Holy hell, 95% of people can’t figure out “what percentage of the emails sent by John Smith last month were about sustainability.” That is absolutely wild to me, and I already thought my perception was skewed the other direction due to working with largely disadvantaged people. That’s an eye opener for sure, thanks for sharing

I glanced at your username after reading this and thought it said PregoBoi lol

walks over to co-workers, farts, then walks back to his chair

Lmao

Nice try, feds

Edit: this is not the best place for this very important discussion. Get on Matrix/Signal/XMPP, and get involved locally. This is a ‘no phones meeting’ kind of topic

I prefer ass to ass therapy, personally

No one’s actually saying abolish prisons

Me:

While trauma can be a life sentence in a way, that doesn’t mean it isn’t treatable. I’ll always have a brain formed/rewired by trauma but, through therapy, it no longer impairs my life enough to qualify as a “disorder”

In short, community based restorative justice and support services. I.e., repairing harm through dialogue between victims, offenders, and community members, while addressing root causes like poverty, mental health issues, and substance abuse.

Ultimately, the goal is to create a society where crime is less likely to occur. This requires a shift towards preventive measures that promote social equity and community engagement. Abolishing prisons, for me at least, is one part of a larger movement that values dignity and promotes healing rather than perpetuating cycles of harm

I’m thinking about clearing out my blocks every year just to get a sense of the land again

Sometimes I switch to an anonymous account to see what I’m missing out on, and it turns out I am missing a lot of content lol.

140 in 2 months sounds like a lot to me

Tbf, I went out of my way a few times when I was bored, looking for people to block. And specifically from the communities I like- a sort of proactive pruning lol

Something I’ve noticed recently on Lemmy is that if you mention your own mental health, people immediately take it seriously, and I think that’s so fucking cool. What a great place; thanks for being who you are

I think it’s bad for my mental health to be regularly exposed to extremely bad takes and hateful content, and blocking them prevents me from seeing them again in the future.

And my client doesn’t support tagging, so blocking them is a safe way to ensure I don’t accidentally waste my time reading the opinion of someone with historically shit opinions

Lol I blocked flying squid too

Even when the belief being challenged is your right to exist? I personally don’t entertain such perspectives

What the fuck did you just fucking say about Kamala Harris you little bitch? I’ll have you know she supports genocide, and has been involved in upholding a corrupt and punitive “justice” system, and she has over 1500 confirmed fuckups. I am trained in internet argumentation and I’m the top shitposter on the entire FBI watch list. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe your shit takes the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit on the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of leftists across the USA and your ignorance is being noted right now so you better prepare for the storm, liberal. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your opinion. You’re fucking dead wrong, kid. I can dismantle your argument anywhere, anytime, and I can do it in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with appeals to emotion. Not only am I extensively informed on this issue, but I have access to a cherry-picked list of facts that support my opinion and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable stance off the face of this forum, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead wrong, kiddo.

Edit: this is not directed at drag, hence the use of you/your

I manually counted them by counting how many in the list fit on my screen at one time (15 for me on Eternity), then seeing how many screens worth of scrolling I had to do to get to the bottom, and multiplying

My instance doesn’t participate in downvoting, and arguing is a waste of time and bad for my mental health. So, I do choose to ignore them- forever, by blocking them lol.

I’ve blocked a couple of the top 10ish most prolific posters, so I know I’m missing out on some quality content. That’s one benefit I see to tagging instead of blocking, if my client had that feature

Well yeah they’re random internet people, but sometimes they’re random internet people that show up in my feed/comments frequently

Impressive!

Or annoyed with what they have to say?