Yeah, I wholeheartedly agree; I wish we were better at honoring our united pain and each other's pain. As you and I both know, that's not the case on a grand scale, and why I think it's so important for us to build and find our smaller communities that do.

Have a good weekend too, yo!

Yha, all the people around me are staring into their Smartphones and attacking humanism on social media like you are.

I was just reading through y'all's conversation and this piece stuck out to me. I read a lot of loneliness, hurt, and isolation in your comments, yo, and then I read this piece. Man, do I get that. That reminded me of me throughout high school and college; I didn't feel like anyone saw what I saw. Which was pain. And if I'm being honest, I was seeing others' pain, but I was mostly seeing my pain. I met my best friend late in college, and she was a god-send because she got me. She saw their pain too. And more importantly, she saw my pain and honored it, and that was such a relief.

When I feel alone and isolated, I usually feel like withdrawing more. Since her, I've found that that's usually a sign that I actually need to connect. I need to find others that get me. Not as another avenue to vent my frustrations and anger and pain, but as an avenue for joy, as an avenue for remembering that I am more than just my pain.

That's a lot of shit off the top of my head, and I dunno if you'll resonate with any of it because I only know you as far as a few comments online. But wanted to write it in case it would resonate with you or anyone else.

Take care of yourselves, y'all.

Should we go ahead and put a curriculum together and start shipping it to universities, or...?

Such good points; I'm convinced. To continue on your line of thinking, after learning some media literacy and starting to notice different patterns and forms of discussion, I wonder if learning Aristotelian syllogisms would be a good next step. So we still aren't jumping right into fallacies per se, but we start to understand logic structure and what is formally valid/invalid. So now it's got them thinking about how to structure and challenge their own beliefs and arguments. And while we are now potentially hitting formal fallacies, I think this would not give any immediate tools for dunking on anyone either because, in my experience, converting a real-time argument to a syllogism is very very difficult without a ton of experience and practice breaking arguments down into simpler ideas. What do you think?

Rather than not encouraging focusing and learning fallacies, maybe we are simply saying that they need to also learn to use them appropriately? Fallacies are not just the informal ones that everyone is referencing here in this thread, but also the formal ones which are very much required for logical argument structure. So even in learning about fallacies, there will be opportunities to understand the difference between informal and formal, why they are different, and how that applies to discourse. Knowledge is power; it just needs to be balanced with understanding on how to use and I think a deep dive into fallacies could actually assist in that regard.

You're right, that is an easier question to answer!

Haha whaaaat. After all this time, I had no idea that was a thing. Any enemy? Not bosses though, right?

Resident Evil Director's Cut on PS1. I was fairly young and not very good at the "survival" aspect of the survival horror. I tried to kill everything I encountered and consumed copious amounts of ammo and herbs doing so. I reached a place where I had a single ink ribbon left, no ammo, health on the red, and confused on where I needed to go next. And I had to go do homework. So I used my last ribbon and saved.

I discovered next time I played that the way forward was through a tight corridor I missed filled with zombies who could now one-shot me. I tried and tried and literally was unable to get through. First time I ever learned the word "soft-locked" as my brother wheezed it out while laughing. Good times!

Oh that's interesting. So it's not just a connection being made when it comes to federation; contributions are stored locally somehow too, maybe?

Thank you, starting to get it now!

Because KBin had more features than just what's available with federation because it's a separate codebase than Lemmy. I'm starting to get it now, thanks for the help!

Got it! Thanks for explaining; that was really helpful.

Is there a way for us to see all the instances you have defederated from? As a new user, it's really confusing that I can still go to a community and post a comment there without knowing that we're defederated from them and they will never see it.

Hmm. Which could give me access to other Kbin features, like the microblogging the other commenter mentioned to me?

I don't understand; I can access Kbin magazines from Jerboa. What am I missing?

I was going to ask what the number used to be! I am new as of last week, and even from when I started, it's insane to see posts with hundreds of upvotes. Crazy upswing in such a short amount of time. I wonder how long time Lemmy users feel about all this.

@CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.ml, you're going to want in on this conversation.

I'd like to add to this request that we allow searches by instance, or be able to view all communities within a particular instance. I sometimes hear about a new instance and want to see all the communities within it. Or I'm curious what new communities lemmy.ml might have and want to quickly view all their instances. Initially I tried to search "@lemmy.ml", hoping that would work, but alas it did not. Just a thougt that feels related to this one!

I doubt we'll see a PS5 Pro next year, if at all. We've only ever had that in one generation of consoles across the entirety of gaming, and there was a 4K push and a processor that had fallen behind. This generation, we're seeing extended crossgen support, and not a lot of games pushing next-gen visuals yet. I think we'd all feel a little left out to dry if a pro version came out. A slim version seems totally reasonable to me though, especially if rumors are true that Sony wants to switch to a single PS5 model with an optional disc drive attachment.

I better start seeing smoked meats posted on this shit. Got any recommendations for quality beef jerky or anything of the like that will ship in the States? You've got me hungry now.