GONADS125 @ GONADS125 @lemmy.world

Abandoned this profile due to lemmy.world's federation with Threads. I have

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This happened to me when I first joined. Had to click forgot password and put my email in, then I got the verification email. Was pretty weird.

Love seeing you edit your comment and correct yourself/validate the other user's statement. Breathe of fresh air from the toxic doubling-down 99% of the time on reddit.

While I'm not ethically opposed pirating, I understand and would probably do the same for a server I was hosting. Anybody remember Kim Dotcom's mansion raid?

What I do not understand is blocking a community surrounding magic mushrooms.. No one is going to prosecute the L.W admins for people discussing shrooms/their use...

Substances are legal/illegal depending on where one lives, just like weed which is apparently perfectly fine to post here, even tho possession is a death sentence in some countries.

It simply doesn't logically follow that weed, or even alcohol communities are permissible while a shroom community is not.

Banning any content deemed illegal in any country in the world establishes a very dangerous precedence (if that's the justification here). Free speech/dissenting from the government is illegal in many places in the world.

One thing the community must remember tho, is that you have to operate your server in accordance with the law in which country you're hosting it (in this case Germany).

I'll gladly admit I'm not too familiar with German law, but it seems unreasonable to expect government persecution for hosting servers which hosts a shroom discussion community.

I think your post was mostly well received. I wouldn't worry about it man. Hope you didn't take my comment the wrong way. I don't think lemmy should be/doesn't need to be a reddit clone. Communities will figure themselves out.

I can't wait for lab-grown meat.

"From lab to slab!"

I think that's more a reflection on amount of content producers than anything else.

I don't mean any disrespect to OP because that looks good and I can't cook for shit, but I agree with you that this isn't the sort of content I would expect.

This isn't a shitposting/meme community. There are plenty of them for content like this..

This might help achieve the opposite.

It's just proof of the fact that we're living in a hyper-advanced The Onion News simulation. Only reasonable explanation of the last few years.

I think we're about to see the incarnation of Celebrity Deathmatch!

Felt close to dying last year from covid + pneumonia (possibly comorbid RSV as well). Still not 100% over my long-covid symptoms.

I was shot at in the woods as a kid by an old man with a shotgun and a big greyhound. My niece and nephew were with me, and I literally drug them behind me as we ran back to our family's camp site. Have no idea why he fired at us, but he most certainly did.. I was so afraid he was going to release his dog... No way we would've gotten away from it. Our family didn't believe us about this event until the 3 of us reminisced about it as young adults at Thanksgiving years later.

I also was chased by a farmer known for shooting trespassers with rock salt, when we snuck on his farm for shrooming. Some other highlights from that shrooming trip were almost stepping on a pygmie rattlesnake, and my brother getting stuck in quicksand and loosing his boot while we fled from the pursuing farmer thru the woods.

A buddy of mine and I were chased by a strange car for miles late at night. Should've called the police, but we were dumb teenagers. No idea what they wanted, but they pursued us for miles. We drove into a large neighborhood that was being developed, sped around the grid of empty streets with our lights off being chased by that car going crazy speeds on those residential streets, and we managed to slip out of the developing neighborhood and hid in a driveway on a side street until we saw the car go flying past looking for us. Still have no clue who that was or what their motivation/end goal was..

Had a close call with my wife and human traffickers... At least I'm 99% sure. I have had multiple training seminars from my former employer (mental health organization) due to the extremely elevated rate of human trafficking in this region and along Route 66 which pases thru. As a caseworker for the adult population, I worked with individuals who had been trafficked...

My wife is very petite and adorable, and was clearly being stalked and targeted by a man in Walmart while we were shopping one night. We were split up shopping, and apparently this man had been following my wife down every aisle, staring at her, and was coordinating with someone on the phone. This was unknown to me when I was heading to meet back up with my wife.

I finally spotted her down an aisle, but saw this guy peaking around the end of the aisle at my wife, who was the only person in that aisle... He was speaking quietly and I couldn't make out exactly what he was saying, but it was clear he was staring at my wife and relaying information to someone on the phone.

I'm muscular and I don't fuck around. I'm from Jersey and will admit I can be a bit of a hothead. I wanted to do more, but I walked right in front of this guy while he was staring at my wife down the aisle, postured up feet in front of him while giving him a deathstare until that bastard broke my stare, looking like he'd seen a ghost. I walked down the aisle towards my wife, turning back and maintaining eye-contact with the creep the whole time, especially as I put my arm around her.

I could tell I shook the guy, because he went out of his way to circle by my wife and I a few times with totally different body language, speaking in an entirely different cadence, volume, and tone. It was clear he was speaking loudly and in a manner aimed at us overhearing his now seemingly innocuous conversation. But it was clearly a rouse. He was stammering over his words all nervously and clearly wasn't really asking the person on the phone about shopping items.

After I got back to my wife, she told me how this creep was following her down aisles for the last 15 minutes or more, staring at her while on the phone. Some people reading this may believe I jumped to conclusions, but this tripped human trafficking warning signs and sent alarm bells ringing in my gut. Better safe than sorry. Dude was a creek regardless.

I can't think of any other close calls right now, but I know there's other stories somewhere in my memory bank...

Does this apply to text posts as well, or do posts have a longer character limit than comments?

This is a bit before my time.. but anybody remember Flexi discs?

Only way to hear this killer rare Slowdive song (as far as I know).

You can hear in it's quality why Flexi discs didn't last.. Still such a cool concept to get mini sample records from magazine pages tho.

I've only seen clips of this and want to watch it. Looks so good. Anyone US-based know if this is on any streaming service?

Not new, but new to me.. Vice Principals on HBO Max was so good... So much better than Eastbound and Down. Danny Mcbride and Walton Goggins' chemistry was amazing, and one of the best bromances ever.

It's a bit vulgar, so that may dissuade some people. It's only 2 seasons but it's the best comedy series I've watched for a while.

Bonus points if you have a flashlight with a beveled edge for self-defense. Good old blind and bash!

I used that a lot too. Much of it was hateful/rule-breaking content, but in the last few years, I saw a huge trend in innocuous content removed.

Like comments that did not break any rules but were heavily criticizing large name brands/organizations. There was a post about a year ago on r/askreddit about what leading brands actually have bad products, and about 50% of the comments were removed by the time the post was 24+ hours old... They were innocent answers with valid points.

That thread all but confirmed my suspicions of reddit catering to companies to scrub negative content from the site. I was on my way off reddit before this API stuff happened. Reddit has been treading sewage water for a long time.

Tragic as hell..

Edit: Plot Twist

Probably a butthurt toxic user from a defederated instance..

Brings back bad memories of so much work on Ark being undone by griefers...