[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

There's definitely some information that I've shared that is probably not in my best interest, so I understand being the type of person who tells people almost anything. I'm pretty much an open book with close friends and family. It's one reason I like to avoid sites like Facebook and use sites that emphasize anonymity more. Sometimes I have to keep myself safe from myself lol

[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

I'm a big advocate of privacy, but it's good to ask these questions. We shouldn't shame people for asking.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

"Your honor, I deny this person their right to liberty on the grounds that I am able to profit by restricting it."

[-] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You'd tell them because the law might not consider your activities illegal at this time. But what about trans kids? What about people who have abortions? Unfortunately, we can't trust any state or legal system to continue to have our best interests in mind.

Better that we normalize a free and private internet now while we still have the privilege of saying "I'd tell them..." And if you'd tell them, then great! But that should be your choice, your agency. It shouldn't be data that we expect to have collated about us just by visiting a site online.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

None of this is a critique of ideologies like syndicalism and anarcho-communism, so it's still a pretty ignorant meme that conflates Soviet communism with all forms of communism.

None of this disproves what people like Peter Kropotkin and Emma Goldman were writing about, whose worldviews do not disenfranchise such groups.

I also heartily disagree with your take about private farms. The options you think you have with "private property" are a scam.

[-] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago

I've never understood how this is supposed to be some big own to communism. You'd still refer to it as "my farm," even as I refer to the community where I live as "my city" and the jobs I've worked to benefit some capitalist bozo as "my job." This is even worse than Ben Shapiro popping out of a well. In many ways, I think I'd feel more ownership as part of a community vs. the facade of "private property."

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Well, shiver me timbers!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Thank you for putting into words why watermarks annoy me. Well said.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The father finds a bible, then screams at the daughter to get pregnant and have an abortion immediately.

It's by an unhinged right-wing artist who made this unironically

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Bee (and I cannot stress this enough) haw

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I'm so proud of my second cousin! First of all, he's always been a super nice guy but was raised in a rather regressive place.

Now he's in his 60s, but he came to our town to visit my parents with his boyfriend, and I'm so happy for him! At last, I'm not the oldest out member of my family anymore XD

But I'm so happy for him, I just had to share my joy!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Same here, my friend. I have a feeling that anyone who can is already doing so, or at least have a second car or something they can sell if times get hard. Most of us don't have shit to fall back on.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure I mindlessly checked out just as often. I cringe thinking about how I just used to watch TV ads without batting an eye. Imagine being numb to that.

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I have three Lemmy accounts, but I've started considering this one my home server.

I feel like the admins of this server are very invested in making this a good, friendly community. The culture at Beehaw is pretty consistently amicable and helpful, even when people have differences or need to vent.

It's also been pretty reliable with little downtime, and we have the cutest server-themed art to greet us even when things are temporarily offline.

I feel sometimes like I'm the meanest person here, because everyone is so nice. I'd go so far to say it makes me want to be a better person.

I've left so many online spaces because a lot of them turn out to be bad for me, but Beehaw is great. So buzz, buzz, buzz everyone, and thanks to the people who keep this place running!

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I love beehaw, but I also liked supporting lemmy.one because the owner was a super good person who contributed a lot to the privacy community. I had my alt account there and even donated a couple times.

I noticed it's been inaccessible lately, and I'm hoping it didn't get shut down.

After FMHY and now this, I'm starting to have concerns about the volatility of the fediverse.

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For me, it used to be my career. Without going into detail, it was a public service type occupation where I could really help people. However, I was battling depression, anxiety, and addiction, and after being hospitalized and jailed multiple times, I lost that career. Even while I was going through all that dark stuff, I felt great at my job helping people, and I feel like I was good at it.

Now, I have a different career that I still feel good about doing, but I can never shake the feeling that I'll somehow mess this one up too, eventually. My doctor told me I have to be active, so I took up longboarding. I still have bad depression with frequent bouts of suicidal thoughts, but when I'm on a bicycle or longboard, that's the only time I feel really at peace with myself. I wish I could feel like that all the time.

Do you have things you do that make you feel like that? Like you're really free?

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