Everybody’s holy book says everyone else’s holy book is ballocks. I

Not really.

For the Abrahamic ones they built off the earlier ones.

The most named person in the Quran is Jesus after all, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Jesus beat out John Smith in the Book of Morman either.

Sometimes they rewrite it, sometimes they just copy/paste

I’m just going to ignore you

If you were ignoring people, you wouldn’t be responding to them saying “I’m ignoring you”.

Does that make sense?

To ignore someone, you simply ignore them. I can’t think of a simpler way to explain that…

So…

You won’t say what you want to say, until I tell you a place it’s allowed to be said?

Do you legitimately and truthfully not understand how that’s impossible?

How is anyone supposed to know where you can say something if you won’t tell them what you want to say?

Logically. How is anyone ever going to be able to answer your question?

Do you know any communities that allow criticism of transgenderism?

Again:

What kind of criticism?

Like I can criticize my friend for not recycling, no one will complain. If I say they shouldn’t be allowed to exist because of an immutable physical characteristic, I’d be a horrible fucking person.

So what exactly do you want to criticize besides their right to exist?

instead of only allowing comments that support the trans agenda.

The agenda of being able to exist?

What other “agenda” do you think they have?

We’re gonna start running into kids who “learn” from AI.

Even if they never generated anything, they consume so much AI slop without knowing that they start to emulate the style because they think that’s how humans communicate

And also 1 post for 24 days. 0 comments?

Lots of brand new accounts make these posts about “fixing” the platform they’re on. Most of the time they have a different account, it’s just so toxic they know no one will listen to their ideas.

So they make a clean account that obviously doesn’t line up with the post.

It took a lot more than 4 weeks for it to get annoying…

A lemmy user lets say “blaze” who has many accounts. Its not unusual to see a new account with the name “blaze” in this circumstamce made by a completely different person who can use that to give the actual blaze a bad name which can lead to consequences for the actual blaze getting removed/blocked.

I’ve blocked them like ten times…

But they have to have like 30 accounts because I’m always seeing new ones and having to block them too

No one could ruin that person’s reputation more than they do themselves. No rational person makes that many identical accounts to use simultaneously.

Thoughts?

Your family comes from a rural area with very low cost of living…

His doesn’t.

My family are hillbillies, it’s extremely common to have people on my family tree that died at 2 or under, in part because every generation before me was well into double digit kids.

I’ve got an unnamed aunt who died at like 1.5 years, there’s a “grave” because my grandparents already owned a plot, so they used that and their tombstone says “and baby”. But there wasn’t a stone till the first grandparent died decades later.

City people think shit like that just happened in Game of Thrones. It’s just not taught how bad some areas of the US was/is.

If this happened to me, I’d just chalk it up to a ~2 year time loss and go for another pregnancy.

To deal with the horrible reality of frequent infant/toddler deaths, the people who experienced it normalized it and convinced themselves it wasn’t a big deal. It takes a couple generations to get over that mentality.

Once that happens it would be emotionally crushing and potentially life ruining.

If that’s what’s going on, you two need to have a frank discussion about cultural differences. There’s going to be other things that pop up like this, and you won’t know till they come up. But it’s important for you both to understand it’s gonna happen and keep an open mind.

What can I do?

Varies wildly.

Some people are in unions, others “at will” employment.

This is something to ask coworkers and hopefully a union rep.

Google search currently uses 1.05GWh/day. ChatGPT currently uses 621.4MWh/day

…

And oranges are orange

It doesn’t matter what the totals are when people are talking about one or the other for a single use.

Less people commute to work on private jets than buses, are you gonna say jets are fine and buses are the issue?

Because that’s where your logic ends up

This is like saying a giant truck is the same as a civic for a 2 hr commute …

AI people always want to ignore the environmental damage as well…

Like all that electricity and water are just super abundant things humans have plenty of.

Everytime some idiot asks AI instead of googling it themselves the planet gets a little more fucked

Life probably exists somewhere else.

That doesn’t mean they visit us in secret and there’s a conspiracy to hide it.

It’s two very different things