I'm about to write something that I, with no international politics nor trade education but plenty of opinions shaped by social media, thinks world leaders should take note of.
Thank you for typing all this out - I concur on a lot of things, especially the politics. Once you mute the political communities, lemmy is nothing but gaming, linux, trans, and German and Danish communities about politics! All the noise across networks I suspect is from a lot of bots. For many years (even before LLMs), it's always been fairly easy to automatically create text posts to persuade and manipulate. Now, with the advent of LLMs, they can adapt to relevant communities and your specific post history to create hard-hitting "OMG someone is wrong on the internet and I must correct them" noise, either to keep you engaged (a la facebook) or to manipulate you or others vicariously.
Just think, all that time and effort you put into typing your response (even if you can type > 100 wpm), you could have spent looking for a real-life community to join - board game clubs, a local coffee / tea cafe and you'll soon be talking to the regulars, a pub, even for a coffee (especially during the day time) and so on
Start with easy openly friendly people and work your way up. Or just jump in to speed dating and be stupid with it!
There needs to be content-led websites where people can write comments that someone may find offensive. In England, people have the right to be offended, just because they are offended doesn't instantly make it harassing as per Protection from Harassment Act 1997 case law.
if we’re not engaging with community and other people, what even is the point.
And it's because of this dopamine hit / concept. that facebook uses bots and AI gen content to 'interact' with people to create an echo chamber and keep them coming back for more ad views.
One could argue to find the community offline/IRL, but it’s not so easy. And moreover, I want the old/indie/free/community run web back. Too many things have been fucking enshittified by capitalism
The original internet is way gone. The poole is now long closed. No more free bitcoins. No more original internet. Connecting with real people and not faceless AI gen bots is where it's at.
don’t categorically bash digital communities fighting back against the brutality of the day in the process, it is intellectually lazy.
Mental bondage is stronger than any physical bond, there is no "brutality" of the day other than what you invent.
No, spend more time here, find a way to levitate your discussions here so they are heartfelt and meaningful, let an initial mindless scroll give way to a genuine sense of an online community of good (hilariously funny btw) people we are trying to foster together, add your fuel to the fire.
Right... That's the exact reason dubvee and lemm.ee are gone.
I live in a country where I've heard a 15-16yo Pakistani kid on a packed bus state he was going to kill his sister because he didn't like who she was dating - and that he had hit her before because of it. I don't think most people have any idea how normalised it is in their culture. The country is England.
Yep, unfortunately, media have the right to be afraid following the Charlie Hebdo nonsense, here are some examples of criticisng Islam:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie - Now Sir. a man who wrote some books Islamists didn't like. So they threatened to kill him. A fatwa. Multi-million pound bounty and a failed assassination attempt. All because of a book. All through the 80s he was in hiding, covered by the police, paid for by the tax payer. When he emerged from hiding like in the 90s or so, everything had died down and was cool, yes? Nope, he got attacked by a guy with a knife and he lost an eye in 2022 in NY. Read this, it states "a man has been charged", it (cowardly?) failed to mention that the 24 yo man was a Muslim with ties to Lebanon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabbing_of_Salman_Rushdie
Charlie Hebdo - a French magazine was raided and people there were shot by two young Muslim men who killed 12 and injured 11. "It published cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 2012, forcing France to temporarily close embassies and schools in more than 20 countries amid fears of reprisals." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting. More Muslim-led violence continued after the Charlie Hebdo raid where jews were targeted and killed. Most of the muslims involved were unfortunately killed (so they think they go to a heaven, full of virgins or something... is that meant to be appealing to young men? - Islam knows how to market itself to an audience of rapist men)
2020, A French teacher beheaded for showing his students the Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Yes, beheaded and disemboweled. Not by the French peasants for a revolution, but by a former 18yo Muslim student who was shown such pictures in a lesson on free speech. https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20211015-france-honours-quiet-hero-teacher-killed-for-showing-prophet-mohammed-cartoon - It was seen as "an attack on the core values drilled by teachers into generations of schoolchildren, including the separation of church and state and the right to blaspheme."
Yawn. Now talk about Sharia courts and Sharia law, where a woman can be sentenced to death for being raped cheating, female genital mutilation is allowed and generally, women can be sentenced to death given appropriate sentences and outside Muslim men deny Sharia law to outsiders keep the sacred secrets of Islam between themselves.
what are they like for duability - e.g. knocks from being put in and pulled out of a rucksack