If “discussion” means “argument” to you, I think you’re the problem! Haha

“What about” is a fantastic way to breed apathy when people are protesting something. You’re doing nothing for any of those causes with this comment. You’re making things worse for all of those causes, plus the one this post is about. And your comment only tangentially relates to the Community this post is in…

Did a whole bunch of different things. Stopped doing things I didn’t like when I had the security (money, support, etc.) to do so.

Ok fine. Dark Voice “Sacrifice the men! It’s for the greater good!”

Do you really think that’s the alternative here?

I can’t tell if you’re putting on a bit based on your username or something…

“community’s” is possessive. English almost never uses an apostrophe to pluralize. If adding an s gives you a red “misspelling line”, then you need to do something else.

In this case, you need to drop the y and change it to “ie” before the s.

Communities!

I’m not sure what that has to do with the comment above yours, but you’re comparing men becoming “essentialy undatable” to women being raped. Perhaps unknowingly.

What’s a better half?

it’s just a hundred people telling you what Linux distro they use.

Oh come on, Lemmy doesn’t have that many users!

/s

Your username has a typo

What does “mas” mean? I thought it was a typo for male, but you said it twice, so I’m not sure it’s a typo anymore, lol

The GC didn’t have a keyboard, so it was useful for MMORPGs. Not sure if I should be pluralizing that, though. It might’ve only been PSO.

If he’s living with you, you could try to block it at the router/firewall level.

On the machine, I’d just make it really slow rather than block it outright. Make it as unpleasant as possible to access those sites without blocking them outright. Making them slow makes it look like the sites suck. Blocking them makes it look like you did it or some conspiracy thing.

But if he lives with you, blocking them from your network is perfectly ethical imo

“This”

Not your post, but anything that’s just an upvote in the form of a comment.

Also anything that’s egregious misinformation or bad faith posting.

Or anything that’s just spammy or bonkers crazy. I’ve blocked more people in my 1-ish year on Lemmy than I had in something like 10 years on Reddit…it definitely feels like Lemmy is the haven for Reddit refugees, including those who got banned for not really understanding how to engage in this type of space.

Also, any post that really doesn’t fit the community. Like NoStupidQuestions posts that aren’t questions or are really just AITA or DAE (social validation) posts in disguise.

I know that sounds like a lot, but for the most part, I don’t vote on things. I upvote most posts that are cool/interesting enough to get me to go to the source or read through the comments, as well as any good comments. And pretty much any comment that engages in discussion with my own comments without being annoying or rude, lol

I think making a genuine mistake is fine if it contributes to discussion, especially if it’s later edited to reflect the fact that it was mistaken.

I got the base game for free a few years ago.

I played and enjoyed it so much I bought the Platinum edition…on Steam, because it was cheaper there. (And other reasons, but this was the biggest one)

One of the few games I actually went out and bought thanks to Epic. I feel slightly bad for not buying from them, lol

I grew up in Canada.

My high school English teacher let us choose books to write essays on from a selection of a dozen or so that he was intimately familiar with and could tell whether someone was BSing or not.

I don’t remember all of them, but I chose The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I also remember reading 1984 in his class.

I thought the rhetoric in the US was that immigrants cross the border on land.

If it were the only option, I’d gladly take it.

I rely on robots to do a lot of other things in my life, directly and indirectly.

Well, not many directly. But machines, definitely.

If media can say “slammed” to mean “said something about”, I can use “impacted” to mean “affected”. Especially when we have the word “impactful”.

Why are Valve the good guys?