@dragonarchitect The way that I like to think about it is this:
You're responsible for what you communicate, /including what you communicate through your jokes/. When a joke is out of line, it's usually not just because it touched upon a sensitive topic or mentioned a minority group, but because it did as much in an insensitive way (or, in an extreme case, the joke may have been used as a vector for dog whistle talking points).
As a case in point, there are plenty of jokes made within the furry fandom (which is predominantly LGBT+) that use gayness or queerness as a focal point. These jokes are rarely problematic, though, because they generally don't depict queerness as being undesirable, malicious, or the entire summation of someone's personality.
When I was a teenager in the 2000s I somehow got the opportunity to interview the drummer from Minor Threat for a hardcore zine.
I asked him for his advice for young musicians. He said “you’re not going to listen to this advice because you don’t think it’s cool, and one day you’ll regret it, but always wear earplugs.”
I didn’t listen.
Didn’t think it was cool.
Permanent ear damage by my mid 20s.
I’m dubious about any YouTube personality and Gary Stevenson is no exception. But his message is simple:
- the reason living standards is going down is the rich have all the money
- the rich have a lot of money making machines, they have so much money they can only use it to buy up the remaining money making machines (e.g. your mum’s house, and your future starter home). This is real, it was literally my job.
- in a more equal economy other issues (*cough*immigration*cough*) would be more of a factor, and we still have to acknowledge that, but if you redistributed wealth from the uber wealthy we would not all be in the shitter right now and they’d still be rich AF. Right now the other issues are just a wedge to make us fight over crumbs.
- the super rich are tied geographically to their assets (AKA the money making machines), it’s a lot easier to tax them then they’d like you to think
@erkhyan You might benefit from the use of Syncthing to sync files like that between your devices. The program functions in a decentralized manner, and can also function within the context of a local network even if access to the Internet is down.
(Based on the reported experience of another Mastodon user, you may want to ensure that "file versioning" is enabled so as to facilitate recovery if something doesn't go right.)
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