this is just the internet these days, people just go out in search of people to yell at so they can feel something

This sort of thing is a generational trauma.

yeah, 100%. my dad had an extremely abusive upbringing, like his (adoptive) mother forced him to sleep in the dog house and hit him with whips and crazy shit, so he can’t even perceive that the way he treated me was abusive (even though i have a fucking scar from where he threw a knife at me for literally no reason) because what he did to me doesn’t even register to him as abuse because he loves me.

i’ll look into the book, but fwiw, i’ve had many years of therapy, and i’ve near enough made peace with the idea of not having him in my life. i really struggle to communicate with him, his denials register to me as gaslighting which is really triggering, so it’s hard for me to help him. he also doesn’t read books at all, probably because of undiagnosed dyslexia

its funny when someone posts a link to theory they don’t understand then when you explain it to them they tell you that you didn’t read it and refuse to accept that it’s possible that you read it because they obviously didn’t read it so it’s impossible that you could have

then it’s even funnier when you get banned from like 7 random communities on .ml for 3 months for incivility because you politely disagreed with them about it while they call you a bunch of names

the way OP did it was correct, it just broke a stupid, incorrect rule. the correct thing to do is to stop enforcing arbitrary unpopular rules just because you think you know what’s best tbh

like your AI-generated header image says, “good men don’t need rules” - do you need rules, jordan?

thing is, it is kinda special, you’ve accumulated a lot more life experience than i have, and i’m sure there are lots aspects to life that are different when you’re 40, and i’m genuinely interested to hear the perspectives of people who are there and to try and learn from it, but this post in particular is a little silly imo!

that’s boring. and tbh i don’t even want revenge, literally all i want is for him to acknowledge that he hurt me, but he refuses to even admit he ever even acted aggressively or anything towards me

idk i just have this crazy notion posts shouldn’t be deleted because it contains opinions someone disagrees with. that seems very intolerant and frankly immature to me.

if i just wanted a pile of headlines from mainstream media outlets i’d use an rss feed

spice things up and put a bomb in it ^/j

closest non-apple alternative to appleTV is probably nvidia shield, but it may have enshittified when i wasn’t looking. appleTV is pretty much the only apple device I use these days, every now and again i use my old ipad

kinda makes me want to do it to hurt my dad but tbh he would probably still not realize that he’s the reason

dw i’m not suicidal but yeah

take it up with the UN i suppose, not to mention the various other human rights organizations who have reported on this

no way am i gonna click that link

seeing something as commonplace does not make it sensible. thought you’d be smart enough not to make such a fallacious argument

and your downvotes mean nothing to me, i’ve seen what makes you upvote. also, downvotes are disabled on my instance, as they should be on all instances tbh. and as far as i know you may have a hundred sockpuppets. wouldn’t surprise me even a little bit

the user-supplied headline provides yet more context than the one supplied by the media outlet

the rule value the opinions of mainstream media pundits - which is owned and controlled by the ruling class - over the opinions of fediverse users - who have editorial independence. it’s as simple as that really

i’m actually a really smart baby communicating using neuralink

my problem with this is, why wouldn’t they just walk away after selling the game? they sold a shitload of copies and probably could have just taken the money, paid themselves a handsome bonus, facetanked the false advertisement lawsuit, declare the company bankrupt and walk away with enough money to retire for life, changed his name or whatever, and lived a life of luxury, no?

maybe there’s something i’m missing

you’re not, I liked it too. hbomberguy has a short video about it!

• limit editorialized clickbait titles

article titles from media outlets are often clickbait, misleading or minimize harm. why is clickbait ok as long as it comes from the media outlet but bad when it comes from a user? seems arbitrary

• limit reposts (under secondary titles)

can be done through article URL, probably even automatically, meanwhile it is super common for article titles to change but URL almost never does.

• let the story author/editor team keep their voice

they have the entire article body and title for their voice, they’re likely writing for often major news outlets, this is a relatively tiny community space.

again, the cost is that this story, which is about lawmakers who are in support of child abuse, being suppressed, because the poster isn’t jumping through some arbitrary loophole. the cost/benefit analysis seems pretty clear to me personally

i’m a weird guy who dies on a lot of stupid hills - i think this is a miscommunication because i always post replies then edit to clarify, and it’s confusing, sorry about that - and all good, no harm done!

this is a story about child abuse, which i’ve got a lot of trauma around, so it’s likely that i’m acting weird about it, i don’t understand how acknowledging that is a straw man. you just said i was acting weird and i was like “yeah probably, here’s why”

although i still think the rule is stupid, as i wrote, the opinions of the article author isn’t more valid than the opinion of whoever shared the article and the author’s title and many more words are just a click away

huh?