modernangel @ modernangel @sh.itjust.works

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Reddit has been actively alienating users who despise fascism, so these pro-fash topical whinges are only going to grow more echo-chambery

Trumpy tariff "threats" are like threatening someone with a turd. Even if you manage to spatter your opponent, you still have a hand full of shit.

I don't want to have mod it!

The opposite of authoritarian extremism is probably libertarian extremism

A baby opossum

Newsmedia that repeat blatantly pro-fash talking points as headline grist, are complicit

I feel like it shouldn't be very difficult to get along on Lemmy - assuming you're not simping for fascism, for example.

Some very active niche communities never really took off on Reddit though. For example, the DECA game "Realm of the Mad God" - the subreddit didn't particularly add to the community, you'd find more engagement on the game's Discord. So maybe there's a different platform more tuned to your niche interest.

We also throw away approximately half the perfectly good food we produce in the U.S.

Meal planning is overwhelming to me, so I made a habit of rotating a selection of staple meals with fewer, more stable ingredients. PB or eggs scrambled with cheese on toast for a breakfast. A salad of chickpeas, carrot, broccoli and avocado with a whole-wheat roll, or a lentil/rice bowl, for lunch. Precook larger batches of freezer-friendly staples like chickpeas, lentils, rice, turkey burgers, meatloaf, tomato gravy - reserve 2-3 days' supply and freeze portioned batches of the rest. Allow yourself less experimental ingredient buys per grocery run - so if it turns out they don't synergize with your staples, you're not accumuating a lot of dead-end ingredients.

Fond memories of drowning in Quake {1996}

I do like pineapple in Asian chicken/rice dishes, but I was raised on beef burgers topped with pickle, ketchup, cheese, lettuce, tomato and bacon and that's my burger comfort zone.

What happens to everyone who's been silenced on that platform is hopefully they contribute to other social media that aren't blatantly pro-fash

"Russia's puppet says Russia is the real victim here"

eyeroll

Sorry this happened to you. The Reddit we loved is evidently being intentionally reduced to yet another reactionary / fascist echo chamber, like Xitter.

I don’t know if Reddit’s board are just enthusiastic regime toadies, or if the regime has leverage over CEO u/spez Huffman in connection with his tenure as r/Jailbait mod. Either way, it’s not going back, so fediverse is the way forward.

Sorry this happened to you. The Reddit we loved is evidently being intentionally reduced to yet another reactionary / fascist echo chamber, like Xitter.

I don't know if Reddit's board are just enthusiastic regime toadies, or if the regime has leverage over CEO u/spez Huffman in connection with his tenure as r/Jailbait mod. Either way, it's not going back, so fediverse is the way forward.

Sounds like something a very stable genius leader of the freest country in the world would say

Why do you even want to? Reddit is going the way of Yahoo Answers.

I don't think you can boil it down further, and that's why Western law is an evolving patchwork of codes and penalties that vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Too many nuances, situational factors, edge cases and value priorities that vary from persn to person (and culture to culture) to decide every imaginable scenario consistently.

If you're not familiar, you might gain some perspective from a summary read about Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems. Goedel's Proof deals with systems of logic, where logic is something we hope for in systems of law. Goedel's Proof shows that a "sufficiently powerful" system of logic is necessarily incomplete - that is, we can pose problems in mathematical-systemic terms that have no solutions under that system.

In mathematical logic we have "axioms" like "1+1=2" or "a triangle is a plane figure defined by exactly 3 lines". In law, axiom-like propositions are called "maxims", often stated in Latin, and convey foundational legal principles like "contracts must be honored", or "people can own things". In a hypothetical properly Communist society, and by "proper" I mean to exclude failed would-be Communisms like the USSR or PRC, "people can own things" isn't necessarily a maxim; they might instead have a maxim that codifies "things belong to the State" and exclude any notion of individual ownership.

The implication for legal systems is that there are inevitably legal disputes that can't be decided strictly by the letter of the law, so we have to fall back on fiat of judicial opinion.

Most other animals develop rapidly from birth to self sufficiency, while humans are born so very unfinished - totally dependent on others for our most basic needs, for years and years. If any values can be said to resonate with "human nature", it's prosocial and community-building values.

Just about every major religion glorifies some version of The Golden Rule - do unto others as ye would be done by.