If you can moderate, it isn’t really an addiction. At least, not by the strict definition. If you use it more colloquially, sure.

I think that doesn’t really work for physical addictions. Even if you can easily stop using because your mind just works that way, if you used an addictive substance for long enough you’ll get withdrawal symptoms.

That’s definitely part of it, but I think the main issue is that a lot of the new tech in the last 20 years was used to further the far right (e.g. Facebook, Google) and erode civil rights in general (e.g. privacy, right to repair), on top of constant enshittification and ever-shrinking longevity of devices.

I think that depends a lot on the specific addictions and which circumstances make you want to give into it more. e.g. physical addictions like to highly addictive drugs are typically harder to moderate that non-physical addictions.

Because South America is obviously the best place to keep drug kingpings. What could go wrong?

New technology kind of stopped being exciting for me. Too much abuse, and even stuff that’s hard to abuse (like new medical treatments) typically takes several decades before it’s available for end users and even then is usually out of reach financially for most people.

I really don’t want to use voice chat when I’m talking to random people, I’m already not using any chat features. I’d rather use a different platform if it comes up at one point (e.g. for stuff like coordinating between mods); I generally prefer it when software keeps its scope small.

Weirdly, as a non-native speaker I find UK headlines even harder to read.

Used to use Soundcloud, but it’s not quite what it used to be (also Reddit, but y’know). My most interesting reactions were on the ardour forums, though that’s a bit specific to your DAW and IDK how that would be going in other DAW forums.

Haven’t put out new music in a pretty long while, so I’m not quite up to date on things in the fediverse on this topic.

Unfortunately, in this case “comparing” (in the sense of saying they are similar) and “equating” are typically seen as the same, at least by people who support the israeli genocide like the German police.

Turns out, in this case Italy and UK are the CYKABLYAT.

To illustrate how difficult it can be to be Russia’s neighbor, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization

They tried a couple of things that were shot down by the far right president, though.

Doesn’t look like the majority of the population is interested in that, so it’s either going to take a revolution led by a minority (definitely going to be violent) or intervention by a foreign occupying force (still probably going to be violent). TBH I don’t really see a likely solution to this that’s not going to be violent, heavy international pressure could work but the USA are not going to change their policy anytime soon, which also prevents a foreign occupying force; wouldn’t even surprise me if they invaded if there was a revolution.

Surprised it’s not Hungary.

I have yet to see a comment or post Lemmy that actually argues for the ‘end of Palestine’. That would already violate rule 4 if someone did it.

neither should you be allowed to defend the actions or existence of the IDF

Isn’t the IDF Israel’s regular army? Hamas and Hezbollah aren’t exactly Palestine’s regular armies, they’re political organizations that also have military. There’s a reason why Hamas isn’t really active in the West Bank.

I haven’t seen much defending of the IDF’s actions, but fair point, that should probably be prohibited.

Israeli jews are probably not going to do that voluntarily …

I can teach you about homo things, too ; )

Maybe they got in trouble too many times for not doing it exactly as instructed, even if the instruction is obviously bullshit in some ways?

Making constructive, non-adhominem critique, and accepting such critique. Maybe calm debate/discussion in general.

Classic Mark Twain. Shame that people can’t appreciate this kind of thing.