Why’s it at +157/-3 after 3hr:
Because blahaj.zone doesn't count the downvotes. The -3 downvotes that you see are only those that are counted by the instance you're viewing from (given out by the users of that instance only). Right now, on lemmy.world it has 28 downvotes, on dbzer0 it has 2.
I've read it in high school, many years ago :D It was one of the 2-3 assigned readings that the class clearly enjoyed over all those four years (along with Decameron and Crime and Punishment).
As far as I remember, it parodies the philosophical (or theological) idea by Leibniz that this is the best of all possible worlds, which is supposed to explain why God allows it to be apparently so shitty - it's still the best you can get. IMO it's not really fair to just describe it as "everything is going to be ok", as you and Voltaire do, because the original idea is not really optimistic or pessimistic with regards to what you can expect of the world, it is in fact just deeply apathetic (and a bit dumb).
The difference in the meme here is that "everything is going to be ok" is not a hard philosophical law, but a conspiracy theory, going aginst the accepted or obvious knowledge. It suggests some active, nefarious force behind the scenes, unlike Leibniz's inertia.
The last part of your comment sounds like an ad straight out of those overlong YT videos.
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hmm
Really?
Indeed. He's the director of a Russian foundation, teaches at a Russian university, and is being legally bullied by Russia, as you can see from my three-sentence summary. I'm pretty sure you can't do all that from Portugal or something.
I think he very much should have thought of himself as one. His mistake.
He should've thought of himself as not currently able to travel to Russia?
Ok, lol.
Ok, and? It's completely obvious the person in question is not among those.
Huh? He couldn't not travel to Russia, he's a Russian.
stochastic terrorism
Is there non-stochastic, predictable terrorism?
How do you know what was the purpose of the attack? I can't find anything in the media on his goals.
which is why constant shocks of stochastic terrorism have helped increase police budgets in a time period where no one trusts the police and considers them a government-sanctioned group of thugs who will lie, cheat, and steal to ruin your life.
OP is not in USA.
Your word choice is just bizarre. Nobody would be excluded, they'd only have to make a profile on a different, normal server. And nobody would be "hurt" by not having access to Lemmy's memes about Linux and similar stuff.
just don’t follow any of them if you’re not interested in any of them
Except that theoretically my "All" feed would still be full of garbage-tier content that people typically expect and post on Meta's services, and that userbase with its same mindset would eventually spill over into the communities that I do follow too.
Yeah, but they’re separate
They're literally not.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921%E2%80%931922
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%931933
Your comparison is straight-up deranged, I have no softer words.