MountingSuspicion

Thank you for sharing! I hope everyone is able to find a partner as loving and supportive as yourself.

You asserted it would cause more death on both sides but do not back that up with any reasoning, despite me suggesting that they can reroute offense spending to defense spending which would curb death on the Palestinian side while preserving the defense of Israel.

I would not be interested in providing defense aid to hitlers Germany. I'm not interested in providing military aid either for offense or defense to anyone committing genocide. If they are concerned about their defense they can stop the genocide and regain aid.

I hope you don't mind me asking a different question here, but feel free to not respond. It's nice of you to take some time to help OP and I don't want to discourage that by asking a follow up you may not want to respond to, but if you're willing, do you mind sharing if your view of your personal sexuality changed? If you were previously only attracted to women, do you now consider yourself bi or pan or something else, or is it just an attraction for your husband? If it's an only him thing does he feel some way about that?

Your comment comes across to me as though you didn't want it to pass. My point is that if this is all that can be done we should do it. We should pass this and then work to pass additional restrictions. I don't care how piecemeal it ends up. We should stop what we can when we can.

Any lessening of military aid to Israel is a step in the right direction at this point. If they have less free defense then they have to move spending, potentially offense spending, to defense. If this is all we can do currently, I don't know why people wouldn't vote for it. We should still fight to cut off their offense aid, but at least there's some movement. I don't think we should be giving any military aid to a country committing a genocide. I think the "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" applies here.

The sims has a family tree. It's possible that if they also made their grandparents/aunts/uncles/cousins/half siblings they'd want that to be reflected in game how they're related. Also, your sims can have memories, so maybe they'd want their sim dad to have the memory of falling in love with their sim mom. Those are often autogenerated if you make two married sims, but I forget the specifics for the sims 3.

I said "uncritically engaging in hedonism" is bad. Uncritically engaging in almost anything is bad, but they had said "it's pretty bad ass to be happy regardless of how others judge you" and that does not make any distinction between what does and does not negatively impact others. I have a concept of hedonism, sure, but I did not state it in any of my comments. I'm responding to that persons idea which seems to have no regard for others.

If you don't understand how uncritically engaging in hedonism is bad for society as a whole, I don't know what else to add. You're the one advocating for doing whatever you like with no regard for others.

I'm sure the ghost of Jeffery Epstein appreciates your support.

I will generally not fault someone for what they like, but engaging in whatever it is without regard for others is not a recipe for a good society. Sure, don't care what everyone thinks, but there are plenty of reasons to not do something that would bring you pleasure.

I think there's a big generational gap and people just don't understand how younger gens integrated technology into their lives. Plenty of millennials have "online friends" and their boomer parents would have told them that's extremely dangerous. Some of it undoubtedly was, but online friend groups are a real thing. I think the same is true of location sharing.

I have family who are older who share it and it's helpful to know that they're safe without having to bother them whenever I worry. I also have younger people in my life and they use it for scheduling purposes with each other. "Oh X is still at practice so can't help with this right now I should reach out to Y who is at home". Kids these days are just more interconnected and that is probably more ok than we think it is. There are definitely some problems with it, but it's just new and different. Kids will bully or create drama about whatever, so it may cause some rifts, but if it wasn't that it would've been something else.

What you said was pretty clear to me at least. I have that user tagged as a misogynist so it's not unusual that they'd go out of their way to defend incels for no reason.

For what it's worth, it's unlikely that the incel in question would have the location of both those people in the first place. Generally, location sharing is done among friend groups and not entire peer groups, so it's unlikely the crush and the person they were seeing would have both shared their location with this other person unless they were all close, which is not the case in my experience.

There's a handful of accounts I see repeatedly going to bat for centrist (or extreme right or antiwest) positions and they universally have thousands or tens of thousands of comments in less than a year or two. I will sometimes still engage because it's important people don't think it was just left at their comment, but they are clearly not average people. They are either astroturfing or some kind of unwell sycophants. No one posts that much regularly brown nosing to people who actively do not care about you. The platform I use allows tagging of users. I've found that helpful so I at least can recognize them without having to remember their names. I try not to bring too much attention to the fact I'm aware of who is likely engaging in bad faith because it encourages them to change tactics, but I'm sure they know their tells already, but we are not at the point where enough average Lemmy users care or notice. Once more people start to notice hopefully we see them shut down more often. You're not alone in noticing this.