if an app emails you with personal information, it feels more invasive than the app just keeping it on their servers and creating the appearance that it's only on your phone

The Birdcage, on straight people

my server is broken I think

if you want pleasant emotions to determine what everyone should do, then yeah empathy ends up being really important, because you are sensitive to other people's pleasant emotions. but what if I notice someone having pleasant emotions about something I don't think they should do? what if my empathy notices someone enjoying fireworks? I still hate that, I still think they shouldn't be allowed to have them.

I probably just don't agree with liberalism as a goal, so how do I not become authoritarian then

@freeplay@wetdry.world How do you feel about skeleton content like gray boxes and whatnot?

like gayness, vaccines are a choice and contagious

people were actually believing the vaccine was contagious

brains are like weather imo

the difference between information and text resembling information is similar to the difference between a weather forecast and a sentence resembling a weather forecast

@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai I'm putting in the category of all the other 'it will turn out fine' responses. There was this feeling from a lot of people that we shouldn't take any threat seriously because it was kinda cringey to be worried and not trust the progress.

fireworks are pollution. when we experience so many days of bad air quality that are outside of our control, imagine making the air worse.

https://map.purpleair.com/

oh wow just learned Muhammad Ali was yet another 2016 death. maybe contributed to the shift