Damn the Onion is on fire lately.

I remember being young and thinking middle-aged people are staring at me because they want me /they disapprove/whatever.

Now I'm middle aged myself, I know the staring is way more likely to either be something along the lines of "ah that kid is so 90s, I never had that green colour but blue Fudge used to wash out to green like that..."

Or "have we run out of natural yoghurt, we bought that 500ml pottle last week but we had curry twice, maybe I should get some more..."

I'm trying to stop caring about it. On reddit I have well over a million karma, and what have I got to show for it?

Here in the fediverse I hope to concentrate on quality interactions rather than quantity.

Selection bias. Lemmy users by default are probably more sensitive to/negative about enshittification than those on reddit.

Many of us came here in response to the enshittification of reddit.

The term "enshittification" is a useful neologism because without it we'd need half a sentence to get the same concept across.

I don't, we split it or I pay or I concede gracefully.

If someone is my friend, I'm not going to engage in weird power-plays.

Yes and it's causing deaths (it has nets under it), so the US govt is not best pleased.

The part that freaks me out is more that he was in an influential position in children's lives and he was making images of the specific children who were his patients.

This is especially annoying because 6 months ago there was an amazing collaboration between both sides in the Red Sea to enable an international team to remove oil from a wrecked tanker.

All the people involved thought it was a great framework for more peaceful negotiations.

But now Israel has got its genocide on the Houthis are kicking off and saving the environment is no longer anyone's priority.

That the next pandemic is going to be a Prion disease that develops within the factory farming system.

The most disturbing part of this for me is how:

• 99% of Snowden's revelations have never been published

• several of the existing copies of Snowden's documents have subsequently been destroyed

I also find it depressing that people like Appelbaum are routinely criminalized:

Public speeches made by Appelbaum taking a humorous and provocative tone and with titles like “Sysadmins of the World, Unite!” were interpreted as an attempt to recruit sources and as incitement to steal classified documents. To this day, however, there are no publicly-known charges against Appelbaum or Harrison.

@Darth_Vader__

"Incel" doesn't just mean someone who is involuntarily celibate.

It's a bit like how "Democrat" doesn't just mean someone who participates in a democracy and "pro-life" doesn't just mean someone who likes life on earth.

Incels are a specific subculture, it has a violent misogynistic ideology and has spawned several mass murderers.

Reddit is going to poison LLMs sooner than I thought.

Ikr! Pretty sure its a reference to the Spanish Inquisition's expulsion of Jewish people in the 1490s.

In other words it's not just super random whataboutism, it's also a dogwhistle to the "chosen people versus antisemitic rest of the world" narrative that Netanyahu et al use to drum up support from their base.

It's the Houthis in Yemen, not "Yemen".

Grazia Careccia, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director, called the planned executions “gruesome public spectacles” designed to spread fear among LGBTQ+ people and the Yemeni population at large.

Ffs neither the US or the Palestinian Authority is in charge of the International Criminal Court.

This is just witness intimidation on a scale that also makes it collective punishment.

Which is a war crime.

For those wondering I was able to find independent coverage from PBS a bakery in Nuseirat refugee camp was bombed by Israel.

I was also able to find drone footage of the Nuseirat refugee camp bombing from the Guardian.

One of Nestle's main evil plans in the Low Income Countries is to aggressively tell mothers that formula is better than breastfeeding, have doctors suggest it, or even give free formula until the mothers' breastmilk dries up.

Humans evolved to crave sugar which is scarce in nature.

Babies will naturally prefer milk with higher sweetness i.e Nestle Cerelac. This will help convince the mothers to breastfeed less, buy more formula, and/or let their milk dry up.

Edit: here's UNICEF on these evil marketing practices in Bangladesh.

Children have been bullying children who are poorer than themselves for a long time now.

It's learned behaviour. Adults do it to adults as well.

I don't understand why this writer is calling it "a new low".

The Guardian investigation he linked to seems to have established that it went on for at least a decade under QEII. Charles only inherited the right to do it when she died last year.

If people had just believed Anita Hill none of this needed to happen.