not really, this place basically is reddit only with a smaller user base and even more of a sanctimonious-liberal-PMC kind of vibe. If this became a place that cared about and defended free speech it would destroy the hugbox and alienate their core users, who themselves are reddit refugees. This isn’t really a good place for difficult discussions which deviate too strongly from accepted mainstream talking points. It’s more a place of comfort for people who are exhausted by the relentless nightmare that is modern life.

What would we even argue about? which products are better to purchase? which form of labor pleases oir employers and landlords the most?

did you see the modern adult swim seasons? i loved the OG episodes and haven’t gotten around to seeing them yet

here’s a few i haven’t seen mentioned yet:

oz - uncompromising US prison drama

garth merenghi’s darkplace - deadpan british tele-horror parody

the mighty boosh - absurdist musical stage-theatre from the UK

dirk gently’s holistic detective agency - fast-paced comedy with an interesting premise that plays out like a douglas adams novel

happy - netflix series which combines a gritty procedural crime-drama with a cartoon mascot. Very violent and dark humour

the ‘no domestic surveillance’ is just language that mirrors some limitations (from their pov) from the patriot act. They’re still willing to surveil people outside the USA, and in fact all they have to do is route domestic traffic through an international part of a network and they can legally spy on domestic americans which is what already happens.

zelda 2 was good man

the minimum would be transparency for the algorithm. If users can see exactly what a social media algorithm is doing with their content feed, they would always have a way to identify and escape dark patterns of addiction.

But this minimum itself would require powers to compel tech companies to give up what they would describe as intellectual property. Which would probably require a digital bill of rights?

The most practical option would be to just ask your kids directly about the kinds of content they’ve been consuming and why. Dinner table conversations can probably reveal those dark patterns just as well

if this instance has more of this obviously fake, state-department propaganda then yes i’ll block it the same way i blocked a half a dozen other servers for spreading easily debunked disinformation.

Recommend anyone still hypnotized by this low-effort propaganda to seek out dilyana from bulgaria and her impressive work explaining how the skripals were not poisoned by nerve agents at all. No chain of custody existed on the test results which supposedly confirmed nerve agent poisoning, symptoms and timeline don’t match nerve agent poisoning progression, and of course no supporting video evidence exists and also there are basic plotholes in much of the witness testimony.

Navalny was also not poisoned by novichok nerve agent. He would not have survived almost any dose of that substance and it’s hard to imagine how that poison could be delivered to him without also poisoning others. His symptoms were more consistent with prescription pill overdose, which a person might do if they’re attempting to kill themselves, which apparently he was quoted as saying before he boarded that flight.

With navalny it’s also likely that the OPCW participated in obscuring the gaps in the chain of custody of the lab results (which were also suspiciously delayed) The organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons has a precedent for falsifying its results as demonstrated by the syrian gas attack false flag operation which they at first tried to expose but which was then covered up.

Some of this context is covered here and here

at least they’re finally admitting that it wasn’t novichok… In 50 years maybe we’ll get to read about how this entire story was nonsense