You know a group has zero real or political power over you when they get laws passed that criminalize any negative speech or criticism against them whatsoever and also criminalize any skepticism regarding any stories they proliferate. That's how you know they're powerless, delicate, endangered victims.
For me, being an adult has meant going to sleep on my own at a reasonable time or early and getting plenty of sleep vs. choosing to stay up/go out and getting bare minimum rest and feeling tired or shitty the next day.
@mima@makai.chaotic.ninja The thing is, I've never met a single person with a hard-on for democracy actually want a genuine raw democratic system. They all want some sort of diluted, managed, controlled "democracy".
@MK2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com The best way to learn is to spin up your own site and start playing around with HTML + CSS using various guides to try and create what you want. It's fun! And thanks!
@lamp@kitty.haus Minors should be met with hostility and barred from online spaces but if they want to masquerade otherwise and dupe people whatever. That's what we used to do as minors and that's what the environment was like in the spaces I lived in. I just acted like a fucking mature adult and people thought I was a mature adult, simple as. And I was never groomed or whatever because, again, minors weren't welcome (ergo, those interested in minors didn't hang around). You only find predators in minor-friendly spaces.
Once I was a pirateA bold and savage pirateI flew the skull and crossbonesAnd stamped upon the deckOnce I was a camelA handsome sort of camelWith princesses aboard meAnd jewels around my neckOnce I was a dancerAnd once a necromancerI even was a VikingWith helmet on my headI might have been a parrotA gay Brazilian parrotIf someone hadn't wakened meAnd pulled me out of bed