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Cake day: 2022年1月28日

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  • Thank you for the examples. Chat is chat, and we’re probably not going to enact any changes to it.

    The humanity and cultures and science posts are both quite relevant and in the appropriate community. School lunches are not really political news and discussion so much as it is highlighting a gap in the system in a particular part of our culture and it is a discussion and reflections upon what we value as a society. A study on psychological toll of literally anything is science, and thus belongs there.

    This is a community. We do our best to keep discussions in the relevant places, but there is often broad overlap and unfortunately no way to curate everything for everyone. I understand and vibe with the desire to keep oneself sane in the increasingly hostile world we live in, but I’m not sure there’s an amenable solution that doesn’t end up catering to you in specific at the cost of the rest of the community. I want to see the articles you posted in both humanity and cultures and science, and I don’t think they are more appropriately slated for the politics sub and I suspect others feel similarly because neither were reported for being in the wrong location.




  • Without a functioning government that actually prioritizes public health, there is no ridding ourselves of either. Towards the bottom of the article is a link to a document put together by the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab in partnership with the Southern Poverty Law Center titled “Not Just a Joke” which helps to explain the problem, frame it through a public health lens, and provide broad tips for intervention at various levels of social support. Like most public health crises, there is not a simple “answer” to a complex problem and the best solution is to provide resources to a variety of places recognizing that each of them touch lives in unique ways and that each of them will be able to help affect a positive change on some individuals based on who those individuals might be willing to listen to and trust.











  • Showing off personal beliefs through a “radical” appearance in the hope of eliciting a response from strangers.

    That’s a particularly emotionally charged view on this. I think you’re spot on for those wearing MAGA hats, as openly declaring one’s political beliefs is hard to view as anything but as a hope to elicit a response from strangers, but equating that with rainbow hair is quite the stretch. Have you ever considered that those with rainbow hair might have it to signal to their own in-group that they are queer because this is not something immediately visible and can be a way to find community? Greasers, hippies, and punks also can widely follow this reasoning/purpose behind “flagging” oneself.






  • “There is going to come a time when everyone is retiring and there’s not going to be a workforce.”

    Well there certainly wont be a workforce if we keep framing immigration as only murderers and thieves and trying our hardest to deport them all (and a bunch of legal citizens in the process).

    I find it interesting that this article takes the framing of freedom, options, and a positive reality. Where’s the mention of cost? If your average worker is struggling to get by paycheck to paycheck more than 50 years ago, is it really surprising that less people are willing to take on the financial burden of kids?

    And what of thinking about the future of our planet as a whole? We’re cooking the planet and many of the young adults alive today know they’ll be facing dire times in the upcoming decades. If I were younger and considering kids I would surely think twice knowing my kids would be drafted into the climate wars…