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5 hours agoI’m confused then. How did they ban you if you weren’t in there? If you were never there, how would you even know you were banned?
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I’ve been banned from blahaj and beehaw for reasons I don’t agree with
Both those instances have very specific rules that they have established for the protection of their communities. If you go in their clubhouse I think its reasonable to abide by their rules, no matter your opinion on them. If you don’t like the rules for whatever reason, there’s no requirement to go to those instances. There are lots of other instances with are more laissez-faire in their approaches if thats your preferred interactions.
Your English was fine and your message clear. @[email protected] is choosing to take exception and believing you are belittling labor employment. I don’t see you doing what they are apparently saying. You are telling OP to experience labor to see if they like it as a career, and if they don’t they’ll know that so they can choose a different career path. Your suggestion is a good one.
Comfortable people can still have passions and drive.
Sure, but OP is comfortable and is citing their lack of passions and drive as a problem they want advice for. They’re asking for confirmation that its okay to have no passions/drives or for actions that will change that.
You don’t need to suffer to want something different.
Where @[email protected] is going here is that some temporary suffering may underscore with OP that they want something different than suffering which may act as motivation for them to choose a path to continue their easy lifestyle instead.
27·2 days agoA lot of people get greedy with free energy and/or homesteading/offgird wackos.
Solar is one of those really funny areas where extreme left and extreme right folks overlap sharing some of the same views. The extreme left are greenies with “carbon free power only! No to fossil fuels. No to nukes, even if we freeze or starve. Oh, and fuck cars” While the extreme right are the “my individual freedom means no government controlling my power and autonomy, and I love my F-150 like I love my son”.
There are a few solar power forums and these two polar opposite groups interact regularly. Both groups work very hard to hold their tongues on their respective beliefs, but every now an then one of them can’t help themselves and like the friends holding back the drunk friend at a bar fight, they drag each other back from the brink. There’s some passive aggression on both sides with choices of user avatars clearly showing their extreme position. Sometimes signatures under posts do the same thing.
The most interesting is when a deep deep red guy is patiently explaining battery management or solar array optimization to an idealistic young blue person, and they’re both getting along hating buying grid power from a giant government backed monopolistic corporate conglomerate.
It can delivery high returns, but over a long period of time. A long enough time that the scammers are long gone before the promised results or the problems created by shoddy work show up.
I say this as an advocate and personal consumer of rooftop solar. One of the hardest steps was simply choosing the company to go with for the purchase/install/service. I chose the local company that had been around for 25 years servicing my area. I passed up many lower priced quotes to do so buying premium equipment and expensive installation (compared to competitors). I’m happy with my purchase.
We can’t see your cat’s tail from this one picture. Is it short? Those feet and short tail may make Stomp a Pixie-Bob breed .
The easiest way to avoid offending strangers is to never engage with them, and so that is the position I take by default. I don’t want to bother anymore.
I assume you recognize that isn’t a tenable position long term. If you’re looking to start growing from that point I have a suggestion.
This isn’t quite clear and definite, but there can be a small social gift you give to people when you have a small problem that they can easily solve. It takes a fair amount of time to develop this to know the boundaries and limits, but I’ll give you an easy one: Ask for the time
Just about any random stranger, when you are both at a location for a clearly legitimate reason (bus stop, grocery store, post office, etc), will give you the time when asked. This isn’t something to do when at 2AM outside a bar. Needing the time is a benign problem that everyone has had at one time in their lives, and its something nearly everyone in modern society can solve. The interaction is so easy its rote. Keep your distance and catch their attention (if they aren’t clearly focused on something else):
You: Excuse me, my phone died. Do you have the time?
Them: (Possibly sizing you up) Uhh, its 5:37
You: Thank you, I appreciate it.
Then you walk away. Practice that with people around until it doesn’t feel uncomfortable.
13·3 days agoI suspect that instances outside the US will simply be too small a factor to bother with.
Aren’t the largest (by user population) Lemmy instances already located outside of the USA? .world is in the Netherlands, I believe. Sopuli.xyz in Finland, etc. Even Midwest.social is not hosted in the USA.
2·4 days agoJust in case you can’t find an electronic solution, I wanted to offer a mechanical solution of an inexpensive transparent film you could put over top of your screen to change the current white background color to one that is more compatible with your eyes for longer use. Something like this:
21·7 days agoA buddy of mine bought an N64 with Super Mario 64 and Pilotwings 64 on launch day. We didn’t know that it would sell out so quickly. He worked at a retail store and got into talking to a customer about him having the N64. Apparently the guy was a father that was desperate to get an N64 for his kid. He offered to pay 4x what my buddy paid at retail. It was a lot of money for a young guy in his late teens. He sold it to the guy out of his trunk the next day for the cash. It would be 6 months before inventory returned in stores and he was able to rebuy an N64.
Atari Star Wars arcade game came out in 1983. One year prior to Elite in 1984:
Vectrex Starhawk was 1979
Here’s Mario at nearly 30 years ago (29 years):
Mario 64
Like the example you gave for the UK, even though I have never lived there for a long period, I’ve been there many times and I’ve never seen anyone mentioning the societal class.
Perhaps you have experienced it and didn’t realize it. The upper house of Parliament (House of Lords) is unelected by the people of the UK. Many of its members got their seat by hereditary (as in they inherited it from because of their high class lineage) others are high ranking members from the Church of England. These seats are held for life of all members. Replacement members are elected by the existing members. This is an example of class based discrimination.
I don’t wanna hate on America at all (I think it’s an awesome country in many ways), I think this is just important constructive criticism because I’ve experienced so many times that Americans called people black or white and made a stereotyping/discriminating thing out of it, said the N word etc.
I have no problem talking about it. We certainly have a problem with discrimination here. If we can’t talk about it, we can’t improve our situation and oppose this bigotry. Our current president is one of its offenders enabling the racism and discrimination as are the people under him he put in charge.
I think in France it’s because they enforce French-ness, right? They make laws against wearing religious dress in school, they push for conformity, they teach kids to be French. It’s almost like a religion. We don’t have the same homogenous culture here, not that it’s any sort of excuse for bigotry.
We, in the USA, did that here too to children of tribes of Native Americans. source
Canada did the same to the First Nations people. source
It was brutal and cruel to erase the cultures of the many tribes living in both countries. Many children were killed and their bodies buried on site of the schools. Its part our dark history of our two nations.
I’m in the demographic you’re looking for. It went something like this:
- End of WWI with the Treaty of Versailles
- Massive war repayment debts placed on Weimar Republic
- Beer Hall Putsch
- The Weimar Republic falling because of disenfranchised German citizens
- Nazi party rising in power in the Reichstag
- Brown shirts (SA)
- Burning of the Reichstag
- Hitler seizing power
- Night of the Long Knives
- The west ignoring military limits on German military expansion (aircraft, Panzer 1)
- Annexation of Austria
- Talk of leibenstrom
etc
Thats from memory. Apologies for butchering any spelling or some of those events out of order.
So, yes, lots and LOTS of things in the USA government right now are ringing alarm bells like crazy. Executive orders just this week of military support for local police “to root out immigrants” sound close to creation of the Brownshirts (SA). The villainization of immigrants sound disgustingly close to the targeting of various minority groups that Hitler targeted (Roma, Jews, gays, Poles).
But what’s even harder for me to understand is why so many Americans seem to exclude and racially stereotype other Americans solely based on their appearance that has nothing to do with their personality.
You likely know the USA’s checkered past with human slavery of Africans, so I won’t go into that, but thats great example of what I’ll cover.
Besides the tribes of Native Americans that have been here for millennia, all of us are immigrants or the product of immigrants past. Each subsequent wave of migration has had a semi-dominant culture that then worked to “fuck you, I got mine” to immigrants from later arriving groups. Historically while we absolutely discriminated against people of color, its not just skin color that we did this too. We did this to the Irish. You can see here that by this time German immigrants were acceptable and even preferred at the same time Irish were discriminated against:
source NYT 1854
Then 50 or so years later we did this to Italians, and some of that discrimination came from Irish were faced much of the same hate years earlier.
1903…and on and on.
Its not just race though. Even in USA women didn’t have the right to vote until 1920 with the passage of the 19th amendment. Homosexuals couldn’t even marry until 2015.
In short, most of us are dragging the least of us to a position of understanding of equality and equal treatment to all Americans evenly. While I’m very happy about the key pieces of progress we’ve made (Civil Rights act of 1964 being one), We have a long way to go yet. Discrimination in the USA is still a huge problem we need to fix.
Other nations may not discriminant based on race, but on other things.
- UK has a history of discrimination based on societal class
- Canada has a history of discrimination based on preferred language
- India has a history of a caste system
Other countries yet discriminate on religion. Humans have a habit of choosing in-groups and out-groups, and then centralizing power to the in-groups to the detriment of the out-groups.
The problem is, this is what fashies consider an “echo chamber”. The definition itself is not applied in good faith by certain cohorts.
Fashies also have vastly different perverted definitions for all kinds of things like “freedom” and “peace”, but I’m not adopting their definitions of those either. I’m not sure where you’re going with this unless you’re saying @[email protected] is a fascist, but I don’t think you are saying that.
Ahh gotcha. They saw your activity on other instances and decided pre-emptively they didn’t want you there on their instances. Well, that’s their right, and I know both aggressively defend their communities.