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FinjaminPoach

@ FinjaminPoach @lemmy.world

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I like city building games and puzzles. I like other things as well, but that's not important right now.

My fediverse philosophy is that we should avoid emulating the bad and crude aspects of reddit - don't abuse the downvote feature, don't chase 'karma' and don't overuse the word "porn" in subreddit names.

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  • And in the origin of the phrase left-wing v. right-wing, which comes from the french senate leading up to their revolution, i believe the left was more like top left corner of the political compass, and the right, being pro-monarchy(?) would be top right of the compass. The left won the revolution and killed an insane amount of people for stupid reasons. I maintain that the french revolutions were more extreme than the russian revolution.

    But that anecdote just serves to demonstrate how left wing or right wing can change over time. Another one:

    In industrial revolution Britain, left wing people opposed mass migration, which was utilised for the sole purpose of putting union members out of work by replacing them with cheaper labourers. The right wing, with their newfound wealth and power, wanted more autonomy from the state, but also liked to utilise state powers to control the newspapers, thus silencing dissent.

    This scores both sides some points in "authoritarian" and in "liberal," so I would say that at this time the left wing was anchored firmly in the middle of the left hand edge, and the right wing in the middle of the right hand edge.

    BTW i hate the political compass test itself, it's very very flawed. It's a great diagram to get people introduced to politics though.

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  • If you take the political compass, the modern vernacular in North America (and now UK, and probably in all of europe) is that the bottom-left most corner is actually left wing, the "tip" of the wing if you will, and top right is what people think of as "far right," the tip of the right.

    So yes the more social and libertarian you are, the more 'left wing' you are in current times. We might argue this is a silly place for the left to be but language is ultimately decided by how everyone else is using it.

  • How can we protect kids from the harms of social media without sacrificing everyone's privacy?

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  • as someone who does watch porn

    If you can live without it you should try to live without it now. I understand that it's hard to do so, but still.

  • How can we protect kids from the harms of social media without sacrificing everyone's privacy?

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  • Counter argument: alcohol, weed, tobacco, cocaine, drinking and driving, speeding, and acid were all so incredibly commonplace that people were confused when they were phased out or delegalised.

    Social media is not on the same level as books, radio, tv, movies, video games and music. The sacred sextuple.

    Social media is, however, similar to the afforementioned things, in that partaking in the substance or activity regularly gives you illusions that it benefits much more than it really does, whike ultimately just being bad for you and predisposing you to binging.

    I think people are ao defensive over social media because A) they're addicted and of course B) they're worried kids won't be educated on political issues, which i think is probably the more pressing issue than privacy. Becauae we already don't have privacy on mainstream SM

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  • Unironically just don't let them on until 16 (ideally) 15 or 14 if we're a bit liberal with it.

    Kids younger than that should be limited to whatsapp and texting.

    Maybe we sbould even roll out a social media License. It's a pretty damaging thing, but some people push back hard against that because it's like a drug to them. Some adults can't even really be trusted with it.

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    • Poetry, since it's writing but less than a book
    • Photography (and that's no shade, i love it, but it has levels and can definitely be the simplest thing to get into)
    • For textiles? Knitting

    Cooking is also pretty creative and food is something you need to do to survive.

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    What are the worst subs on reddit? Share your thoughts. [+ rant]

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  • I say so too. But it comes up on browsers as a default "recommended site" sometimes and i look at the top of the trending page when I'm bored sometimes. So sue me

  • What would you wanted to be remembered for and by whom?

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  • I want people to remember me as smart, creative and hard-working. I hope the fact that i was kinder and more diligent than so many other people I've met counted for something.

    Aspirationally, maybe people will also see just how much trauma I've overcome and be impressed that i made it as far as I did. But largely I don't talk about it.

  • What’s the most unhinged thing someone’s ever told you?

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  • Every post you make makes me wonder how the fuck you’re still alive, my man

    Agreed. Seen a lot of his posts around, and Wong Ka Kui feels like an irreplaceable part of Lemmy

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  • Lol out of all the technologies to choose... i think the idea of aliens building the pyramids is more convincing.

  • Should I meet the guy I met from online cam modelling a couple yrs ago?

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  • Parasocial relationship... could be a stalker... also bad basis for a relationship (be thst friendship or something else)

  • What did you think you've always needed until going without it?

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  • Heroic

  • Ban USA politics from this sub please

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  • If we're making requests I would also like people to focus on memes or funny stuff more than just random stuff, someone was showing off their stock options yesterday and I just don't think that's in the spirit of the sub. Unless there was some joke to that which I don't understand.

  • Ban USA politics from this sub please

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  • Which Animals are the worst, and why so?

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  • I thought you said Children and I was absolutely astounded at 26 😂

    Do you own a farm or do you keep them in an allotment/garden?

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  • What words do you use for failed films

    Mostly just "crap, sh*t," and "lackustre," since a film bombing in cinemas isn't necessarily indicative of it being a bad film. I don't hear anyone say that over here.

    'Went bust' is used but for businesses - a film is a product rather than a business so it feels a bit weird to say it went bust. If i was describing something not meeting box office targets I'd say 'it didn't break even' or 'it barely broke even' or 'made less profit than expected' (3 levels of poor performance there)

    Dud is specifically for a failed manufactured product like a bomb or another weapon.

    'It was a miss' is definitely not used, i thought millenials coined that phrase

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  • People who recommend negging are evil.

    People who recommend looksmaxxing are quite morally questionable because they're trying to turn dating into a socially darwinistic battle royale, which i guess is in response to the proliferation of dating apps, which they perceive as a socially darwinistic battle royale, in roughly their own words. They also outright lie - no, not everyone likes hunter eyes or sunken cheekbones, tallness, even skinniness, or bulky muscles. This feels like a war against human diversity. And in many cases they pretend these looksmaxxed features just naturally appear when you lead the perfect masculine routine of icebaths, red meat meals and frequent workouts. Which is a lie. (I think stuff like this is why there are articles saying 'exercise culture is fascist')

    But back to negging: not only is this encouraged by a plurality of random young people online, but it's weirdly also pushed hard by hollywood & american television - anyone else noticed that?

    And negging is ALSO endorsed by, that's right, none other than Jeffrey Epstein. He had a bunch pf emails going "wow, dude, your negging advice totally works! She wants me more than ever!" So yes, it's safe to say it's actually evil. Part and parcel of training people to objectify their partners (so is looksmaxxing, because to objectify yourself usually causes you to objectify your partner)

    Rant over.

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    Green is quite a satisfying group and i don't mind not having gotten it. I was trying different "duck" dishes.

    Purple is the typical "american slang that i don't understand" group that we hate on this side of the atlantic