Evolution is about making babies before you die, and those babies grow up and make babies before they die.

“Purpose” is largely irrelevant, unfortunately.

Restricting free speech and lining their pockets, while taking away from our children, veterans, and retirees has been their game since time immemorial.

The Fox “News” pipeline seems to make people forget that Grandma can’t get her medications anymore and Uncle Billy who served in Iraq is denied his education because of these pricks.

Careful, South Dakota can put you in prison for that now.

Are you okay, friend?

The thing about Lemmy is there are different instances/(websites), each with different rules. I think there’s an ask community on .world as well if you’re not comfortable with this one.

All websites open to the clearnet are potentially vulnerable to DDoS and other attacks, that’s just part of being on the network and cybersecurity is a thing for a reason. Likewise you can get a sunburn or rained on when you go outside, which is why we have sunscreen and umbrellas.

I’ve been dealing with stress from living in this seemingly uncaring, all-seeing world too, if it helps you feel less alone. Best we can do is be there for each other as humans when we can in the meantime.

Disclaimer: this is not a diagnosis or suggestion of one.

These feelings about topics are pretty common in the neurodivergent/autistic community and are called “special interests” in our sphere. So “Cats/animals special interest” might be a helpful search query?

“ReLiGiOuS fReEdOm” and “pArEnT’s RiGhTs”.

Anything that gets in the way of them being hateful and freely treating their children like property without consequence is to be shut down immediately.

We probably have different understandings of the word “libertarian,” from what I’m reading.

I’m referring to the people who would also label themselves “anarcho-capitalists,” as the literal definition of libertarianism isn’t typically associated with the term. I put it in quotes since capitalism by design leads to and encourages hierarchy (private ownership etc etc). No, commerce/trade is not the same and is as about as old as written history itself.

I’m also autistic and have been ostracized for “wrong” behavior. When I say “pro social” I mean mutual aid, genuine compassion and actually treating other humans with respect for their immutable traits (beliefs like bigotry don’t count). I do not mean masking or “fitting in.” Unfortunately we do get unfairly judged and that’s bad. But - we also are generally capable of finding and forming our own groups.

Sovereign utopia building as a whole has its own set of issues, but that’s not what was specifically being addressed. Socialist policies in general improve the wellbeing of the respective societies they’re applied to, though.

When everyone is out for themselves, the very basics of civilization collapse.

Empathy and pro social behavior are key to our survival and evolution as a species. Oligarchs and unbridled greed are a violation and exploitation of the social contract and bottleneck progress and healthy societal functioning.

The Bioshock games weren’t just spun up out of nowhere.

I just slide ‘em up on top of my head if it’s like, more than 2 minutes but less than an hour, especially in the summer.

This makes me want to get rid of my iPhone even more

Windows as a usable OS.

There’s a special place in hell for CSS flexboxes

Hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths all because of the power-hungry egos of an elite few (specifically Putin and his oligarchs, not the Ukrainian people defending themselves).

The first to call for these wars should be the first on the front lines. Fuckers.

The only constants in this world are death, taxes, and leftist theory being incredibly verbose (said with love).

Solid summary though, thank you for sharing. It reads fairly accessibly not unlike Graeber and Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything.

Thank you this sums up pretty accurately how I’ve felt lately too.

Like, we’re effectively a collection of pseudo-countries loosely tied together by a federal delegation spread across a contiguous landmass roughly a third the size of the continent of Asia. Our cross-border infrastructure is a joke, worker protections are nonexistent and to drive several hours/days to the nation’s capitol to protest (which we’re being told does and doesn’t work??) is a level of cost many literally cannot afford.

In a lot of states we do see grassroots efforts to fight back and improve. That is a better comparison to smaller European countries that have won in fighting against government corruptions, imo. Even Texas recently had a small wave of progressive wins in local races.

Unfortunately I think a lot of outsiders see “you have guns there!” and as such want us to start an all-out bloodbath. I don’t think it’s wrong for the average citizen to not want to die unnecessarily, and/or only use arms for literal self defense rather than reckless political violence. (inb4 “bUt Ur gubbermint is aLrEadY violent!1! DoN’t WaIt!2!” yeah no duh, see “literal self defense”)

A good chunk of the 20th and 21st century European revolutions people point to when we ask were largely nonviolent. That’s what we’ve been trying too. Not unarmed, but nonviolent (also corporate property damage doesn’t count as violence).

Malcolm X, the Black Panthers and of course MLK are solid figurehead examples of American protest that led to some level of success. Protesters during the AIDs crisis too. But it took them years. We’re trying.

I feel that. I got COVID (confirmed) back in august and while it screwed up my stomach for 3 weeks my respiratory was fine.

Forgot to vaxx for flu and got it in November, very literally couldn’t breathe properly for 8 weeks.

Got a lot of gray hair from COVID though.

ETA: I did get COVID vaccine when it first came out, and am pro-vax/pro-mask. Just sharing anecdotal experience.

You outed yourself by demonstrating reading comprehension, sorry

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Trump’s allies often dismissed [Pope] Francis as overstepping his spiritual boundaries and acting as a political figure.

lolololol

Thank you, I appreciate it. /gen