Wealth Inequality on it’s own, is a problem almost nobody but the middle, lower-middle and the poor will address. It has to start here. Nobody should amass the amount of money we see individuals possess. If someone understands how far a single million could stretch for someone (provided they’re responsible that is), they would understand how pointless it’d be for someone to have even 10 million or 100 million or even a single billion.

And if anyone gave two shits about the seven deadly sins, the idea of accumulating more money should be a more frowned-upon thing. But instead, gaining more money equals to you being more powerful than most. That’s not how things should ever be. There should be a cap of how much money you should realistically earn up to. We’ve already seen the damage and continuing to see the damage afflicted, by incredibly rich people. They’re too dangerous to be wielding that much.

The passing of cyberbullying laws only helped, but not really to the effect lawmakers probably had hoped it would. The real story of the matter is how utterly out of tune tons of politicians are to everything that happens in the internet, aside from wanting to take it over for the sake of capitalism and surveillance. All the while letting Big Tech do whatever it wants because they’re the ones who understand the internet far better than a politician could.

And even that not factoring into it, a lot of moderators and admins have trouble finding the middle ground. They are either too lenient or too strict, almost no in-between. Being a moderator is basically a virtual janitor that does not pay anything and being an admin is where you could be paying for something but getting no return. There’s no room in either position for them to properly evaluate things.

Disagree. I say since the progression of the internet and how it became more accessible, was the day everyone has gotten ruder.

As I always said, give a person a computer, internet access and tell them the anonymity you’ll have online. Watch them flip their character around as they turn into absolute assholes to people online.

Exactly. That’s how we got Patriot Acts I and II.

This is not a bug, this is a feature. An intended feature.

Where did I ever say or imply that Chrome is the only option? A lot of you just misinterpret me on purpose, downvote parade galore just to stomp all over someone to make yourselves feel good about it. God, people really are this fucking stupid.

Actually, let’s hope he doesn’t try to bring back the military draft so he can force people to fight wars he fucking starts. Because he’s looking to start a whole lot of them down the road.

It’s a huge reflection to the time people didn’t want to fight the wars Bush started, because the direction has been lost. We were losing lives in a war that had no directive. Whatever dumbfuck Trump does, not only will our army be horribly mislead, but they’ll be horribly misinformed too and we’ll lose even more lives because this dipshit will send anyone to fight those who he don’t like, probably including American citizens who criticize him.

Incase anyone out of the know about the head of EPA: Trump Ally, Ass-Kisser, Defending the shithead during the first impeachment hearing and sworn in after being selected by Trump. There you go.

Now you can not be surprised anymore.

AI is about as useful as when there was a movement to take away human assistants to troubleshoot issues and replacing them all with centralized hubs. These hubs are built with the assumption that they will answer everything and anything people have a concern with. However, their fundamental flaw is that they don’t cover every base and people are left with limited options. They can forget it and just live with it. They can just go through a few more hoops until they’re talking with a human.

And this kind of over-reliance on AI is what will turn people off from it. I’m seeing AI implemented in places where nobody asked it for it to be implemented in. Whereas, there are missed opportunities for AI to be implemented in but aren’t for some reason.

AI in of itself isn’t an entirely bad thing. It is just once again, another great idea, ruined by blind executors in big tech that just don’t get it.

I think part way into your post, you started leaning away from the question but I digress.

I haven’t dated in 2 years going 3 but that is simply because there’s too much going around me internally and externally to where I simply can’t afford a relationship. A relationship is starting to seem like a luxury of its own, in a way of like investing into it. If you don’t have anything in order in your life, why should you get into one? Because once you’re in a relationship, you are always spending in some form. Spending money or time or both, usually both.

Just try to avoid potential partners that want to date you because you’re succeeding in whatever career you pursue, because success can attract moochers and that’s something you don’t want that’ll bring things down. There are some people out there that do find people who’re focusing on careers or goals attractive and may want that since they’re also doing the same thing. Maybe that’s your type.

Short answer - Yes.

Republicans account for 13 government shutdowns, 8 all in Reagan’s terms. 1 under H.W Bush. 2 under Bill Clinton (when Republicans had both Senate/House with a Democratic president). 1 with Obama (with a bipartisan House/Senate split). 3 under Commander Dipshit and a looming one like this one.

So, a large majority of these shutdowns are of course caused by Republicans.

US still thinks it’s your fault, Zelenskyy. Now that the idiotic administration will see you meeting with the Saudi Prince, who’s to say that they’ll think you’re siding with terrorists now because they can’t differentiate reality from fiction? They don’t have your back right now. Russia will reject the ceasefire, US will still think it’s Ukraine’s fault, continue sucking Putin’s dick and stop supporting altogether.

If the Fediverse can avoid one big problem with other social media platforms and that is having a power-tripping owner destroy it. If any of the Fediverse platforms can avoid that one thing and manage to keep it’s values in check, then it’s no contest to avoid the other social media platforms.

I’m okay with republican states being harmed. They reap what they sow.

Because of course he would.

There is no reason to also keep wasting taxpayer dollars keeping murderers and worst criminals alive. People like you seem to be happy in doing that and actually believe they can be reformed. When, the large majority seems to disagree with you. You don’t have and never have had a solution to this. So what makes you think you’ve got a stance to abolish death penalties?

All that your kind seems to do is just waste people’s time with your runaround logic. It’s tiresome.

No, I’m done, I’m not going to hear more replies from people who I’ve exampled. There’s a reason things exist and you don’t want to accept that, fine, whatever. But you keep running around your own circular logic for all I care.

Critics fear Trump could use fraud reduction efforts as a pretext for cuts despite his assurances otherwise.

That is their entire intent. Whatever they don’t like, just brand it as something you don’t like, make it a problem and then deal with the problem. Regardless of what anyone thinks, you only make yourself look good.

I don’t agree that they should be eliminated. They’re there for a reason.

The problem is the unreasonable system we have in place. There had been stories of evidence provided to the judge that simply got ignored that would’ve proven innocence and the prisoner got killed still. That isn’t the flaw with the penalty, it’s a flaw with the poor decision making of the judges and everyone involved in the system.

I don’t understand what about that people don’t get when they advocate against death penalties. Advocate for a better and thorough justice system.

I’m going to assume you’re one of the downvoters and anyone else in this chain. I’m going to now auto-block. Bye.

The downvotes are idiotic fanboys who faithfully clutch Firefox like rosary beads because it isn’t chrome.

Why the fuck would anyone imply that I think Chrome is any better? It only tells me they’re fucking morons.