Being laughed at for how your body is is one thing, being laughed at for buying a fascist’s ChildishCompensationMobile is another. It’s a choice to buy Jeff Bezos’ $100,000 Dick Mobile and drive it around like you’re cool, it’s another to… try and exist? As best you can? Corporeally?

Like no I don’t need to worry about the feelings of anyone who gives Trump money and allegiance. They made bad choices that materially affect me (how many Twitters can these guys buy up and turn into a KKK Safe Place with this money?) and I can tell them they suck for it. Completely not the same as giving redheads swirlies.

Like, for context I also give distainful looks at poor drivers in BMWs and Benzes: obviously money didn’t give them sense. So yes I’ll laugh at anyone giving Musk money after knowing his true colors.

I like “bing” just fine, in the sense that I’m pretty sure duckduckgo uses Bing search results

I’m not sure if anyone involved actually admitted their wrongs, it sounds like Ashton is sorry people felt bad not that he did it

I absolutely hate this situation and I was going to write a whole thing about how we wouldn’t do the same thing if an upstanding husband and father was convicted of murder, except oh yes people literally actually do do the same thing. You’ll literally have letters written like “he made a mistake but he has kids at home please go easy on him” as if actual murder isn’t a pretty big disqualifier.

I guess we humans have a blind spot to the most common sins versus the mythical perfect criminal who spits on babies and hails satan…

It goes without saying but missing a wing is one of the main things that planes are designed never to do, so either they didn’t catch the part where the wing exploded or you’ve got some serious sabotage going on

I do not and would never pretend like other governments act in good faith: two things can be bad at the same time without whataboutism. Have a great weekend, comrade!

I’m saying if you go all the way back to who looked at who wrong in the lunch line in 1963, you can try to justify anyone invading anyone else’s homes with tanks and missiles, but that doesn’t make it an actual valid justification. Generally the party that “starts a war” is the one that rolls their tanks first.

Apologists always want to go back to who really threw the first stone, as if Russia has been a great world citizen this whole time and as if imperialist invasion was a great way to reduce sanctions or increase economic cooperation

(and usually, use the word “rule” in the title)

Approximations in imperial units helps me a lot. A meter is a yard, a centimeter is about 3/8" (2.5 per inch), a millimeter is about 1/32" (half a 16th). Everyone knows how big two liters is from soda bottles. A kilogram is about two pounds. Room temperature is 20°C while 0 is freezing and 100 is boiling. 50°C is about 120°F.

If we need precision we can break out the measures, we just need to have a gut sense of this stuff.

Happy priDE MONth, kids 💞

Problem with the norms is it’s harder to fit five people in a proper sub than a cheap sub. He wanted to “innovate” (cut corners for profit and fame) not do things the right way

Do you have a source for that? I was trying to figure out if that was the case but couldn’t get evidence

Welcome to many many many CEOs/entrepreneurs/MBAs. I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often, then again it’s relatively rare to be in this kind of business and your own passenger

Sure! Reddit survived for a good long time without their own image hosting though. We’ll see how the Fediverse handles it.

Text is cheap. It doesn’t cost a ton of money to run these instances at least not yet, so people can do it as a hobby or with a few supporters.

It does however pay to ask your instance admins what their plans and policies are for moderation, defederating, finances, backups, having a money buffer in case things need to be spun down, and having multiple admins in case of disaster.

Can’t wait for the AI and Metaverse bubbles to pop.

Turns out people like working with other people and enjoying reality. I’m darkly amused that “touch grass” has quickly become both an insult and sincere life advice.

Yes, Reddit has messaged mod teams and pressured them into reopening. So far I don’t think there’s a case of them forcing their own mod team in to replace striking mods, but it’s absolutely on the table.

It was ok and I met one person there but I prefer okcupid personally. Hinge seems decent.

It’s possible, any admin can do anything they want, but it would be relatively rare. The way I’ve seen that play out is like if an instance pops up that seems like it’s run by a Nazi but you can’t really tell so you look at who their friends are. Usually it’s like if the admin is interacting a lot with Nazi instances or content you can guess where their loyalties will lie. But a lot of instances simply won’t block random small instances that haven’t caused trouble yet, through nothing but being unaware.

Some communities want to be insular though, it’s totally valid to want a “private forum” for let’s say kids or religions or schools or a marginalized demographic. So they may block nearly everything for their own internal reasons.

My advice, don’t hang out near Nazis and don’t hang out in a place that doesn’t make it clear that Nazis aren’t welcome. Lemmy doesn’t really have a lot of code of conduct stuff set up but that’s the main thing to pay attention to.