That doesn’t work. The average individual is too hedonistic to refrain from any pleasureable or self reinforcing loop. It’s been a cautionary tale in stories since ancient times.

If I didn’t understood there is already a problem of bad actors, I wouldn’t have approached your reply. And deny it in any way would be bad faith from me.

What I feel the need to underscore is that individuals make and influence groups and even the most progressively thought out environment is open to being corrupted if any individual present there lacks, in any way, the self awareness that their attitude is damaging.

It’s not the group that needs to regulate the individual; the regulation needs to arise from the individual themselves, in the first place. And most individuals lack that hard individual sense of responsability.

Before all that - and you are right on your take - there is a more basic flaw that affects social media: people do not know how to act properly.

The anonimity emboldens the small minds that use it to mistreat, slander and ridicule others and spread lies and rumours.

Unless we can force people to act with civility - which implies people being fairly conscious of the consequences of their words and actions - social media will remain what it is: a cesspool where the worst of our species destils into a refined poison.

Don’t. By the reasons you stated yourself. Say no. And if the option is to remain ignorant or unknowleadgeable then so be it, for the reasons you so eloquently put forward.

I understand your position, I respect your option, I did not downvote you but what I asked here exactly to have human feedback and perhaps spark some conversation on the movie.

The people that insulted you on the situation you related are wrong. And allowing that to go forward is allowing for human contact and relations to be devalued. Best answer for that kind of people is remembering them if they were always so knowledgeable and if they got their knowledge by themselves, alone.

Good films. Agree.

Thank you!

I think it’s the one. Thank you.

That is for corpses, not cabbages.

The saddest part on your comment was that Suse was my first distro and it did not register in my mind. As for Fedore, althoug I still insist calling it Red Hat.

Sarcasm died and left it’s place to be occupied by literalism. The most ridiculous things have become literal.

Then, if we are to follow that logic of excluding derivatives, then we get NixOS, Arch, LFS, TinyCore Linux, Gentoo, Debian (of course!) and… I give up; what else is out there?

And I use Debian, just to put it on record.

And that is valid.

I have never subscribed any of these streaming services. The pressure from friends was intense but at the end of the day I simply felt no need and even less appeal to it.

Nowadays, I hear those same friends how expensive it has become to keep all of these services to follow their interests and how the catalogue has been degrading.

I sincerely do not care.

Working outside, at least, doing physical labour.

Take my words for what they are but I knew a man that lived pretty much like Reacher when I was a kid and the man was pretty fit and muscular, only lean.

The man would travel from place to place, doing odd jobs, working in the fields, picking fruit, doing welding and metal working jobs, etc.

He was phisically fit. Not muscular like this actor but his body showed strenght. You could see the muscles contracting under his skin when he applied force to something.

He stopped by my grandparents village one summer and stayed for about a month, working in the fields. One day some neighbour asked him to chop down an old tree and cut it into chunks to dry for firewood. He use a single axe to do the job. Every time the blade hit that old trunk it felt as if the ground shook.

I am all up for starving machine learning of new knowledge but I view this as the least friction path. Otherwise, if the machines try to brute force their entry, what harm can kt cause?

It took me several minutes of consideration to decide if I should leave my two cents on this post and, by extension, to all the comments being added to it. My first instinct was to get on with my life, avoid the friction, let others be and carry forward.

But to my best attempt, I failed.

My next words may, most probably get me banned from this community, flagged for anti-social sentiments and persecuted for stating my personal thoughts on what is a very sensible topic in the Lemmyverse.

With this in mind, here is what I have to say.

First point

The entire situation is ridiculous and does not deserve a second of consideration, from anyone.

The so called conservatives are, true to themselves, using another opportunity to make noise and keep everyone angry and preventing people from thinking. It’s their modus operandi. Everyone should know it by know. Just ignore it and go for the real problems. This is noise.

Second point

If Disney is, in fact, planning to do such thing, it is not “in the name of inclusivity, diversity and understanding” but to try to make itself more friendly or at least less deserving of animosity from LGBTQ+ view. It is a strategy of appeasing and appeal, not a change of heart.

Third point

Rewritting a character doesn’t erase all the background it has built for it. This ties in with the argument for the infinite multiverse that has been used to gender swap or review again and again a character with several decades of well put together background. It is corporate money extraction and audience grabbing strategies. It only diminishes the creation and the relevance it already has.

Fourth point

Mickey Mouse has been extensively developed over a century. From the now public domain Steam Boat Willy to nowadays revivalist Mickey Mouse, the character has grown into several directions. From being a war time propagandist, to getting nephews (or adopting them), to finding a girlfriend/fiancée, becoming a high profile detective, aiding archeologists and living a near endless number of one-off adventures, Mickey Mouse has always been Mickey Mouse. Fans were lost, fans were gained, but the power of the character was being itself.

Fifth point

By being itself, Mikey Mouse helped introduce a very large roster of other characters. Some took on roots and grew by themselves while others simply fizzled into oblivion. Among those who faded into obscurity is a character created by Disney Studios Brazil in the late 80’s, early 90’s, avian, tall, slender, garishly coloured and dressed and a bit flamboyant and eccentric. In Portuguese, which is gender declining, the character was addressed has he/him, which defines it as male but there was always something that denied it. An undertone that hinted that something was not quite as it seemed. Take into consideration Brazil has had a large transexual population from very early on. Such a character made sense. Regardless if it was a FtM or MtF one. It was there, it was a statement. And it was welcome and accepted by the already existing and long lasting characters in the brazilian roster. Why did the character fizzle? Don’t know. The comics stopped being issue where I live for a while and when they returned the character was nowhere to be found. Or maybe it just went through its metamorphosis and what I got was it’s new form, it’s new self, it’s true self.

Sixth point

Going back to Mickey Mouse becoming transgender and thus Moxie, it makes no sense because as Mickey Mouse exists, today, it has more power of influence than trying to make the mouse into a completely different figure. That character, as a vehicle to introduce a new, LGBTQ, character and establish it as part of the roster would be a winning strategy. And a true change of heart for the brand. The character is here to stay, like it or not. Cultural evolution, not destruction.

My final thoughts.

Everyone wants to be a special case nowadays. The christians want special treatment because they are christians; extend the logic towards the belief of your choice. I’m just going for the low hanging fruit. Autistics want special treatment because they’re autistic; insert whatever condition in the sentence and it will still work. The same for every social trend. Everyone wants their problems ahead of all others because they are special. And that is the root cause for the problem. Attention seeking generates a show. Makes noise, attracts clicks, generates money, keeps people entertained and polarized, bickering and reacting. That’s the entire purpose. When the purpose should and is to view and treat everyone as a human being by default regardless of what makes them not different but unique.

I’m out. No more Lemmy for me for the rest of the weekend. Peace to all. Be happy and help another to be as happy as you.

There is more commercial proximity between China and the EU than China and the US.

The current taxation run is to curtail the online markets like AliExpress, Shein and Temu to flood the market with garbage. Shein got hit with their dumping practices very hard.

Taxing the import of vehicles, when an industry already exists just makes sense. European automakers were sleeping on their job, granted, but the other option is to let them fail and surrender another industry to non-EU territories.

That would be a conversation starter and a nice thing to put together over a couple of days as a hobby project.

The irony of this is unavoidable. The experts have reached the conclusion the rest of the mortals have been warning on for months.