Thanks for the high praise. But also quite accurate.

I’ve been a mod before, in other places. My rule always ended up biased and unfair, but thankfully I was quickly overthrown. There’s a degree of separation when being part of the staff that alienates my view from that of the user base over time. Also, as said above, i am a bit of a cunt with people I don’t like. Can’t help it really…

It’s a tough gig, combating hatefulness, and most social media would rather pay fines than actually do their job in this regard. And constantly being exposed to the stress and negativity, well, it changes you.

I wish you luck and remember to visit the wholesome side of Lemmy more often, to keep in mind why you do this thankless job.

Ps: Thank you

Well shit! So no fucking around anymore? What about Australians? Are they still allowed to go “cunt” this and “cunt” that? I think it’s part of their cultural identity and forcing them to stop might harm them on an emotional level.

And what about the Polish? Or was it Poles? I forget. Anyway, “kurwa bobr” is an international sensation. We cannot censor it without it being called abuse and attracting a different kind of "kurwa"s posts.

Insults that are part of one’s cultural identity should be protected. And as such, I propose that the mod team should sacrifice a small amount of time in their day to learn culturally appropriate swear words from languages across the globe and share them with the rest of the users so that we may all know the socially acceptable way of insulting one another in a polite and friendly fashion.

A pleasant non-fucking day to you all. (They say abstinence makes the heart grow fond)

“Before you say anything, just hear me out. There’s like tons of prisons everywhere, so what if we march the prisoners at gunpoint to work the fields, for free?” ~ Trump administration, probably

Strictly speaking on ethics, if it’s for some educational purposes then it’s fine. If it’s for the educational purposes of making a profit, then it’s not fine.

Is bare cave a pleonasm?

One family member each for every kind of difficulty in life.

I’m sorry, but that method isn’t plausible. There’s simply no way of achieving a high score through it anymore. Maybe as an ISS cannonball, but that’s a little difficult to get started with.

Everyone and everything can be corrupted. Your train of thought that the “wrong” type of people gravitate towards these posts is taking a biased approach. It’s closer to reality to say that the vested interest in corrupting these positions will always be a strong contestant to the rule of fair and unbiased law.

No legal system can unflinchingly endure the internal and external manipulations seeking to exploit it because regardless of how much we intend its fairness, we ourselves are unfair and malleable - intentionally or not.

This Theory is kinda discriminatory.

In this modern age there’s gamer dad, gamer mom, gamer sis (not on only fans), gamer grandma & grandpa, gamer cat, gamer dog and gamer fish among many others.

Defaulting straight to the older brother severely limits you to an out-of-bounds exploit Speedrun. I mean, sure you’ll get a high score, but life’s more than just a placement on the wall of fame and the eternal nickname of “FartFace”.

They can, but it’s complicated. Sort of like that thing about monkeys writing Hamlet on a typewriter, only instead of a typewriter, we fitted the fish with a microwave gun…

I’m more inclined to call it indigestion…

It is and it applies at every level of social interactions. People will compromise their smaller, less important values as long as the main, currently most important facet remains the focus.

A clear example of this is the crazy/hot index. Both men and women ignore the failings of their chosen companion as long as the value of sex is greater than the suffering of all else combined.

Sometimes, using a search engine fails you so having the browser history as backup might be difficult to use, but at least it’s a backup choice.

Considering how consistently the world gets fucked, yeah, I’d say there’s a divine Dick out there doing all the fucking.

Well, some people read something on a website, find it casually interesting - not enough to bookmark it, then later come across a situation where that website would be helpful and so have their browser history at hand to help find it again.

“Why clear your browser history if you’ve got nothing to hide?”

So the solution is going amphibious. Got it!

Seeing as how this topic isn’t part of Rule 3 for which the answer is to go seek professional help, nor is there a rule specific to stupid answers, I’m gonna go ahead with this one.

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Not really. If you need drugs to make yourself a better person, once you’ve made your life as that better person and the drugs run out, will that life still be compatible with the drugless you? Will you still be able to handle it? To like it? For it to like you? How desperate will you be to find an alternative?

And every drug has a downside, a cost both physical and mental. Have you informed yourself what that cost is? And I’m not talking about the success stories, if it’s not obvious, I’m talking about the ones that took any of these drugs and it failed them. Can you handle those kind of results? If you can’t take into account the cost of failure and whether it outweighs the cost of success, then that drug isn’t for you.

Also, I’d ignore the “go for it” type of comments. Their bias is the equivalent of a “bootstraps” type of success story and not that much reliable. A more reliable success story is that of fighter planes:

Initially, engineers looked at bullet holes in the fuselage to figure out which areas to strengthen and have fewer planes downed. When that didn’t work, some smartass said that if a hit downed a plane, then it won’t make it back to base. So the engineers strengthened the areas without bullet holes instead.

Well guess what, the downed planes won’t make it to Lemmy and tell their stories to you. Imagine that.

He’d accidentally fall out of a window long before he’d have the chance.

I do indeed. Thank you for noticing