Cool!
In which case, how should we organise such things across the FV…?

Haven’t used it for a while, but Reveddit used to be able to give good info on what stuff of yours might have been shadow-removed, and why.

https://www.reveddit.com/

Oh yeah, I agree a lot about the evolution issue, and I think the lack of such is directly reflected in people commonly feeling overwhelmed by this modern life. Also common for us to be poor at perceiving global issues of the day (like sustainability), and being easily manipulated in to voting against our own interests as kind of a knee-jerk reaction to all that.

Okay, gotcha.

I guess my main reason for piping up there is that the more I’ve learned from history, the more I’ve noticed a wider and wider gap between what it’s like living in actual communes (which to me are probably the closest thing to our traditional living system, i.e. “tribes”), and the huge autocracies which declared themselves “communist.”

The other problem is that many in the west (especially the USA) were either disingenuous or completely ignorant about what was really going on over there, and of course The Red Scare became an awful lever and power-play which ruined a lot of peoples lives.

Bah, sorry for all the ranting.

I get corporations fuckin’ suck, but communism???

It’s not even actual communism either, but more like tankie-ism. Stalin’s USSR and Mao’s China weren’t communist either, but more like dictatorships / autocracies dressed up with ‘communist principles.’ But I digress, maybe.

Ah, there we go. I just had to signup via Google.

Thanks for the share.

That’s a great way of putting it, and I think usually the case in situations like this.

Which therefore kinda suggests that the bigger and more amazing the song can actually be detrimental for the prospects of fanhood.

Bonus pts, if you really need it:

Tessa Violet - I Like (the idea of) You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQyFFTh_YGc

I wish I could see it!

It’s like the anthem of the sixties; what a masterpiece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2msh0jut2Y

So far this is the closest comment to my thoughts:

• With age also brings wisdom and experience, which theoretically lets you skip much of the bumps, hurdles and difficulties that you probably fell prey to as a younger person.
• It also brings a better ability to understand the latest science in terms of healthy living, which would tend to suggest that you exercise on a regular basis, eat certain diets, and take better care of yourself in various ways.
• You have your years of prior life to theoretically build social networks, contacts, and support groups, and form relationships with people who best fit your needs and personality.
• You have those years to better understand your weak spots, blind spots, get counseling, and work on improving many different skills and areas of your life.
• Just about everyone develops health issues of one sort or another, and some of them take real persistence to suss out. So you also have those years of doctors and specialists visits to get them properly treated, alongside other tools such as genetic testing, etc.

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I don’t think (or assume) you’re wrong across various examples of such, duderino, but you’re also spinning it right there in to a laughably-giant web of conspiracy (so to speak) simply to meet the needs of your hurt feelings and self-righteousness.

You and the downvoters are sinking in to the worst aspects of our natural state (tribalism), while completely whiffing on the better aspects of tribalism, which (to me?) is to recognise friends where you can see them, and not assume ‘evil’ about everyone around you.

Looking at that place now, it’s crazy that people are still putting up with the bullshit. Everyone is getting censored/banned, comments removed, threads the admins don’t like (especially anti Trump/Elon or pro-Palestine) get locked almost immediately. Reddit is literally bottom of the porta potty enshittified.

Reddit still has a lot of value for me, and I still see loads of critical comments almost every day tearing down certain topics & figures that you touch on above. If the censoring / banning were really that bad, I doubt I’d be able to read all that on a regular basis across their site.

What I learned after 12 years on reddit: the admins are Nazi sympathizers, pedo protectors, and propaganda enablers.

I think it’s probably simpler than that: 1) they’re a big social media site out to make money first and foremost, 2) they want to avoid agitating powerful figures of the day, and 3) they see their users moreso as convenient assets than individual voices who might stir up trouble for them. It’s pretty much just the corporate model of the day in a late-stage capitalist reality.

My point here is that I’d rather not buy in to and perpetuate false assumptions and false narratives. I don’t want to just assume that all their admins are really as bad as you think, when in reality many of them might just be trying to give users a fair shake. Many might in fact be ‘resisting.’

Is this a… riff/parody/tribute to False Knees?