Ahaha, completely missed that! I blame a confluence of alcohol, post bottom tier coed rec leahue soccer quarter final playoff victory excitement and some open source keyboard setup.

That’s a pretty great and painfully accurate quotez at least according to this middle aged goof.

Easily that time I said no to a threesome out of some stupid sense of duty to her ex/a “buddyof mine.” In mπy 20s, everyone was my buddy.

You should read your comment history, it’s depressingly negative.

Legitimately, why would you join the fediverse if only to be kind of a dick to people? Surely you could be a jerk to more people on reddit etc?

Google doesn’t count does it?

I guess someone’s always looking to take offense online.

There’s the same insipid conversations we have all the time with colleagues/acquaintances, there’s the deep conversations we have with a 1 or 2 friends at a time and the fun silly ones we have with a bunch of old friends. If you don’t know the difference between them, that’s heartbreaking and I’m so sorry for you.

Damn, four days without having to talk about the usual bs sounds like paradise.

Looks like Cox Media forgot to slip a trump some cash.

By voluntary associations (like a fediverse instance) absolutely not.

By government? Absolutely. What happens when disparaging the One True God Baby Jesus or His Followers is declared hate speech?

Whatever powers you give the government, you also give to the worst form of that government which you can imagine. The civil liberties that protect rapists and drug dealers are the same ones that are helping keep more people from being kidnapped by ICE in America.

Great idea, one of those retrospectively obvious ideas that never occurred to me!

Yelling isn’t the critical ingredient there…

These have been a blast. Kind of surprising how much older humour translates pretty well today. Something something universality of humour.

To each their own.

Generally though, the person yelling “that’s not funny!” Tends to not be a great arbiter of humour.

Yeah, I fully agree they aren’t as polished as the Onion. They tend to overwrite their jokes. But, I do enjoy them coming at things from a different angle. While dealing with trump etc, the Onion feels just the same as it’s been for the last decade, whereas the Babylon Bee feels just a bit different.

I think of them as an unpolished comedian with good takes and if they tightened up, could be killer. Like, Josh Johnson. Guy is prolific as hell and has great ideas but, in part because he’s producing so much, doesn’t have the time or inclination to tighten it, if that makes sense.

Yeah, though the Bee seems to be having a blast with it.

Today’s articles that got a legit chuckle: “New York offers to house Hantavirus patients in nursing homes”, “three Republicans thrown into fiery furnace for not bowing down to trump statue” and “Democrats prepare petard to destroy trump and Republicans; UPDATE: they themselves have been hoisted by said petard.”

I dunno, I disagree with a lot of their positions but I think very little of people who only read that with which they entirely agree. And I respect good comedy.

Yeah, it’s generally the Conservative version of the Onion, though honestly, nowadays I’d say their writing can be stronger than the Onion.

It’s the nature of social networks. People mostly upvote (or whatever term) content they like/agree with, without vetting it. Contradictions or discomfort are voted down.

Some of what we call misinformation is just ignorance, some is people who lack context and some is on purpose but for a “good” cause. Similarly, one person’s bad actor is another’s reasonable critic. (In debate, you often examine something through someone else’s lens/given framework, which necessitates examining from a position with which you do not agree. Which is often called bad faith acting.)

Trolls are the silliest and I don’t get it but again, any community large enough will attract a weird subset who want to mess with it or, legit don’t have the social skills. (I think of a sad account that saw a star trek or wars joke and wandered in to tell people they didn’t like the series because it was for kids and then seemed to relish in the backlash. But looking over their comment history, they seemed an otherwise normal person.)

So, unless we really fundamentally change the nature of social media, I don’t see those as solvable problems.

And if we could solve those issues, would people even want it? Would folks want to constantly see things that implied they might not be good people or that their politics or beliefs might be wrong? I think back to a post, somewhere on the fediverse about a vegan criticizing carnivores re: climate change. Even in the Leftist fediverse, it was downvoted to oblivion. But had it been about say cars, ai etc making the same point…

I love this and hate how accurate it is.

Though, I do hate that our kneejerk reaction is always “anything I do is fine, easy and should be done by everyone and anything I don’t personally do is an unreasonable and unfair burden.”