Medicine of course is the critical tool - but the main reason these people died was a cruel and hateful US administration that wanted them dead, and didn’t wish to take any action, even to the point of abandoning personal friends. They didn’t acknowledge the disease even existed for 4 years after doctors had identified it in New York and LA (imagine an administration pretending Covid didn’t exist from 2019 until 2023), and a mostly-ambivalent or ignorant populace worldwide.

I remember it was not uncommon to hear people saying the ‘gay disease’ will ‘solve the gay problem’ even into the 90s due their conservative bigotry.

In a date, people get to know one-another more intimately through discussion of their interests and beliefs - better than they can through brief social encounters that may have led to the date.

I wonder if one of OPs most recent comments, “I fuckin hate Pizzacake”, has anything to do with this masterful edit of subtle comedy they’ve uploaded.

It’s not funny to me either.

I think it’s because most would agree the punchline isn’t it’s funny because the Facebook is real faces - that’s just not very funny, especially given the context of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Leatherface, that takes away any absurdist element as it’s grounded in their context.

To explain this to downvoters, imagine it was an unknown killer speaking to a random accomplice and they were browsing a bunch of assorted races and gendered faces in the book, without the reference to the blonde 18yo girl. Is that still funny, or is it just a meh joke hardly worth drawing, and not worth an upvote. I think the latter?

The real punchline is that it’s funny because of how casually they talk about the murder of 18 year old, screaming girls. It’s subversive edgy humour in the worst way - punching down to a relatively powerless group in a way that dehumanises them to nothing more than a throwaway premise about a Facebook.

Bleh.

Modlog intentionally hides the name of the admin responsible for mod actions to users.

This is by design of the Lemmy creators, but I feel like this intentionally inherits one of the worst things about Reddit: mod unaccountability to the community.