One thing I notice about my childhood memories is that the context is very different. There are things that I obviously didn’t understand in the way I would as an adult, which I think is part of why we end up unpacking and recontextualizing childhood experiences as we grow older. But our earliest memories are obviously going to be formed with far less context and understanding of circumstances than even those formed just a few years later.

It makes me wonder if the issue isn’t the storing of memory, but the lack of meaningful context to fit them into the way we process things as adults. Like, say I had memories of someone speaking a language I didn’t speak at the time, but later learned. What are the chances I’m going to catch onto their individual words well enough to parse them years later once they have context to give them meaning? I’m guessing pretty low.

I would frankly be shocked to discover that instances like lemmy.ml aren’t either mostly populated by bot-farm workers and state actors or by people who’ve been taken in by their rhetoric. They don’t seem very representative of real people who aren’t terminally online with an extremely niche perspective.

Apart from these issues, though, there’s just a huge degree of arrogance and cruelty involved in proposing mass killing as a solution for any ecological issue.

As much as I feel the distaste for killing any living beings, this seems like a naive position to take. Should this be applied to lionfish? Spotted lanternflies? Water chestnuts? Kudzu? Culling invasive species is part of minimizing the destructive impact of human ecological interference, and is generally a pretty soundly established protective practice. I can’t claim to know how appropriate it is for this particular owl population, but this is a pretty sweeping statement to make that seems to fly in the face of reality.

Many people don’t like trans and won’t support it, left or right.

This is such a strange way to refer to this. Do you mean trans rights? Trans people? “Trans” as a collective “it” doesn’t make sense.

Frankly, you stating that you’re “not saying it’s right or wrong” seems to me to reveal your personal bias, especially when combined with this extremely bizarre wording. I don’t think it’s reflective of how most people see us. Generalized transphobia is a minority opinion. Solidarity in the face of oppression isn’t.

Dividing us isn’t going to work.

Do you have some context for this? What is it from?

Whoever wrote it seems like they’re looking for sheep, and are trying to cast anyone who isn’t helplessly servile as manipulative.

The US is a mess, but it’s real weird to call monarchies “full democracies”. I feel like a king and a house of lords is at least as undemocratic as lobbyists, gerrymandering, and an electoral college.

In my experience discord literally feels like I’m in the room with someone. I use it constantly and it’s been great for me. Phones on the other hand are kinda garbage. The signal is consistently unreliable. Sometimes I literally get calls where one of us can’t hear the other. Sometimes several calls in a row. Occasionally calls just don’t even go through.

Gimme push to talk.

It depends on whether the server you’re on is boosted, also. But even a standard voice server is better quality than a phone. Phones may technically be able to play audio with a higher bitrate, but that’s limited by both cell service and speaker quality.

More reliable too, honestly. Plus the video streaming is indispensable. Honestly, discord voice chat is a big part of the reason I haven’t made a serious attempt to use Matrix for much if anything. The lack of push to talk is a deal breaker. Also like, none of my friends are there.

I would never engage in marketing… except for my own indie projects.

Hitler, he only had one ball

Goring, had two but very small

Himmler had something sim’lar

And poor old Goebbels had no balls at all

I dunno. I can’t see more than two of those names in succession without this popping into my head.

Trump is aging like a Nazi opening the Ark of the Covenant.

How does the math work for that?

Yeah, I learned that the bot farms will never quit.

The covert Trumpism supporters have been busy lately. Every thread about anyone pushing back, they’re out here dragging the energy down. Every time someone in authority starts pointing toward a constitutional crisis, they’re here to chime in with ‘the constitution is already dead’. Every time a judge makes a ruling against the Trump administration they’re happy to trot out ‘it means nothing’. Every time a Democrat actually pushes against this administration they’re here to say ‘you’re doing nothing’.

Incredibly suspect.

Being relatively a relatively unknown outlet that forces extra steps on anyone who wants to read their articles probably sets the bar pretty low. Especially when a lot of people will just share archive links.

Depending on what it is you’re trying to make, it can actually be helpful as one of many components to help get your feet wet. The same way modding games can be a path to learning a lot by fiddling with something that’s complete, getting suggestions from an LLM that’s been trained on a bunch of relevant tutorials can give you enough context to get started. It will definitely hallucinate, and figuring out when it’s full of shit is part of the exercise.

It’s like mid-way between rote following tutorials, modding, and asking for help in support channels. It isn’t as rigid as the available tutorials, and though it’s prone to hallucination and not as knowledgeable as support channel regulars, it’s also a lot more patient in many cases and doesn’t have its own life that it needs to go live.

Decent learning tool if you’re ready to check what it’s doing step by step, look for inefficiencies and mistakes, and not blindly believe everything it says. Just copying and pasting while learning nothing and assuming it’ll work, though? That’s not going to go well at all.

I honestly think the internet is a major component of the problem. People online are not good ambassadors of any perspective, and a lot of them are literally working in bot farms with the express purpose of making people stupider and more divided. Like, imagine if your only exposure to leftist thinking was some of the vote-spoiling, feckless, whiny, disingenuous garbage that was polluting Lemmy so heavily leading up to the election. How much of the internet is just that?

In the same way that internet brain-rot has caused the right to devolve into ever-escalating authoritarian bootlickery and snowballing racist, queerphobic, misogynistic bigotry, it’s also influenced portions of the left away from solidarity and practical change into useless infighting, finger-wagging, and ideological self-congratulation. In an environment where even a lot of genuine posters who haven’t been explicitly hired to destroy society seem to favor dunking on people over actually getting anything done, it’s not really surprising to see the advancement of progressive ideologies backsliding even while many of the ideas they promote become more popularized.

We need better tactics. Maybe most importantly, we need to figure out a way to combat this divisiveness for hire that’s infecting every corner of the internet by some other means than just bickering with trolls.

Maple-washing sounds delicious.