I have seen way, way more calls of direct violence and inciting violence here in the last few months on Lemmy than I ever saw in multiple years on Reddit.
What communities are you talking about? I'm subscribed to many dozens here, and I can't remember ever seeing calls for violence in the Lemmysphere.
I tried to install from the dev's site last year, but was told I was lacking some critical file it needed to run. Googled it up and it was hard to tell where the file was supposed to come from, or where I could get a clean, legit copy. :S
Hmm, nice stuff; thanks for sharing! I guess my biggest issues with using the IA is that it's pretty slow, which is probably not a good combination for hotlinking about six images at a pop, up to a meg each, for dozens of offsite viewers at a time. I strongly suspect that it could be pretty pokey given those factors.
The IA of course is also a hot target by IP holders, and has gone down at times, and really, could vanish entirely at any point given the circumstances.
images uploaded to Imgur expire after a certain amount of time or if they get no views after a certain amount of time.
Actually I've had stuff that I uploaded privately ~10yrs ago that's still up on Imgur, and I've had some public posts that got traction at the time deleted after only ~8mos or so, plus other combinations of those factors, including file size issues. Right now it's pretty baffling trying to understand their method, and I would guess it's more of just some internal issue relative to Imgur, for example, maybe they just say 'this data bank is having issues, so let's migrate the paid content, delete the rest, and retire the data bank, replacing it with newer hardware.' Something like that, anyway...
Agree. It's a lot like the 'free will' exercise to me-- an interesting thought experiment that AFAIK doesn't help too much in the actual living of a life.
Also, I propose that we arguably already know that we're living in a simulation, and it makes no real difference. I.e., we've identified the wave-vs-particle effect, the four forces of the universe, a bunch of physical and chemical laws, and are continually refining our understanding of it all, via science, and possibly even metaphysics.
But far as we know, it's all just building blocks, dimensions, and laws so to speak. A super-amazing simulation as it were. What's wrong with that?
But in a specific way, for example when you look at Jeff Daniels' Newsroom speech to the college audience, there's a 'squeaky-clean,' treacly level of nonsense that's long been attributed to the US, that simply doesn't jibe with reality. It's got some parallels with the English Empire nonsense, but not necessarily so much with other super-powers. That's the difference.
The Lemmysphere sure seems to get slammed a lot at places like r/RedditAlternatives. I wonder if possibly some of that is sockpuppet-stuff, as unlikely as that sounds. Still, more than ever we live in the age of misinformation and manipulation by opposition groups & monied interests, so the idea & practice is certainly on the table.
Unfortunately, there's also the reputation of at least one of the primary Lemmy coders. Seems like the sooner Kbin, Mastodon, etc can get better integrated, the less notable that should be. knock on wood*
This is probably well known to many, but Steve Martin was a professional musician, magician and TV series writer before more commonly being known as a standup comic, actor, comedian, and later, film writer. Not to mention:
Inspired by his philosophy classes, Martin considered becoming a professor instead of an actor-comedian. Being at college changed his life.
It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy. Something about non sequiturs appealed to me. In philosophy, I started studying logic, and they were talking about cause and effect, and you start to realize, 'Hey, there is no cause and effect! There is no logic! There is no anything!' Then it gets real easy to write this stuff because all you have to do is twist everything hard—you twist the punch line, you twist the non sequitur so hard away from the things that set it up.
Martin recalls reading a treatise on comedy that led him to think:
What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would the audience do with all that tension? Theoretically, it would have to come out sometime. But if I kept denying them the formality of a punch line, the audience would eventually pick their own place to laugh, essentially out of desperation. --WP
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What communities are you talking about? I'm subscribed to many dozens here, and I can't remember ever seeing calls for violence in the Lemmysphere.