when I wake up early enough and my stool is soft enough that I can actually take a shit.

I’m ready for the sweet embrace of eternal slumber.

I’m an adult and I don’t even know how the fuck to say it.

I mean if anyone knows how to be funny, it’s the Jews.

“you’re never too old to have children” – Jeffrey Epstein

do we not jettison it against a tree like other humans? this effectively marks human territory and sends a clear message to other humans that “this is my home”.

have you tried carving your cat out of cat instead of wood?

sad Jesus noises

is that what your satanic sheep told you?

why’s it smell like burnt hair and sewage?

body

I’ve contemplated on what I could say to you, but you’ve already made up your mind. it’s important to hold our convictions close and protect them. but it’s foolish to ignore the reality of the situation and refuse to be flexible.

that said, when we ignore the litany of atrocities and war crimes that are being perpetrated against Ukrainians, it’s easy to overlook when soldiers kill soldiers on the battlefield, regardless of the agreements or laws of war.

so you can take your inflexible sensibilities and your ideals out of here because I can guarantee you nobody here agrees with you. anyone who refuses to see that is either willfully ignorant of it or is a troll.

as someone on the outside it looks like Ukraine is getting shit done.

looks like a couple poor Russian fools got shot in the back of the head because they were untrained and poorly equipped for dealing with this situation.

looks to me like Russia should go back home.

hey now

I’m the inverse. I abandoned all my friends because I had to move forward in my life and make my life better.

I look them up every so often. half of them are divorced, struggling, or dead. the other half are alcoholics and slowly walking towards deaths doorstep.

I got out because someone I cared about showed me I was worth more than I believed I was. They gave me a goal to achieve and I will be forever grateful.

my point is, sometimes people drift apart because it’s time. look back on your time together with the same fondness you had in the moment and never forget you learned much from them, and still learn from them even if only indirectly.

even the worst examples can teach us something.

that is exactly what I’m talking about.

I won’t go into too deep of detail, I’ve covered a lot of it here.

today, the goal of the mod is to prune and remove undesired content and users. this creates high overhead and operational costs. it also increases chances for corruption and community instability.

you have experienced some of this instability. a mod banned you and you had no recourse to correct the behavior. this can also be used by corrupt mods to silence the community at large. I believe there was a post about Reddit having 400 subs modded by the same 4 people or something like that.

the same flaw exists here as well.

I believe that the community should moderate itself. if the content or comment hits a downvote threshold it’s hidden/silenced. mods should only get involved as stewards of the community, ensuring that abuses of the system aren’t taking place and taking action against individuals that “game the system”. they could not, for example, take action unless the silenced user reports it as such. again, if you abuse the system you might be permanently silenced.

notice I keep saying silenced instead of blocked? that’s because we shouldn’t block their access to content or the community or even let them know nobody is seeing their content. in the case of malicious users/bots. the more time wasted on screaming into a void the less time wasted on corrupting another community. in-fact, I propose we allow these silenced users to interact with each other where they can continue to toxify and abuse each other in a spiraling chain of abuse that eventually results in their permanent silencing.

this should be a core tenant to an open forum. anyone can interact, but if the community at large has voted to silence you they shouldn’t need to listen to you.

IMO bans should only be used for the most heinous users. users that post illegal content that jeopardizes the community at large. further, those bans should be administered by the instance admin/owner.

no no no.

maple syrup.