[-] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

Sorry this happened to you. The Reddit we loved is evidently being intentionally reduced to yet another reactionary / fascist echo chamber, like Xitter.

I don’t know if Reddit’s board are just enthusiastic regime toadies, or if the regime has leverage over CEO u/spez Huffman in connection with his tenure as r/Jailbait mod. Either way, it’s not going back, so fediverse is the way forward.

[-] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago

Sounds like something a very stable genius leader of the freest country in the world would say

[-] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

Most other animals develop rapidly from birth to self sufficiency, while humans are born so very unfinished - totally dependent on others for our most basic needs, for years and years. If any values can be said to resonate with "human nature", it's prosocial and community-building values.

Just about every major religion glorifies some version of The Golden Rule - do unto others as ye would be done by.

[-] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

Healthy people have a resilient emotional support network and that can mean different numbers for different people - but 15 channels of commercial messaging bots is not that

[-] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Mediaite is a blog. I'd be interested in some journalism from a more solid source tho.

[-] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 month ago

It used to be so idealistic that he was a r/Jailbait mod and no investors saw that as toxic until newsmedia publicized that

[-] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

As if that wasn't the goal all along. The UN finally got around to calling it genocide, and still nobody's actually lifting a finger to stop it - so why sugar-coat their intentions any longer.

[-] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago

If it matters, you're showering wrong

[-] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

Since the odds are so slim of tariffs at this scale further boosting an economy that was already pretty vigorous - I think the more important question is, who are you going to scapegoat when tariffs don't work as advertised? Immigration? George Soros? Biden? Deep State? Panama and Greenland? Her emails? Will you swallow the doublethink when Murdoch and Bezos's fake news tell you a recession is really sort of a boom, and vodka rations are up 8%?

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Lately SciAm has been running and re-running an article on social media, focusing on plastic cooking utensils, storage etc. as sources of microplastic accumulation in humans.

I'm not disputing that plastics in food prep do contribute to microplastic bio-accumulation - my question is, are these actually dominant sources?

Comparative numbers haven't risen to the forefront of my web searching.

If say 75% of our microplastic uptake is via water and food that was already contaminated (by landfill seepage and wind-borne urban dust) before it entered our homes, then telling consumers to replace all their plastic spatulas and storageware with wood, glass and metal ... is just Big Plastic shuffling off responsibility onto consumers, just like it did with the lie of plastics recycling.

[-] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago

Lots and lots of people, actually. Many identify with the tough-talkin' images being projected, believing it's just what the world needs and that the magic sorting hat will assign them to the privileged class when the dust settles.

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