better than this

no

Reddit level discourse

Thanks for the explanation and link

Your home instance is lemmy.world, which is outright defederated with all but lemmy.ml

Still learning. How are you here from lemmy.today if lemmy.world is defederated (maybe I don’t know what defederated means)

Good, was sick last week and now feeling a lot better so it’s like the world is open with possibilities again.

Regarding the sickness, I was at like 70% for a full week. Not enough to actually lay around and be lazy all day but sick enough that I couldn’t really stomach doing anything of importance.

What is the point of this reply

Algorithm driven social media is different, it just is. There’s a boy who cried wolf element here which is unfortunate, but that doesn’t mean wolves don’t exist.

Social media’s quality and harm lie on a spectrum, it’s not just black and white. Text discussion on a forum is way different from the average TikTok experience.

The “source” request is also annoying because it’s like, dude we’re just chatting here, no I’m not going to respond like this is some academic debate.

Road rage exists but I’ve never seen people intentionally ram each other on the streets (I did spend the first 12 years of adulthood doing the typical suburban/city commute by car)

I see people start fights on the subway maybe once or twice a year. Real terrible stuff. I think most of us can avoid it by having city smarts, but not everyone, and I still have to be scared by it.

It’s not the same. A subset of people are way worse when trapped in a room with other people. Remember that car driving also filters out a lot of the most distressed and mentally ill people, in an expensive city.

A lot of people have opinions on transit without using it a lot. Not saying that’s you but I find that the realities elude a lot of online discussers. Also probably way different in Europe and East Asia than the US sadly.

It’s not all bad. It’s actually really hopeful for the human spirit on 90% of rides. Like we’re all from all walks of life just sitting here minding our own business in a locked room.

reasonable

Did you want the genocide to end or not

I know people like this and it makes me roll my eyes for sure. But let’s not pretend that the subways/metros/whatever are fine. I contend with a lot of unpleasant stuff every day and I would say have to move cars a couple times a month because someone is scaring me or there’s an odor too offensive for real life.

This is a statistical fact that has basically no bearing on most individuals.

Risk of death in a motor vehicle crash is affected by a ton of factors, most of them within your control.

For example I live in a walkable city and I pay attention at crosswalks. When I drive, it’s mostly daytime highway driving in a well-maintained vehicle with the driver (me) not impaired. All this alone reduces my risk by orders of magnitude.

At the same time there are people who are out there drunk driving on 2-lane roads and highways every weekend.

Least sensible discussion I’ve been in in a while

We could do laps on this all day. In the end if a trans person says they’re trans and this is what it means to them, I’ll take them at their word.

Imagine confusing gender and sex in 2025

I had one of his books of short stories when I was a teen (The Cyberiad) and loved it…meaning to read more of his work

That’s true only if homeless people make zero noise, do not act or behave eccentrically, do not bother other customers, do not have offensive odors, immediately cede their seat to a customer who arrives, somehow don’t make through their presence prospective customers believe the shop is too crowded, etc. Do you think even actual customers who are not mentally disturbed or addicted can fulfill this bar you’ve set by saying “costs nothing”?

Warming is a canard, every street homeless person can get warm at a church or shelter. In NYC you can 311 a city department and they’ll go offer the person a ride to a shelter anywhere in the city in a van. Their average time is <1 hour. They can walk into any library in the city.

I encounter homeless every day and resent dumb online joke, these are individuals who have serious problems and, as stated, there is a reason even public services find it hard to serve these populations.

There’s also a reason neither you nor I regularly invite street homeless into our homes.

If you don’t like megacorp there are 1000 better ways you can argue it than saying “they should let homeless in to hang out”. Choosing the argument that you have chosen, just sounds ridiculous.