People are afraid to question their belief systems because it will create an identity crisis, and most people can’t psychologically deal with it. So it’s all self preservation.

Yup. We’re all susceptible to joining a cult. No one willingly joins a cult, their group slowly morphs into one.

You’re banned for inciting violence.

This isn’t even a theoretical question. We saw it live in the last us elections. Fox News, TikTok, WaPo etc. are owned by right wing media and sane washed trump. It was a group effort. You need to be suspicious not only of the internet but of tv and newspapers too. Old school media isn’t safe either. It never really was.

But I think the root cause is that people don’t have the time to really dig deep to get to the truth, and they want entertainment not be told about the doom and gloom of the actual future (like climate change, loss of the middle class etc).

It’s not even America first. It’s Trump and maybe the .00001% first and fuck everyone else.

Does that work in Firefox? Seems like I don’t have the ability to edit the address.

Robots are taking over our jobs… did folks who work is sewers make good money because it wasn’t a pleasant job?

What’s going on in France? I assume y’all have the same problems as the rest of Europe?

When it comes to people’s behavior always trust your gut.

And that like a virus were infecting other countries. I wonder why it’s so effective…. Why so many countries are having this issue - is it the effects of covid? Capitalism?

What’s wrong with it?

The secret is to not be close to anyone. In some ways it’s liberating.

You can do that with jail broken kindle too.

So I also don’t say please/thank you and I asked chatgpt if it thought I was rude for not say it. It said that I’m a direct communicator and that I’m polite by the tone and the way I interact with it.

Ducktales wohooo

At the store it calculated which peanuts were cheaper - 3 pound of shelled peanuts on sale, or 1 pound of no shell peanuts at full price.

Linux needs to sound a lot less intimidating for people who don’t really do tech besides the very basics.

Using the site, interacting with it and participating is providing service. Without those people there would be no content. Showing up is providing service.

I started using lemmy originally because of old.lemmy. It literally felt like what reddit was 14 years ago. Very nostalgic.

They need to diversify their strategy.