iirc block on Lemmy is “mute” and it doesn’t work like Reddit with preventing any interaction with any posts or comment threads you started (which I’m glad about, Reddit’s block imo is a horrible way of doing it).

Personally I don’t like the block feature for this for two reasons:

• it only targets one user, normally it’s more “I want to stop talking about this for now” than not wanting to talk to one person in particular
• I won’t see anything from that person in the future, which isn’t what I want unless they are really awful, just want to be done with that specific comment thread despite having some degree of respect for the people in it

This is why “disable inbox replies” is such a great feature that I wish Lemmy would implement. For when you still have something to add, but it looks like the conversation is going downhill, the thought of further responses is causing anxiety, and you know the right choice is going to be to let the other person have the last word anyway.

I think “pranks” that involve misleading everyone in audible range into fearing for their lives would reduce property values regardless of open house timings

So, is the implication the one you might expect, that the “gateway drug” effect is real but due to having to buy it from sources that might sell other illegal drugs?

As the team reports, problematic consumption decreased slightly in the group with legal access to cannabis. Consumption is considered problematic if it causes or exacerbates health, social or psychological difficulties—even without dependency in the classic sense.

In particular, a more substantial positive effect through legal access was seen in people who used other drugs in addition to cannabis.

This part is a little confusing, like how do they tell what is the cause of difficulties? Do they mean these people were still buying other black market drugs in addition to getting weed from a pharmacy? If so what would be the reason for the improvement?

Poor taste given the context

Maybe she expected the interview to happen and had an article planned about it, and then decided to just write it anyway when it didn’t

That’s why Playtron is excited to announce Game Dollar, the stablecoin built for games and ready to handle massive transaction volume over the next decade,” said Kirt McMaster, co-founder and CEO of Playtron. “Game Dollar will unlock new economic models for developers and marketplaces while enabling consumer incentives only possible via programmable dollars.”

What’s wrong with the stablecoins that already exist I wonder?

The hack revealed that the archived chat logs are not end-to-end encrypted between the modded version of Signal that TeleMessage offers and the ultimate location where it stores the messages

lol wasn’t that supposed to be the whole point, what are they even doing

I think the bigger issue here is that you are obviously uncomfortable with the idea of approaching people in public and your parents are treating this as irrelevant and something you are supposed to just force yourself to do it anyway despite feeling like the situation is wrong and threatening. You shouldn’t need to justify not wanting to do that by appealing to some kind of cultural authority about what is acceptable to society.

Personally even as a man it normally freaks me out when strangers approach me in public. It just feels like a very unusual, unexpected and potentially unsafe kind of circumstance, almost never something positive, there’s no way I would trust such a person, so I’m not going to do that to others because it’s like I would be inflicting that on both of us simultaneously, and that would of course come through in any interaction I attempted. How could I expect them to be receptive to that when I would never be myself? People may argue, that’s the wrong way to feel and so it doesn’t matter, replace that attitude with a better one, as if they themselves could easily substitute a totally different way of being for how they are.

If you need an invitation in order to feel safe in a social situation, I would say it is ok to demand that people respect that and not mock you for it.

I really hate this feature that makes comment or email responses into dialogue trees. I get that it’s still an option to do that even if they aren’t putting it right into the UI, but it’s rude to substitute an autogenenerated message for a few of your own words and for it to be a direct part of the interface like this implies that it’s instead fine and normal.

For that you would have to completely change how currency is issued and managed. Money is created by being borrowed directly or indirectly from the central bank, and the reason it is possible for those loans to later be repaid is because even more money is loaned out later, so it’s not going to be a game of musical chairs where there isn’t enough money going around to pay them all back, they keep bringing in more chairs. There is always an increasing amount of money in the system, and they make it that way on purpose to keep things running the way they want them to.

Personally what I hate about this setup is, a person who meets the requirements to obtain a business loan can now take this money that was created out of thin air, use it to coerce labor out of people who have no way to get money other than working, and keep the profits. What if our lives would all be better off working a bit less? Too bad, that decision isn’t up to us, how much we must work is indirectly decided by monetary policy, which the average person realistically has zero influence over, and the goal is a high level of “economic activity”, ie. as many people as possible subject to financial coercion.

Stuff like getting rid of these things makes so much sense, I don’t understand how some people can think human cooperation isn’t important.

I want an AI that figures out who would be likely to want to hear from me, and prompt me to start a conversation with them. That would be way better than Meta owning an ever increasing share of my attention.

Here’s an idea: gameplay sort of like Goblin Cleanup, you have various chores you have to do cleaning and arranging the various levels of the tower at night while the dragon is home, and your work has to pass an inspection. Then during the day you are locked in your room, and have some ability to watch a prospective rescuer attempt the dungeon crawl without your direct input. But you can strategically arrange items, enemy spawns, and Dark Souls style hints to try to tip the scales during the chores phase. So kind of like a tower defense game in reverse where you are trying to lose.

all this data is made up lol

wtf

I haven’t really had negative interactions with hexbear users since instance blocking and blocking like 30 users I noticed being assholes way back. Maybe they’re still responding to my comments without my knowing but idc

Complex requirements for social media websites to verify the identity of users, respond to spurious automated takedown requests, provide authorities with backdoors, etc. I think instead of explicit bans, it’s more likely they pass a regulations that are made for large websites with lawyers and algorithmic moderation, which are in practice not something fediverse instance operators can safely deal with and go against the basic values of the open internet.

Money is a type of private property. Private property is an arrangement of power relationships, and those are real. It’s real that you’ll get evicted if you don’t find a way to pay rent/mortgage.

I think they have stuff to detect and ignore brigading, which would probably especially apply to platforms as large as Reddit.

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