

100%. Being on my computer so much, I can always appreciate simply being out in nature.

Kind of ironic, because while I'm doing that everyone around me is on their phones.

[-] toad31@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 8 months ago

I'm not sure.

Visible is a data plan that offers unlimited data for $25/month. If you pair it with Pandora and Blokada 5, you can get internet radio for free anywhere you have service.

You need to download and install Blokada 5 manually from their website, because screwgle banned the app from its app store for being too effective at blocking ads in apps.

[-] toad31@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 8 months ago

It defies logic.

Until you realize most people can't think for themselves and are doing what everyone else is doing.

They don't even weigh the option of "discord vs. matrix" to them, it's "discord without question."

[-] toad31@lemmy.cif.su 4 points 8 months ago

To be fair, a lot of the people who believe that have no concept of "shame" in the first place.

[-] toad31@lemmy.cif.su 3 points 8 months ago

The same teenagers that don't even use computers with physical keyboards?

I'd wager less than 1% of the minors affected by this will learn how to proxy through a VPS.

[-] toad31@lemmy.cif.su 4 points 8 months ago

I've thought about this at length, and the conclusion I came to is that violence about self-sufficiency, while sex is about cooperation. With violence, you take matters into your own hands and you're in control regardless of what others feel. With sex, it's the exact opposite. You're at their mercy and they have power over you.

It makes sense in our hostile culture to teach kids about self-sufficiency and taking power for themselves. If they give that power up to others, then it opens them up to manipulation and exploitation.

I'm not making a judgement call on what's right or wrong, only what is.

[-] toad31@lemmy.cif.su 3 points 8 months ago

Is one degree really small?

Degrees are a manmade concept. Why do you think 1 degree is small?

[-] toad31@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This whole debacle has been a great lesson in propaganda, and how neither side is above pushing or believing it.

Yes, many people even on the supposed 'good' side have no problem lying and getting angry whenever someone dares to tell the truth.

[-] toad31@lemmy.cif.su 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's honestly a pretty smart play by their part.

Since people in developing nations don't have access to the information that we do, they're unaware of the cultural battles that we are fighting.

It's a lot easier to get in on "ground zero" and convince people that your side is correct if they don't know that there are any sides at all in the beginning.

It's telling that this is happening to gay people. It'll be a long while before their culture starts to accept trans people, if they ever do.

[-] toad31@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 8 months ago

I'd probably call them lost or insecure.

Most people with behaviors like that do it as a defense mechanism.

[-] toad31@lemmy.cif.su 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm experiencing the exact opposite, personally.

My neighbors have been extremely kind and generous, on a level that couldn't even be dreamed of in the city.

They've literally helped me cut my grass on several occasions out of pure kindness because they have a riding mower and I have a push one. And that's just one family.

My car has also never been broken into after years of living here. In the city, all of my friends' cars have been broken into.

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