I don’t think they’re pedo posts.
The first seems to be investigating a concept that is sort of postmodern, where instead of taking things at face value we have to dig 15 levels in to find hidden meanings. It also seems to be pointing out the fact that the concept has no direct meaning and it’s used as a woke weapon.
The others look like they’re reasonable posts talking about how we don’t treat teenagers as if they’re going to be adults soon. I tend to agree, we keep on expanding “adulthood” but really in our 20s we’re adults and we should be trying to raise kids with this in mind or they’ll make terrible mistakes in their 20s.
There’s a video I posted to freeforum that equates wokeness with the Catholic church in the 1600s, a massive, towering religion with deep corruption and institutional power. It equates the new right with protestantism. People don’t understand why there are so many sects of protestantism, it’s because that’s where the intellectual freedom to try to make sense of the world lived. In the same way, there’s a lot of new right, many different views as people try to find the truth in a complicated world outside established dogma.
That’s the core of it. Their religion is at stake, and they’re the establishment. To consider dissent is to risk losing their power in a world that clearly doesn’t match their religious teachings so they must reject.
This video is really interesting to me and I recommend it to all of you, it really helps put our current moment in a historical perspective.
It talks about wokeness as a religion and how we can conceptualize it the same way as the catholic church in the 1600s.
It talks about Peter Turchin’s secular cycles and how we’re in one right now and how it perfectly describes what’s going on with the working class, the middle class, and the upper classes. This is a parallel to the 1600s and the sort of world that was developing in that era and he explains that.
From there, he makes predictions about the future based on what happened in the 1600s with some new lessons from recent history.
Honestly, he’s a young man but I always try to catch the latest whatifalthist video because he’s very well-read and has helped me to understand the world in a perspective that includes much more of history than the past 100 years.
Because of the way activity pub works, the only reason that exploding heads would show up in the programming.dev feed would be if someone over there subscribe to the communities here.
So in that way, defederation isn’t really about this site, it’s about punishing the users on that site for having the audacity of subscribing to a community someone doesn’t like.
American history is really something else, and because our ancestors were so effective in some key regards, we don’t even realize.
Huge swaths of the us are only inhabitable the way they are because of large engineering projects. The southeastern US was a swamp where you could catch malaria and die (a lot of Africa was the same), and a lot of the southwest was uninhabitable desert. The rocky mountains were conquered with blood building transportation networks that would have been unthinkable in previous eras. They managed to get water to dry areas and drain water from wet areas, and build transportation networks to remote areas that supply goods for regions that are productive today but wouldn’t be without trade.
If you head into some of the more historic regions and look around, you really have to go “why the hell would people leave the relative comfort of Europe during the enlightenment for a frozen hellscape in the bush?”
It has had the most histrionic wildfire season ever this year, that’s for sure.
Forest fires are part of the natural lifecycle of a forest. They’re so normal that many plants require them to grow. The seeds sit there sealed up until a forest fire comes through. Lots of fires don’t really mean much to the Inhabitability of the place other than it’s warmer and drier, but far warmer far drier places than northern Canada are happily populated and have been for millennia.
Permafrost melts, leaves behind muskeg, which is a known quantity. Very common, not the end of the world. Even so, much of the country isnt permafrost, it’s just cold – so if it gets less cold it gets more inhabitable. Unlike 95% of Canadians, I’ve actually lived in those places.
Humans thrive in all kinds of places that should be inhospitable. The United States was almost entirely uninhabitable when the colonists arrived, and through engineering made it into a place people happily live from coast to coast.
I quit when I realized how pozzed it was. Just post an unpopular opinion and -9001 downvotes.
What’s the point of a discussion site you can’t discuss a thing on?
Hell, I’ll admit I’m wrong on stuff, but being downvoted to hell doesn’t prove you’re wrong, only that you’re unpopular. Unlike these trendsters, I’m used to being unpopular, it doesn’t really affect me.
Many IT jobs don’t require coding. A friend of mine got magna cum laude in computer science and couldn’t code a line. He ended up getting a bunch of high end network admin jobs at increasingly impressive institutions and now he’s got a doctorate and he’s a professor (and still doesn’t really know how to code)
Do your best, bud!
I’ve fought my entire life to stay in reasonable shape (Not always entirely successfully), and it isn’t easy. Our bodies contain memories of famines, and so have methods to survive past crises that maybe aren’t so useful today.
Even if it’s difficult – in fact, especially if it’s difficult – virtue is still virtuous.
I had a big story for you, but the bottom line is you can take redditors away from reddit, but he can’t take the Reddit out of the redditors. Still very smug, a shockingly ignorant about the rest of the world in spite of acting as if they know about everything going on in the world. And even though they are wrong about many many things, they’re all there to group think so objectively incorrect things will be heavily supported.
Since the reddit migration, I’ve seen so many instances where they just deny reality because it doesn’t matter if they deny reality because everyone around them agrees with them. And if you don’t agree with them, maybe it’s time to be defederated.
Really annoying. They should all go back to reddit, just like how you can read about how much Twitter sucks on twitter, they can just make a new subredded about how much reddit sucks.