aelwero @ aelwero @lemmy.world

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The overarching societal rule of "don't be a dumb shit asshole"?

I know people discount that as being viable these days, but like 99.99% of the population abides...

This is the basic premise for a lot more people than will claim it or understand it...

Let's take a bin full of potatoes. Everyone's gonna pick the best potato. They'll dig around, examine, inspect, and pick the good ones. The shitty scruffy looking ones get left sitting there, and don't nobody who runs a shop wanna just wait until all the potatoes get chosen. They bring out new ones constantly to keep the bin full and have options available so people can pick the best ones.

Maybe once in a great while someone's buying potatoes for their pigs, and they look for crappy ones. Maybe once in a great while someone needs 200 potatoes and they don't wanna sit there being Picky Ricky for four fucking hours. Maybe once in a great while those crappy potatoes actually get chosen... but how often? Not very...

Netflix is that bin of potatoes. Is it wrong to pirate movies that are available on Netflix instead of paying Netflix? Well, it kinda depends on the fucking potato, don't it? You'll pay the $30/mo or whatever it is for a game of thrones, because you're getting what you pay for, and pirating that is definitely depriving Netflix of some value in its investment, but if you pirate billy bobs country bunker hour special from 1993, you're not taking jack shit from Netflix, it's an old wrinkly ass potato that's been sitting in the bin for a long ass time while people spent their money on better potatoes, fun it'll never make a goddamn penny for netflix. It's only value is adding quantity to the bin.

When it gets old enough that they'll throw it away, the deprivation of value has been reduced to being trivial. Your point is valid imho

Twelve?

I'd probably go with almost exactly the way you typed it... "This avatar is from a pornographic game with furries"

A twelve year old definitely knows the word pornographic unless someone has been very helicopterish with their screen time, and if she has a chat program, she should know enough to recognize predatoryish chat on her own anyway at 12 (that's just my opinion though). Maybe replace "porn" with "adult", maybe replace "furries" with something else.

Discussion with her parents first is warranted if that's a thing.

Be prepared to hear that she knew it was a furry thing too... Probably not super likely, but she might have known what she was doing. My 2nd child told me at 10 years old that she was lesbian. She didn't fully understand the entirety of what she was saying, but she wasn't wrong, all her early crushes were girls and it wasn't "a phase" or anything. Assuming the amount of what they know can put you off your game real quick :) intelligence, curiosity, research ability all vary wildly from one kid to another.

Ugh... I won't wear long anything to run in. I've always gone shorts and T-shirt, even in sub zero temps :)

The best clothing for a hotter environment is a tad counterintuitive, because it's less comfortable in the short term... you want full sleeves, full pants or a long skirt/kilt/toga/whatever (I'm reasonably certain that if heat waves continue cranking it up, these are going to become a unisex thing, whatever we're gonna call them...). You want everything loose so there's room for evaporation to happen (it's your body's natural swamp cooler), you want large openings everywhere so the air can ventilate, and you want lighter colors that reflect. You'll also want to cover your head, preferably withsomething wide (and/or includes the little neck covering flap deal) that creates a lot of shade, but it's currently more common in deserts to see less shade producing scarves/wraps.

You'll feel hotter in the immediate, and overdressed, but you'll overall be absorbing less energy from direct sunlight, and that means a more stable amount of body heat overall, and less risk of things like cancer.

I wear loose t-shirts, jeans, and a wide boonie/fishing hat. Less overall clothing is better, but more coverage is also better. Gotta find that balance is all.

TL:DR, the clothes most people associate with the Middle East... clothes that are worn by people who've dealt with a hotter climate for millennia. The white robe looking getup is what's gonna work best in a hotter climate.

It's a very short article, woman left her microchipped dog in a stroller after she was told it couldn't fly without a crate, and they intend to charge her.

There's nothing about race, gender, sexuality, age, no mention of anything that would immediately get identified in a typical left/right biased article. There's absolutely zero politicizing, so why would there be any concern for factuality?

I don't have a clue what fox news even looks like anymore (I don't really give a shit what outlet is hosting any given article, but I'm not going to actively looking for fox news articles, and I'm not prone to visiting righty communities that would post them), but clicking this and reading it gives me absolutely no indication that I need any grains of salt to go with it. I can't say the same for like 99% of the articles that get linked...

The "oh no... Fox... Lies!!! Everything is false!!! Beware!!!" Seems more like righty shit than lefty shit, so I'm gonna say something :)

Are you suggesting everything from a conservative source is "fake news"?

That was one of the first little bits of verbal diarrhea that we saw from a certain oompa loompa looking motherfucker back in the day... You remember? The guy that turned most of the conservative side of the house into a jonestown cult? Don't listen to the other guys news stories because blah blah blah they're liberals and we don't like em?

It's ok I guess, do the exact same shit you claim to hate... I'll be over in the corner there with my popcorn and shit. At some point I'll abandoned all your forums like I've abandoned theirs, whenever y'all go full batshit.

Dude... My mom had a shit-vette... I was driving that fucking thing to the store one day and the clutch and brake pedals both dropped to the floorboard with a thunk...

It was definitely a Chitvreolet ;)

Lol, so they already cancelled it? Meh...

It's funny though... I live smack in the middle of a reservation, and I've never heard of this indigenous people day. I kinda don't think any of the tribe here gives a shit... They have their own government, and at least in our area, thats the only one they give a fuck about :)

If you're suggesting cancelling Juneteenth because it "overlaps" ("" because I don't really agree with that) MLK day, wouldn't you cancel MLK day instead? Emancipation was a little more a step forward than the civil rights movement...

Of course, if you consult the experts on cancelling shit, they'd most likely say that Columbus day might be a better fit in the chopping block, and IF we need to "make room on the calendar" (also bullshit) in order to make voting a legit day off (is it not? If someone who works for me asks for time off to vote, I'm going to ask them if they need a fucking ride to the polls... Come on people...), I kinda gotta go with Columbus being the least relevant current federal holiday...

Just my opinion, mind, but cancelling the new shit because "muh traditions" is fucking dumb... Be better...

Bullshit... We had yugos, le car, citations, chevettes... People bought that garbage when we had it to buy, but they've figured out that a car that falls apart faster than you can pay it off isn't really a great idea. Paying half the new cost for a vehicle after 40k miles is a much better way to go.

"maybe for racial slurs"

Awfully fine line you didn't cross there.

Actual answer? Who knows...

MY answer, because instance operator/server can establish whatever rules they want, and aren't beholden to a CEO, shareholders, or any other entity that might want to put 50 ads on your feed for every post...

Because it's open source and the community apparently wants it to stay that way.

I'm a massive bothsider, I tolerate (and don't tolerate, depends really) either, both, neither, however you wanna say it...

Why exactly would I argue the right hasn't adopted the cancel culture playbook and cranked it to 11? That is a VERY "both sides" statement... This is arguably a "both sides" article, a "both sides" point.

If anything, id point out that all the pissing and moaning is silly, because the shit the right is doing is coming straight out of the lefts playbook. The fact that they're feeding you your own shit sandwich doesn't equate to them not serving shit for lunch... It's still shit...

Moderate/centrist = the other team...

"as Hunter pursued a series of self-confessed crack cocaine and prostitute binges."

Go self confess to such a thing... I dare ya...

Average person is out several days pay if they drive 5mph over the speed limit, and the ruling class is very open about doing shit like hookers and coke, or being careless as fuck with classified info, all with zero fucks given.

I don't hate lefties... I hate that if I find myself in a lefty circle jerk I feel obligated to defend the right, and I'm not a huge fan of the right at the moment... Mostly though, I just hate seeing (removed)...

Chaotic neutral problems :) I'd prefer the magas and socialists all got tossed into a single forum and had to sort this shit out... Nobody would enjoy it, but it would be collective progress instead of divergent.

Anyways, you didn't really give me a guide per se, but you put all the puzzle pieces in one spot for me and that's enough to be able to at least ponder it a bit and decide a direction to go in, so I thank you.

I put the icon for one of the Lemmy apps (don't recall which I went with actually, tried all I could find and chose a fave) on my phones quick bar, and then edited the icon and replaced it with the bacon icon :)

It's the same icon I've had for a decade, in the same place it's always been, it just opens a different app now.

...and they all logged in to make it happen...

My baconreader icon opens Lemmy. That's how you actually say fuck spez.

Dumbasses

User banned and entire chain removed by mods...

So don't bother banning, because the moral police will show up and do it for you. Can't be having any wrongthink here.

Not a good sign... Is there some other place for displaced redditors that doesn't include censorship?

(I'm not implying jack shit about the actual topic, I'm commenting strictly on the grooming of content)

General officers come with flags, placards, and assorted other bric a brac. The rule of thumb I quoted is decades old, and intended to help clarify how all that goofyness should be addressed, and generally benefits joe.

An officer in civvies carrying his uniform with his rank visible is actually an outstanding example of how said rule of thumb precludes stupid shit, because that guy is almost definitely playing the bullshit game.... I'd just salute the fucker, ain't nobody got time fo dat ;)