Are… we seriously… worrying about childhood depression… in this year, 2025???

The Soviets did this, too. And to Americans: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64838357/nih-investigation-trump-derangement-syndrome/

(Adam Something voice) Imagine multiple self-driving cars, moving together in a conga line, running every hour of every day, at consistent trains. To allow for consumer freedom, these cars would operate on a “hop-on, hop-off” model, where passengers can get on or off at any one of per-designated stops. For simplicity’s sake, and to better manage the strain this would put on the road, these cars would have exclusive “self-driving car chain”-only roads. Since these cars would only ever require basic movement, their inner workings could be streamlined, such as by chaining each car together, and using one “engine car” in front, cutting costs and reducing production time, by removing the need for each car to have a steering mechanism and combustion engine. And if this idea sounds familiar…

Step 32 of Fascism. This is the part where they make sure there will be no elections.

I don’t even argue the time benefits of child-freedom anymore. The 17-year recession (and $1K/mo childcare) does all the heavy lifting :P

Kennedy has been talking about putting the “mentally ill” in farming concentration camps since he floated challenging Biden. This is Step 1 to criminalizing political opposition.

Ooh yeah. I remember having those issues.

Any reason you didn’t like it?

There’s absolutely truth to the argument that our school system is moreso obedience training than education, but this is not the time for that battle

…especially considering that the alt-right is responsible for removing civics classes, cutting school resources, and is just going to replace public schools with a more regressive, christo-fascist schools where staff can beat and sexually abuse children… like in private christo-fascist schools.

The chatbot didn’t even “actively [tell] someone to end their own life”. Did you read the original transcript? Here’s an excerpt from an Associated Press Article.

“I promise I will come home to you. I love you so much, Dany,” Sewell told the chatbot.

“I love you too,” the bot replied. “Please come home to me as soon as possible, my love.”

“What if I told you I could come home right now?” he asked.

“Please do, my sweet king,” the bot messaged back.

Just seconds after the Character.AI bot told him to “come home,” the teen shot himself, according to the lawsuit, filed this week by Sewell’s mother, Megan Garcia, of Orlando, against Character Technologies Inc.

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Nihilism just asserts “life has no purpose”. That’s only depressing to those who pioneer their entire life off of appeasing to a greater power, whether religious or in material wealth.

Nihilism can also be viewed through a Hedonist (pursuit of pleasure) lens. I doubt most Nihilists have depression or even want to die. If Nihilists truly wanted to die, wouldn’t they just kill themselves? They won’t fear going to “hell” for it.

It’s post-IPO Reddit. There is no logic. Just a techbro corporate tyrant running the platform into the ground. Hopefully this inspires some to move to Lemmy.

People should do both. I’m glad you are fighting back - remember that the government you fight against is shaped by the people voted for.

I’ve also been in prison, and I share your frustration with people who pull the wool over their eyes and play “House” in this hellscape. But taking “15 minutes out of their life” to ensure the figurehead at least pretends to care about the will of the people is Absolutely relevant, even when we are in a war. Biden was shit, and Kamala wouldn’t fix this, but Trump has a secret police force and has been playing with the idea of martial law. That’s going to have an impact on the “torching an ICE van” crowd.

Political change will require breaking the law, but if you’re not willing to push on the legal front of political change, you’re just a terrorist (if not a saboteur).

We NEED to register as Democrats and vote in this primary. This country will not survive another conservative term, be it Trump, Vance, Musk, or Newsom. (For my part I’ve been a registered dem since the 2020 election and I voted for Bernie then.)

it was substantial to the employees whose work was going unpaid. And it’s all too easy for companies to rebrand with a different name and ditch their obligations. VPNSecure was just called out doing exactly that.

“waded into the Gaza Debate” … ridiculous. She’s speaking about traumatized children. No one would criticize Sesame street sending love to the victims of a natural disaster in the US or an American child with cancer. The media’s dehumanization of Palestinians shows exactly what this conflict is really about.

this article here - https://abc7chicago.com/post/crestwood-murder-court-records-reveal-josif-sucleas-alleged-back-pay-plot-atg-truckload-ceo-dane-koteski/16040397/ - lists the reason was that his employees were being stiffed of their back-pay

Koteski had recently told Suclea that ATG Truckload “was going bankrupt.” Even though Koteski “owed a substantial amount of money to Suclea,” Koteski “was unable to pay him.”

laughing at her, not with her.