Fuck that lol. Curse all you want, but curse to people. Not at them

This is art

Intention I suppose…

What I mean is anyone can be referred to as an idiot or a moron without isolating a select few. When you say “retard” you’re not only offending a small group of people, you’re offending everyone you call that and the group because you feel those people are lesser.

Don’t call yourself that. And that I disagree because those other words can be used to justify a generalization while “retard” is not a generalized word.

And I’m just going to assume what you said is an apology, but you haven’t been able to figure how to comfortably apologize to people online. Apology accepted

Whoa whoa whoa. Slowdown. I didn’t downvote you. I actually forgot to vote at all

And you’re insinuating that I’m a retard because I downvoted you? Take a day from lemmy friend. We all get worked up and I believe you’re worked up

I’ll take half right

Words like moron and idiot can be used as generalized insult. They can be offensive, but it doesn’t refer to a certain person or people. Moron and idiot are both defined as being stupid and stupid is defined of lack of intelligence or common sense. The word “retard” refers to people that have mental retardations. The individual person can control being stupid, but they can’t control being mentally retarded.

Fast track to an IP ban. Front of the line with you

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Not necessarily whatever you want because you have to follow DOT standards, but utility locating is a good one. The standard is steel toe, reflective vest, and in some cases, a hard hat. Other than that, you’re good unless the company mandates something different. You can also get good money, experience, and networking in that field. Since you’re such a young person, and if you have a good personal drive, you’d greatly excel at it because it is a relatively physical job

No brigading, or trolling to make someone angry. Trying to bully people into submission isn’t ok. A light poking is ok as long as it’sin good faith, but really just talk to people like you’re face-to-face.

My goal is to have a chuckle or general discussion despite what side people are on. I believe light teasing of the other side (and even your own side) opens serious dialog because you are acknowledging your side is imperfect, just like the other side. If you tease the other side and take yourself too serious, then that’s bullying.

Second, and with all due respect, everything you say can be easily summarized. And please don’t misunderstand, I believe you’re absolutely right in everything you have said, and I appreciate your detail to make sure you’re not misunderstood. However, every comment has been an essay. That takes so much mental energy for you. I can respect the effort you put into your comments because, godamn, it takes a lot with how much work you put into them, truly kudos.

However, I see it as building a front page for a resume. If you put too much meat onto the plate, then they’re never going to eat the potatoes. You want a filet mignon with a baked potato. I absolutely mean no offense. Just wanted to say that you could say the same thing with less words

I feel bad about instance blocking though. Like I did it with HB and pre-emptively grad, but it just feels like I’m cutting a whole people off because a minority group pissed me off. I’ll probably give it a week or so and unblock the instances because there’s absolutely no way that everyone sucks there

I first thought that if they helped fund Lemmy, then I’d rather not be here much longer to support their accomplishment, but also I own a Volkswagon so it’d be very hypocritical of me to do that. I agree that we just work on making Lemmy better and they lose power of their own chaos

They also apparently shared my post on The Dunk Tank and they doing about the same. They can dish it out, but not take it

I’ll just leave it be. Honestly the whole situation took on a life of it’s own. I expected like 1 or 2 people having the same experience. Not a 880 comment megathread lol

I can change the wording of my original post if need be if it’s going to be used as an education tool… As long as I get concensus to do so

Just saw this comment. Yes it was silly, and in no way meant to be taken literal. Looking at the history of those states that were under the USSR, putin is trying to keep control of them

Agreed. I tried to make due, but I won’t hold it against the mods if this gets deleted. Just needed to get it out