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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

Well the good news is that it's way less than half of humanity. Most of humanity consists of nice respectable people that sometimes have disagreements.

Then there is a sliver of criminals that steal your car, for example. These are assholes

Then there is a tiny sliver of narcissistic psychopathic people that steal everything, give back nothing, cause nothing but misery and death and then tell you it's your fault. These are the scum of the earth and we should leave them with nothing so that they know how it is.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 12 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I’m going to say like 95% of humanity. And I’m really talking worldwide, not just US. We have been made apathetic. The world would be better if the average person cared more.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I think a lot of it is overload from the Internet. Our brains are simply not designed to handle the unfathomably immense, endless torrent of information.

It happened on a much smaller scale before, the common trope of younger people being more idealistic and it generally fading away as the years go by. But now that progression is happening at hyper speed, and it's getting faster daily.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I am going to say 99% of the wealthy people in charge of media could care less about humanity. This creates an illusion that this is normal since all our media echoes their sentiments. The world would be a better place if they were not in charge.

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

the wealthy people in charge of media could not care less about humanity

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I will remember that for when I write a formal piece. Thanks Grammar Nazi!

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Grammar uber alles.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry I'm sucking up all the Empathy... It will probably get better after I die.

[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

Sorry I'm sucking up all the Empathy

Huh. I thought that was me. Do... do we have to fight now? Like Highlander? CAN THERE BE ONLY ONE?

[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Count me in

[–] match@pawb.social 22 points 13 hours ago

to be clear it doesn't feel nearly that bad outside the anglosphere

[–] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago

Its called psychopathy

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world -5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

To the ones upvoting this post: Do you, though?

I've politely asked people not to share blown up, screen-wide pictures on this site of my common phobia when it's unrelated to the post and I've been straight up downvoted and insulted, being told I'm exaggerating and "defective".

Phobias are not exaggerations, they can make people do shit because the reaction is visceral when unexpected. I get headaches and feel like shit after. One of my middle school teachers shared that she once almost jumped off a roof when she saw a cat behind her.

E: Aaaand downvotes. 😂 Practice what you preach.

[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Phobias are by their nature irrational, some level of personal responsibility falls on you to protect yourself when going online.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world -1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, and I practice that but that's not universal and there are many instances where that doesn't work.

And I'd argue: why are we including blown-up, close-up, screen-wide images to posts of interest about programming when the image is completely unrelated? Articles about Python are especially egregious.

I ask precisely because it's out of my control.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I feel this way about artworks/memes depicting, real or drawn, infantilized and/or oversexualized women.

Though it's not a phobia but a severe adversion to the material to a point it can ruin my day, it is my responsibility to block the stuff from my view. If it becomes overwhelming, I disappear from online spaces entirely until I'm ready to try again. That's my responsibility to handle my emotions and how I react to things.

If a person has a phobia to spiders, can we logically get rid of all spiders? Of course not, same thing here. Block buttons are meant to be utilized.

A lot of the internet is just serving heaps of content in which no one asks if you want to see, before it shoves itself in your face. That's the nature of scrolling vs intentional use.

People can be mean, I hope I'm not coming off mean here, I'm not trying to.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I feel this way about artworks/memes depicting, real or drawn, infantilized and/or oversexualized women.

Yup, and now add to that the jumpscare, the heart racing with the palpitations, the strong headache, the mood change, and the subsequent stress. If it were just "oh, I'm just not going to think about this," it'd be great, but there's a visceral physical reaction on top of the emotional one that no doubt includes stress hormones. I'm entering fight-or-flight for a split second, and not an ethical dilemma.

If a person has a phobia to spiders, can we logically get rid of all spiders?

This conversation always comes back to this every time I bring it up, which is why I included so many hyphenated adjectives trying to be specific. I'm saying, why are we including huge pictures that take up the entire screen when they aren't necessary and contribute nothing to the post? Small images are fine and I can manage, but these are 1200x900 pixel images to give a rough estimate. I've been flashed with 1920x1080 pictures of a snake in videos about Python when it wasn't necessary and was completely unrelated to the topic. I don't have a button for that.

Here's the last image I had to block from a post about Python to give you a better idea:

Warning: close-up of a snake that's probably not even a python.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d1038c9e-5089-4917-86c1-711b07fb39b4.jpeg

And yes, I do actively use uBlock Origin's element picker on desktop but its behavior is not consistent and it doesn't exist on mobile apps for Lemmy either. I have to maneuver around this in the most impractical way, exposing me to this for far longer than I'd like. If I could manage, I wouldn't say anything for getting so much backlash, tbh.

People can be mean, I hope I’m not coming off mean here, I’m not trying to.

Same here! No worries. I hope I'm not coming off as angry in trying to express the frustration behind this. :)

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world -4 points 9 hours ago

I guess? At the same time I don’t want to live in a world where you can’t tell jokes on a stage or where a bunch of white North American kids are diving in to defend my brown ass from funny jokes about my race that I enjoy

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world -4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Western supremacy can only exist in the absence of humanity.

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Monotheism is a mind-virus.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Do you even know any? 🤔 Trinitarians (so any Christians) are man-worshipping polytheists. The message of Jesus didn't survive Rome, not without being fundamentally changed at least...

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Council of Nicea decreed the "trinity is one", I believe? As in Yahweh, the holy toast, and Jeebus are all the same?

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It became the imperial creed after the Roman pantheon, it had to have some polytheism and manlike deities! More importantly, "believing in Jesus Christ" and not good deeds (faith without works, there's a whole argument about it in the Bible), became the new stairway to Heaven...

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago

The origin story of the "indulgences"?

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Westerns are fucking awesome, pardner

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Can't argue with that!