Denixen

I am sorry I didn’t realize this was an echo chamber where you can only voice validating and approving opinions.

I mainly think banning SM is better than trying age verification or some other way to exclude children. If it is 99% toxic trash then it should just be banned.

Next in line is 99% of all porn, which is also toxic trash. If one applies the same logic as previously, then it should be banned too.

Unregulated use of morphine (heroine) is bad, thus we ban it.

It is interesting though how strongly you react to porn specifically getting banned. Maybe you should reflect on that.

Don’t worry, neither porn or social media will ever get banned :) but the fact that you react so negatively to it should perhaps make you reflect upon your own habits, the way people using social media should reflect upon theirs.

I have been pro banning all for-profit social media for years. I can live without Reddit. Especially now with Lemmy and fediverse. I can even live with no social media whatsoever. We should probably ban all porn too. It is just as brain rotting as social media. I say this as someone who does watch porn. I can live without it if society gets better from banning it.

They are not entirely wrong for not trusting them though. I have broken more than one Ubuntu installs… and I consider myself a semi-advanced user.

If more windows people join and Ubuntu wants to keep them, they need protection from doing stupid things like uninstalling all display and graphics drivers or system critical packages…

Don’t underestimate people’s stupidity, at least that something that Microsoft and apple get right.

It can be both. I am certain that there isn’t one explanation for it. What i describe is the feedback loop. What you describe is the initial conditions. Combined they spell disaster.

This is why we have so much tribalism, polarization and extremism today too though. People find their information bubble, gets validated for the shit they say (i.e. emotional support), feel good about it so they post more and more extreme shit and validate (give emotional support) to others in the bubble.

Now you have an extremist movement. Getting emotional support/validation from strangers on the internet is not always a good thing. Even if it makes you feel less anxious. Some people should feel anxious about the things they think about.

It is so they can fantasize about being captured and used as a sex slave by the blond hot amazonians instead of plotting the ‘accidental’ death of their abusive commander who stole half of their wage and threatened to send them on a suicide mission if they complain. Or something like that.

It warms my heart that you still want to be friends with her and not rip things up completely. It must have been so difficult for her to come out, given that she would risk losing you completely. I hope you find a way to move forward from this. It is as you said nobody’s fault.

My sympathies to you for having your life shaken like this…

Yeah the Arctic and North Atlantic are important to Europe without a doubt. No name change needed, just Europe taking more initiative, leadership and becoming more central in the organization.

Canada is a natural partner in the Arctic and North Atlantic. So is of course also the USA, but they cannot be trusted: (

That’s what I am thinking. NATO is a USA centered alliance for looking after US interests. European interest happened to coincide with theirs for a long time, but clearly the USA is growing increasingly disinterested. Europeans should probably take over most of it, make it a Europe centered alliance.

But he said that it is pointless to try, that it is too expensive to try to defend Europe without the USA. Read the article. He ridiculed the idea of European defence without the USA.

How long before the EU parliament manages to sabotage this deal too?

I guess he is afraid that European independent security will make NATO irrelevant and in turn make him irrelevant (and unemployed). Go suck Trump’s dick harder, we still cannot hear the slurping from across the Atlantic. He’s gone native on us.

Is this even for real? We are not doing it just for fun, it is a necessity forced on us by Trump using the USA security leverage against us to conquer territory.

What the fuck does he want us to do? Just roll over and do what Trump wants? On whose side is he? Because he is not on Europe’s side.

Ah that makes a lot more sense! 😅

Africa is fucking vast! I always knew that,but looking at mercator maps puts it in perspective. You could comfortably fit Russia into it, the worlds largest country by are 😳

Let me know if I understand correctly. You want a true to life sized map of earth? 😳

I not only talk about my brain as if it isn’t part of me, I talk to it as if it isn’t part of me.

Like I reprimand it and tell it what it should do. Not that it ever listens…

Decoupling will be gradual and take many years, unless things escalate and the EU decides to decouple without an alternative in place.

That would however be extremely costly and I think they want to avoid that.

The advantage of a sudden shift is of course that change will happen faster due to necessity. But as I mentioned, at a greatly increased cost.

The question is how long will Europe stand being humiliated by Trump every second day?

I wish that it was more okay to struggle, to not always have to hide. I wish people had more understanding and knowledge about neurodiversity, that it isn’t something one can “overcome”, but something that you have to fight and struggle with all the time. We need breaks to just be ourselves and do and feel what we need. Just because I have learnt how to behave in public does not mean that it is easy or that I have fundamentally changed. It is just as emotionally taxing to act unnatural to oneself.