It DO! Which one am I mixing it up with then? Briar?

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“Protect the kids!” - always the first thing they use.

SimpleX doesn’t even have a desktop client. IT DO! Discord is mostly used for gaming.

It says information used for age checks will not be stored by Discord or the verification company.

Bullshit. Every time some bitch-ass company says this, 4-5 years later they’re like “we were hacked, someone took everyone’s photo IDs!”

The moment this is attempted is the moment I’m no longer on discord.

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I’m okay with seeing it from time to time - but when my /all would get flooded with PAGES, and PAGES of the stuff with no normal articles in between, I started muting those users.

Why? It’s too much bandwidth, too much upkeep, I already modded/ran communities larger than lemmy; I DON’T want to do it again, especially if I’m paying out of pocket for it. Having to deal with whiny cry-bitches when you DON’T ban something that they don’t like it almost as bad as having the stuff banned in the first place.

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Nope. They’re federated, so no reason they wouldn’t show unless you turn all NSFW stuff off.

Nah fuck that. Mods are power hungry fat morons who exert the editorial discretion of a wet noodle. Almost every community in the fediverse is full of this crap. Things aren’t removed because they’re harmful, they’re removed because some mod disagrees.

There’s also the problem with every instance admin having access to deeper internals; I’m waiting for the day people start getting banned for upvoting the wrong thing.

I found that a total of like 5 people post basically all of the lemmynsfw stuff. Once I blocked them, it almost all went away. Pretty sure the internet is nothing but bots now.

Also, if you’re on the internet expecting all sunshine and rainbows – leave now. The internet is not a place for that. Everything now is rage-bait designed to get more clicks, and the internet has always been the wild west with major hostilities all the time. It’s not a good place to spend your time if you’re looking to relax.

Something is awfully weird here, because Linux literally runs the worlds infrastructure for the internet. It is not unstable by any stretch of the imagination. Something you’re doing between all distros has got to be the culprit - something you do differently than other people.

Depends if they sold, where they sold, and a bunch of other factors.

You probably know fewer than 20 people who live in poverty yet think you know everyone who’s poor?

I’m surrounded by the dumb fucks in a deep red state in the country; nearly everyone I’ve ever interacted with my entire life lives in poverty. The fact that you have a RETIREMENT FUND AT ALL puts you well above that line.

You know what you can’t have when you’re in poverty? Retirement funds. Because it’s considered equity and you’re not allowed to have any in order to get government assistance. The only things exempt from that are your homesteaded house, and 2 cars (and only if both adults in the house are working!)

It’s not very shortsighted, it’s quite long-sighted. Everything has been shit since the 2008 crash. Absolutely dog-shit garbage. Wages haven’t changed, everyone’s already in the hole.

I’d have loved a few more years of floating it, but the writing has been on the wall for some time now. It’s going to suck for everyone, I’m sure - but the market never corrected in 2008. It was going to happen some time or another - I’m just happy Republicans are going to be on the hook for it.

It’s going to take 10 years to come back from this - but I suspect in doing so, we’ll be in a better place in the long term. Last people who did this weren’t re-elected for damn near 20 years. We’ve all said this was the last gasp of a dying political party. It’s gonna suck, sure – but I’m hopeful for the future and the rebound it will cause.

On top of it all, I’ve been using it as leverage to fuck with every Trump voter I see in my shop.

Honestly, we’ve needed this crash since back when Obama was president, and we got a bunch of propped up corporations. They socialized the losses, so to speak.

Nobody I know in poverty is affected by stocks, so fuck them all.

That isn’t how genetics work and it isn’t how intelligence works.

On a simplified level, it absolutely is. If having more kids gives an evolutionary advantage, and being unintelligent is part of that caste, then absolutely the children will be born with a lower capacity for intelligence.

Look at Huskeys vs other dogs. Massive, MASSIVE difference in personality, intelligence, energy, etc.

And they aren’t a different species either - it takes fractions of a % of difference in DNA to produce huge swings in things like intelligence.

If we share something like 90% of our DNA with monkeys, it’s not going to take an entire speciation to measure intelligence differences. This is a lie told by people who pretend to be scientists, but are more interested in the moral implications of confirming than they are truth and facts. Yes, telling people you can control the genetic population of the species to push for certain outcomes within the species in a dangerous thing. We get that. But that is the truth of the matter, not some fairy-tale that we’re all kumbyah and that every genetically distinct population doesn’t have advantages and disadvantages (of which there are hundreds or thousands of distinct genetic populations within the h. sapien species; If you’re a pacific islander, a DNA test can tell you exactly what island you originate from).

Sure, on an individual level - people as single data-points can fall upon that distribution, but you absolutely can shift that distribution up or down.

Granted, doing genetic control like this comes with its own incredibly dangerous set of consequences such as amplification of mutant genome, because you would be controlling for 1 trait, but missing the other millions of traits/genetic markers that you need to keep diverse in order to keep the human body working. – Again, using dogs as a reference here, how most dalmations have hearing problems or are completely deaf because when their line was bred, they were controlling for the patterning, not other genetic defects.

If we bred for it, we could make it happen. That’s the point.

Also, it isn’t unscientific. They’ve done it in rat/mouse studies. Look up mouse utopia. We aren’t immune to social collapse. As a species we aren’t that smart to begin with. It’s our social structure, public schooling, etc that allow us to advance early age and maintain the higher order thought that our society continues to have. When shit goes sideways, kids don’t have public schools any more, etc – you’ll see how stupid genetically, we all are.

I have friends, who are legitimately “mentally stunted” because they weren’t taught language due to a neglective environment.