Not really, no. The feature set is pretty much impossible to provide profitably, or to self-host for most users, hence all of the services always enshittifying and/or shutting down.

Simple text chat is perfectly achievable. Real time video calls, sure, somewhat. Sending large files to eachother? Cloud-hosted chat history going back to the beginning of time? Not feasible without pretty significant monthly subscription costs. Can’t grow the user base if you charge a subscription to all your users.

Anyways, Mattermost and Matrix kinda sorta work, until they don’t work anymore.

It’s totally valid that a child dying on-screen is triggering for you. I have PTSD, and that feeling of suspension of disbelief being broken is pretty much exactly what derealization feels like, except I get it about things happening in the real world, as well as in movies and TV shows.

With all of that said, I don’t really think you could say the percentage of parents can be said to be causative for how media depicts child death, it’s really more of a direct result of the Hays code - prior to the Hays code depictions of child death weren’t that rare. Child death was more common in those days too, I suppose. It was after the Hays code fell apart, i.e. the 70s where things started to move towards being more violent, and I think that was more likely caused by mainstream depictions of the Vietnam war on the news - and that was probably the decade with more parents than any other decade prior, given the fertility rate peaked in the 60s.

When I was interested in maybe buying the game, I think the day of it’s release, I saw a disclaimer on the steam store page say it used AI. That’s the reason I chose not to buy it. If I am going to buy art, I want it to be the authentic product of real humans, not a facsimile of life animated by the ritual sacrifice of burning limited resources.

Stop buying their shit. Decide on some values and boundaries for yourself, and keep them. I do not buy any games with microtransactions or where the output of LLMs feature in the end product.

Yeah you miss out on some AAA releases, but those games are rarely actually all that fun to play anyways.

Kids die in the real world, you know? And not at all infrequently. I think our media should be at least somewhat representative of reality.

it sounds a lot more like you’re the one letting israel direct your messaging than literally anyone else involved

i literally don’t give a shit what israel cries about, if I see something is from an israeli source, i reduce the amount of confidence i have in it by 99%. if i hear that something is anti-semitic, that means I need to check if it’s really anti-semitic or if it’s just thinly-veiled bullshit again. if I’m too busy, I just assume it’s bullshit.

honestly, if nothing else, it’s free press, and it might make some zionists wonder why everyone is calling them genocidal and comparing them to nazis

anyways, wishing israel a very dissolved and a happy new execution for war crimes for their state

that assumes every business which invests in AI would be bailed out, which is a huge assumption. I would guess the only businesses that would receive bailouts would be those with personal ties to the government

Darwin is a UNIX, I believe!

Under any system where people have power over others, power will begin to concentrate into fewer and fewer hands, until it becomes a problem. The only solution is anarchism.

Chomsky shows up pretty often in the Epstein emails too.

I’m a mobility scooter user - don’t feel bad for us, these devices are incredibly liberating, in a really life-changing way.

Movies and stuff love to show disabled people as unhappy to be “stuck in a chair” but in the real world most disabled people are very thankful for their assistive technology because the alternative is never going anywhere or doing anything.

HEARTBREAKING: The worst website you know just made a great point

israel chose to make the star of david their flag, but cool whataboutism i guess

GrapheneOS has a feature which automatically restarts the phone if it hasn’t been interacted with after some user-configurable delay. For example, you could configure the phone to automatically reboot if it hasn’t been used for an hour. This way, even if the phone is seized, that reboot timer is ticking. Once it reboots, the encryption on the phone is basically unbreakable.

Hey, I’m estranged from my dad, and I just wanted to let you know that your feelings, whatever they are, are totally valid.

You don’t have to feel anything, don’t force yourself into it. Let yourself be true to how you really feel, if anything.

I’d be glad if my dad died.

Shoplifting and stealing from your employer is based af

Do you seriously believe that tax authorities are digging into outgoing payment data at OnlyFans looking for tax mismatches?

Class consciousness isn’t the American culture war! Germans can be (and often are) liberals too.

A culture of following rules is fucking pathetic.

EMDR absolutely can be used by professionals, but where I live, it is used exclusively and very rushed. You are given a pre-allocated block of, say, six sessions, where you are expected to pretty much immediately get into the traumatic memories from the first session, and if you are resistant, you’re told that you are wasting time.

That’s why I hate EMDR, because it is held up as the “evidence-backed” method and thus professionals are functionally forced into rushing it, because the insurance provider won’t pay for the likely months or years of therapy it takes to do therapy in a safe and healthy way.

Again, just from my own personal experience and that of my friends who have been through it.

Yeah this is just because woke means nothing coherent to right wingers. To the left, it means to be aware of systemic problems such as racism and the class war. To the right, it just means “person I disagree with”