WideEyedStupid

You’re right. But that one isn’t new to me. The Turd Reich is new. And I can’t believe I never came up with that, because it’s so obvious, haha.

The Turd Reich, damn. How come this is the first time I see this. It made me giggle, good job. :D

Never.

Wtf, that sounds really fucked up.

Edit, just to add: Both my parents also always knocked before entering, respected the answer “no” whenever I gave it (which, admittedly, wasn’t often) plus never expected an explanation why, and we cleaned/tidied our own rooms, did our own laundry, etc, so that excuse was also never used. And they never, ever touched my computer, opened my mail or went through my phone.

Is it possible they did it in secret when we were at school or something? Sure… I guess it’s possible, but I truly doubt it. It would go against their own principles and personalities.

My parents never really gave me the idea I had to keep many secrets from them anyway. They weren’t bigots, they weren’t religious, there weren’t really any taboos at all, so we could talk about anything and I was never severely punished for things. Sure, they’d get mad sometimes or disappointed, but I was never afraid of them. We could talk about anything. And even when they were mad, I knew I could go into my room and they wouldn’t barge in after me without my permission. Privacy was always respected.

I don’t know if I’m the only one, but this makes me kind of sad. Obviously he likes you, because trust me, you wouldn’t get an invitation to meet his family otherwise, but it seems to me he’s internalized some really… fucked up crap if he can’t admit it to himself. He keeps having to convince himself that he’s definitely not gay, which is something that’s usually not done by people who accept themselves and who are accepted by their loved ones.

A few serious conversations might be needed here.

But poor people used to have plenty of kids. And it’s not like every child had a bright and happy future full of hope and certainty hundreds of years ago, what with wars, plagues, famines and whatever else. Terrible infant and maternal mortality rates. People still had kids. Because they kinda sorta didn’t have a choice. Now they do.

Poor people are still poor. The world is still fucked up. Humans are still hating and murdering each other over bullshit. The specific situations may be different but it’s pretty much the same shit. The difference is choice.

Edit: I am not saying that cost matters not at all, for everyone, but if it was really about cost then rich people would have more children than poor people and they most definitely don’t.

I think it has a very simple explanation, but I doubt many people will agree with me.

I think it proves that humans simply do not have an inherent urge to procreate. Humans have the urge to have sex, sure, and for a long time having sex carried the consequence of having children, but they are not the same thing. When people are able to survive without children and have the CHOICE to not have children, many simply don’t want to.

In the past people needed many children, because many of them died before adulthood, and they needed the rest to take care of them in old age. Women didn’t have the right to say no and many needed husbands to provide for them, since they couldn’t own their own property or even have jobs. When men wanted sex, women had to comply and without birth control they automatically got pregnant, whether they wanted to or not.

I think not having the option to choose, people had children because… that’s just the way it was.

Now people have a choice. And we see what choices they make.

I’m sure many people are going to argue that it is too expensive to have kids, but let’s be honest here. Most humans on earth today are orders of magnitude more prosperous than 400 years ago, for example. If people really wanted kids, they’d have them.

Many people simply don’t want kids and maybe it’s time we finally acknowledge it.

There are only a few groups of people who still have lots of children: the very poor in underdeveloped countries and the very religious. And note that in many of these cases people don’t really have a choice.

The Netherlands has had digital ID (DigiD) since 2005 or something. It’s basically just a government account that allows you to do official stuff online, like your tax returns. You’re not forced to use or even have a DigiD, but it does make some things easier because you can do all your government business online in stead of filling out papers or having to visit actual buildings.

Sadly I can’t use mine at the moment, because I switched phone numbers when I moved to another country and forgot to change it, and now my multi-step verification won’t work and I’d have to go there to ID myself in person to reactivate it. :p

Edit: Was curious so looked it up. DigiD has existed in the Netherlands since 2003, though the name was changed to DigiD in 2004.

Barely anyone in this topic acknowledges the actual reason: They lied about not using genAI and were disqualified when the lie was revealed.

Oh absolutely. You can’t agree with someone 100% of the time. Or well, you can, but it’s rare. ;)

You’re obviously right, there is no absolute free speech and there shouldn’t be, imo. I see Lemmy a bit in the same way I see my real life. Everyone has rules in their own house and if you want to be invited in, you’ll have to live by them. If you don’t want to do that, that’s fine, but you can’t expect them to keep inviting you - and you’re welcome to go to another party where another group of people might not be invited.

Does this mean there are instances where I won’t be welcome? Sure. But it also means there are instances where I won’t be forced to see/read things I really don’t want to see. I can’t speak for anyone else, of course, but in my experience it’s perfectly possible (with few exceptions) for me to say what I want, as long as I sometimes go about it with a little tact (but the fact that I don’t want to be a huge asshole probably helps. ;))

My point is this: SPEECH IS NEVER FREE. Not in the way you mean, i.e. without consequences. Find me one place in the entire world where you can say whatever you want without any consequences. I’ll wait.

In your daily life you can also say what you want. People might get pissed at you, refuse to talk to you, break off friendships, get you fired from your job if you go too far, whatever. That’s just life. What you say and do has consequences. Even online. Even at Lemmy.

Freedom of speech means your government won’t arrest you and lock you up for your opinions, but any other consequences in your social circle, for example, are just that. When you’re an asshole, people will think you’re an asshole. Sounds normal to me. And if you’re surrounded by assholes, they will act like assholes no matter what you say. If an instance has values so diametrically opposed to yours that they end up banning you, then good riddance, no? Edit: E.g. getting thrown out of a Nazi bar is no huge loss.

Yes. And why is this wrong? You can also kick someone out of your house if they say crap you don’t want to hear. This is not the government, there can still be consequences to what you say.

You are free to still use Lemmy though, which is infinitely better than a site-wide reddit ban. You are free to say what you want and individual instances can decide whether they want to platform you. I don’t see any issues with this.

And if you really get banned from so many instances that using Lemmy becomes impossible, then might I suggest a fucking mirror so you can see the irredeemable asshole looking back?

The big difference is that while you can be banned from one instance, you can still use the rest of Lemmy.

You’re free to say what you want, but individual instances can decide whether they want to platform you. I prefer this over reddit-wide bullshit bans.

Or you could say that I don’t want absolutely garbage people in my house. Why on earth would I want a bunch of racists in my house? And why would I be forced to accept it just because we share a few genes?

If you wouldn’t accept something from your friends or your chosen family, you sure as hell don’t have to accept it from blood relatives. Blood relatives aren’t special. They don’t deserve special treatment. You don’t get to pick your family; you get stuck with them. Not everyone is lucky enough to have decent people in their family.

I think they just misread Portland for Poland. That’s where the misunderstanding lies.

Hmm, there are quite a few of those, I think. Let’s see.

Bioshock reveal. A man chooses, a slave obeys.

First time talking to Sovereign in Mass Effect, oh and the ending sequences from going through the Conduit and Sovereign attacking the Citadel, the Alliance fleet coming through. The cinematics and music were just so well done.

D:OS2, fighting Alexander when Battle for Divinity starts playing. Or the end fight, with Sins and Gods. The soundtrack was a delight.

The Witcher 3, the first time you arrive in Skellige, the landscape and the music, it just made me feel these things, it was beautiful.

The Deep Roads in Dragon Age:Origins, when Hespith starts reciting her poem and the Broodmother afterwards. Oh dear lord, I still remember the first time I was there, it was so fucking creepy. “First day they come and catch everyone.” Truly superb.

In Kingdom Come: Deliverance, when you’re forced to flee Skalitz, but you’re so incredibly noob that you can barely ride a horse, and you realize this game is different from many others, because you’re really just a nobody without any skills - and you’ll stay a nobody, pretty much. This entire game was a joy to me.

There are also some games that are entire masterpieces, where I can’t really pick a single moment but the entire game would count, for example Disco Elysium, a true masterpiece. This game made me experience the entire rainbow of human emotions. Another example would be Deus Ex, which to me will never get old, however bad the graphics might be.

Let’s stop here, before this turns into simply a list of my favorite games. :D

I agree she is amazing, but Andrew Wincott’s Raphael is just so phenomenal, for me it’ll only ever be him.

Outside of BG3, I guess I would also say Claudia Black, Jennifer Hale and Lenval Brown (the narrator of Disco Elysium, he is so good!).

I have no idea why anyone would downvote you, because you’re absolutely right.

As they should be.

Not to be thát person, but Archduke Franz Ferdinand was not a Serb, he was Austrian. Even though Austria-Hungary did annex Bosnia and Herzegovina in the late 19th century, Franz Ferdinand was not born there - in fact he was born before the annexation.

Unless you mean his killer, but then your wording is a little off and I would say “murder BY a Serbian.” Even so, the ethnicity of the murderer wasn’t really as important as his target. ;)

Yeah seriously. Whenever I do a late or a night shift, this guy will think I’m a leeching immigrant. Or maybe he won’t, because my skin isn’t the right color for that?

Besides, I’m from the Netherlands and I’ve known more native “leechers” than immigrant ones.