https://repair.eu/ is basically the group fighting that. They’re a huge coalition pushing the EU to force companies to stop soldering everything and actually give us parts and manuals.

It’s less "ranting on YouTube" and more "lobbying for laws" so your next laptop doesn't end up in a landfill just because of a $2 fuse.

Lemme know when you convince a critical mass of people to adopt communism and I'll get right on board with that.

Yeah, I see a lot of people appropriate neurodivergent lingo to justify it. Being autistic doesn't mean your life literally depends on owning every figure of your favorite anime.

I think there's plenty of diversity. However there is a tendency on certain instances to completely dogpile anyone who has the Wrong Opinion on certain issues, with extreme hyperbole.

Take the AI thread going on. People keep referring to environmental costs as if using an AI query is the equivalent of burning down a whole tree. You consume way more energy just charging your phone. Watching a video. Playing games. Yet using an AI is bad enough to get you called a fascist, an eugenicist and other fun things. The lack of perspective is staggering but certain section of Lemmy users have just decided that AI is evil and any nuance is wrongthink. Even just accepting the reality that AI isn't going to go away is seen as evil comparable to murder.

Other example is the db0 blocking feddit.org debacle.

You couldn't have missed the point of the question more if you tried, and your response is textbook ad hominem.

You side-stepped the philosophical problem I posed and instead took that as proof that I don't believe in kindness. For the love of all that's good in the world, please do not engage in philosophical threads if this is the extent of your ability to do so.

The lack of funds in education is truly showing, holy shit.

Straight to ad hominem. If I don’t share your reality tunnel, I must be broken? When people can’t justify their beliefs, they default to attacking the person instead of the idea.

If the categorical imperative feels like an ‘objective truth’ to you, how do you know it’s not just a really convincing reality tunnel? Like, how would you test whether it’s actually objective, or just something your brain is really good at justifying?

You see, if we tell parents that it's actually super important that they raise their kids, I'm sure they will do it. Just like if we tell everyone that a vaccine for a dangerous disease is a really good idea, everyone will just settle down and go get it.

>"look up paradox of tolerance UwU" >"ok, let's look at what it actually says" >"i didn't read it UwU"

that tracks

i think people not knowing how to actually win an argument against a bigot is exactly the reason there are so many these days

shit's easy. not that they'll admit defeat but getting them babbling irrational nonsense takes very little debating skills. and when they inevitably start throwing ad hominems, then the mods have legitimate grounds to kick them out.

please keep throwing anti-american hissy fits.

I love these kinds of deep dives. If intelligence is happening at this scale, it suggests that "mind" might be the substrate of reality rather than just a byproduct of biology.