It’s been better, but for about a year now it looks like a number of lost people have been roaming lemmy sowing confusion…plenty of users used to say this was a really welcoming environment, particularly before the reddit IPO/LLMs…

Whenever I try to be funny, I come across as super-cereal…folks don’t like that in neurodivergent cave dwellers…:/

Depends on why people communicate on social media. The best communities are the ones where everyone understands what they are there to do without being told. It’s not just because memeing communities are fun and technical communities are dull. Places like technology or worldnews generate friction because there are some people sharing/requesting info and people trying to relax/vent/troll/feel important/fight/dunk and that creates an expectation mismatch that leads to toxicity.

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” When fascists eventually resort to it, they find they’re not the only ones who can use violence.

…the way they hold it :D

Nah, some people just have other priorities… and you don’t just have to sheeple through life like it’s a checklist driven by peer pressure to move onto the next stage… you’re fine.

Roosters do this too: they call the hens to come share any tasty treats they come upon.

Democracy, rule of law…none of these are the norm in human history, they are not even intuitive concepts. It takes effort to keep alive against human and historical forces that keep pulling us back into becoming authoritarian shitholes. The great delusion is that since Fukuyama many thought liberal democracy was the inevitable final state whatever stupid shit we do with it…it’s not.

Ok, you’re winning at monkey pawing :D lemme see if I can top that…

Probably, yes. Imagine how superhuman you’d feel skydiving without a parachute outside the day of your death knowing you couldn’t die. (plot twist: you spend 10 years in a coma afterwards and still die from doing it :/)

Depends on income. With more income, I’d travel a lot and do things. With no income, I’d try to make some things, be online and read pirated books :)

This is so 2015…now it would be “Once elected, I will murder every single one of you” and they would reply with joy in unisson: “Hurrah, free lamb chops for everyone, you’re our saviour!!!”