@lachlan@thomasfuchs It doesn’t help that violence is so deeply ingrained in American culture.
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas - sure little Jimmy can run over people on a sidewalk (complete with screaming blood smears) or machine gun a crowd. But there’s a (removed) consensual sex minigame (“Hot coffee”) left in code on a MA rated game?!?!
@riotmuffin “You don’t trust the police? Are YOU some criminal? If you did nothing wrong you’ve got nothing to fear! What are you hiding?”
If anyone has the time (it’s 45 minutes) they should watch this presentation (linked below) because it clearly, in plain language, explains the WHY behind this reasoning. In some cases it’s literally life and death.
@Bwee Haven’t been on any meaningful social media platform in years. I decided to try Mastodon in July 2023 for shits and giggles.
I had absolutely no idea there were so many incredibly neat people on the platform, and the vast majority aren’t assholes. Like a table where people would wave you over instead of shoo you away.
I’d say it absolutely was a net positive for me. I hope I’ve been able to provide some positiveness back. (Life isn’t zero-sum, I don’t try and think that way.)
@MartinVeart Wikipedia Vandalism is admittedly a guilty pleasure of mine.
“In 2009, Janis Joplin's page was edited to state that she ‘speed-walked everywhere and was afraid of toilets’ in an obscure reference to US sitcom 30 Rock.”
One exception - I’ve heard of countries (I think it was in Scandinavia) where some traffic fines were based off of income. So a $250 fine for one person was bumped to something like $250000 for someone with a much, much higher income.
Unfortunately, I don’t know of other countries where fines are levied that way. And a fine can seriously harm one person is chump change for another.
@feld@zorinlynx I wonder if this could be a problem since we’re moving a point of hardware failure from the PSU to the motherboard… but on the other hand there’s still a lot of other things that could potentially fail on the motherboard…
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