I remember it pretty much that way too, but not recently and not at a department store. Heck, I just browsed through commemorative euro coins (no dice) because I felt it was somehow connected to Europe in the nineties…
To be more specific, my parents raised my siblings and me to “respect” them, saying "yes sir, and “no ma’am” to everything they said. Spankings, all of that. Typical super conservative evangelical parents. Before I learned better, I was that way too. I went to college and since then have embraced the left more and...
I don’t. We don’t talk. Relatives of mine, including one of my parents, sank into vaccine conspiracies, then followed that pipeline to Qanon, and then explained to me how they were waiting for Trump to lead his secret army to take down the government of my non-english-speaking, european country.
I gave them their keys back, I got my keys backs, I blocked them everywhere, I nuked my accounts on the social media they use (and where their posts steadily got worse). It’s a hard decision, I still think about it often still (it’s been nearly two years), but I will never talk to them again.
“Victim” is an interesting term, but quite accurate. There’s such a an effort and investment into converting people to that cult. I wish you the best with your mother, hopefully the other half of your conversations is more pleasant and eventually overtakes the conspiracy theories.
I thought it was enough to put my cedar plank over aluminum foil and the burners to the lowest setting... luckily, I had the temperature probe in the salmon, so I noticed the flare up right away and it came out not much darker than in the picture....
Technical question: while the instance is federated, its users can post here, right? Do you have any moderating tools that allow you to monitor incoming comments from users from a "fishy" instance as they come in?
My fear is that they have not accumulated enough of a mass of users yet, and enough of an interest in a "small" platform like Lemmy yet, but that the crowd will come once Lemmy becomes an established platform, which will make real infiltration efforts worthwhile.
And then we'll have to deal with the usual tactics: brigades organized offsite (on discord, telegram..) to drop on anything trans/immigration/etc. related like a plague of locusts. Teams of users posturing as the "sane one" and "crazy one" allowing the "sane" actor to push far-right points that "make sense" next to pure extremism. Threats sent as PMs to individual users. Doxxing, online stalking. And, behind that, their host doing nothing to prevent- or facilitating - the behavior.
I'm fine with you not taking action for now, but would you be ready to drop the hammer if they become problematic and user-level blocking of instances is not yet a thing?
I fell in love with Submerged when I played it. It's an exploration game set in a flooded city, where you play a young girl looking for supplies for her injured brother. Lots of navigating between buildings in a little boat, climbing around, and taking in the scenery. Incredibly relaxing to play.
I get my hosting for free from my workplace, which is cool but doesn't give me much leeway on what I can install. It's a plain PHP/MySQL system. Docker is out, and a lot of stuff with it. I'd run a server from apartment if I could, since I'm sitting on piles of old hardware, but I've yet to figure a way around my ever-changing IP address.
Right now, I have FreshRSS and my own websites, and Rss Bridge
I'd love to run more "Old School Tools", I just need to find them :)
Researchers want the public to test themselves: https://yourmist.streamlit.app/. Selecting true or false against 20 headlines gives the user a set of scores and a "resilience" ranking that compares them to the wider U.S. population. It takes less than two minutes to complete.
That's... That was true for me, I think. I'm old, didn't always have the internet, I trusted books and family.
But I trusted books, which made me a bit of an alien in my family. And then I acquired extreme suspicion of everything when, at the same time, I started paying attention to far-right politics, and my family got sucked into far-right thinking.
Now they went full Qanon, which pretty much radicalized me. Things are so emotionally charged for me now that I have to doubt and cross-check out of sheer and absolute spite. That shit robbed me of my family and I am so, so pissed.
The immediate aim is to entertain, confuse, and overwhelm the audience, and disinterest in or opposition to fact-checking and accurate reporting means the propaganda can be delivered to the public more quickly than better sources.
It is, and I feel the questions are quite obvious.
That being said... I'm related to conspiracy theorists. I got a first-row seat to their dumbassery on facebook before I deleted my account. And... a significant issue was paywalled articles with clickbait titles, during Covid especially. The title was a doubt-inducing questions, such as "Do vaccines make you magnetic?" and the reasoning disproving that was locked behind the paywall. And my relatives used those as confirmation that their views were true. Because the headlines introduced doubt and the content wasn't readable. That and satire articles.
I think the young feel immune, and that they feel socially progressive news cannot be lies because "that is not what our side does, we have ethics".
It's not true in practice, though. Fake news are used to sow division, and making people angry on both sides is part of it. The far-right, boomer fake news are more obvious because they are outlandish, but there's more than that out there.
My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.
Honest questions: What worthwhile alternatives exist already? If there are none, what can be done? What can be built to improve discoverability of authors while moderating what is visible?
With my track record at killing even cacti, I am going to suck at this game. It does sound interesting, though (and "great story" is enough to make me face the rice farming).
It definitely sounds unique, which is exactly was I was hoping for when I made the post! Thank you!
So I got RF4 based on this thread's glowing recs, and I like it a LOT! The extremely anime thing is more than fine with me, except for Arthur's bangs. What the heck, Arthur. What kind of haircut is this?
Does anyone remember a logo that looked like this? None of us can place it but we all think we remember. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Those with parents who hold opposite political views than you, how do you go about disagreeing?
To be more specific, my parents raised my siblings and me to “respect” them, saying "yes sir, and “no ma’am” to everything they said. Spankings, all of that. Typical super conservative evangelical parents. Before I learned better, I was that way too. I went to college and since then have embraced the left more and...
Yes, Honey, I have fired up the grill [kitchen disasters #5,309] (beehaw.org)
I thought it was enough to put my cedar plank over aluminum foil and the burners to the lowest setting... luckily, I had the temperature probe in the salmon, so I noticed the flare up right away and it came out not much darker than in the picture....
Blocking exploding-heads
It has blatant homophobia, transphobia, racism, vaccine anti-science misinformation, etc. What is mander stand on this?
Steam Summer Sale: Hidden Gem/ Recommendations thread
Hey all. Always enjoyed reading everyone's suggestions on more unknown games available during big steam sales....
Steam Summer Sale! (store.steampowered.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/566234...
What are you self-hosting? (beehaw.org)
Thinking of self-hosting some basic tools; SearxNG, Bitwarden, Lemmy....
VIDEO : Scientists in Japan develop a wearable robot with 6 arms in a first step towards a cyborg future (www.euronews.com)
First misinformation susceptibility test finds 'very online' Gen Z and millennials are most vulnerable to fake news (phys.org)
Researchers want the public to test themselves: https://yourmist.streamlit.app/. Selecting true or false against 20 headlines gives the user a set of scores and a "resilience" ranking that compares them to the wider U.S. population. It takes less than two minutes to complete.
It’s bots all the way down at kindle unlimited (www.vice.com)
My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.
Your favorite farming/townie sims, and what makes them unique?
Pretty much the title. What games do you love and what makes them not stardew valley stand out ( be it gameplay quirks, storyline, minigames... ) ?