Yes. It would be necessary to live a modern life, given almost everything we use/eat comes from some unethical source. We abstain from the things that are important to us, according to our values. Lyrically if a song does not itself promote [terrible thing] then the music can be separated from an artist that does.

However if it is important to you that your listening does not generate income for those people, don’t listen to their music in apps (eg Spotify, who pays based on plays), nor on their official YT channels (which are likely monetised).

Also, be mindful that playing/listening to it around others is a form of ‘conspicuous consumption’, one of many ways our actions become ‘Word of Mouth’ advertising. This may lead others to believe you support the artists specifically, and depending on their values, they may be derisive or hostile. (Or, they agree with [terrible thing] and believe you are alike.)

Dual-weilding plushies

Tbh I’d be concerned if he was raped while drunk or unconscious. It is, unfortunately, not so rare. If so, then as far as she’s concerned that’s ‘sex together’. A lot of women perpetrators do not consider themselves rapists because it’s ‘non-violent’ or they believe theyre doing the man a favour.

Yeah turns out it wasn’t anonymity, that was estimated because the internet has a greater amoun of dickery than real life.

But really, Assholes online are also assholes in real life. Same for kibd people. What the internet did was allow assholes find and network with each other, and make environment uncomfoetable enough that kind people leave. Only assholes are left.

LEFT TIT AND RIGHT TIT

Ketheric is evil because… he wants a hug? Brushed concrete? I do not follow

Oh no, the mines will be so bad for my authentic supple human skin, and my favourite mammilian activity of breathing air

Why not, it worked for porn, alcohol, and video games right? Teens don’t consume those anymore, so I’m sure teenagers will return to the old days of showing up on each other’s doorsteps right away.

Meantime, the service can continue unimpeded for the rest of us. Adults can continue to get their daily AI slop and political scaremongering. Amen

Lol the points are so fuckall, buy $1000 groceries for 10c level of fuckall. It’s the “discounts” (ie: actual RRP) we want

Very good, but be warned it can occassionally generate codes for cards that haven’t been activated yet. It freaks out the machines and therefore summons a person. Speaking from experience

This. Bsky has the tech for federation, but the technical hoops are more than most can handle. So everybody is absolutely centralized on the bsky.social instance.

I think one person has managed to establish a second instance that jumps through Bsky’s hoops, but only one – almost everybody is still on bsky.social and will likely continue to be.

The reality is that a person in a cult leaves it quietly. At the start of the process, they have doubts and fears but repeat the mantras about how they’re still absolutely a member of the cult.

And we’re seeing that. We’re seeing people upset about what’s happening, yet claiming they still support him. That’s what a person leaving a cult actually looks like – doubt, self-assurance, and then quietly quesstioning it whilst acting to their peers that they’re still believers. They’re not necessarily aware that this is the beginning of them leaving, many want their leader to reassure them of those doubts, and get slowly unsettled when they don’t.

If you ask them point-blank if they renounce their faith, they’re not willing to admit it publicly. That’s too real. They’ll just slowly fade away, and try to live like it didn’t happen.

Which means if you want people to leave a cult, you have to let them do it quietly. Even if its hard, if you’re angry and want to punish them. If they’re giving up a community they know accepts them, it won’t be to join a community that never will.

Ahh, just normal body variance. Guess I’ve been brainwashed into expecting pitcher’s mitts lmao

I like em dashes. I learned the alt code for en and em dashes just so I could use them easily on a computer. There is a difference between a hypen and an en dash, and a double-hyphen is but a simulacrum of the em dash!

• Hyphen is just for double-barrelled words
• An en dash is useful – at least sometimes – for inserting side thoughts
• ah boy I sure hope an em dash doesn’t interrupt m—

But let’s be real, I type kinda formally, like an AI, sooo

This is absolutely a meaningless tangent but why do his hands look so small in this photo. I thought he was holding them tiny novelty hands at first.

Is this a focal length illusion? Am I just used to photos with a short focal distance and this is a zoomed shot or something?

The people who are first to review are those that strobgly dislike it and closed it early (or with some point to make). Everybody that strongly likes it is busy enjoying it and won’t review until they take a break or are done.

Give it time and see the reviews in a couple days.

Seems obvious to me that if you deport a lit of people, there are less people to deport. That’ll be a reason why so many justifications for deporting additional citizens.

Perhaps it’s likely that less people are entering the country now than were a year ago, what with the conditions there and all.

Cash is expensive for stores to manage, count, and sort. That’s the actual reason they want it gone, not tracking. Sure, we’re being tracked, but that’s not the point. Thanks to our phones, our personal lives have already been completely disseminated.

Cashless is about making things easier for businesses that struggle with handling cash. A cashless society acts like consuming goods from those businesses is the only reason money exists, and that’s wrong.

Cards themselves have been very useful. They’re much lighter and harder to steal money than carrying hundreds in cash in your pockets.

It’s cashless that is a concern, not the existence of cards.

What happens when an abused person has to escape a partner/parent who controls all the money? Where do they go, what food and board are they getting?

How do small traders set up garage sales and marketer stands, especially if they don’t want to give cuts of their money to corporate giants Eftpos and Visa?

How do those with impulsively/memory issues (such as ADHD, dementia, and teenagers) manage the abstraction of their money, leading them to accidentally overspending/overdrafts?

How do you spot a stranger in need a bus fare home?

How do we support the street artists and buskers?

…I don’t like the idea of cashless. My country already uses eftpos and visa as the norm (so ofc we all pay those overseas companies their fees). But while wide accepting of the card is good and useful, true cashless has issues of usability. It’s not just ‘something something government tracking spending’.

Vulnerable people fall through the gaps, and it means people make a lot more consumer transactions and a lot fewer personal ones.