I remember when I first tried to use Mastodon and struggled with how best to make it work, so I asked what was probably a basic question to the Enlightened™. Instead of being helped, I was met with “it’s easy, maybe you’re just dense?”.

Then I thought that maybe Mastodon doesn’t have the kind of people I’d want to interact with on it.

Oh no, not pro-Israel. How awful.

I mean, the AI aspect of these is really quite obvious when you look at the hair. Especially the guy with the long beard.

Headline leaning into the culture wars a bit there, isn’t it?

I’d fully expect a program like this to favour white men given they make up the majority of the armed forces. It’s called maths. Or “math” I guess, in America.

We’re on Lemmy. No conversation on here or on any social media is likely going to “further society” in any way.

If Israel wanted to commit a genocide in Palestine, they could literally carpet bomb the entire place in a day and be done with it.

It’s because I didn’t go on a rant about capitalism.

My point is that slowing down the heating of the planet is doable (though you’d need the majority of the world contributing, which is highly unlikely to happen), but we can’t reverse the damage that has already been done, which some people seem to think is possible.

We’re not as powerful as we think we are.

Do people seriously think we could “reverse” climate change?

That’s not how the climate works.

The point when it gets dark at 4pm in December is the worst.

You can go on a protest whenever you want. Don’t expect your employers to be enthusiastic about it if you organise one in your workplace, however.

Lol, what?

You represent your employers at work, not every waking hour.

I’m sorry that the facts don’t fit your narrative. It must be frustrating.

It’s literally how employment works. Unless you’re self-employed, you represent the people who pay you.

If you work for a company, you’re a representative of that company. If you disagree with the businesses they work with, don’t work for that company.

Or if you really have a problem and want to express yourself, don’t do it at your workplace. It’s stupid.

Why would you organise this on company headquarters without the consent of the company?

If you tell your employers that you hate the way they operate, what do you think is going to happen?

You have other choices, yes, but it’s always going to be either the Democrat or the Republican that wins.

Like here in the UK, smaller parties get media coverage more so than in the US, but it’s still always going to be either Labour or the Conservatives that are forming a government, so they get the most coverage.

I think I blocked a bot once, if that counts.

But I don’t block people on any sites unless they start spamming me in DMs or whatever. I don’t see the point of blocking people otherwise.

Those were the days. 🥲

Most political issues are a waste of time even trying to talk about on social media, because people on all sides love their echo chambers, and any reasonable argument from a different viewpoint is met with consternation, rather than a healthy debate.

The problem with the death penalty is largely down to potential miscarriages of justice.

What if they get the wrong person and some innocent is put to death? Do you really want the state to have that sort of power over its citizens?