[-] lunar_parking@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

What came first, the chicken or the egg? Meaningless semantics; both are at play when it comes to someone that is suicidal. But I can assure you, suicide rates would be positively (downward trend) impacted by any sort of gun ban. I am speaking as person who has been suicidal. If I had had access to guns at certain points in my past, I likely wouldn't be here today.

[-] lunar_parking@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago

And those shouldn't count? Do you have any idea how much easy access to guns increases suicides? Many, many suicidal people would still be alive without the easy access to guns in the US. It's one of the easiest and painless ways to kill yourself.

[-] lunar_parking@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

I feel like Switch successor "leaks" have become meaningless noise at this point. There have just been so, so many reported "leaks" and supposed possible release dates/years. I don't even pay any attention to it anymore.

[-] lunar_parking@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Do you have any idea how influential media is? When you have MSNBC and CNN plus various others talking about how Biden is the only viable option again and again and again, you can't ignore the influence of that. He won South Carolina after the endorsement of a very popular and influential corporate Democrat there. The media along with the DNC saw that as the opportunity to rally around Biden. Everyone drops out and endorses him, and there you go. I'm oversimplifying a bit for the sake of brevity, obviously, but bottom line, Biden was chosen and supported to defeat Bernie because they couldn't accept the possibility of a politician like Bernie winning. He was a threat to capital and he was extinguished from the race.

[-] lunar_parking@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because Democrats love losing. This is literally something that has been seen time and time again. They make more money through fundraising when they're in the minority. They care about nothing but capital.

[-] lunar_parking@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago

I honestly think that social media services should exclusively be nonprofits and run off of a combination of very limited ads and/or donation drives à la Wikipedia. Profit motives destroy things like this, as we've seen time and time again.

[-] lunar_parking@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

“‘I’ make trucks”

Yeah, sure lmao

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Are there any direct download sites that accept uploads? I'm not able to torrent for long periods due to limited storage space. I upload books pretty regularly, but I don't know of a place to do that for movies/shows. I'm very familiar with archive.org, but I don't know the ends and outs with uploading when it comes to copyright. I obviously don't want it to be taken down.

[-] lunar_parking@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I have a very different perspective haha I very much prefer to connect to real humans and for that to be a focus, which is why I made an account here. I never, ever posted on Reddit unless I had an issue I needed help with as a last resort before seeking out an irl resource, mostly because it never felt like a community to me; it felt like you were reading random people responding to each other in the same vain as Twitter. This is my first time actually posting anything publicly since I was active on a a particular forum from like 2013-2015. But I can understand your perspective all the same.

[-] lunar_parking@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Propaganda??? I personally like pfps/avatars and think they're an important part of any traditional forum. Identity is important in communities and I think they help facilitate that. I just wish that I could adjust the size of the on Kbin because they're way too small for me. 🥲 But you should always have the option to hide them as well.

[-] lunar_parking@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

It's only healthy to hear opinions that you disagree with when those opinions don't include the dehumanization of others.

[-] lunar_parking@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Are you referring to Imzy?

[-] lunar_parking@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

There has seemingly been a big upswing in labor action in the last few years in the United States, and not much makes me happier than seeing more of it.

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One thing that I would really love the option to do is to adjust the size of avatars. They appear incredibly tiny to me, and I think it would be a nice option to be able to adjust the size of them. I continuously find myself zooming in to be able to make out what they are. If there's already a way to do this, I haven't been able to find it.

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