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Not sure if it’s available in Lemmy. Devs and admins can probably say more

Not only is it gross, it’s also enough to jail you since you technically store and distribute these materials.

Laws didn’t really update for the Fediverse.

With general respect to what is written, I don’t like the “it’s encrypted so it’s a non-issue” approach. Sure, data has to be exchanged for many operations - including crypto transactions - but the best model of privacy is when the unnecessary data does not get sent anywhere in the first place.

Encryption can and eventually will be broken, it can also be implemented wrongly, the devices themselves can be hacked or taken by somebody etc.

Not sending the data always beats sending the encrypted one as far as privacy is concerned.

I totally agree with you that gender wars are artificial and meant to distract people from the core issues. Divide and conquer kinda thing.

But that sits exactly at the core of my initial argument. Blaming wide groups of people, among other things, provides completely unnecessary wars out of thin air.

This doesn’t deny the fact that people of each gender may face issues that are gender-specific to some degree. Men are more likely to be socially isolated, women are more likely to become victims of sexual abuse, etc. etc. This doesn’t mean we should measure who has it worse, but it has to be taken into consideration if we want to correct the course and make everyone actually equal. In this case, we need to address specific sources of male loneliness, as there are some factors unique to men that lead to this.

People acting on gender issues together, not as two divided groups, is a great exercise in civil power and unity, which is helpful for any revolutionary activity.

Absolutely! Everyone gets lonelier as we are getting divided; it’s just that it’s even harder on men specifically, as there are additional factors at play. But it doesn’t mean women don’t experience similar things.

That’s how you know she should be your wife :)

But really, this should be more normalized. I’ve heard the opinion that many men see compliments as a way to show sympathy when that wasn’t intended, but I think this is exactly because it’s so rare.

My girlfriend also takes time to compliment me, and I appreciate it.

Valid perspective; but I think it’s quite clearly implied given the scale of the issue. The male loneliness is real, and shouldn’t be written off as shit misogynists say, even if it was popularized by them. This kind of discarding might hurt men who have nothing to do with misogynistic talking points, opinions, or actions.

Ah, the classic generalization of men and women as singular groups where everyone acts as one.

There are certain shitty men who objectify women and play alphas. There is the general category of men who get shitted at because of it, whether they belong to the former or not.

Sure, being afraid of the shitty folks is a valid reason to be cautious around everyone, as you can’t easily tell one from the other. But saying that all men just made this stuff up while being total asses wouldn’t be fair or helpful.

To be clear: there is a male loneliness epidemic driven by ever increasing caution about men overall. Men are often unfairly denied attention they need because they are seen as potential dangers by women and might be ridiculed for speaking out about their feelings by men (which, in turn, do it to protect themselves from the same treatment in an unhealthy patriarchal culture).

This is not healthy; moreover, being in that state of loneliness and frustration is prone to radicalizing people, making sayings about dangerous men a self-fulfilling prophecy in one case, and just causing a lot of misery in the other.

If you’re a woman, I’d suggest giving a bit of attention to the men around you. There is a million of untold stories there, and making someone open up to you for the first time is a great and rewarding experience. Or just…be there, and that will be appreciated.

It’s often tempting to say “this X is screwed, let’s start all over again”. But deep relationships are not formed that way.

Between any people, there will be points of tension, and if this calls you to quit, you risk never to get to the point of stable long-lasting relationships.

May it be that they need to break up? Yes. Does it have to be? No.

Interestingly, often times it was the old users who were the most toxic as a result of this, aggressively citing Eternal September and going elitist.

So, we can do a lot to prepare on our end.

Firefox is bad, Brave is evil. Why did they decide switching is a good idea?

That would be plausible if not for “X” (as in “ex” on the pic)

And a lot of previously cis people now being trans

Oof, monkey’s paw vibes right there

governmentjobs* But yeah, nice one!

Filelight is about finding the folders you don’t use that take a lot of space. Basically an easier way to look into which folder takes up what.

Today I learned

Zen for regular activities (I pin all important services), Firefox for browsing for something else.

GNU IceCat is also amazing as concept, but generally unusable since it ends up blocking too much and manually allowing everything is a hassle. But still, the pages that work are clean, and I love that by default the browser doesn’t do anything without your permission - it doesn’t even connect to update and telemetry services, it has 0 connections on startup, unlike almost anything (qutebrowser does the same, but, unless you are a strong Vim fanboy, you won’t like the experience).

I see your point, thanks!

but seriously, go metric already, nearly an entire world managed to (light-hearted)