So you decided to make a pro-China anti-US argument by linking to a flat-earther meme?

You alright there?

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Maybe you can borrow the history book when they’re done with it.

Someone needs to pick up a Chinese history book…

Considering that Taiwan has been de facto an independent country for a long time, its easy to see why “forever maintaining the status quo” is the best choice for most people.

Declaring independence from China when they are already functionally independent from China would just be kicking a hornet’s nest. The outcome of a war with China would end in either a bloody defeat in which their country would be leveled and their freedoms taken away, or a bloody victory resulting in… the current status quo, just with lots of dead people.

So why would your average citizen desire anything but the status quo? They’re already a free country, this question is just asking them if they’d like a war for the fun of it, or their freedoms taken away.

I’m sorry if I read your post the wrong way. Internet tone, and all that.

I agree with you that we need to be the change we want to see. My original post wasn’t meant to be a complaint that it’s so empty here, as in all of kbin. I was just curious about the empty subs that seem to be getting featured for some reason or another.

To be honest I’m not saying I want it to grow like Reddit. I like the feeling here. It’s smaller, like the old internet.

Ahh interesting!

I’ve seen Ernest as the owner of a lot of those magazines, and I figured that they defaulted back to him if the creator had left or something. Claiming them and deleting them is a clever solution!

I’m with you on this.

I started out at lemmy and moved over to kbin because I liked its versatility. Lemmy just seemed like a left-leaning version of reddit. kbin seemed like a new and interesting to interact over the web.

Of toxicity? Or of the mods being monsters?

I don’t have specific examples, since I stopped using the Japan subreddits several years ago. But they are swamps of toxicity. Everyone is mad at each other and seems to hate their own lives. The new users ask the same 3 basic questions every single day, while the old users seem like new users are the only thing they hate more than Japan. The mods are ban happy and will punish people like tyrants for the slightest mistake, and while I sympathize with them for the crap they have to sift through, they themselves are some of the sub’s most toxic users. It’s just a terrible place.

The main problem is actually with users like you

Really, you meant no offense by that?

Jesus Christ man. I am active in the magazines that I’ve subscribed to. I post. I comment. I read. How the fuck is this my fault?

In fact, looking at your profile, I comment more than you. So don’t blame me just because I asked the question when you actually have no idea what my situation is.

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You’re a braver person than I. The Reddit Japan subs are just far too toxic for me, and several of the mods are monsters.

That’s a popular trope that is spouted by anti-rationalists all the time, but it’s a total red herring. It’s one of those rhetorical tactics that is designed to disrupt judgment and put a stop to a conversation before the absurdity of the claim is made obvious. It’s drilled into us as children through tv, movies, even books, but it’s entirely false.

Rationalism has plenty of room for fantasy, emotion, and everything else that humans experience. It’s not a choice between being rational and being a fully developed human. The choice is between being rational and being irrational. Everything else is its own separate thing.

Google Wave was amazing! My friends and I had so much fun with it, and then it just got abandoned.

This is the way.

Hi there!
/waves nerdily

Yeah… this sounds like someone who is making excuses for their bad behavior instead of owning their mistake and correcting it.

Same here. When I look at the microblog pages on some magazines, they seem to be full of random Mastodon posts from several months ago rather than new content. I have no issues with other Fediverse stuff showing up there, but why old stuff? Why nothing new? And why only select hashtags rather than universal? It’s extremely bizarre and looks like a half-broken tech demo.

It’s the piece of corn in the turd.

I enjoyed seeing so many beloved characters again, and it had several very good moments, but seasons 1 and 2 did Jean-Luc dirty and S3 didn’t make up for that.