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Do you get joy from simple things like eating a nice meal or taking a hot shower on a cold day?

Can you anticipate joy, if you are planning to meet up with friends or watch a movie or read a book; does thinking about the activity lift your mood even a little?

When you think back to happy memories do you feel happy, do you remember what the sensation of happiness felt like?

Not a professional and none of this is diagnostic one way or another, but it's probably worth checking if you have exhausted or outgrown a hobby which just means you need to find more things you enjoy even if it's just to add variety to your week. Or if your ability to feel joy itself is failing, in which case you probably need to a professional

Headline describing a good thing being met with scores of comments explaining how actually this is a bad thing is incredibly prevent all over Lemmy.

I don't know if it's because people feel like cynicism makes them informed or smart or cool, or if it's just the left wing manifestation of "don't believe what the media tells you sheeple" but it's like clockwork.

Makes sense, the more immigration is seen to be a problem the better republicans do on voting day.

They want to talk about how high immigration is but so little to tackle it, Dems are incentivised to do the opposite.

Super apparent in the UK where the conservatives government decided to spend enormous sums sending a handful of asylum seekers to Rwanda rather than actually paying people to process their claims.

Coin flip between it just being yet another case of musk lashing out because his ego hurts and him trying to distance himself from the trump admin when the closeness has caused catastrophic damage to his companies brands (too little too late, but still)

Agreed

How do you reverse a chemical castration if it's later revealed the person was wrongfully convicted?

You stop the regimen of drugs and the primary effect ceases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_castration

I'm not arguing for the policy, I think violating someones bodily authority is inherently evil and should not be on the table even as a result of a criminal conviction.

But I think our objections should follow the science, we should object to the harm caused to the (falsely)convicted while on the drugs rather than the permencance of the sentence.

The difference is that chemical castration is typically a course of drugs that alter the body's hormone production while it's being taken to reduce sexual desire/function, when the subject stops taking the drugs the body returns to its natural hormone balance.

Physical mutilation is a one off, permenant, irreversible operation.

The problem is that the term chemical castration is wildly misleading in its attempt to describe the process.

The only series I would consider installing ubisofts launcher for.

The trailer looks really good, it seems like they have made modifiers for island beauty localised rather than island wide which makes sense, now we can benefit from building sperate residential and industrial districts.

Land based combat I think is also new, it will be interesting to see how this plays out, but the lack did always seem like a glaring omission in 1800.

Hopefully they have done away with the influence system or at-least heavily modified it, it felt so bad in 1800 having to pick between ships, island defenses and buildings that allowed you to actually use all the cool items you found.

Way to disengage with every point made and assume I am a warmonger.

I did almost include a paragraph on the morality of the bombing of Pyongyang, but after some thought I realise it wasn't even a decade after ww2 and area bombing cities was part of how America and its allies won that conflict.

Would you say bombing Germany was necessary or justified to stop facism in Europe? Was the bombing of Japan necessary or justified to end Japanese subjugation of Asia?

I'm not sure I have a consistent position on this, it feels like the bombing of Korea was excessive but the bombing of Germany was necessary, but I can't find a good justification for that split.

Either way I'm not particularly interested in defending the US's conduct, but the original commenter presenting the invading country as being innocent and laying all the blame for the war at the feet of the US is gross.

This isn't even getting into the fact that NK has one of the worst human rights records in the world.

Huh, surprised they got banned since that seems to be broadly true esp in context of your second point, maybe it was a different comment that got them nuked

Damn, their whole account is gone, what did they say?

The standard penalty for starting a war is being in a state of war, during which your opponents will try to kill you. Until the war is over your opponents will keep trying to kill you.

Its worth noting that armestice wasn't reached until Stalin died and the new soviet leaders weren't interested in prolonging the war, which suggests that the belligerents in the conflict were happy to continue it as Koreans continued to die in order to support their territorial and idiological designs.

In my opinion the US shouldn't have crossed the 38th parallel north, doing so brought china into the war and ended the possibility of a quick end to the war and fewer deaths, but that sin pales in comparison to starting the invasion in the first place.

The real tragedy is the same as it ever is in wars, innocent civilians and young soldiers die in droves because someone in power wanted more land, more subjects, more resources more power and made the decision to take it at the cost of these lives.

And let's not pretend that if the ROK and the US didn't fight there wouldn't have been massacres of civilians, purges of intellectuals and "political dissidents" and forced migration.

The community we are in is somewhat appropriate when you are advocating that "war is bad" so people shouldn't fight back when they are invaded because people die or powerful nations shouldn't militarily support victims of invasions because that "prolongs the war" during which yes; people die. I see enough of that from the various anti-ukraine/pro-russia shills, it's nice to see that logic gets applied to other cases where a country with red in it's flag tries to annex its neighbour too.