I’ve used this handle online for around 7 years now. And I think I’m probably going to be retiring it too. Zero has served me well as an avatar but is also a bookmark in a chapter that I’ve already finished. I think I have a new robot in mind now that’s more relevant to my current chapter in life and a better representative symbolically for me.

Gonna dump some further thoughts here because I can. I actually wish that you could post to your own profile here like on Reddit. I used to occasionally use that as a sort of journal space for stuff that I wanted to put out there but not saddle anyone else with (except for the random few people that followed me for some bizarre reason). Then usually delete later.

I think that, while I’m going to keep this account open, I’m probably going to start shopping around for a permanent for real home this time. But giving myself until (almost) the end of the month, to match my new cakeday with my real cakeday because why not, adds a little fun and I might as well make use of the timing.

Until then, I’m going to make sure that I’ve subscribed to every Blåhaj community that I want / need in my ‘Subscribed’ tab in future, for when I export/import settings. And get all of the stupid questions out of my system. And thoroughly research what I’m getting myself into with my new instance choice so that it can actually be permanent this time.

The reason this instance isn’t for me is because of the downvotes thing (which I said I loved yesterday). Not because I want to downvote but because I want to see the downvotes elsewhere in Lemmy. I’m 100% in support of the idea and sentiment behind keeping them switched off here though. And if there was a better way to implement it, I would stay.

They make up a small fraction of men in South Korea, they just have loud voices and a bizarrely oversized influence, he argues.

I like the sound of this Minsung guy but this “small but loud minority” excuse is one that I’ve heard before, in the years leading up to the current socio-political climate here in the ‘Western’ world today.

If this is a small but loud minority, then it sounds to me like the large but silent majority needs to stand up and tell the small but loud minority to shut the fuck up and sit back down.

Kiki’s Delivery Service (could’ve been a little more than a week ago), When Marnie was There, The Tale of Princess Kaguya and currently about half way through Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind because I saw someone else here on Lemmy mention it. And I might throw in Pom Poko. I’ve watched all of the Ghibli movies before but the mood to rewatch a few took me.

Oh and also TNA Wrestling lmao.

Have a closer look :)

Oh! Fuck. To be honest, I didn’t even want to take a look. That’s definitely a relief and sorry for jumping to conclusions there.

As far as downvotes go I really get it. There’s been one or two features that I’ve looked up and get the impression that development on this platform is fairly slow. I definitely get that this is the only way for it be implemented. Watch is a pity because it definitely has its drawbacks too.

Thanks for the response after I dug up this ancient post!

English or history. They were both subjects in high school where I could not even study and just wing it with walls of text. As long as spelling and grammar and shit were good and in the case of history, being able to refer to key things from the text book occasionally, I was scoring in the 90s. I’ve gone a bit feral in that regard over the years since then but if my path was to be a teacher, I think that’s what I would’ve gone for.

Just want to add that a big deciding factor in that as well is how cool my english and history teachers in high school were. A married couple that I honestly credit with helping shape certain good parts of who I am. I was honestly borderline anarchistic (definitely anti-authoritarian) in my writings and I think they liked it and nurtured it a little bit.

One moment that stuck with me that I never realised the significance of was my history teacher bringing up how schools have a hidden curriculum. How beyond being taught how to behave in society, it also enforces cultural things like one race’s set of norms and standards or teaching boys to behave like boys and girls to behave like girls (which is a line I even specifically remember him using). And I remember being a little bit outraged about the idea of a hidden curriculum and this fucking guy smiled and kept the conversation going and told me more.

Here’s to you Mr. and Mrs. Owen. They’d be pretty old if they were still alive. I’d be either an english or history teacher because of them.

Edit: just for extra context, for high school I went a boarding school in a very Christian and religious small town and it wasn’t the best of times for me, to say the least. There were a couple of decent teachers but most are wrinkled up, mean, dogmatic pieces of shit in my memory. So these two teachers were special.

Or the right wing way is just to say one thing and do another thing. Honestly to me as a non-American, it’s pretty weird that the right wingers have latched onto this ‘free speech’ thing and that everyone just goes along with it because to me, things like free speech and freedom of expression always seemed like liberal or left wing ideals.

These guys talk about free speech, then burn a pile of schoolbooks that spread the ‘librul’ agenda and call for anyone that isn’t white and Christian to be removed from their sight. The only small part of free speech that they’re interested in is being able to call groups of people subhuman and they don’t just want that sort of free speech, they want freedom from consequences too and act like getting punched in the mouth for saying the wrong thing in the wrong place isn’t a thing in real life either. And more than that, based on the extreme pearl clutching when the ‘tOlERanT lEFt’ ever comes down from their high horses, they want that free speech for themselves and themselves only.

Basically they’re liars, bad faith trolls and people that actually believe that their bigotry means that they stand for ‘freedom’. They also ‘care about the kids’ but want to marry and fuck them and send them to the mines. So isn’t it obvious by now that everything is opposite day with these people?

Hey there. I really hope you don’t mind me replying to something ancient like this, I didn’t want to make a whole new post about a subject that has already been fairly thoroughly discussed.

Personally, I basically never downvote anything and at first I loved that downvotes were disabled in this instance. But it also feels a little like having blinkers on, when everyone else is doing it anyway. Also, if a bigoted comment somewhere in a community in another instance gets 2 upvotes but 20 downvotes, does that mean that all I will see is the 2 upvotes? Wouldn’t that give me the false impression that this particular community just doesn’t care about bigotry?

Another thing is that I noticed there’s a Truscum community here. Which I actually don’t want to cause any wars over, so another reason that it’s better I reply to this year old post. But based on a run in that I had on Reddit when I was still just starting to ask myself tough questions and address repressed feelings, the fact that they’re here makes me uneasy. And probably attracts people from other instances here to downvote and spread the misery. I guess what I’m saying is that sometimes in horror movies, the call is coming from inside the house. So maybe it’s futile trying to limit downvotes somewhere with downvotes baked in.

If I’m out of line, I apologise. I can see the value in this if you’re only ever going to be commenting and participating in certain Blåhaj communities. So maybe that means that I still haven’t found the right instance for me, personally. Which makes me sad because I actually love it here.

Just one last suggestion. Instead of making it a per user setting, is there no option to disable downvotes in specific communities? IMO that would be even better because it stops people from other instances downvoting too. Is this something to bring up with Lemmy devs?

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I’m responding to an old post but what are you gonna when things are still this quiet. This seems like the busiest Sonic community here in the fediverse at least?

But I actually looked this up a little while back. Turns out Echidnas can actually grow some serious claws, which they use mostly to dig.

So I can see what they’re going for / where they got the idea for Knuckles’ design. They’re probably legit claws.

And I seem to remember him chipping them in Sonic X, but it’s not treated as an amputation or anything and later they’re fine, so presumably they grow like claws / nails too.

Yeah honestly the AEW thing was kind of a big LOLTNA moment for me right at the end. At the very least, even if it had to be Christian next in line, it should’ve happened on Impact. It was like a year long build up, the question of who would finally beat Kenny Omega and get the rub, and the answer to that question turned out to be no one on the TNA roster but instead another AEW wrestler on AEW. I know that Christian did his time in TNA for a little bit after that but I didn’t see it because I actually stopped watching for a little while.

If this actually is TNA in its dying days for real this time, I guess I might as well as the shitshow through, seeing as I’ve been here this long. I wouldn’t be against switching over to NXT for what I need from pro wrestling if it goes that way.

Damn I wonder if Killer Kelly will be back any time soon, I guess not. Way back when she was originally supposed to sign and had more of a kickboxer gimmick, there were visa issues or some shit. Then finally, after a couple of years I think, had this short but cool run and now this. I mean, good for her and all that shit though.

And yeah, I had a feeling that this was still the deal with Tessa. That’s sucks and definitely makes me a bit uncomfortable watching. Sounds like their biggest wtf move since Alberto Del Rio. And makes the aggression from Grace look so much more real, which is probably what they’re going for but still, wtf.

The reason I solely watch TNA these days is that it’s just big enough to showcase NXT wrestlers and have people like Okada dropping by for a month out of the blue; but with low online engagement, so I can have a relatively smark free view of things, like before I cursed myself with Wreddit so long ago. And it leaves room to squeeze a couple more obsessions in. So it fucking sucks that they’re doing stupid controversial shit like this.

I’m only a day in of trying to get away from this, and I’m mostly talking about Lemmy right now (but it would also work / help on Bluesky), but something that’s already made a huge difference for me personally since yesterday, is separating the feeds. I woke up this morning and scrolled through content that didn’t make me want to start a revolution first thing in the morning and I’m already having a pretty good day for it.

I decided to cut most news and politics out of my subscriptions, other than maybe some small communities that don’t show up on ‘All’ on a 24 hour cycle. So from now on, my subscriptions will be only things that interest me and not enrage me. And ‘All’ is still there if I happen to feel like indulging in the rage for a little bit.

Also, finding a server that’s more tailored to what you personally vibe with adds a 3rd option in the ‘Local’ tab for a feed that doesn’t destroy your soul piece by piece.

So the ‘Reddit’ experience is still there in the ‘All’ tab, for everything. From rage to cool shit you haven’t subscribed to yet. But you don’t have to spend all day there. You can fill the other two tabs with stuff that makes you smile or learn or that aligns with your interests / career / philosophy or whatever. And spend more time there.

I was doing the same when I gave Bluesky a try, making use of different feeds for different things. Keep the news and politics in its own tab and only go there when you feel like catching up, or if you’re specifically in the mood to rage against the machine.

I’m late, in my timezone I usually watch this during the day on my Friday. Sometimes I fall behind but always catch up by the WWE. But it’s been a while since I’ve done this so.

• I think Frankie Kazarian might be my current favourite of the men’s roster. He cracks me up. If he’s slowly heading towards doing commentary (he’s been doing guest commentary a lot) in the future, I really hope that this trophy amounts to something and he gets a run with the world championship first.

• That 5 minute Elegance segment went on for about 5 minutes longer than it needed to. Thank the gods Spitfire showed up. Jodi Threat fuckin rocks.

• Fuck the System

• Torn about Masha Slamovich vs Rosemary because I love both, but Slamovich needs a solid, dominant run and I doubt this is going Rosemary’s way. But also, I am so ready for Rosemary to be champion.

• What happened to Killer Kelly? I miss her. And the weird slightly erotic, partnership / relationship thing she had going with Slamovich for a while made a lot more sense than Slamovich and Grace suddenly being BFFs out of the blue.

• Loving Santana right now

• Just got to main event, which I’ve been looking forward to. Gonna hit post now. Might edit but I’m sure it’ll be some variation of “fun match!”

Edit: what’s the consensus on Tessa Blanchard. I don’t follow the drama and politics of wrestling but I know that she was in disgrace at one point. What’s the word these days? Has she apologized for past actions and shit?

I’m sorry. I got even more carried away than I thought I would. I hope I’m not over sharing (although so what, I’m anonymous). And I hope that there isn’t anything I’ve said here that’s in any way unintentionally insulting to people that have been on this journey for longer than I. I’m still learning and finding my way.