I definitely understand this take but there are a lot of things that I would have never watched if I hadn’t torrented it. Many things I do want to see more of I pay for of course but a lot of it I would just never have viewed or listened to in the first place.

Maybe everything that dies someday comes back Even though Springsteen wrote it The Band did such an amazing cover of that song.

Yes it is one of the many arbitrary things that that specific religion demonizes. Probably has its roots from way back in the day so that women couldnt effectively run away from the men and get very far. Same reason most Muslim women arent allowed to drive. To this day they still have to have permission to leave and go do things without a man. Edit: lol at the downvotes. Give it a google if you don’t believe me 🤷‍♂️

It will not be any better by then. In fact it will probably worse when they do have a solid understanding of the internet and the infastructure behind it they will be able to use it to our disadvantage even more than they already are.

I believe this is the plan for most of them. I know Signal messenger has said as much and Im sure Telegram and even Whatsapp (lol at the idea of whatsapp being secure) wont stick around either. Seems like the easiest way to solve this problem. The downside is, once this passes the USA and other countries are bound to follow suit. Especially Australia’s spying ass, if they havent passed something like this already.

And that’s why you will NEVER see it in states like Texas and Mississippi. Rehabilitation and low recidivism rate are only goals for the state of California, not the rest of the USA.

“Old, out of touch rich folks ruin it for the rest of us with actual lives left to live, more at 11”

I cant get wefwef to work it keeps saying “problem fetching posts”

To be fair some instances (like Beehaw) defederate for not being big enough to maintain a huge influx of users. It isn’t always about Nazis although for sure Nazis suck I agree with that!

Well with the supreme court it isn’t because we elect them. They are appointed so I’d say it’s to protect the interests of the elite like bannimg abortions etc.

Google kills everything it touches

There’s a “weed bar” in St. Louis I know of called The Cola

Someone has probably mentioned it already but Jerboa is giving me this error when trying to use lemmy.world

Try doing it via the browser instead of using the app and it should work!

You know this is another big aspect to all this that people keep forgetting. They DID act like they had no control getting rid of problematic mods in the past but it sure wasn’t an issue getting rid of actually good mods when it hurt reddits bottom line. Also I know it was a bigots comment but Spez fucked around and edited peoples comments and shit too. It’s just WAY too power trippy over there.

I got shadowbanned from the entire site once from pissing a mod off. I wasn’t even being combative or anything I posted a link to dispute misinformation and just said “That’s wrong though. Here is a link from the Mayo clinic explaining it” and got banned. No warning, no message, nothing. I had to make a new reddit account conpletely i couldnt upvote or comment on ANY subreddit after that. All for pissing off a mod. I hated how much power they have (had?)

Or it lets you profit off of their free slave labor while keeping the status quo of society in check when you enact manhunts on the addicts. Which is exactly what happens.

Well if their religious beliefs about alcohol are more important than human lives to them then I guess this won’t ever change. Natural selection, I guess. USA tried to do the same stupid shit and people kept dying. It’s like these people just want people to die lol no one will EVER get rid of Alcohol and drug use completely. Trust me if “god” isn’t going to do it the governments of the world for sure aren’t. It’s so brain dead to try to control people this way. Maybe they should pray about it more though and keep people dying! That’s the answer, I bet.

That’s wild considering chinese citizens have been untrusting of chinese products for decades and get infant formula and cosmetics from other countries after they found out their milk was poisoned with plastic. https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3051808/foreign-brands-still-dominate-parents-do-not-trust-chinas-home

I’ve always wondered if that was pre-planned or if they just integrated it as the show went on