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Satanic Nexus - A Firefish instance for atheistic Satanism
Keyoxide - ID proof
Mullem - a Firefox Add On for Lemmy.
- Comment on what the heck is a pensioner in the UK and why are they the butt of so many jokes ? 3 weeks ago:
Pensioner is short for OAP (Old Age Pensioner), so called because they are retired and eligible for the state pension.
Can’t recall them being the butt of a lot of jokes though.
- Comment on When asked a question, what is your first reaction, to answer the question or to defend yourself? 1 month ago:
They’re linked aren’t they? If someone asks you a question they’re asking for why you hold a particular opinion, therefore simply by providing detail you’re defending yourself, or at least the opinion you hold.
- Comment on Alien: Romulus (2024, dir Fede Álvarez) 1 month ago:
I thought Don’t Breathe was better than his Evil Dead reboot but he’s very good at creating tension which is vital for this franchise.
- Comment on Alien: Romulus (2024, dir Fede Álvarez) 1 month ago:
Looks pretty good. Glad to see Ridley Scott is still involved.
- Comment on Jewish theatregoers felt 'unsafe' at comedy show - BBC News 2 months ago:
Surely the fact some audience members are ethnically and/or religiously Jewish is irrelevant. According to the article, they weren’t targeted because of their ethnicity or religion but because they refused to support the idea of a ceasefire.
- Comment on Bluesky signups are now open to the public 2 months ago:
Step one: i’ll take a look
Step two: “Please give us your phone number”
Step three: close tab
- Comment on Why has the world gone to shit? 3 months ago:
Capitalist governments are pro-finance, not pro-people. Totalitarian gvmts (China etc) are pro-system, not pro-people. They’re just different ways of maintaining classes of people who control the power/finances.
There’s always been an uber-rich elite, all the way from the first tribal chieftain or Pharaoh or whatever until now and there’s always been a huge underclass of the rest of us. The first law of any hierarchy is to protect the people at the top.
What we see today (in Westernised countries) is the natural, logical progression of economics driven democracy. Economic theorists say wealthy people create wealth by purposefully distributing it via jobs etc but in reality they do everything possible to minimise the loss of what they see as their money by abusing labour laws, privatising everything, trying to kill unions, creating convoluted laws to protect their fortunes, avoiding taxes and hiking prices up to the point most of us are just about surviving with enough carrot to ignore or pretend we don’t see the stick.
And we’re willing participants in that system. We know this is happening but we’re dazzled by lotteries holding out the chance to join the rich, promises of work making us rich and a media which lionises the elite as some kind of fabulous aspirational status to the point we have people on social media faking a rich lifestyle for internet points.
The uber rich believe they’re better than us and our acquiescence with this system really means we agree with them.
- Comment on Community Context pointing out fake news once again 🫡 3 months ago:
Clearly incorrect as no one would be sad.
- Comment on how can I develop a thick skin? 3 months ago:
If she’s a good therapist she’ll be feeling awful she couldn’t make it. I’d wait to hear her out before making any judgement on either her no-show or her as a therapist/person. It’s highly unlikely to be a personal slight, whatever it is, and if it’s not personal then there’s no need to develop a thick skin.
- Comment on Why did Adobe open source Magento? 3 months ago:
Magento was open source before Adobe bought it, Flash wasn’t.
- Comment on Could you stay in the roundabout indefinitely? 3 months ago:
Only in a milk float driven by a priest.
- Comment on Is there a term for someone that likes other people to smell their farts? 3 months ago:
Bit weird.
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 4 months ago:
I miss some of the communities I used on reddit that are still either quiet or very quiet over here, but I also recognise that unless I ramp up my participation in them, I haven’t really got grounds to feel negative about that. Besides, using social media less is a plus to me.
I love there’s no ads, tracking and ‘suggestions’ - in short, no algorithm. The apps are (mostly) open source and the community are appreciative of that.
I used to get news from reddit and can get it here too, there’s no difference in quality or quantity. Politically, I appreciate the de-emphasis on hateful content and it helps I’m on an instance where the Admin is on top of their game in that respect. It is noticeably more left-wing on here but since I am too I guess that’s not an issue for me. It’s certainly way better than Reddit in that respect where I’d stumble across fairly extreme right-wing opinions in (supposedly) non political subs every day.
People seem, by and large, much calmer and more reasonable here and less inclined to attack en masse. I’ve noticed a distinct improvement in my overall mental health but I think that might have more to do with not being on reddit than being on here.
Lemmy is what we make it. For those of us who came over in the Summer, Lemmy/KBin is less than 6 months old. Let’s not paint it into being one thing or another just yet.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 4 months ago:
I think ignorant might be more accurate than stupid. That crosses into stupidity if the ignorance is wilful eg they refuse to accept facts or refuse to even investigate if someone tries to present evidence.
People these days seem exhausted and angry and for some there’s comfort in the ‘certainty’ of their wrong beliefs. I read a piece recently about an ex qanon guy who said a large part of the appeal was being part of a community and encouraged to be angry about everything.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
No more than me criticising Rishi Sunak for being a shit Prime Minister is anti-Hindu.
- Comment on just bung it in the corner 4 months ago:
Surprise, surprise!
- Comment on When Reddit was first becoming popular, were it's communities and content basically just clones of other websites like Digg? 5 months ago:
Reddit was created as a Digg clone so there were no sub’s and no comments, just links to up/down vote.
A lot of those links were scraped in an effort to make it seem popular. Both Aaron and Spez have admitted that.
- Comment on how do you even use twitter? 5 months ago:
@feditips@mstdn.social (enter that into your search box on Mastodon) has an excellent and curated collection of tips, resources, groups and people to suggest to you to get started.
- Comment on why do some people really dislike google?? 5 months ago:
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 6 months ago:
This is just my opinion but, given terrorist organisations are militarily usually much poorer/smaller/weaker than the group they stand against, they need help from outside.
One way to possibly achieve that is to do something awful to provoke your opposition into a retaliation so indiscriminate and horrifying that your ideological (if not literal) allies in the surrounding area step in to attack your enemy.
- Comment on Does Hexbear mandate all users to specify their preferred pronouns? 6 months ago:
Going by spelling and phrase choices, I’d say the majority of them are youngish Americans who’re still naive enough to believe extreme left-wing/anarcho political systems aren’t just as controlling of the populace as the political systems they despise. Either that or they crave big state control systems because the feel a lack of control in their own lives and want a political daddy to make the decisions for them.
- Comment on Does Hexbear mandate all users to specify their preferred pronouns? 6 months ago:
Unverifiable maybe, unenforceable, no. They simply ban anyone who refuses.
- Comment on Does Hexbear mandate all users to specify their preferred pronouns? 6 months ago:
Then you put that I guess.
- Comment on Does Hexbear mandate all users to specify their preferred pronouns? 6 months ago:
I believe they do, yes. It’s done to out anti-trans people, making them easy to spot as they complain loudly about being forced to.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I support the rights of the Palestinian and Israeli people who just want to live in peace to do that. I do not support Hamas or the Israeli Army committing atrocity after atrocity at the behest of their political leaders.
- Comment on What is the purpose and meaning of time? 7 months ago:
A way of measuring events, relative to gravity.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Yes, I get that. I’m saying there’s no law that addresses straight people in particular.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
No, because that’s never been a thing and thus straight people require no legal protection, whereas LGBTQ+ people have often found themselves fired solely on the basis of their sexuality, therefore they need legal protection.
- Comment on Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union? 8 months ago:
Definitely.
- Comment on Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union? 8 months ago:
The UK political cycle:
- Tories elected because they made people think Labour were bad with money
- Tories stay in power for a couple of decades
- Rich people get richer, public services get shitter, prices for everyone else get higher. They coast along on a tide of right-wing populism for awhile
- Eventually people catch on, Tories get voted out
- Labour need to spend a fortune getting things back on track. Might get two terms.
- Go to 1.