Exactly, the depraved and cruel sex acts (such as rape of children) usually come from sexual repression from religion and lack of education on consent and boundaries due to religious repression.

It does not come from healthy adults exploring with other healthy adults in a consensual environment with healthy boundaries. That comes from sexual education and freedom.

EDIT: What’s even more infuriating is the first sentence of that statement is still correct when it comes to rampant child abuse: “I don’t think this country has, or even will, come to terms with the sexual corruption of the boomers.” The whole statement is real “they had us in the first half” material.

Also, for ad-blocking on your phone on the go, pair your Pi-Hole with a Wireguard VPN where you connect your phone to the VPN to pass your phone traffic through your Pi-Hole DNS. I have this set up for my phone, and it’s tits.

https://www.wireguard.com/

You’re very lucky. I lived 60 miles south of Seattle, 30 miles southwest of Tacoma, and was able to get a single channel with an antenna because my city was in a valley surrounded by mountainous terrain and so the broadcast signals from the TV towers were all blocked by the terrain. No local stations, no local towers. Seattle actually has plenty of stations, but unless you’re in the right areas, they’re nearly impossible to access.

I also worked in local television for a long time in the early 2000s and 3 out of 4 of the stations I worked at no longer exist and there are fewer and fewer rural stations, so unless you live in the big city or unless you’re in a very flat area where the big city signal can get to you, you’re shit out of luck.

Swap codeine for a full bottle of 1990’s robitussin.

Well you better fuckin’ believe it because some people live in actual poverty and even getting high is a luxury. The idea that I have ever had the money to piss away on food delivery is fucking laughable, but especially after I got really financially fucked being diagnosed with cancer three years ago now. Even during COVID I was busy getting a degree and had to budget super tightly to make it through and be able to afford weed once in a while. My budget has been so tight lately that I haven’t even smoked in a year and a half (and sometimes I really wish I could afford it because it really helps with the stomach cramps caused by my cancer medications). There hasn’t been a time in the last eight years that I didn’t qualify for food stamps. I don’t know what to tell you.

Yes, a matrix server is an “instance” of matrix on the larger federated service.

Discord calling their different channels “servers” was really unhelpful because they were never servers to begin with.

I try to keep that kind of food out of my home so I don’t end up doing that, but yeah, sometimes it happens.

I mean, honestly, for me, yeah. It distracts me and makes me too lazy to make a meal.

Thought it was pretty clear. Matrix sucks.

LOOOOOLOLOLOLOL

I mean I wouldn’t say the original message was clear at all that you as an individual have had bad experiences. There are also people who may have things to say from a development standpoint beyond just “I have personally had bad experiences with it.” So, sorry you had bad experiences, but to be perfectly clear “LOOOOOLOLOLOLOL” doesn’t actually tell anyone anything at all. Thanks, however, for the clarification. I haven’t had issues like that with Matrix in a long time now, but I’ve been using it off-and-on since 2018-ish.

LOOOOOLOLOLOLOL

Compelling argument.

That’s really not something to be proud of.

I suppose XMPP’s 27 years of development is embarrassing as well?

Or are you just shitposting without any concrete arguments for what you’re saying? I won’t argue well thought out arguments, but this shit is just childish. You can do better, artyom.

Personal opinion, Discord was already enshittifying before they did an IPO, like at least 6 years ago or more. The IPO just gave them an excuse to speed up the process.

For every question I’ll have ‘egg’ as the answer.

-Karl Pilkington

Exactly this, that’s a client quirk, probably Element in this case.

Exactly, this isn’t even a new problem… it just keeps happening.

As someone who has been advocating for the use of the federated Matrix protocol for a long, long time now, the proliferation of new, competing options actually is frustrating to me. Technically Matrix is actually already fleshed out very well, has several different clients, and even has Thunderbird support so if you’re already using Thunderbird you don’t even need a separate client.

The beginnings of Matrix go back as far as 2014 so it honest has at this point 12 years of development behind it. I know Matrix has it’s issues, but it’s by far the most secure combined with being able to communicate with large groups of people via federation. There’s definitely slightly more secure options, because they lack federation (and thus don’t leak metadata), but I personally am ambivalent about them because some of them have a kind of crypto-bro feel to the companies behind them and I’m skeptical they won’t go down a path similar to Discord while Matrix on the other hand has been slowly but surely leveraging itself into a position of secure government communications all over Europe. So, to me, Matrix already has a game plan for staying relevant and staying solvent, while things like SimpleX or Stoat I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop and for the enshittification to begin

Open source bona-fides are great and all, but for a lot of these messengers, I absolutely think not enough discussion is made regarding their financial plans to stay afloat whereas the reality is that while Matrix doesn’t exactly have money coming out their ears, they have a slow, steady gameplan that is working out so far.

The whole reason everyone moved to Discord was because it was a centralized place and since Discord needed to pay for it’s servers, it had to find a way to finance that, and enshittification naturally happened. I think it would be foolish to pretend that can’t happen again with several of the current alternatives.

(see: A/C chargers, character encoding, instant messaging, etc.)

Nice.

I mean, I have a bed, it’s just a hand-me-down that’s 25 years old and crappy and sags in the middle, but… it’s technically a bed.

Anyway, I appreciate the thought, but it’s whatever. Life in the USA sucks, oh well.

I have cancer and am living with family and this is where I am at. My needs are incredibly low because I’m just doing without a lot of stuff. I really need a bed, for example, but oh well, I am just doing without.