Some of society's problems that concern you?

Tang wrote

i have to stay home for at least 15 days, i have nothing to do

Not even working from home?

7 days later
Loko wrote

Really appreciate the apathy or dismissive attitudes of everyone who's willfully ignoring any warning to self-isolate.

absolute pricks

That's like everybody I know

2 months later

Reading extensively on personality disorders lately (psychology is an interest of mine), I can't help but be disgusted by how America treats the mentally ill. 

Like, I've done stupid stuff on mental breaks. Just last night, I stayed up till four because I was anxious as all hell. But then there's schizophrenia patients who stand in the middle of the road during rush hour, or borderline people who throw a punch in the heat of the moment, only to run like hell. Daily life must be a nightmare for some of these folks, but in the land of personal responsibility, they're really likely to end up in jail or homeless. Just thinking about it makes me wanna neck myself.

13 days later

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/

I found this a really interesting read. Brings some closure to those who who have a passing interest in this sort of stuff, given how the international media sort of just dropped the subject after a few weeks.

Nothing really concrete there, except for highlighting the complete ineptitude and/or corruption of Malaysian officials during the investigation, but it does aggregate all the relevant information that we have (well, until July 2019, but still), which would be enough to, in my mind, beyond reasonable doubt pin it on the captain.

malmon wrote

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/

I found this a really interesting read. Brings some closure to those who who have a passing interest in this sort of stuff, given how the international media sort of just dropped the subject after a few weeks.

Nothing really concrete there, except for highlighting the complete ineptitude and/or corruption of Malaysian officials during the investigation, but it does aggregate all the relevant information that we have (well, until July 2019, but still), which would be enough to, in my mind, beyond reasonable doubt pin it on the captain.

Great read, thanks for sharing that. Indeed this article seems to establish the truth of what happened beyond reasonable doubt.

11 days later

Well its pride month and the President apparently stripped away some kind of healthcare protections I had as a queer person so :^)

Not to mention how people are treating the protests about George Floyd's murder. That dipshit OneAngryGamer even made a "traitors to America" list which just put every big name corp or online personality that said Black Lives Matter and claimed ALL of them were causing and aiding the riots and looting, when several on his list even outright condemned that part of what's going on right now. Read the list if you want to lol. Some of my favorite parts were him saying BTS were "Femboys cosplaying male singers" and apparently Arianna Grande's other great crime was "wearing a miniskirt to a funeral".

Truly 2020 can't get any more ridiculous. God I hope I didn't jinx it.

kchn wrote

Well its pride month and the President apparently stripped away some kind of healthcare protections I had as a queer person so :^)

Not to mention how people are treating the protests about George Floyd's murder. That dipshit OneAngryGamer even made a "traitors to America" list which just put every big name corp or online personality that said Black Lives Matter and claimed ALL of them were causing and aiding the riots and looting, when several on his list even outright condemned that part of what's going on right now. Read the list if you want to lol. Some of my favorite parts were him saying BTS were "Femboys cosplaying male singers" and apparently Arianna Grande's other great crime was "wearing a miniskirt to a funeral".

Truly 2020 can't get any more ridiculous. God I hope I didn't jinx it.

As time goes on, BLM is gradually losing my support. I'm not American, but it seems like the movement started over there with good intentions. Since then, the name is just used as an excuse to label anything they don't agree with as "racist", to the point where the protests have managed to spread to the UK. I'm not saying that there's no racism in the UK, but they are definitely having to grasp at straws here.

kchn wrote

Well its pride month and the President apparently stripped away some kind of healthcare protections I had as a queer person so :^)

Not to mention how people are treating the protests about George Floyd's murder. That dipshit OneAngryGamer even made a "traitors to America" list which just put every big name corp or online personality that said Black Lives Matter and claimed ALL of them were causing and aiding the riots and looting, when several on his list even outright condemned that part of what's going on right now. Read the list if you want to lol. Some of my favorite parts were him saying BTS were "Femboys cosplaying male singers" and apparently Arianna Grande's other great crime was "wearing a miniskirt to a funeral".

Truly 2020 can't get any more ridiculous. God I hope I didn't jinx it.

He didn't actually list EVERY single one yet, not even close. As there's like millions of us on the planet that aren't even identified in a negative way. It would take even years of compiling all of humanity on the current subject matter. He didn't even list the very few places I visited yet, so I am not at that threshold of being batshit angry, not yet.

malmon wrote
kchn wrote

Well its pride month and the President apparently stripped away some kind of healthcare protections I had as a queer person so :^)

Not to mention how people are treating the protests about George Floyd's murder. That dipshit OneAngryGamer even made a "traitors to America" list which just put every big name corp or online personality that said Black Lives Matter and claimed ALL of them were causing and aiding the riots and looting, when several on his list even outright condemned that part of what's going on right now. Read the list if you want to lol. Some of my favorite parts were him saying BTS were "Femboys cosplaying male singers" and apparently Arianna Grande's other great crime was "wearing a miniskirt to a funeral".

Truly 2020 can't get any more ridiculous. God I hope I didn't jinx it.

As time goes on, BLM is gradually losing my support. I'm not American, but it seems like the movement started over there with good intentions. Since then, the name is just used as an excuse to label anything they don't agree with as "racist", to the point where the protests have managed to spread to the UK. I'm not saying that there's no racism in the UK, but they are definitely having to grasp at straws here.

It doesn't have to be the lack of significant incidents regarding racism in your country, mate. Perhaps Your Majesty Queen Elizabeth II might have other important problems besides Brexit that weren't handled properly in the last few months, like the Prime Minister being a bit too confident of the COVID-19 goal.

LucianDreamer wrote
malmon wrote
kchn wrote

Well its pride month and the President apparently stripped away some kind of healthcare protections I had as a queer person so :^)

Not to mention how people are treating the protests about George Floyd's murder. That dipshit OneAngryGamer even made a "traitors to America" list which just put every big name corp or online personality that said Black Lives Matter and claimed ALL of them were causing and aiding the riots and looting, when several on his list even outright condemned that part of what's going on right now. Read the list if you want to lol. Some of my favorite parts were him saying BTS were "Femboys cosplaying male singers" and apparently Arianna Grande's other great crime was "wearing a miniskirt to a funeral".

Truly 2020 can't get any more ridiculous. God I hope I didn't jinx it.

As time goes on, BLM is gradually losing my support. I'm not American, but it seems like the movement started over there with good intentions. Since then, the name is just used as an excuse to label anything they don't agree with as "racist", to the point where the protests have managed to spread to the UK. I'm not saying that there's no racism in the UK, but they are definitely having to grasp at straws here.

It doesn't have to be the lack of significant incidents regarding racism in your country, mate. Perhaps Your Majesty Queen Elizabeth II might have other important problems besides Brexit that weren't handled properly in the last few months, like the Prime Minister being a bit too confident of the COVID-19 goal.

Nah, it's definitely a race thing. COVID comes into the equation in the form of a disproportionately large number of ethnic minorities dying from it, but then it's still very much a race issue. The Queen hasn't really gotten involved at all though, as is convention.

18 days later

still worrid about this corona, i think it will last for a long time, maybe over 1 year until they figure out how to make a working vaccine

Tang wrote

still worrid about this corona, i think it will last for a long time, maybe over 1 year until they figure out how to make a working vaccine

I'm more worried about climate change tbh... over 30C in areas where permafrost is... supposed to be

malmon wrote
Tang wrote

still worrid about this corona, i think it will last for a long time, maybe over 1 year until they figure out how to make a working vaccine

I'm more worried about climate change tbh... over 30C in areas where permafrost is... supposed to be

To the people outside the US, in functioning countries, climate change should absolutely be your foremost worry.

As for Americans, both COVID and climate change are just two sides of the same d20: A tremendous number of Americans simply do not exist in the real world. The term "alternative facts" got thrown around a lot back then, but the word I've always preferred is "post-truth". They shun "experts", sometimes even using the term derogatorily, and look to either the charismatic and unqualified for advice on important issues.

With the advent of social media, this has caused conspiracies and misinformation to spread like wildfire, which is an unforeseen, though for the powerful across both parties, rather convenient consequence of constantly defunding public education.

Backlash wrote
malmon wrote
Tang wrote

still worrid about this corona, i think it will last for a long time, maybe over 1 year until they figure out how to make a working vaccine

I'm more worried about climate change tbh... over 30C in areas where permafrost is... supposed to be

They shun "experts", sometimes even using the term derogatorily, and look to either the charismatic and unqualified for advice on important issues.

This is exactly how Brexit happened though, so it's not something limited to just the US, unfortunately.

a month later

There's been another major hacking attempt not too long ago, this time on some of Reddit's subreddits with the intent to boost popularity for the coming elections in a matter of months. Also on the subject, a few LGBTQ terms have now been banned as they are now "homophobic slurs" and making it non-discussable which could result in bans but they said that memes related to it aren't taken away. Rooster Teeth turns out to be a corporation and not just some Youtuber, has fired some guy and let out some employees, is making creators' channels that makes content out of theirs hunted down, and is trying to be very inclusive in their content as possible. Some people said that they already canceled out of their premiums.

Similarly, on a game that me and @[deleted] have been using for years now and I'm now the only active player on here still hanging on a little bit has also undergone a moratorium of its own that prohibits certain topics, even the slightest mention of it or use of it and raises the consent bar of such controversial content all the way up to 18+. Even going as far as to say that not only will it result in an instant D.O.S., they can call in the authorities if such severe actions have to be taken. This means, no such place as welcoming certain types of people in certain places that supports very young people caught in explicit situations anymore, and will hunt them down very aggressively in real-time than they used to. If we are still in that simulator game by now, we both should of just quietly leave that game and focus our interests elsewhere.

Because we're all stuck in this pandemic together, people are becoming either more creative or divergent in solving problems, societies and our economies are breaking down slowly, laws around the world are changing daily rather than taking weeks or months to take effect, sooner or later we might end up in the midst of another global moral revolution or close to it. Pandemics like this does not stop governments of all spheres from continuing to accuse one another, it increases overall crime rates, and the wealthiest of the 1% are taking advantage of it as more business centers get shut down.

a month later
15 days later
malmon wrote

>Liberal
>Censorship
>Fascism

Is it just me that's misunderstanding something, or do Americans not actually know what "liberal" means?

Haah~, well, most folks really don't I'm afraid... Unless you're one of a handful of people who's spent time in far-left circles, you never actually learn the rest of the world's definitions of ideologies, economics, and political philosophy. Instead, we've been fed, since the late-1800's, a false set of terms by a media that's firmly controlled by the political right. In fact, Fox News, the country's most widely-watched network, was started with the purpose of spreading propagandized stories to already-conservative Americans, the idea being to disparage the centre-right Democrats after Watergate, and deprive them the vote of more reasonable Republicans.

Of course, the results haven't been pretty. In writing, I've tended to liken it to closing one's eyes and walking along, careless to the fact that you've stepped into zero-gravity, and are languidly spinning on all axes as you ascend towards the clouds. Completely sure of oneself, but without any point of reference, essentially. ^^'7

Backlash wrote
malmon wrote

>Liberal
>Censorship
>Fascism

Is it just me that's misunderstanding something, or do Americans not actually know what "liberal" means?

Haah~, well, most folks really don't I'm afraid... Unless you're one of a handful of people who's spent time in far-left circles, you never actually learn the rest of the world's definitions of ideologies, economics, and political philosophy. Instead, we've been fed, since the late-1800's, a false set of terms by a media that's firmly controlled by the political right. In fact, Fox News, the country's most widely-watched network, was started with the purpose of spreading propagandized stories to already-conservative Americans, the idea being to disparage the centre-right Democrats after Watergate, and deprive them the vote of more reasonable Republicans.

Of course, the results haven't been pretty. In writing, I've tended to liken it to closing one's eyes and walking along, careless to the fact that you've stepped into zero-gravity, and are languidly spinning on all axes as you ascend towards the clouds. Completely sure of oneself, but without any point of reference, essentially. ^^'7

I guess we're kinda lucky over here that impartiality laws prevent TV news from being too biased in any direction. The same does not apply to print, unfortunately, but it's better than nothing. However, the government are offering the position of Ofcom (the body that maintains broadcasting standards in the UK) to a right-wing tabloid editor, after already appointing a Tory friend as Director General of the BBC.