tankies are left in exactly the same way North Korea is democratic

What maroon wrote this drivel?

this typo makes me unreasonably happy, and i have no idea why! it’s just so…whimsical! :D

how surprising! /s

but seriously, it’s almost never one (1) thing that goes wrong when some idiotic mandate gets handed down from management.

a manager that mandates use of copilot (or any tool unfit for any given job), that’s a manager that’s going to mandate a bunch of other nonsensical shit that gets in the way of work. every time.

is there a modern equivalent that describes “i function differently from NTs, but am generally able to live my life without special accomodations”?

because i’ve been described as high functioning and never really thought much about it, but the nazi connection is…uncomfortable…

i guess “asshole” fits

i know you probably weren’t looking for a swearword, but…well…if it fits ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

and let’s be real…the people you’re referring to tend to be ignorant by choice, offensive, and generally unpleasant…

ah, that’s what it was!

i was pretty confused by the cc, thought i got caught in some drama there!

all good, thanks for the clarification!

yo, read my comment again.

it wasn’t specifically about the ban drag received:

my comment was only in reference to the mass bans of any remotely positive, or even just neutral (and my case not even directly connected) comment about luigi…

it has nothing to do with any ableist or bigoted shit, just about the ridiculous zealotry by the .world mods specifically about “promoting violence” and making up rules on the spot, on violation of the .world ToS and rules of conduct, which explicitly state that ban should always cite the rule being broken.

i know exactly nothing about drags behavior that led to their ban, but since i do know how trigger happy .world mods are about luigi comments and posts, i made the assumption that it was just that.

thank you for providing the relevant context.

that said, please keep in mind that my comment is not in support of drag and their behavior, and is instead solely a criticism of the general mod behavior on .world and asklemmy specifically.

honestly shouldn’t be surprised, the ask[thing] communities tend to have overzealous moderation on any platform…

that’s all of .world…

.world has some really odd ideas about “promoting violence”, especially given that there are literally nazis marching the streets in the U.S. and germany…like, the nazis can scream “kill all the [insert slur]!” on the streets just fine, but woe be the anti-fascist on .world that says that maybe, just maybe, it’s time to do something about, you know, THE NAZIS.

“a lot of people wanted to” doesn’t matter on a corpo platform.

but if a greedy little pig-boy wants something gone, THAT matters.

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so did Mao, see this comment

that’s because they are forced to by the yt algorithm: you flat out cannot run a business on yt without resorting to clickbait titles, stupid thumbnails, and a bit of sensationalization, because the algorithm will deprioritize your video and unfairly limit your viewership if you don’t do those things.

Steve’s videos are generally very much dry, factual reporting using fairly neutral language; or in other words: really decent reporting!

if you want to complain about some tech youtuber doing the exact things you complain about, look at linus and jay…

there’s some good reasons why steve is one of only a handful of tech channels i still subscribe to…

alright, then we’re talking about slightly different things: i was talking exclusively about the similar kind of government contracts…those are, afaik, almost entirely gone.

the EU contracts i know nothing about, but it’s gonna create the same problems if they’re structured similarly to the local governmental ones…

government employees rarely make more than private employees.

what they are getting mixed up is that some tenured positions get paid about 2x that of a new employee, because there are still some old contracts around that are simply much better than newer one in terms of pay raises over time.

and those older government contracts frequently include provisions that make these employees contracts impossible to terminate, resulting in some government employees that simply sit out their time on a stupidly inflated salary that nobody can fire…yes, that’s as bad as it sounds, but those contracts are, as far as im aware, no longer being offered anywhere, and the last ones to get those contracts are going to age out into retirement very soon. most are already retired.

it’s not related to corruption at all either, these contracts used to be standard in many governments all over the world, europe just happened to have some of the cushiest jobs associated with them…

but it is true that these employees generally contributed a LOT to governmental inefficiencies…which is why they’re no longer available.

like that other comment said: it’s not for everyone.

some kids are gonna love it, some are gonna hate it.

target demographics for products aren’t monoliths ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

it’s about being able to read emotions:

a large portion of autistic people have trouble reading emotions in others.

that’s why they’re often drawn to things like books, comics, animated content, theater, and, like in this example, robots that clearly express their emotions.

speaking for myself (diagnosed ASD), it’s the ambiguity that bothers me more than anything. i like it when things are nice and clear, neatly organized, and generally don’t require a lot of attention to interpret.

interpreting the environment is taxing enough, adding a lot of emotional interpreting on top can quickly get overwhelming, which leads to poor mood, performance, and ultimately just straight-up headaches…again, this isn’t a hunch, it was part of the ASD diagnostic test.

so i can imagine how much easier it is for kids with similar problems to relate emotionally to something that shows it’s emotions in clear, easily recognizable ways, rather than having to guess constantly. that constant guessing gets real tiring, real quick…

“women’s only cars” aren’t really much of a thing… there’s like, a handful of places in the entire world that have them; they’re super rare.

only: it was NOT random.

that’s the part you refuse to acknowledge.

mother of slippery slope…

everything you’ve said so far takes place in some fantasy world that exists only within your own imagination.

the law failed. the democratic process failed.

your argument boils down to: “please let’s just give the tyrants everything they want from us! it’s the law!”

seriously, is this your first day on earth?

do you simply lack any and all perspective?

and to top it all off: the sheer disregard you show for the countless lives this CEO cut short is frankly breathtaking.

you claim to care for all human life and think everyone deserves a fair trial. that’s well amd good…how could that possibly have ever happened under the current state of affairs in the u.s.? when HAS it ever happened? what makes you think it possibly could?

this was the only way that murderer would ever face justice, and deep down you know that.

of course there’s hypocrisy here:

you are treating the choices of the two people in question as equal. they are not.

the CEO was in a position of power, abused that power, and suffered the consequences. that is justice fulfilled. not the preferred kind, but still justice.

apart from that, the democratic process spectacularly failed, on this exact topic: obama DID try to enact healthcare reform, but was blocked at every step.

if voting does absolutely nothing, you’re not leaving people a whole lot of options.

the justice system does nothing to help, the voting process has failed to help…what is then left?

this isn’t some horrific, abstract, morally ambigous consequence of a cascade of nebulous events.

there is a very clear cause and effect.

push a boulder off a hilltop; it will roll downhill.

leave a person no other option, but violence; it will end in violence.

it’s a strictly logical consequence.

there is no moral ambiguity here at all. it was a clearly warranted action, with known causes.

cause and effect is a matter of physics, not philosophy.

if you want to blame anyone, blame the republicans: they are the guilty ones here. they are directly responsible for the circumstances that allowed this situation to happen in the first place.

yes, it’s not an ideal outcome.

but it was inevitable, sooner or later. and it’s frankly amazing it hasn’t happened MUCH sooner, and MUCH more often.

this wasn’t a “flaw” in the “democratic” system of the U.S. this is a consequence of the oligarchy working as intended. the intent just happens to be self-destructive in this case.

what this CEO did, was the equivalent of smoking at a gas station; are you really surprised he got blown to bits?

i guess it really comes down to: Fuck Around; Find Out.

well…he did find out, didn’t he?

(and don’t assume i’m a U.S. citizen. it doesn’t matter, and i’m not.)