I’ll write something here later probably. In the meantime, hi to whoever’s reading this I hope you get a chance to enjoy something kind today :)

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Cake day: February 3rd, 2025

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  • Roblox needs to be burned down for the situations they knowingly put kids into to be honest

    FFS I’m showing my age here but Webkinz had a strict locked down, easily revocable parental opt-in requirement for anything resembling typed chat, and the default was a drop-down menu of innocuous stuff that meant nobody could exchange information to go onto other platforms. Roblox could do something like that but shoving data vulnerability onto parents and kids is a sleazy cop out.

    Platforms that advertise openness to kids should be held to stricter standards, for sure.



  • Woah wtf? Sis you okay?

    I got no vibes of right wing propaganda (unless I missed something??). You’re just, for lack of a way to put it, blazingly, unapologetically heterosexual lol.

    Just bc most Lemmy posters lean LGB, doesn’t mean you sharing your POV is an offense :( from what I’ve seen you’ve been nothing but super sweet and refreshingly candid. You’re not obligated to stay here ofc but I do hope you find some joy whatever you decide. Please don’t feel apologetic for being you! /gen /pos













  • Yeah it’s ignoring the cultural and definitional heuristics inherent in language, and provides an almost circular argument. “It is because of the way it is and that’s just how it is.”

    “They’re behaving in a frustratingly willfully ignorant and dangerously selfish way to the point I can’t distinguish it from malice” is not something I can concisely say half a dozen times on my commute to and from work. (Examples include: braking to an almost dead stop in the middle lane on an open highway, refusing to use their blinkers multiple times in a row, nearly cutting off the front of my vehicle while doing so even though I’m willing to give them space, etc.) I’m also not assuming everyone is “stupid” either; in my example my spirits are lifted when other drivers obey traffic laws and the surrounding social contract.

    We also can’t fucking mind-read so it’s not unrealistic to put a temporary mental marker on whether or not someone is worth spending more emotional and mental effort around. The use of shortened language to describe a situation is not the same as dismissing someone or something wholesale and to assert a wholesale assumption on others for a perceived behavior is directly contradictory to the author’s argument.