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Meanwhile there are a not insignificant number of people doing everything they can to erase the population which actually invented the technology, and therefore does understand it. It's probably not a coincidence that those people are speaking up the loudest about misusing the tech.

It's literally a damn metaphor for living in harmony with nature, before we had the brilliant idea that we could do better.

Dunking on people who are already confused by taking scripture far too literally doesn't make you look smart. It makes you look like a condescending asshole who doesn't even care enough to actually learn anything about what you're criticizing. The are plenty of MUCH better arguments you could make if you actually cared to learn, like the one I've provided above. And FYI, I still think that explanation is a needlessly pessimistic representation of what happened.

...did we really need to invent grey goo?

That's quite interesting, and I wonder how similar it is to another technique I know of. My grandmother had heart surgery where they went in through a small incision near the waist. It's a really incredible technique, and while they were cautiously optimistic that she would live for another couple years, she actually ended up living quite a bit longer with greatly improved health!

I run it on PC through a mobile hotspot. For whatever reason lemmy seems to be the only site that regularly chugs like that for me. And yes, the fact I appear to be fucked is the point of this post, to inform anyone who cares of a rare use case which makes the site very difficult to use recently. If they don't prioritize fixing it, or if it's somehow prohibitively difficult that's just fine, I'm not entitled to a working site, especially with my unique situation, but I wanted to report the emerging problem. If it keeps going like this how long will it be before people with perfectly fine connections simply don't have the time to block enough communities to actually get rid of them (some guy said he had to block ~900 communities to get to where he wanted).

I had actually just started working in nanotech when the pandemic hit, so I had just studied the subject of genetic therapy in quite a bit of detail. I was so disgusted by what I saw during Covid that I left the industry entirely. Student dept be damned, I won't be party to such outrageous dishonesty.

Yeah, well, not everyone lives in an ideal situation. Fuck me, right?

Okay, that's legitimately one of the best ideas I've ever heard online.

Blocking specific words tends to have unintended consequences, blocking lots of things that haven't even been considered. It's the communities themselves that I don't want, like all the hyper-negative communities which are super popular, not just specific trigger words.

I wish my Internet was fast enough to block that many communities. These days I usually get frustrated after waiting for 3-4 of the same communities I've already blocked 20 time to load, just so I can block them again, and give up on using lemmy.

Well, if you block one instance itself in entirety, you can still access some of the communities on other instances, so there is a fairly useful purpose there for some people. Also, the comment sections can take a different tone depending on the community which uses that instance.

It's not just time consuming. It takes up all of the time I spend here and still doesn't actually progress to anything better.

I'm not saying it's hard, I'm saying it's become impossible recently. My block list is absolutely enormous these days, and there's no end in sight.