Elderos

Elderos , 5 months ago to Today I Learned in TIL about Earl Silverman, a domestic abuse survivor who founded a shelter for men. It was denied funding from the government and he was ridiculed. The shelter went bankrupt and he died by suicide

How so?

Elderos , 5 months ago to politics in Democrats seize on Iowa results to campaign on threats posed by Trump

Cult mentality

Elderos , 5 months ago to SNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit. in Reddit is so untrustworthy. r/modcoord thread purges all pro-fediverse comments, then r/redditalternatives removes the thread exposing it.

Figuring this shit out is a lot of work to be honest. Even a truthful source can be misleading as hell by omitting important context. Just like for hardware review, or video game review, or whatever, I try to find someone whose reporting omit nothing on some stuff I heavily researched (it's rare), and only then I feel comfortable weighting in their report on the stuff I know less about.

On the other hand, a lot of people just eat everything up from some random source they grew up with because the alternative is a lot of work, mentally and emotionally.

That being said, there is a certain point where listening to those people's opinions stop being fruitful. Hence, I don't really care about any extremist views in places like Lemmy.

Elderos , 9 months ago to Linux in It either runs on Linux or refund

It is almost always due to the anticheat programs.

Elderos , 10 months ago to Ask Lemmy in Reddit users who switched to Lemmy, what is the most annoying thing you have seen about Lemmy users?

I made the mistake of mentionning social democracy once. This was followed by the most pedantic, insufferable and useless argument I have ever had on the internet. I had better discussions with wall. This was first and last time I was replying to those comments. It is easy to ignore anyway. Sometime you learn the hard way.

Elderos , 10 months ago to Asklemmy in What's some really unpopular opinion you have?

It is very hard to have rational disccussion when people disagree on the basic observable facts, ignore the "rules" of debate, and are struggling with critical thinking. You can meet difficult people on all the political spectrum, but certain idealogy attract more difficult people, and certain stuff mainstream conservatives believe right now has absolutely no basis in reality.

Elderos , 10 months ago to politics in Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024

and millions are claiming the democrats are radicals, little do they know that the country was more progressive on certain fronts 50 years ago. So they have to resort to blaming gays and trans, because everything else about the current staye of the country is kinda right-wingy to begin with.