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If a dead thing would pickle, pretty much everything in the sea would end up pickled alive

So.... err.... What are those people supposed to do about it?

Why does this look so blatantly fabricated... Is anyone buying that?

Edit: to be clear I don't doubt Trump posted this, but even just the first line is ridiculous and it doesn't really improve

Edit: Ew I didn't see the watermark, sorry

OP you're wrong, sorry.

User volume and diversity is probably the main thing right now.

We just need more people posing shit, the fact that one or two users can dominate my feed if they choose to is not ideal. (Though often I appreciate the content anyway)

The diversity aspect is around how we have a lot of people in a small handful of demographics on here. It's getting better every day, but the thing that made Reddit great before they ruined it was everything you could think of had a community of people posing stuff about it, doesn't matter how niche.

One leads to the other though, more users naturally will mean increasingly diverse interests in our userbase.

It's about time Reddit fucked something else up anyway, it's been a few months

The right wing instances are just defederated from this larger federated group because the people on them were unable to follow the rules of other instances. Repeatedly, they would throw tantrums and create loads of dupe accounts to spam shit when people downvoted their shitty views or their accounts got banned. If they were capable of behaving with civility and following the rules, they'd still be here.

No idea how active that corner of the Lemmyverse is these days, but they have repeatedly chosen to behave in a way that leaves instance administrators with little choice other than defederation.

(For everyone that gets a blocked message from that link, it works if you switch to a Canadian VPN)

Ah I'll have to try and figure out how to make that myself then, I doubt I'll be able to get that one in the UK. It looks super interesting though

I wonder if Steam would remove it from people's libraries in that instance or just the Storefront

It varies wildly, but I'd go with the level of quality I'd be paying for, not what the most you could get for that money would be (Also, I'm in the UK, so I'm kinda just answering for a grand in GBP to save myself converting). Also, I kinda rotate my hobbies so my favourite varies based on when you're asking me. In no particular order:

Music production: a couple of Eurorack modules or some percentage of a full synth, you can get cheaper stuff, but I've probably got equivalents available at that level already. I could upgrade my keyboard to a fancy new Komplete or KeyLab one. Software wise, if all my software and vsts released new versions and I decided to lose my mind for a minute, I'd hopefully be able to cover all the typical version upgrade costs for that price. (Realistically I tend to wait until a couple of versions have passed before an upgrade if nothing jumps out at me about it)

Music listening (vinyl): 20-40 on records or a nice-enough-for-me pair of speakers. You could probably get 4 or 5 of my turntable (which would be silly) as it does the job perfectly for me.

Music listening (gigs and festivals): tickets, travel and a good chunk of my other expenses to go to Glastonbury or European festival (got decent camping gear already, so don't need to buy that). Tickets and travel, but not much for other expenses for a couple of smaller or city festivals. 10 arena gigs or 20-40 smaller gigs.

Travel: big, big holiday ~2 weeks, maybe half the hotel costs, maybe less as I tend to go all out when it's a long holiday. Shorter long weekends I'd hope to get my flights and accommodation at that price. If it's a stag do or similar, I'd hope to pretty much cover all costs for that.

Photography: I shoot full frame using a Sony alpha, so it might get me a percentage of a camera body or maybe a couple of decent second hand lenses (maybe 3 or 4 of the more entry level ones), of the lenses I'd like to buy, I think there is one I could get new for around that price.

Gaming (pc): probably a new mid-to-high-end graphics card, games wise I pretty much exclusively wait until things are on sale on Steam, so probably at least a couple of years of steam spend. Oh I could get a couple of steam decks if I had a reason to buy more than the one I've already got.

Watching football & rugby (live): I'm an Arsenal fan that lives in the north, so I'm probably only getting two chances to go for that price as I'll need to factor in travel, hotels, meals and beers. I visit some lower league grounds nearer me every now and again, I reckon a grand would pay for a season ticket and all my concessions that year plus a bit of merch at most of them. My rugby team no longer exists, but I could see them 4-5 times a year with travel etc. before they went into administration

Watching football & rugby (legally on TV): Need Sky, TNT, Amazon Prime, Premier Sports (predominantly for rugby), TV licence & if I was truly arsed about them, various one off passes for pre-season competitions. You're probably not getting a whole year for that price unless you do the threaten-to-quit-sky thing and hope they give you a decent discount, you can also get away with sharing logins for some of these, but I was answering strictly legally.

Eating a meal out (I like going to new restaurants so I guess it's a hobby): I'd probably take my partner out for dinner around my city 4-10 times for that depending where we go, a couple of courses plus a bottle of wine and maybe cocktails.

I..... was not expecting this comment to become an essay lol

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You've gotta tell me more about this country ketchup

Murphy's law is that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong eventually

It did potentially originate from an aerospace engineer talking about safe plane design, but the law as everyone knows it is the one above.

Finagle's law is an extension of Murphy's law by replacing "eventually" with "at the worst possible moment"

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The lib Dems and Tories decided to fuck over our youth back in the early 2010s

Lib Dems campaigned on a promise of free uni (it had gotten to about £3k a year at the time, up from the less than £1k a year the previous generation had got) then did the exact opposite and tripled the price when awarded the power to do something about it.

I can't bring myself to ever trust a word they say again. And anyone that says the Tories stopped them, they were the only thing keeping the Tories in power, they were a VoNC away from potentially preventing 15 years of Tory kleptocracy and all the damage they caused (and that's without going into how those Tory governments repeatedly normalised increasingly far-right positions)

At best they're entirely useless at worst they're just another shade of Tory

Brain wash or brain damage are the only ways people support right wing politics unless they're fundamentally psychopathic people

I'm kinda hoping the community backlash is just outposting the memes with other content, then everyone wins as Lemmy gets an activity spike

Is a yellow for simulation just a Premier League & UEFA thing then? I assumed most top flight leagues did this now

Miked up refs should have been a thing for years, it very obviously will reduce corruption. In rugby, anytime the ref is making a decision it's all over the PA, plus you can get a little earpiece in the stadium to hear every single word they say

A lot of Arnie and no "hasta la vista, baby"

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