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I missed the stacking rocks struggle sesh so we could do that one again I don't understand either side of it.
People were shitting and pissing themselves because they were taught about the concept of "leave No Trace" + given very good reasons to do so.
Like the equivalent of a classroom full of med students being told "First, do no harm" and deciding to leave a haemostat in every patient, even the non-surgical ones.
They all ask "what if doing harm is good for my mental health?" and even though it isn't they will pretend it is
Smh that's so sadophobic, how dare you.
That barely none of them was banned for that bullshit pissed me off
Thinking about the unintentional harm of each of even my minor actions definitely is bad for my mental health.
Ok but you try getting handed a handful of kelly clamps and not use them. Just try it, it can't be done.
What am I gonna do? Not leave them in there?
Removing stuff is significantly less fun.
Most American this site has been. Well that and the micro-sessions about being an inconsiderate asshole that listens to music on a loudspeaker on public transport/rides a loud motorbike at night near apartment complexes.
Point: the loud motorbikes and street races wake me and my family up during the middle of the night but counterpoint: I imagine that the people doing that stuff are having a really great time living the wild street life I always dreamed about as a youth so I'm actually kinda ok with it.
Street races are cool, just don't have right next to large residential areas. If you do that then you're a dickhead. Especially at night.
Also street races aren't all that cool because cars suck and they're rarely done in a way that takes sufficient safety measures in use.
If you buy a loud motorbike while living in the city, when there's so many options for not-loud motorbikes, then you're also a dickhead.
Awl korrect there, no doubt!
But I simply cannot be convinced that underground street racing isn't cool. Should we as a society allow it? Probably not. But it is still very rad and there's no changing that aspect of it.
If you are a guy and do underground street racing I will instantly fall for you. So consider that.
(shuffles a big pile of paper around frantically to find and complete that underground-street-racing school application I've been putting off for years)
https://hexbear.net/post/249555
The OP gives the correct side. The other side is basically, "Fuck you, I'll do what I want." (Yes, really.)
Struggle sessions always come down to this, one side saying "this thing can be harmful, so try not to do it" and the other side insists that "My treats are the most important thing on the planet and how dare you, you want the revolution to fail by making me have to abandon a thing I do solely for fun that can inconvenience hundreds of people or destroy the natural environment and you're literally the worst person on earth if you suggest I pick up healthier and less disruptive hobbies or make any sort of compromise with my behaviour to make other people's lives easier."
I'm honestly surprised Hexbear didn't have an AI struggle session like Lemmygrad did. It ticks all the boxes of struggle session material, except that it is new I guess, maybe that's the deciding factor.
Did they really have a struggle session about it? All I've ever seen was like 95% of lemmygrad being weirdo AI bros and like 95% of Hexbear being correct AI haters, which means the struggle session only really happened across instance lines
I literally left Lemmygrad because way too many people there were in the weird AI bro mindset, and they were not pleasant about it, with a lot of struggle sessions between them and the other users, which is the main reason I moved here, since I don't really like being around supposed "communists" cheering on the machines making me unable to do my job anymore and struggling to survive, it felt like they would've had the same reaction to automation in the 80s, cheering it on because it is "good for the working class" in a vacuum and ignoring how the technology is actually being used under capitalism.
Oh shit this is where the "oxygen used to be poison" tagline comes from!
Thanks for thr history lesson
If you want to find strugglesessions just hit "sort by controversial". Since we no longer have downbears you'll only get really old stuff
A thousand struggle sessions on the Hexbear world