Contrary to the memes and the “elite pvp” reputation of eve online, the people in the communities are very welcoming and you can make some long term friends there.

You still need to sort of enjoy the game itself I suppose. That is relatively easy with friends though.

Depends.

If they are the “Ratatouille” kind of critic, knowing what they like, or what is good and serving as a “bar”, that can be a good reference if you are informed about their tastes.

But there is also a bunch of “high art film” that’s just boring, so if they insist that that is art or film or cinema and something more mundane but fun isn’t, because it doesn’t fulfill some arbitrary condition, that’s bad.

A horror movie critic after watching thousands of horror movies saying “The overall movie was meh, but that one thing about the monster or the way they did their camera work was cool and that’s why the movie was worth watching and if you are just watching for entertainment, not so much”. And the same person can judge a different horror movie to be “completely unoriginal and derivative”.

But if it’s a movie about someone watching paint dry and it’s “super interesting because it reveals something deep about our human nature and our relationship with the passage of time” then that’s… that’s not my thing.

Also I pay zero attention to movie critics. I don’t care about movies. That’s just what I think about them.

Arguing against violence and war when that is possible is fine.

Arguing fanatically to lay down weapons when one side is very clearly not going to do that, is very stupid.

In the sense that there will always be people who are going to be tricked into a fascist, violent, superiority cult, because there are just that many people, and in the sense that sometimes and regularly moderate or intense violence will be necessary to stop them, because some people are closed off to arguments and peaceful discussion, opposing that violence is taking their side, yes.

And it’s fine if you disagree, I simply think you have really finished thinking about it. The reply is always going to be a “… but what if they just stopped being fanatic fascists” and I think that is not how that works.

So ultimately I agree with Orwell.

Basically, the good parts of free speech arguments.

I do think there are things that can just be banned from existence, and be made illegal, but it’s significantly more tolerant than the current vibe.

Reality doesn’t give a shit about our systems of morals. There is a certain “mainstream, harmony and political correctness” creep that sometimes happens. And what’s bad about that, is that bubbles brain wash themselves into believing that the way they think the world works is really how the world works. And what they hold isn’t just a perspective and an opinion, but a fundamental truth about the world and deviation needs to be purged. And that eventually collides with reality. This is both true for racists and for people who think racism can be “cured” or “educated away” or “people can just consider the facts and change their mind”.

The fediverse allows a more gradual interaction than centralized social media sites. Because centralized social media must decide how to deal with… depiction of politics, religious subjects, NSFW topics, which btw, covers everything from violence over nudity to medical conditions.

If there was a medical community sharing discussions about medical topics, I can block that and be unburdened by it, but there is no central fediverse authority that needs to decide if that medical picture is not allowed because there is a boob in it.

In short, banning a social group on social media, like racists, doesn’t convince anyone or remove that group of people from factually existing and factually organizing.

Open Source Software works the same way, you can’t be sure that math library isn’t being used to control a remove controlled ballistic missile, but pretending that you can “ban math” depending on the purpose is stupid, so there is no point in worrying about it.

That approach seems less insane and more importantly, less evil than what’s currently going on.

If you’re worried about misinformation, the most dangerous places are main stream media and a bad algorithmic selection on youtube or other “endless scroll” websites.

And the main stream media thing not because it’s obvious nonsense, because they having specific wording and focus you don’t really see until you look for it, so it looks balanced and fine and high quality, but you only get a good sense of what’s going on by reading from multiple international sources, even bad ones and noticing the differences in focus and tone and thinking about it.

If you have a source or person you trust implicitly, be sure to check them in depth from time to time. How they report on different topics and such. E.g. is it always pro or contra something.

A new report

BY THE AI COMPANY “WRITER”

and research firm Workplace Intelligent found a massive portion of workers across the US, UK, and Europe are intentionally trying to sabotage their bosses’ AI initiatives.

Please don’t spread obviously doctored “reports”.

Government is excluded from meeting GDPR requirements. ☺️

With god, anime and lemmy on my side, it will turn out differently than last time for sure.

Nothing would change. It should be obvious that Trump isn’t the one making the decisions and neither would be JD Vance.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if there was little attention being given to a funeral. Just as a show of power of how disposable the figure heads are.

They could go the way of a leadership cult they have in north korea, where btw, the title of kim il sung is still technically, officially head of state, even though he’s dead. They simply invented a new position and keep him as eternal big leader. + something with christian nationalism, like “trump is watching over you guys from heaven”.

Maybe I’m too pessimistic too, we’ll see if “they” will allow the mid term elections to take place or how that will go down.

I would be totally fine with it.

The problem is that it is factually worth a lot of money. Saving a life, either through an organ or by blood donations because they’re needed for surgery, is nearly impossible to evaluate.

And lots of people need stuff that isn’t blood or organs. If I need a car, or place to live and someone in society dies and has a car or a place to live and that’s not being given to me, but instead it’s turned into cash and assets.

That’s asymmetric.

Now I’m not saying I’m entitled that society should just give me everything I want. So I wouldn’t call it “unfair”.

But on the other hand, giving away organs and blood, completely for free, is a bit much.

That’s why I’m against it.

THAT is what happened?! Wow, that is hilarious!

The legal battle is ongoing, but Kim looks set to lose.

I am SO curious what will happen here and what the final verdict will be. Trying to cheat someone out of 250 million has to result in some enormous fine at least right?

Thirteen years ago, this small youtube channel made imo very high quality meta comments about literary stuff and video games on youtube. (starting with the mass effect 3 ending and why it’s bad)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MlatxLP-xs&t=67s&pp=ygURVFVOIG1hc3MgZWZmZWN0IDM%3D

Everything from low quality text, to selection of music, footage and the literary content is just… so good. And they’re a comfortable 10-20 minutes each.

But I am also not sure if after he did what he did, there is really that much to say. The important part of that work is mental work and writing, and it will take forever to make even a single video.

openDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots.

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See, from my point of view, the problem is that the website is up, not that it was brought down?

Worse, Snowden did leak an absurd amount of gov details and documents and info and it did nothing to stop what’s happening. People barely acknowledged it.

Maybe someone would martyr themselves. But doing it for nothing? Not appealing.