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@a_lizard that's just how you interpreted my comment, but nothing in my comment expressed that. Lol = laugh out loud. That's an expression merriment or the the perception of humor.

@ntnsndr you can have reference material and the work you're working on side-by-side without sacrificing information density or having to rescale your window.

@Jdogg247 unregistered gun? I thought we had a constitutional right to bear arms.

Will I need to register to speak politically soon?

@Demosthenes most likely. People are mad at the life ahead of them and the world around them. There was a big election to save the world and fix things, and now half think things are worse while the other half waits in anticipation for the magical healing to arrive. The anger and hate and violence is the natural conclusion. Every alternative sought is instantly shut down and people with the ability to fix things refuse to act or dig us deeper into crisis.

Because it's bullshit that is still influencing the behavior of other people. Personally, I think it's a foreign psyop intentionally designed to destabilize our country.

@prismatic many instances just form an extremist echo chamber, and block any instances who show any cultures that go against their norms.

@krruzic interesting take on the situation, thank you. Do you think the escalations would still have occurred if social media and the internet didn't exist?

@wishgranter14 that's true with pretty much all music. Music is all about audio pattern recognition combined with slight pattern abberation. The combination creates a sense of novelty.

@yarmo having the user open up Internet Explorer and typing the URL manually.

@SEGFAULT this makes the assumption that perfection is required to be good. Why do you feel that perfection is necessary for goodness?

@freedompatriot is there a team behind your massive amounts of posts, or is it just one man and a lode of cocaine?

@SEGFAULT ? Yes there are. Good people do bad things all the time and vice versa. What makes you say there's no such thing?

@io I didn't think Signal was designed for that kind of chat, lol. No wonder they're struggling

@kylekulinski @verita84 @freedompatriot there's also growing cultural anxieties pushing the polarization. Cultural relativism has decayed most social standards, and it's this decay that causes the anxiety.
Small towns tend to have a relatively homogeneous culture, so feel the effects of that culture changing more.
When I was talking about gay vs straight cities, I was more subtly referencing this cultural relativism. I think it's okay for small towns to resist the cultural relativism that is required for cities to thrive.

@resynth1943@koyu.space I'd use the virtual keyboard provided by the OS if needed.

How can deescalation between to battling tribes occur in a social media environment?

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