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  • No my cat isn't diabetic

  • "West sanctions four random people for a thing that didn't happen."

  • You can replace most anything with wood or sheet metal. Not only that, but without subsidies to the fossil fuel industries, it would actually be cheaper to make many products we make out of plastic of wood or metal instead.

    I wouldn't go so far as to say we need to ban plastics entirely. Expensive, long-lasting items like certain electronics (televisions, game consoles) are probably fine made of sturdy plastics (think the old stuff SNES's were made out of, not the brittle shit they make Xboxes out of today). And I'd have to guess there are certain electronic components that are best made of plastic and not likely to introduce any microplastics into people's systems.

    What we need to cut down on are disposable plastics and plastics in food service. Styrofoam trays, plastic wrap, tupperware, plastic bottles, plastic grocery bags, plastic packaging, plastic dishes, plastic handles on silverware. All of these could be replaced with glass, metal, wood, or fabric and become more renewable/reusable/recyclable and less dangerous to people's health.

  • If I could drop two bombs, the second one would be on Silicon Valley. Tech "workers" are a scourge on society.

  • It does feel kinda weird asking someone out at their place of work and I don’t want to put her in an awkward situation.

    While I get that things are different across genders, my first date out of high school was a girl who asked me out while I was working (in fact, I've never dated a person I met outside of school or my or their work). My dad asked my mom out while she was working. Everyone meets people at work, it's where we spend the vast majority of our time out of the house; and the same people who say you shouldn't approach women at their place of work say the same thing about the gym, the store, and public transit.

    I find that when (many) young women say "I don't like it when men do X" (such as, "ask me out while I'm working"), they really just mean guys who are (1) way too old, (2) overly persistent, or (3) complete strangers. If you roughly fit within the "half your age plus seven" rule, and she's spoken to you longer than she is contractually obligated to by her job, you're probably in the clear to offer to give her your number and to let you know if she wants to grab lunch sometime.

  • Reminds me of how Reddit had "Community Engagement Ambassadors" (or w/e they were called) who were paid to just go around making low-effort engagement-farming posts on random communities like "What's your favorite X in this game?" or "What do you think [sports team]'s greatest strength is?".

    People tend to look down on that sort of thing in retrospect, but this sort of "manufactured engagement" is likely the key factor in Reddit's success as a platform.

    I sometimes wonder if I (or just people in general) should start doing this on Lemmy as well, and whether the increased engagement would be worth the bad faith interaction.

  • Honestly? The only thing Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse needs is institutional backing.

    Take something simple like a game company releasing updates, changelogs, DLC announcements, and AMAs, in addition to semi-official communities or just places the developers interact with the community. Right now, for the vast majority of games, those things are happening on Twitter and Reddit, or sometimes private forums.

    The Fediverse will become dominant once and only once institutions (government, business, media, etc.) start using it over centralized platforms. It will never truly take off until a Lemmy community becomes the "go-to" place for, say, discussing Paradox Interactive games, over the existing Subreddits.

  • First blocking Hexbear, now blocking dbzer0. Obviously the Lemmy.world admins are taking the "lemmy.world being so big is bad for the Fediverse and people should move to smaller instances" critiques to heart and trying to incentive users to move

  • One benefit the Fediverse has over a centralized site is that, as long as you set the same display name and avatar, most people will recognize you after a migration. For example, I know a few fellow Lemmygrad guys who have alternate, identical Lemmy.ml accounts for posting on instances that block Lemmygrad, and you can't even tell which account they're using unless you visit their page.

  • The first thing I did upon joining the Fediverse was blocking all 196 communities.

  • To a Fascist, Liberalism seems like a "left-wing bias".

    Liberalism - believing in equal rights and freedoms for all people, and also free trade, free markets, and low taxes - is a right-wing ideology. Obama is right-wing. Biden is right-wing. And so are Blaire, Macron, and Merkel, before anyone brings up the "AmErIcAn pOlItIcS lEaN rIgHt" bullshit. Figures like Sanders, Corbyn, and Melenchon are center-left at best.

  • The champion of so-called "Free Trade" and "Free Markets"

  • Flow Free, and its spinoff games Bridges, Hex, Warps, and Fit.

    The puzzles are kind of mindless and not that difficult, but I've really enjoyed it. You do have to pay to get rid of ads, but after doing so the user experience is excellent.

  • Speaking as a Lemmygrad guy. He's a Lemmygrad power poster. I honestly don't know how the guy does it. Not only does he have the articles, he's got the sources to back up his claims in the comments. It's truly admirable. I'd love to meet him sometime.

    While most Socialists let Reactionaries shame them into silence, Yogthos posts the truth despite negative criticism.

  • Interesting how this obvious Whataboutism gets upvotes when it's defending America and not China

  • I've experienced a similar issue multiple times. The unread notification doesn't disappear until you reload the page. Loading a different page doesn't help. You have to refresh the page you're on to get it to update.

  • While world peace is obviously desirable, I think it's important to recognize that the absence of conflict does not imply the presence of justice. World peace should not be pursued until we first achieve universal justice, because pursuing universal justice will require war.

    Stopping wars while we live in an unjust international order does nothing but solidify that order and demonize opposition to it as "warmongering". Some wars are just. The Allies could have avoided a lot of bloodshed had they invaded Germany to immediately depose Hitler, rather than allowing him to solidify his power, grow Germany's military, and invade Poland and Czechoslovakia.

    The end of war will naturally follow the end of inequality and injustice.

  • Make an account on an instance that does not federate with porn instances, like Lemmy.ml or Lemmygrad.ml.

    That way, nsfw posts will show up (crisis photos, raunchy memes, etc.) but literal porn will not.

    Most general-purpose instances don't allow porn so as long as your home instance blocks them, you're good.

  • Instances can be configured however they want. The standard right now is a blacklist (federate with everyone who asks except blocked instances). Hexbear was considering going with a whitelist instead (only federating with a small handful of servers).