milicent_bystandr
@milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
- Comment on It's impossible to lose 4 hours ago:
I heard they’re unethical. Made with slave labour or something.
- Comment on Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins! 1 day ago:
You want to know my secret?
How I survive Lemmy?
I’m always happy :-D
- Comment on Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins! 2 days ago:
if you make mistakes, there will likely be many users calling you out in public.
I wouldn’t want to let you down, so,
two new admins, who’s primary duties
Should be “whose primary duties”
For real, though, thank you for your work looking after this instance! And big thanks in advance to whoever takes up the new admin roles. I hope there’s some of you out there who have time to take this up, wisdom to do it well, and patience… because, well, it’s the internet!
- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 1 week ago:
On year seven, after Mayor Lewis sold out to Joja despite your best efforts to restore the community house, you challenge him to a battle of Junimo-singing and frighten him all the way off to exile on Ginger Island. Half the town side with you, but the governor rolls in (in his Joja-branded limo) and rules with an iron fist, bringing in cheap labour fleeing the Gotoro Empire, and torturing those who try to resist.
“Stardew belongs to the valley-folk!” you cry from your farm, now fortified and suffering the bitter winter month.
“M’lord Farmer Sir,” says Vincent, now grown up and serving as your errand boy. “News came of a trader caught trying to enter from the Calico Desert. The Gov’s forces were going to execute him-” (would that be poor Robin with her famous axe?) “-but he was saved by the ominous arrival of a green jelly!”
For a moment your hopes rise: are the prophecies coming true, that you found inexplicably written in a note in your farmyard tree last year? Will this mysterious interloper perhaps give you victory and free Stardew Valley from the clutches of the evil governor and his swarms of cheap immigrant labour? … From the dirty, rude, immigrants … From the immigrants…
You slump forward in your hands downcast, at last facing the terrible realisation: that you have, in fact, become the very evil you once swore to destroy.
- Comment on Resume help 1 week ago:
Thanks :-)
- Comment on Anon gets a job 1 week ago:
Getting paid to be there through the night for the times when a person is actually needed, as well as being on site to keep an eye on things. Sounds like honest work to me
- Comment on Can't throw me off the scent 1 week ago:
But fibre does form a crucial part of a healthy diet. Much on fibre optic cables while you sweat hard to dig up the real copper.
- Comment on Resume help 1 week ago:
I have ADHD -> I’m excellent at moving from one task to another.
I dunno about those of you who have more substantial ADHD, but I find moving intentionally or external-led from one task to another - i.e. other than my brain’s natural flow - is one of the hardest things for me. Switching from, even, washing dishes to mopping up water splashed, can be a great mental strain.
I have absolutely -> I anticipate accidents and hiccups before they happen
Those do go together for me.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 week ago:
Missed a comma
- Comment on Commitments. 2 weeks ago:
It might be for the best. I got a small shield volcano when I was little, and all the basalt spilling out over the carpet was a nightmare for my dad to clear up. Didn’t bother me though!
- Comment on Commitments. 2 weeks ago:
Sharks, apparently. I saw it in a movie once.
- Comment on Interesting new symbols for bathroom doors 2 weeks ago:
That’s some hairy eyelids on the left hand side. And why are the men’s eyes closed anyway? Do men not look at each other when peeing?
- Comment on Interesting new symbols for bathroom doors 2 weeks ago:
Not what you’re supposed to be doing in the public bathroom, but you do you, I suppose.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“They all called ME the spectre of death, but…”
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 2 weeks ago:
vat?
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 3 weeks ago:
Well, sure, wealth acquired unjustly is not made okay by inheriting it. But I feel that’s a separate question from that of inheritance.
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 4 weeks ago:
he benefits from society, then…
He gives benefit to society. That’s how he gets rich: by giving a benefit to society, and his riches represent the unpaid recompense from society back to him.
If he were living, he could, for instance, buy a restaurant meal with that money. In that way, society would pay him back by cooking him a meal at the restaurant.
Instead he leaves the money to his children, and they - for instance - buy a car. Then, society pays back the man who benefited them by providing a car to his child.
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 4 weeks ago:
Ouch. I’m sorry to hear that. Wish I could offer you better help than, condolences and understanding from the other side of the internet.
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 4 weeks ago:
Lewis Carroll has an interesting piece about that. Brings up the point that if someone works hard to benefit the community, and their wealth represents the response of the community to repay that person’s work, perhaps it’s not unreasonable that that person’s request is, “repay it to my children,” i.e. inheritance.
- Comment on Evil 4 weeks ago:
From my point of view, JavaScript is evil.
- Comment on Evil 4 weeks ago:
“Vladimir Putin, you are under arrest for war crimes.”
“It was a special military operation! It was all the fault of the Nazis!”
“No, not for all that. You’re under arrest for violating the GNU GPL! Prepare to meet your source, licencef*****!!!”
*blam* *blam* *blam*
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 4 weeks ago:
Mangione’s manifesto is being shared with a wink and a smile on social media.
Agreed. Lemmy especially is all for glorifying both manifesto and actions. Yes, it’s being shared for that glorification.
But so is his mugshot. For likewise reason we sometimes avoid sharing the name or photo of certain criminals.
Maybe… maybe you’re right. Maybe I’m also supporting a point of view because it gives me an outcome I want: the outcome of the manifesto being public, without a priori judging the actions. But I feel there’s something I’m missing. I think it’s to do with censorship. The other rhetoric, apart from this glorification, seems to be that there’s nothing to be said here except to lament and condemn the murder, and move on. Even the BBC report on why social media are supporting Mangione, felt like it was subtly shifting the perspective to make sensible people shrug the support off as irrational hype largely from Mangione’s good looks. That perspective then leverages the “glorification of violence is bad” argument to avoid or censor other discussion, including sharing the manifesto: this bothers me. So that even if the manifesto is being shared mostly only by those who seek to glorify Mangione, and I don’t wish to glorify his action, I would like it shared.
I despise murder. Outside of fiction, I do not wish to glorify vigilante executions. And yet, I have a deep anger at injustices such as from certain members of the US healthcare system. Something must be done: and when the response to this something is to erase discussion, that feels wrong. Your answer, if I understood right, is that it’s right to glorify certain violence, including this: and therefore sharing the manifesto is good. Mine, I think, is that it’s right to fully and frankly consider all that’s going on, including this manifesto: and if that gets mired in people glorifying the shooting, I’m willing to put up with that. The manifesto is being shared to glorify the shooting; but sharing it is still important if not glorifying the shooting.
Well, something like that.
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 5 weeks ago:
Then discussing Osama Bin Laden’s manifesto, the Unabomber’s, McVeigh’s, or a school shooter’s isn’t glorifying either
I agree, I don’t think it is. Nor is publishing Mein Kampf glorifying Nazism. Sharing the manifestos can be part of glorifying the actions, but also doesn’t need to be. But sharing them does suggest some relevancy of the actions, which to some people suggests you should consider agreeing with them. So there’s a balance of when it’s appropriate, especially if some people are using that to glorify the actions - as, indeed, is very much the case here.
We accept that some glorification of violence is good, such as a politician talking about going after criminals
We do, but I’m not sure it’s quite right. Maybe when we simultaneously say, “glorifying violence is bad,” we recognise the tension and perhaps our own cognitive dissonance. And maybe what we really want, is to glorify the stopping of evil, and accept (perhaps) the use of violence to achieve that. The glory of the politician going after criminals is of stopping the criminals, not of the superiority in violence used to achieve that. But the school shooter? Is there any glory there to be had, adjacent to the violence?
Which brings us back to this CEO shooting. Even if we say violence per se is a bad thing, or if we say only judicially sanctioned violence is acceptable, still the abuses this CEO represents are evil, and we might glorify the opposition to those abuses. That leaves us with a tension. Glorify the principle of opposition, but not the method applied. In that context, the manifesto is relevant.
And it leaves us with a discussion. Do we really say all violence is wrong? Is this healthcare system really as abusive or illegitimate as people think? Does the CEO have responsibility in that? What is a right attitude, and means, toward this in the future? All these we can discuss - and consider the manifesto part of that - without a priori ascribing glory (or condemnation) to the killing.
It is true many people are glorifying Luigi, and whether that’s right is a separate question. For similar reasons we censor sharing all sorts of things, like Mein Kampf, or like dumping Bin Laden’s body in the sea. But those things don’t, of themselves, need to be glorifying what they represent; it is the opinionated balance of social factors that makes us censor those things. In the case of the school shooting, I probably agree: censor the manifesto. (Actually, I’d say let it be public for those who wish to know, but not widely shared.) But in this case here, I think the balance is in favour of publishing Luigi’s (apparent) manifesto.
- Comment on Anon is a white hat hacker 5 weeks ago:
Providing one half of a double blind study.
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 5 weeks ago:
Discussing is certainly not the same as glorifying. And yes, I did label one and not the other as an atrocity, but I hope you understand that’s a simplification.
I do think in this case it’s an important question to be asked: why did the killer commit this murder; and why are so many people supporting it. And in this case, I don’t think it does justice, nor does society good, to wave it away with, “they’re a bad person who did a bad thing”. Perhaps in all murder cases some discussion, by some people, is necessary. But here, on balance, it seems particularly important and public.
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 5 weeks ago:
I think there’s a difference. School shootings are an atrocity, and, for the most part, we all agree on that. Sharing the manifesto lends a kind of legitimacy to the shooter and their reasons, and, on balance, we’d rather turn our back on them and condemn the violence.
With this CEO murder, many of us agree there’s such life-destroying abuse in the American healthcare commerce - of which this CEO was directly part, whether or not he’s to blame - that the problem is a serious topic of public conversation. The manifesto, and the events associated with it, are a relevant part of that conversation, whether we support them or not.
- Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one 5 weeks ago:
Disappointed that the first comment isn’t, “May the Torx be with you”
- Comment on Admin team update 5 weeks ago:
Thank you so much for setting this up for us and making it a great instance to be on!
Wishing you the best in taking a rest, and I think we all appreciate your honesty and decent human-ness - that you’ve neither given up and sent the thing down in flames, nor turned power-crazed and angry to deal with it all.
Cheers!
- Comment on I feel so much better now that I also have a skill to show off on the internet 5 weeks ago:
Oh dear. Usually the chair is so big it stands way above the floor.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 5 weeks ago:
But probably not calculating trigonometry and calculus when juggling, right?