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on Lemmy Shitshow · c/lemmyshitpost · 1 pts · 45d

i got no problem getting rid of bots, it's the audience of human NPCs which really concerns me, something which is aggravated by illiberal speech policies

telegram (depending on the channel) or kick (same thing). Forums like 8chan are mostly just intel-agency honeypots and manipulation operations pretending to be organic and unvarnished interactions, to lure in future 'lone wolves' or to scare normals away from unmoderated speech and spaces, 'chemotherapy' basically.

on Lemmy Shitshow · c/lemmyshitpost · 3 pts · 46d

i wish there was a way to 'mute' instances and users which do not respect freedom of speech. If you shut down good faith speech from others, then i literally don't care about anything else you have to say

on End of an era? · c/games · 3 pts · 46d

yeah i still remember when sony lawyered lik-sang.com out of existence for having the temerity to sell sony games outside their intended regional markets.

of course ON would be worse, that's the whole point. It would hurt middle australians, it would hurt the top of town... it would be a disaster for everyone except for the shadow brokers in canberra and the foreign lobbies which rule the country.

What else would be capable of waking australians up to reality? they need to feel consequences personally before they start giving a shit.

you can either go to full-on gore sites (where you'll have to watch many gross videos to find your relevant one, plus there will be no context given probably for safety reasons) also some of them you have to login to use so enjoy getting added to whichever national security list. Your other option (assuming the videos you're looking for are political in nature) are dedicated telegram channels.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/asklemmy · 6 pts · 62d

not a movie, but the american remake of 'the good doctor' is an almost complete inversion of the south korean original. Instead of a wholesome and inclusive community accepting the talented weirdo and humanising him as a character over the course of many humanising interactions, we get a talented actor going full regard as his character spergs out and shows through his work performance how superior he is to normals.

Also the original had a quite substantial subplot about their hospital beuarocracy dealing with a larger threat of privatisation. The issue is never fully resolved and the audience is left to linger with the uneasy sense that health outcomes are jeapardised by more than simple non-conformity. The american version celebrates the individual without addressing anything of substance

you are far too generous to describe the big-pharma frenzy of overmedicalisation as simple 'trial and error'. Maybe a clinician trying to use their tools to hit a moving target requires using trial and error, but the manufacturing of physically addictive drugs which only work to mask symptoms is anything but an accident

taxation removes money from the overall monetary supply. Central banks can't 'run out' of money and do not require that spending be 'matched' to a tax base. There is a practical limit on how much money can be printed, in terms of productive capacity but also inflationary pressure, but mostly the boomer narrative of 'fiscal responsibility' is there to discipline popular expectations about social services and public spending generally. The logic of austerity is a leash around the neck of the working class, working silently to condition them to interpret spending which benefits their class interests as being 'irresponsible'.