As I’ve mentioned somewhere else I’d take all that in to consideration if it was a more niche sub - but it isn’t. It very much seems to be that a already existing community found its way to Blahaj where (almost) all of the contributors were happy. Then some mods arbitrarily decided that they didn’t like the instance and moved to… .world, of all places. Back towards centralisation and the possible looming spectre of interacting with meta users too.
I don’t disagree with your first paragraph but partly do with the second.
If it’s a unique channel-type community you started, produce most of the content for and actively moderate quickly and consistently then, for sure, you should have almost complete control… but 196 is/was none of those things.
From what I’ve seen it appears that (at least one of) the mods claim to “own” the community - which is a disturbing way of thinking about moderation, in my opinion.
But is this not a great step forward for A.I. ?
Jumping to incorrect conclusions after scanning the internet quickly. It’s getting more like humans day by day…
I refuse to believe that six individuals can be so enormously out of touch with the community they (used to) mod… what’s the real story?
You can sell the house - it’s just not so straight forward for the buyer to get a mortgage.
It literally depends on your morals… it’s a question only you can answer.
I have zero training in this field but once read a paper on this. I think it essentially said that ganja was ok (?) on its on but for people with “brewing psychosis” it could trigger/enable that breakdown.
The other problem might be that simply thinking about the possibility of an episode will freak you out - the existential dread would be very draining.
Me too - I can live happily with the fact that not everyone thinks like me; but I still want to know what the other people are thinking.
It’s called a Comb Over and somebody actually patented it.
Without looking I’m pretty sure it was something about MLK’s dream speech where he mentions:
“…right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers…”
So, nothing massively contentious so far. The transcriber had capitalised the “B” of black but not the “W” of white. I suggested that seemed a very unequal way to address inequality. There was a mini downvote frenzy - eventually some diamond pointed out “AP” has a style guide that suggest capitalisation of one but not the other is correct. Seems weird, but there it is.
When’s the best time to visit a dentist?
Any time before tooth-hurty (2:30) p.m.
- As long as you are aware that you need to enroll your child in an English-medium school then I wouldn’t worry about learning a bit of the local lingo on the side when/if she joins. (There are Welsh-medium schools too - best avoided in your case.)
One other piece of advice I’d suggest is stop thinking of the uk as a single place - but rather a collection of different places. Moving just eight miles in any direction can often put you in a completely different demographic and community. It’s a weird place.
In Idiocracy the people were just stupid, there wasn’t any real malice to them - unlike these absolute clowns.
I thought this was gonna be a deep philosophical question… but then read past the first sentence.
There’s a guy, a South African, who, in my opinion has too much of a say in another country’s (the US’) politics. He bought Twitter, works with electric cars, space rockets, brain chips etc.
His name escapes me. Sorry to offend you.