Doc Blaze

Thanks for the tip. I’m not sure if there’s a way to migrate my account or if I have to make a new instance there. This fedi thing is still pretty strange. But it’ll be interesting to watch all the instances slowly defederate from each other making the fediverse basically no more an open platform than facebook

fair point. I don’t disagree with the fedi not being the place for it either but, I do also want to note it’s becoming harder to find a place to have any meaningful dialogue about most things these days outside of a curated echo chamber. we used to have passioned debates within academia, but that’s become far too risky with the current climate and the ever evolving vocabulary of what’s truly acceptable and what has unintended meanings. social media has become a nightmare, and most of the rest of the mainstream Internet isn’t interested in having a meaningful discussion, just people posting selfies and trying to get views for ad money. reddit has become super commercialized and rejects anything that would scare away advertisers as well. id think some lemmy instance would be one of the last places a meaningful dialogue could occur, but of course nobody wants their platform to degenerate into a soapbox for hate speech.

Well, perhaps my comment was just me coming to terms with the sad fact that this is just the new reality where misinformation and deepfake videos have free reign to produce this layer of scum in these degenerate free speech echo chambers that we just have to shield ourself from like a zombie attack and hope nobody in our local area we have to deal with on a daily basis gets sucked into it and past a point of no return. you think the days of fox news was bad back in the Obama years when we could publicly mock and call them out on their bullshit? just wait about a decade from now and see what cults bubble up from these partitioned platforms. that sounds incredibly dystopian to me.

sorry that’s a long rant, but I really feel this is where we are headed.

fair point about specific contexts. i wonder if youd see a context in which the former commenter would grieve and condone all human suffering involved, while still being able to have that resolve about it?

I understand if you disagree with what I said but please don’t accuse me of accepting things that I don’t. I think abhorrent and repulsive commentary is, to quote myself here, abhorrent and repulsive. Quick question though friend, possibly unrelated, but please answer. do you see a difference in someone saying

I can understand why this side would be angry enough to do some violent things, if you look at the history associated with the people they were violent against

and

this is a public call to violence, lets burn those people on the other side because after the history they deserve it and there will be more blood shed from us which I support

this question is entirely hypothetical, please don’t read into it any more than what’s there. How similar are these to you? Entirely the same meaning? Different but fundamentally the same? Related to the same mentality but different? Or entirely different points of view?

Doubt this will even reach anyone but if it does take this however you will and downvote me into the cellar, but I think the popularly interpreted definition of hate speech is way too broad. Commentary can be abhorrent and repulsive without being defined as hate speech. I find it far more important and rewarding to try to engage with people in their extreme stances, and try to find common logical ground to allow their own brains to start moving them away from their loathsome point of views. It may not always work, but it’s the only way we actually bring people back into the land of reasonable once again. Conversations with reformed people from QANON and COVID deniers and flat earthers and January 6 MAGA marchers that came back to the sane side, revealed they were engaged by family that didnt drive them deeper into the divide and into the arms of the cult, and approached them from a place of love and concern.

A great quote from comedian Doug Stanhope: If you never leave your house, the current climate is whatever you set your fucking thermostat to last. It’s why so many younger people today are offended by things that weren’t intended to be offensive by its author in the first place. It’s hard to have empathy for another point of view that’s just curious or a bit of a hot take if you never hear anything outside of your point of view over your whole lifetime, and assume everyone is familiar inside your echo chamber and know what frequencies shatter the glass. A conversation would have perhaps worked out the misunderstanding, perhaps even lead to an apology and an ally. Ignoring things you disagree with just leads to much bigger problems down the road because we all live on the same earth. You ignore them until they elect Boris or Trump and then it’s all our problem.

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Since you brought it up, I’m unconvinced the introducing crack to black neighborhoods thing is entirely related. Pretty sure the CIA already had their hands full with a couple war(s) to take a huge interest in MLK when he was rallying against racism, it was more until he started speaking out for unions and against unchecked capitalism. During the social justice years they only smeared him with the out-of-context details of his extramarital affair to media outlets (TMZ level bullshit) in order to try to discredit him. Don’t get me wrong, he was a nuisance to them for exposing injustice but as soon as you get in the way of the dynastic wealth of very powerful families though, it’s a whole new ballgame. That’s when the assassination talks probably kicked into high gear.

this is fascinating and very insightful, thanks for sharing!

I strongly agree that it seems like in his comments after the interview last year (the fing idiots comment) that he was planning to leave soon the whole time and volunteered to be the fall guy in exchange for a golden parachute. It’s a win for all parties involved, because unity gets their PR scapegoat and he was likely going to get a nice financial package on the way out the door anyway.

I don’t care much what the new direction is anyway. I’m using unreal for my games but I admit even with the new pricing structure, I’d probably pay a lot less under Unity’s install fee thing, which caps out at 4% rev share, assuming one of my games ever even got enough sales to hit a million dollar threshold as a solo developer. The issue for me was the magical telemetry spyware that’s apparently going to be in every new build now. Its to the point I’m reconsidering if I’ll buy unity games ever again, or even install any of the ones I have on steam if they decide to update the build.

(That last part hurts my soul deep because Cities Skylines 2 is literally about to release. 🥲)

SO MAYBE YOULL BE A GOOD PERSON TO ASK WHO WROTE: THE MOON RULEZ - #1, ON MY CAR, WITH A KEY

/ Carl

this lil guys pretty unhappy about your moon comments.

you best to watch your back

If I were renting I’d allow anyone to have pets if they were willing to increase their security deposit by the cost of replacing all the mounted rugs in the apartment. But if they stayed for many years and I had to replace them anyway just on wear and tear id give them the money back when they left.

you came from your dad’s ballsack. science approves.

cut those people out of your lives forever!

sorry mom and dad, kick the iPads or I’m not answering the phone anymore

I understand what you’re saying. But how does introducing another person into the mix prevent some creepo from doing any of this if they were going to otherwise? The difference to my understanding of what you said is making up an excuse yourself, vs signaling someone else walk up and make up an excuse on your behalf. This isn’t rhetorical, please help me understand.

Rejection isn’t all the same. if you point at them and announce loudly you’re creepy to me and heckle, that’s def going to provoke a bad response. But perhaps you’re right that I’m unaware of how bad people can be because if someone says hey I’m not really here for this right now, or even says before we go any further, have you given your life and soul to Jesus Christ?, I find it hard to imagine any rational person wouldn’t determine the best path forward for them is to immediately cut their losses and go talk to someone else. Causing a scene or behaving like a creep just ruins your chances with someone else.