My gender is my concern, but you may use any pronoun to refer to me
With everything you know about humans and our history of causing mass extinction everywhere we settle, of racial violence and irrational fear of anything that is a little bit different, you really don’t think there were any other contributing causes to the mysterious extinction of EVERY SINGLE NON-HUMAN HOMINID ON THE PLANET?
While we did fuck them a lot, knowing us, I don’t think that’s what caused their extinction.
There are ten livestock animals in captivity for every one human. You’re still lucky to be born a human anywhere on earth, because we are the monsters.
We say we’re not. But we keep coming back to it. Lemmy is only better than Reddit in the sense that capital isn’t exploiting us. But it’s still Reddit in every other respect, and we get to engage in our stupid little addiction with less social harm.
There are lots of places we could go for meaningful discussion. And sometimes that happens here, too! But it happens in the context of the medium, which absolutely does encourage circle jerking, dog piling, groupthink, and meme culture. Look, you can use a chisel in place of a Phillips screwdriver, but you’re going to get hurt a lot. Giving people downvotes and then telling them, tsk tsk, you must be NICE with your downvotes… it’s just an uphill battle.
Lemmy is at risk of becoming a circle jerk and an echo chamber
I’m not sure anyone aspires for it to be anything more than that.
people aren’t posting them because they’re worried about downvotes.
Such people are looking for a different medium. This is ersatz Reddit. We downvote. It’s fundamental to the culture and the format. It doesn’t have to appeal to everyone. There’s the whole rest of the Fediverse, where AFAIK you will not find a single downvote.
There is no “supposed to be used” for. They are meaningless internet points that we give to comments and posts for our own emotional enjoyment. Treating it as more than that is always going to cause problems.
Aren’t only the subset of elevators employing a counterweight so? Ideally, it should be a second car!
Without timing, it’s not comedy, it’s just a cry for attention.
China grows about a third of the world’s tomatoes.
I don’t know why you would cast doubt on this when we know China grows way more tomatoes than they can use, uses slaves, and those tomatoes are going SOMEWHERE. But that’s not convincing because you are not certain about some of the horticultural details?? Like, it really sounds like you are looking for a reason not to believe the truth being thrust in your face.
They last for weeks when picked green and artificially ripened at the destination.
In Canada, we have codified and legally endorsed all that. Employers have an absurd amount of power over “migrant workers”. Abuse is baked right into the system.
In the sense that a cat leaves you to die; he is crawling off to expire.
the only thing linux has going for it is GPU drivers. :-(
/usr/ports & /usr/sbin/pkg
SIGINFO bound to ^T
native ZFS root
Stole it from my character in “Shadows of Doubt”
So basically you paid money to store someone else’s oven. How long before we are installing vending machines in our kitchens instead of fridge and stove.
why do people live in America
Isn’t it enough for you simply to not participate? What’s your actual problem with other people doing it?
I find the community logo triggering.