I think DEI was good in practice but has been awful in execution.

i misread your comment. i agree

That’s far from the truth

But that’s not the issue, the public is being misinformed from their own cognitive dissonance. They think that since the news is not reporting it anymore or that everyone else is not wearing masks, that it must be over so following rules to prevent the spread of COVID (and, in my perspective, general viruses) that don’t interrupt daily life, like washing hands thoroughly, wearing a mask at places that have large gatherings like the subway during rush hour or the bus, or grocery shopping. During COVID there were mostly people who followed this and some who ate the rabbit of tiktok, but now that the full propaganda machine from russia/china is in full swing, nobody trusts anything their government in the west says unless its a hot button issue like immigrants or expensive goods.

although i agree with the post title being a bit incorrect, and your comment of “alarmist asshole” not really called for, its not front page news and that’s because people are over COVID and could care less while people who are at risk from severe infection are getting it and dying still. People are just going to get super sick and say “yeah its a flu covid is over so it cant be that”

I know alot of people in my city and its one of the biggest in north america and they have never heard of it.

well. America is asking for it.

yeah…this is a little out of touch.

telegram is for pedos and this one guy i know uses it and i question his motives

“an iPhone which most youth dont have”

i see you dont live in north america

sorry, your right, i should correct myself, i have TRIED it, but havent fully played it.

i played it. it was dumb to me.

I have played no minecraft. Its just dull and boring. I actually don’t play much games anymore as i haven’t found anything that grabs my attention other than factorio and aurora4x, and even factorio i dont even play much anymore

This in turn is the problem im speaking about. We could go on about it all day. The only people that will use these tools for the most part are us. So naturally we should just be talking to each other, but yeah when it comes to our personal group, not happening.

ok

i want to use IRC but nobody ever talks to me in there

listen we need to have a chat,

you and me and some others on here understand using matrix and signal and whatever for E2EE chats. The people who use discord/facebook messenger/imessage/sms/whatsapp DO NOT GIVE A SHIT about this stuff. They are only going to use what is in pop culture. That’s how it is and i know it sucks, but people think its easy to “Get your family/friends over” whey they laugh at you and say “im not downloading just use x plz”

bye bye!

i guess it’s similar to our system here in canada, however many ridings the party has dictates their position in the house. its really dumb because some reps might be great people, but the leader is a total dingus. I don’t know what party i am voting for because i have lost faith in all the parties in my county.

odd, im suprised conservatives are upset about this because they say white people are the minority and are DEI hires /s