Lemmy is too quiet and has little local activity so I still glance at FB and Reddit

I lost my 10+ yr old account because I got auto banned from a mess of subs for leaving a comment on an anti vax sub CRITICAL of them. You have to love lazy mods who ban without any consideration of context. Now I just glance at the posts and comments and avoid the urge to participate.

In old fashioned diners in the US the older woman would call you "Honey" frequently. This seems to bother the woke crowd. Me, I like the old school waitresses.

What a bizarre thing to be upset about. It sounds like the guy had a screw loose.

How dare they ask me how I'm doing! None of their damn business!

I treat people like that like I'm dealing with a rabid dog. I detach emotionally and treat them like a thing to be careful around.

Probably because it was a popular name for a while so the odds they'd have that name are good.

Another name ruined

Ah yes, having a hollow military has worked so well throughout history

"I'll give you $5 if you sniff it."

"Do you believe our species will ever reach some form of enlightenment"

If there is anything history has taught me is that we repeat the same basic behavior over and over and have done so as far back as we can see. We are essentially very intelligent monkeys, obsessed with social status, manipulation, altruism and cooperation mixed with hostility and exploitation. I think the basic sociology of humans is baked into our DNA and the very nature of animal life. People have always imagined they can create some utopia on earth but it always ends up a failure because of the very nature of man and the impossibility of even defining a utopia for everyone.