They already exist. They're called mini PCs or NUCs. Just buy one of those and you're already there. Literally. This whole article and thread is garbage. They already exist. They just aren't branded Steam.
Alfred Nobel might be considered a runner up, but I feel he recovered his reputation. That and I don't think anyone but himself really was upset with the path his invention took.
I know you wanted a word, but I nominate "Midgley" to be the new word for that. "To midgley something" is to attempt to create something of value that instead only makes things worse. It's an improvement in the negative direction.
Some people see "to reduce animal cruelty" as judgy because that's just how nature is. The moral superiority comes from you acting like you're somehow above everyone and everything else. It's entirely in your wording and the implications that if you eat meat, you enjoy animal suffering vs seeing it as a natural outcome of nature.
Exactly. Less bootlickering and more "Leopards Ate My Face" material. This was heavily forseable. If they did this as a protest against copyright and announced it from the start, it would be one thing. But this was just incompetence and ignorance at a level that will likely ruin them.
In those experiments, the speaking portion of Joe has no clue what the other side is experiencing. Like they show it to him on the wrong side and say "can you see this?" "No". Then they ask him to draw it, and to his amazement he does. It's not just being unable to vocalize certain thoughts - they're not even there to vocalize at all to that part of the brain. But the other half is happily chugging away with that info
Art Institute really fucked us there. They taught "color by numbers". Instead of teaching students how to make unique creations, they constantly hammered in "well this is what the corporate world wants right now". What was "good" was creatively devoid and could be made by following a checklist. Had an ex who changed their entire art style, persona, and had business cards made up of some hexagon style because "hexagons are all the rage right now!". Business card looked like something a beekeeper would hand you, not a graphic designer.
In fairness, “If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person, and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?” applies to drone strikes of foreign nationals too. Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden all fall under that category. While we should be scrutinizing all of our leaders, I feel the argument will be made that it would make all of our presidents open to "frivolous"(their word, not mine) lawsuits for their actions in office.
And it damn well should. But instead it will be "well this is how a US president functions 🤷♂️"
It's a clip show. Both low rating episodes from the first seasons are clip shows. That's why. Clip shows are typically unpopular, even tho for The Simpsons, each clip is original and not a reair of a previous one. They're "filler" episodes.
You're literally proving their point. You're saying "I don't see anything wrong with this, it's perfectly normal to me and I'm fine if this kind of thing dominates my feed". Their entire complaint is how normalized this kind of rhetoric has become and how pervasive it is and your response is basically "this is fine" dog.
That's precisely their point: once you filter out all of the noise, you are left with very, very, little substance. And the communities with any substance are active at a ratio that makes them flood your feed with ONLY those one or two topics.
Get off your high horse. It's a joke about layout and styling. It's the "don't dead, open inside" meme from way back.
No one is ignoring the issue. It's plastered on the front page daily. We'll be just fine without you. You're not spearheading some unknown cause. Go touch grass.
And if your friend isn't convinced by you and somehow missed the months long protest, destruction of third party apps, and mass exodus, honestly they should stay in reddit. We don't need another Facebook.
Plus, have you considered that Lemmy isnt singularly owned? You literally can't say ANY of what you want to say in your ads. "We don't have ads". Really? You can assure me that no single instance has ads? Which instance are you even going to link to? Your own? What makes that one special? What happens when you advertise for "Lemmy" and people find the intolerant instances and assume that's all of the fediverse? What about other offshoots like kbin and mastodon? Not gonna advertise for them? And why should I trust you with money in the first place? For all I know it's just a scam to collect money and run. What happens when someone else pops up claiming that their donation campaign is the real one and yours is fake? Literally anyone can spin up an instance and claim to be "doing it for Lemmy!"
Lmfao. Lemmy was PLASTERED on the front page. It was on r/place along with "FUCK SPEZ". If you missed it, you're just not even looking. And if you're not even looking and don't care and think reddit is just wonderful, again, do we really want you?
And seriously, with Lemmy being FILLED with "dae Linux?" and "communism good" posts and programming humor hitting my front page HOURLY, you're honestly trying to tell me "the programmers and lefties don't know about this place"? Seriously?!?!
And you think that the people who already saw entire subreddits shutdown in protest, with Lemmy plastered all over the place as an alternative, who decided to stay after all the content creators left, THOSE PEOPLE, are the ones you want to now court over?
Again, quality vs quantity.
We already gained the quality contributors from reddit. Advertising now is just drawing from the bottom of the barrel.
"are you sick of ads? Heres an ad!" Doesn't have the same impact you think it does.
Also, food for thought: you really want to invite the kind of people who can't use adblockers here? Barriers to entry aren't necessarily a bad thing. You want quality, not quantity. More people isn't necessarily better. And the people who stuck by reddit and spez through all of that?
Not a fan of Melroy(mbin founder). They claim to have been a dev for Lemmy and kbin. Then when they didn't get the control they wanted, started their own instance. When that didn't take off, he ranted very publically once again about how the current team he was "working with" sucked and how he was the only true savior of the fediverse. Then he started mbin, which he named after himself(Melroy Bin).
His entire attitude has been "fuck you, I'm taking my ball and going home if you don't listen to me" from the start.
They already exist. They're called mini PCs or NUCs. Just buy one of those and you're already there. Literally. This whole article and thread is garbage. They already exist. They just aren't branded Steam.