I’ll put chili lime seasoning on fruit sometimes.

Elaborate. You too @grue@lemmy.world Have there been mass deaths of civilians in Russian-occupied areas? Are they segregating the population or practicing apartheid based on ethnicity? Are they sterilizing Ukainians? Have marriages between Russians and Ukrainians been outlawed?

What kind of extermination campaign are they running? I’m not seeing it, besides relocating children out of the war zone. I suppose that could be argued as ethnic cleansing, but it can also be justified as protecting children from war so this alone isn’t enough imo

Can you name someone specifically?

Is Russia trying to exterminate Ukrainian people in the annexed regions and replace them with Russian settlers?

I take comfort in knowing that I am part of the world. When I die, the world won’t really go on without me, because I will always be part of the world. History is irrevocably changed because I lived. I was here.

People will remember me, but memories fade and those people will die someday too. But the impact I leave on the world is immortal,. whatever form that might take. I become part of a greater history in whatever small way I can.

It’s basically a materialist afterlife. And think of how lucky are we to be the ones that are remembered! How many millions came before us that have been so completely forgotten that not even their bones remain? We live in a data age where everything is recorded, our afterlives will be far longer and greater than people that came before us.

It’s true that we become subjects of history and cease to be agents in history, but we’ll never really die as long as humanity endures.

Just gotta make sure we survive the next century.

No matter how I read it, it sounds like you’re saying “it’s sustainable under the right circumstances” and I just don’t see how that’s useful to even acknowledge.

Literally anything is sustainable by this argument, what are you even talking about?

They hate them for racial/ethnic reasons.

It’s very relevant, because this is the reason they hallucinate. They’re just completing the pattern, no matter how nonsensical it is, because they don’t even know what they’re doing. They don’t reason, they just regurgitate whatever fits the pattern. There’s no awareness of what they’re saying, there’s just a logic chain that says “if I say this, then I say this next” without concern about context or reality. No reason, no awareness, no thought.

It does not think it’s human. It’s just mindlessly regurgitating words to fit a pattern. That’s it.

No it doesn’t, it doesn’t even think.

Okay, now imagine the tool is advertised in a way that tells you to use it wrong.

I didn’t start reading theory until this most recent phase of the Zionist genocide, but it was the Collateral Murder video leaks (and subsequent leaks) that raised the contradictions enough for me to realize that there is an empire.

Then I spent over a decade slowly radicalizing while the contradictions kept sharpening, I went from left-liberal to left-libertarian to anarcho-communist to some kind of Third Worldism with anarchist characteristics after Trump won the first time. Still not reading theory, just watching current events and hating the US empire more and more at a very constant rate.

Then the pandemic showed China was one of the only countries on Earth to give a shit about public health over profits, and I finally dropped my anarchism. I’ve been an ML ever since, and after Oct 7th I’ve read Lenin and Mao and Fanon and Walter Rodney and W. E. B. DuBois and others. I just finished Black Jacobins and I’m set to read Empire of Borders next.

…I’m still procrastinating on Capital. It’s intimidating okay??

It’s fascinating how liberals think that we’ve just never thought of things from their point of view.

Do you mean in the magical sense? That there’s a karmic force in the universe that causes bad things to happen to bad people.

Or do you mean it in the moral sense? That bad people deserve to have bad things happen to them and it’s good when it does.

Just shovel them into my mouth. 👀

Let’s just call everything a website. It’s all on the internet, right?

Digg and Reddit invented the terminology and I don’t think people are unfamiliar with it.

If you sort on Lemmy by activity you can get exactly the same behaviour.

Point. That’s not the default behavior, though, and most users aren’t using the site that way - and I’d argue the site isn’t designed the be used that way, and that’s why most users don’t use that functionality.

And bumping is even often frowned upon because it pollutes active discussions. It’s just people abusing how those forums sort threads.

Not what I meant. I don’t mean people making worthless “bump” comments (that often just gets people banned) I mean that forums bump up threads that get new comments.

I use forums, and they’re just different.

Lemmy posts are still designed to decay and fall off the front page. The posts last longer if they have participation but the only way to make something last a long time is to sticky the post so it doesn’t decay.

Forums aren’t like that. Forum threads are meant to stay around as long as people bump them and they can be ancient, with hundreds of pages of comments, and the thread still keeps getting bumped because new content is added to the thread.

Also, the way comments are organized is different. Our comments are threaded so we can have a conversation between us in a comment chain, but forum comments are sequential. The comments section of every thread would look way different if it was a forum.

Forums are just structurally different. If you don’t like “link aggregator” that’s understandable, it’s actually not very descriptive, but you still need to be able to differentiate between forums and whatever-the-heck this space is.

Forums update threads by bumping, so threads from ten years ago can still be on the front page as long as they are active.

The term “link aggregator” was made to differentiate websites that are designed for threads to rapidly decay and be replaced by a constant flow of new content. If you tried to federate lemmy with a forum it wouldn’t really work.

Maybe there’s another term that could be used, but there needs to be a way to differentiate the two styles.