Can you recommend any such patched app for Facebook?

It’s an oversimplification…but not a big one.

It’s a massive oversimplification that seems to whitewash China’s policies.

Every country that undergoes industrialisation and urbanisation has a big drop in birth rates. Same in capitalist and socialist countries, there’s no essential difference in how it plays out (the tempo is different from case to case for many reasons, but the trend is the same). But China additionally made the rates plummet through govt intervention.

So you stressed and praised the part that wasn’t truly crucial for the outcome (socialism), but ignored the part (one child policy) that drastically contributed to the outcome and that can’t be presented as nice or intuitively desirable (regardless of whether it objectively was or wasn’t a good decision). That’s not simplification but selectiveness.

(Yes, it is true that many lemmings who live outside China just project their own “China sucks” logic onto the Chinese, and their approach is wrong, I agree with you on that count.)

and hope it makes you feel bad

That’s not the point of downvotes. If you’re assuming people are downvoting you just to make you feel bad, you’re taking it way to personally.

Upvotes are funny too. I like what you posted, but can’t be bothered to articulate why. So I’m gonna click a button at you and hope it makes you feel good.

Was he conscripted? Did he actually have fascist politics or was he literally defending his homeland?

Tough to say at this point, as I say in the other comment. He was likely conscripted (he was around 18 near the end of the war), but defending his fascist homeland wasn’t the ideal choice, there was a massive antifascist resistance at the time that many had run away to join instead, that was the proper “defend your homeland” movement as far as history is concerned.

For context, we’re from Croatia, i.e. Independent State of Croatia (Nazi puppet state) during 1941-1945, and then a part of socialist(ish) Yugoslavia 1945-1991.

Not too much, in a way. He was around 18 when he was in the army near the end of the war, I don’t know (and there’s likely no way to find out now) how willing he was about being there, how much he believed in the ideology, and how much of a choice he had at all (though it surely wouldn’t have been impossible for him to escape and join the partisan resistance, as many others had done), and either way he went through this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleiburg_repatriations so I count that as atonement for whatever crap he might’ve done.

And, well, half a century later, when I came about, he was effectively a different person. I have my own picture of him from one time period, that picture is already wildly different from the picture his children had/have, and adding what he did before all of us is tough to put together into a single picture, at least for me right now. I mean, purely for myself his most important contributions were sparking my interest in natural sciences, showing me a bit about how computers work back when he was the only family member with a computer at home, providing me with formative books (Don Quijote), and (probably unintentionally) making me turn atheist. His past has to be objectively acknowledged, but it necessarily has a different role in my subjective perception of him.

When I learned that my sweet grandpa being a soldier in the fascist army in ww2 wasn’t the most fucked up bit of our family history, I kind of started wondering if I want to explore it any further.

I get the joke, but the sources aren’t self-published. They’re published by an instance other than the author and that’s good enough, that’s what the self‐publishing rule is about.

The COI can hardly apply to members of a fairly broad group writing about the group. By that logic, Americans shouldn’t write about the USA, only gay people could write about heterosexuality, etc.

Conflict of interest (COI) editing involves contributing to Wikipedia articles about yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest

I swear I’m not this insufferably unfunny most of the time.

I want to see more of this pre-Disney-influence manga

I’m sorry, how the fuck can an app made for men to find other men to get their back blown out be AI first.

AI is pretty good at fucking people in the ass.

Give me a young star, and I can use the reductionist laws of physics to predict that star’s future: It will live a million years rather than a billion years; it will die as a black hole rather than as a white dwarf. But the components of a living organism yield something new and unexpected, a phenomenon called “emergence.” Give me a simple cell from the early days of Earth’s history, and I could never predict that some 4 billion years later it would evolve into a giant rabbit that can punch you in the face. Kangaroos—like humans—are an unpredictable, emergent consequence of life’s evolution.

But couldn’t “reductionism” simply chalk this inability up to the practical lack of physical information and our purely technical inability to play out (simulate) something as massive as, at the very least, all that takes place on an entire planet?

In fact, even the example with the predictability of a star’s life isn’t all that certain in practice – do we really know exactly how the star’s life will play out, or just generally? Will the Sun become a red giant in roughly ten million years, or in exactly 10.285.914 years? It’s still a complicated chaotic system and we certainly can’t account for all the details and microflunctuations. The same inability applies to physics describing evolution, with the main difference being how far-reaching the difficult-to-predict micro-flunctuations can be (a change in a gene can change everything about life on Earth millenia down the line; a solar flare, while involving an incomprehensibly larger amount of energy, changes next to nothing about how the star’s life will play out, as far as we’re concerned).

I take these differences more as a spontaneous consequence of how you frame your topic of study, depending on your practical possibilities (different methodologies arising based on how suitable/doable they are for different objects), rather than as a strict border between hard determinist physics and non-physical magic.

Dedicated gay beach, as far as it gets without having some official designation of that sort. Straight people just don’t go there at all, based on decades of my beachgoing in the area, local oral knowledge, and, well, going there myself and seeing the people. My friend once tried to go there, his mother (who has lived nearby on and off for decades and has family there) asked him wtf he’s doing, that’s the gay beach…

If you were actually at some sort of private gay club where public sex is allowed, all good, but I feel like you probably wouldn’t be questioning and trying to justify it if that was the case.

Well, obviously, I realise this was definitely a more questionable case, especially as I consider it in retrospect 😅

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/12/05/the-worlds-first-ai-minister-got-caught-on-bribes

(Ok, the above article is mostly not true, the story was made up by an Onion-style satirical portal.)

Well, the beach was a dedicated gay nudist beach, so I figured it might be more tolerant of that (though a friend of mine, who passed it by many times, said he has never seen people having sex there), and the place was relatively secluded so very few people on the beach could see it at all. Definitely not kids.

So that’s how I’m rationalising it to myself.

But you explain it well, and I guess some feeling of guilt is deserved. Beach sex isn’t very comfortable anyway so I’m not planning to do it again any time soon.

I had sex on a nudist beach and a boat passed by right as I had a cock down my throat. Can’t say I felt any embarrassment, with regards to being seen by the people on the boat. Yet afterwards I wondered if the act could’ve been seen as inappropriate by the other beachgoers, which would definitely make me feel some embarrassment.

They won’t defend it, they’ll just ignore it and keep talking about US being bad.

Admittedly at this point you probably won’t find anything useful on the official site, other than the last redacted version. Hopefully someone has saved the first version and uploaded it elsewhere?

why did they both happen to stop on that day despite having such regular posting habits?

One of the reddit comments has proposed a pretty simple explanation: the two profiles are the same person. Just one person’s posting habits were disrupted.

The other guy was disputing the objectively unlikely connection between the two posters and Russia. In your mind you somehow converted that into claiming that the poster defended Russia as such. You’ve stopped looking at the actual evidence and are just going off the vibes, Russia is already bad therefore every bad thing ascribed to it has to be true.

When the weakness of the connection was pointed out to the reddit OP, even he kind of stepped back. Maybe go accuse him of going soft on Russia as well? Or take a step back yourself.

For now what I’m usually seeing is people talking about Russian influence without hard proof or just plainly contradicted by reality, as in this case. I’ve seen speculation that Dessalines (Lemmy developer) is Russian due to his tankie takes, again easily contradicted by his digital footprint.

As for me being a tankie, I’m literally banned on Hexbear for being subscribed to some anti-tankie communities.

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Allow me to weigh in here as a Russian.

Moscow lost power due to Ukrainian drone attacks

I am sorry, /u/Ok-Stand-2128, but this premise from the post looks wrong. Could you please share your sources on this? I could find no info about an outage in the city of Moscow on that night. There was only an outage in Moscow region: more specifically, in Zhukovsky, a city with a population of about 100,000 people. (An analogy would be an outage in Albany in the state of New York, while New York City had no outage.) I’ll share my sources in a reply because Reddit sometimes deletes links to Russian websites.

I can imagine no reason for this outage to influence any Russian bots. Zhukovsky is not an IT hub.

Also, the fifth image shows that the two users in question usually start posting at 2 a.m. Moscow time, the middle of the night, not a typical workday start.

The increasing tendency of US leftists to assume Russian influence behind the conservatives seems like a rehash/mirror of the Cold War anti-communist paranoia. The profiles themselves clearly behave bot-like:

It’s definitely Ask4MD, but I figured the other one was According-Activity87. If you go on conserv sub right now half the first page is both of them posting. Both have extremely easy MOs to follow. Ask4MD will post something and never engage with it. According-Activity will post something then post a GIF response almost instantly. It’s so tuned and they’re never called out about it.

GIF responses are indeed a frequent thing for reddit bots to use, from what I’ve seen.