SocialMediaRefugee
@SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 2 days ago:
Write lots of scathing comments online
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Truly rich people just want you to be interesting. The nouveau riche, or wanna bes, are obsessed with crap like designer labels and cookie cutter luxury brands.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
This is the perfect time to dress fancy on the way in while smuggling in a bag of clothes. Change in the bathroom then come out in overalls, a dirty trucker cap, a “Marlboro Cigarettes” t shirt and workboots. “Too upscale?”
- Comment on "I know the perfect place for the ESP button! Right in front of the drivers knee!" 3 days ago:
- Comment on "I know the perfect place for the ESP button! Right in front of the drivers knee!" 3 days ago:
I had a car with a parking light switch hidden on top of the steering wheel column. It was blocked from view by the wheel and the angle of the column. I hit it by accident while cleaning my car and didn’t see the parking lights were now on in the glare of the sun. I came out to a dead battery the next day. Why they felt the need to include a switch for just the parking lights and make it independent of the ignition is beyond me.
- Comment on "I know the perfect place for the ESP button! Right in front of the drivers knee!" 3 days ago:
Move the seat back
- Comment on Permabanned from Reddit? 4 days ago:
One of the things I hated about reddit was how they would slip sponsored ads in made to look like user posts as closely as possible. Of course they made it impossible to block them.
- Comment on Permabanned from Reddit? 4 days ago:
Even the human mods won’t tell you what rule you broke.
- Comment on Permabanned from Reddit? 4 days ago:
Here it feels like you have to really make an effort to get banned. Mods mainly stick to deleting rule breaking comments.
- Comment on Permabanned from Reddit? 4 days ago:
It definitely stinks of automated moderation. At this point when I feel the urge to participate I remember how poorly managed it is and the low quality of most of the subreddits so the urge passes.
- Comment on Permabanned from Reddit? 4 days ago:
So much for being a forum for open discussion. I guess we should stick to memes and shitty puns.
- Comment on Permabanned from Reddit? 4 days ago:
I got banned from a bunch of subreddits because I left a critical comment on an anti-vaxx subreddit. The lazy mods all used bots to automagically ban any username in the comments. So even though I was critical of them I was banned for having the temerity of showing up in it.
- Comment on Permabanned from Reddit? 4 days ago:
Contact user support…oh right there is none
- Comment on You have got to be kidding me... 4 days ago:
He is full of shit?
- Comment on You have got to be kidding me... 4 days ago:
False idol worship so it is fitting
- Comment on You have got to be kidding me... 4 days ago:
Gold on the outside, hollow inside
- Comment on It's mildly infuriating when I'm constantly hit with major political issues in this community when I'm here for mild 1 week ago:
You can block communities and individual users. Extremists and ranters get blocked. News communities are magnets for them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Wait, you can post links to pornhub? lol
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 1 week ago:
You can impeach a president for any reason. You don’t need a crime or such committed, all you need is congress to do it.
Be careful what you wish for though since the other party could do “tit for tat” with the president you support.
- Comment on Meta Censors #Democrat when searched for 1 week ago:
Maybe it is being abused by trolls and such so badly they had to disable it temporarily.
- Comment on Why does it seem like Americans have become so hateful and destructive in the past years? 2 weeks ago:
I think the combination of access to anonymous social media, or at least access to media without any physical interaction, leads to a lack of empathy and hostile behavior. Then you have the echo chamber effect where any group has its beliefs amplified and the extreme members get the most attention. It is trivial to react hostilely and leave a comment like “Go kill yourself” on someone’s post. The other person is just a block of text to you. When I write something I have to reread it a few times to determine “How will someone misinterpret this negatively?” and sometimes I feel like I’m writing for an audience of rabid dogs just itching to bite me. All too often even the most innocuous comment will still get a ridiculously hostile response. I’d say this isn’t just an American issue on the internet either. I see it with Europeans and Asians. It is a human issue.
Sadly now negativity has become a kneejerk response. Every stranger’s motivations are a personal attack on you, everything is part of some grand conspiracy aimed at you, etc. America’s obsession with individualism vs society as a whole seems to have reduced everyone to a crazed survivalist hiding in their bunker.
“many Americans are physically beating their children” I’d say this is MUCH less now than in the past and is now strictly enforced.
“you can’t even safely walk alone in public during the night” Depends on where you live. There have always been “bad neighborhoods” in cities and this is true around the world. I have never felt in danger walking alone at night around my area. I’m sure there are neighborhoods in, say, Paris or Marseille you wouldn’t walk around by yourself at night.
- Comment on Why does it seem like Americans have become so hateful and destructive in the past years? 2 weeks ago:
In the old days a person with radical ideas had a hard time finding others with the same mentality. It cost money to send out letters, print stuff, etc. Now you can blast out whatever comes into your head to potentially millions of people. You an form groups with them and feed each other’s paranoia and biases. On top of it broadcasting to you has become even easier and targeted.
Then there is the whole issue of the “anonymous asshole” online who feels disconnected to those they are communicating to and makes assumptions (usually hostile) about them and feels freer to be hostile or provocative.
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 2 weeks ago:
Gnomes have families too
- Comment on Can enough solar pannels decrease the global temps? 3 weeks ago:
co2, which would otherwise reduce the atmosphere’s reflectivity
Just to be pedantic CO2 absorbs bands in the infrared and reemits it, energy that otherwise could be lost to space. This is part of the reason you can’t do infrared telescopes from earth.
…columbia.edu/…/carbon-dioxide-cause-global-warmi…
Water is an even more powerful greenhouse gas but fortunately the earth is cool enough for it to condense back out of the atmosphere. If temps got high enough that more evaporated than condensed then you’d get a runaway greenhouse effect and we’d be truly fucked.
- Comment on Can enough solar pannels decrease the global temps? 3 weeks ago:
Start reflecting sunlight back into space and increase the earth’s albedo
- Comment on what exercises work for you to avoid back pain? 3 weeks ago:
Tai Chi for staying limber
- Comment on There is a fee to close my HSA account 3 weeks ago:
fee fee fee fee fee fee
- Comment on Plumbing Subreddit that locks anyone that is "new", even after everyone has commented 4 weeks ago:
Gotta go where the people are sometimes
- Comment on Plumbing Subreddit that locks anyone that is "new", even after everyone has commented 4 weeks ago:
Try asking them what rule you broke. Good luck with that. Sadly lemmy is importing the shitty mods from reddit.
- Comment on Plumbing Subreddit that locks anyone that is "new", even after everyone has commented 4 weeks ago:
There is no recourse for badly run subreddits or shitty mods in reddit. Pretty much the only way to get them to take any action is to sic the press on them. Other than that the free labor mods provide reddit means they can abuse their roles to their heart’s content.
