On Bluesky I’m on a list called “Tankies and their followers”

Hey guys! We’ve invented the Dead Person Simulator from that Black Mirror episode “Don’t Invent Dead Person Simulators!”

This has happened to me on Lemmy and Reddit too. I forget what it was I said - an instance where it seemed to me Russia was technically in the right about something - and there was a big old pile on and many downvotes. I think the assumption was “agree with Russia on anything and you’re wrong about everything”

Yeah. Even if it turns out everything was consensual, he’s still a wrongun. Pratchett apparently said privately he wished he’d never had anything to do with him.

Oh yeah, and a bunch of his characters were plagiarised too - Sandman was apparently a ripoff of some penniless authors work and he never gave her a shoutout despite her practically begging. Also he’s not paid people for work they’ve done for him, but I forget the details. I think that was more a misunderstanding (he thought they were just doing him a favour as friends)

This is Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google/YouTube, Netflix, iTunes, Adobe (someone carry on the list for me)

Could someone explain the joke to me?

Study computer programming for years.

Maybe so, but if I didn’t know that, millions of other people won’t know that either

You’re a psychologist, so perhaps put yourself on Fiverr offering discount therapy?

I think if you’re looking for jobs at Wal-Mart, remove your degree from your resume. It’s a signal you can leave if and when something better comes up.

“No politics” knocks out probably my top 50 declarations. Not sure if this crosses that line, but I’d like to put something out there about the importance of community, and the benefits of getting to know your neighbours.

Just simple things like… not everyone in your street needs to buy their own lawnmower or power-drill. You can club together and buy one. Less waste, cheaper for everyone, you can take turns as and when.

I have not, and I’ve got the privilege that I can walk the streets at night without the fear of it even crossing my mind.

I do have a vague fear of getting mugged or beaten up, and even the threat of the latter played on my mind almost daily for about a year after it happened, so I’d imagine it (or SA) actually happening to me would last a fair bit longer and the intrusive memories be even more intensely horrible

Of course not - this is very much hypothetical. I’m more interested in whether people think emotional/psychological trauma would be worse than lifelong physical trauma

I do wonder if the proliferation of True Crime podcasts is, possibly, down to shadowy funding of some sort.

I don’t listen to them anymore myself, not because they’re not gripping, because a lot of them really are, but because it effectively turns victims of horrible crimes into profitable entertainment, and I don’t want to be a party to that.

(I wish I was smart enough I’d come to that conclusion myself, but no - it was other podcasts and an episode of Black Mirror that pointed that out to me)

Very good point

Kidnap was what the meme said

Genuine question here, am not trying to be edgy or controversial: Which would you least like to happen - be raped, or lose the use of a limb in a road accident?

As a cishet man, I’d take the former (assuming no HIV etc)

One in a hundred? No, of course not. One in five million? Actually, still no, because I don’t like sweets very much. But lets replace the sweets with 20oz wagyu steaks… and yes, I think I would!

The tragedy here is that so many women are terrified of unknown men. A real culture of fear we’ve got going, which serves to isolate almost everybody.

I’m not completely naive - I know this stuff does happen - but the chances of being kidnapped are far lower than, say, being in a road traffic accident, and yet billions of people drive daily without a second thought, without fear, just assuming everything will be fine.

Why, I oughtta

Speak for yourself. I have 3mm of sheer perfection