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- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 2 weeks ago:
Oh man, my cousin had a classmate that was shocked and confused when she learned that not everyone had, or could afford, a yacht. To her, that was just something everyone had, because they weren’t that expensive.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 2 weeks ago:
No, but their preachers all talk Prosperity Gospel at them. And a preacher wouldn’t lie about the word of God!
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 2 weeks ago:
Well, very few people like to be told they’re the villain…
- Comment on New Delhi - during lockdown vs now 2 weeks ago:
The problem is mathematically it just doesn’t work. Humans are too good at reproducing. We’d be back in force before too long.
No, the only way is more death note style, taking out billionaires and some of their bootlicking buddies, and those who put profit over the planet’s health. It’s perfectly possible for the rest of us to patch things up—we almost did it with the ozone—until guess who decided they wanted to throw money around to force us to stop.
- Comment on Christmas is upon us 2 weeks ago:
JFC even Michael’s (which is a crafting store) doesn’t have their Christmas stuff out yet! And if you’re hand-crafting Christmas gifts for the whole family, sooner is better than later to start lol
- Comment on What's the origin of the many phrases that include a person's name? 2 weeks ago:
That one’s got two competing theories. Either from Petre, the Latin word for ‘rock’, or Peter (that is, St. Peter).
One goes that ‘peter’ most likely referred to saltpetre, the main ingredient in gunpowder, which was the explosive of choice in early gold mining. Seems the term ‘peter out’ was first widely used by US gold miners in the 1800s describing veins that had run dry.
On the other hand, there is some colloquial evidence to trace it back further, and to England, and a type of fishing boat called a ‘peterboat’ (which picked the name up from St Peter). Those were long low boats that once oft plied the Thames, and were narrow and pointed at both ends so they could easily go either way in the current. ‘Peter out’ referred to the thin sharp double-taper of the boat-ends.
- Comment on business is business 3 weeks ago:
Those are really nice! I especially like in the first one how you captured the city lights on the water and filled in that potential darker space on the left with the bridge span.
Of course, there’s scenic photography, which is basically having really good composition skills, knowing good locations, and timing, and then there’s people photography, which is… extra. I don’t blame photographers for charging more for that shit lol
‘I want our wedding photos to be the two of us on a cliff at the beach at sunset with really pretty clouds behind us!’ And you’re thinking, okay, drive time, waiting for a good colorful sunset instead of a cloudless or too cloudy or foggy one (always a fun game of roll-the-dice in Oregon at least), and they want their backs to the sunset, so that’s extra lighting (that you’ll have to carry to the location) and extra time in photoshop to be sure you can still see their faces clearly…
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 3 weeks ago:
The issue is getting in. In smaller towns sometimes it’s easier, but for example in my city for electricians, there’s 3000 applicants a year, and the Union only takes 25-50 into the program.
I especially love how they bragged about building a training center capable of teaching several hundred students… and still only take 25-50 in.
- Comment on I need an adult 3 weeks ago:
Because ‘orange’ was covered by the word ‘yellow’ until that pesky fruit made it to England and became fashionable.
- Comment on I need an adult 3 weeks ago:
In Japanese it’s the reverse; ‘blue’ is used for blue and green; designating green as the different color is relatively recent for them
- Comment on What's one cliche "Moral of the story" in media that you hate more than anything else? 5 weeks ago:
Give Undercover Blues a try. Sort of a mid plot, but the acting elevates it. The main characters are a loving married couple that continues to love and respect each other throughout the movie.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
TBF it’s technically a Daoist philosophical treatise, rather than a how-to on war. To really understand it you have to look at it from that perspective.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
And people wonder why they like to pal around with American conservatives.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
‘Those people were awesome as long as they agreed with me’
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That’s fair.
But I also don’t think they did anything whatsoever to ‘let people know’ about the blocklist like they claimed. In fact, it seems to me from how much they tried to hide it that they never intended to share that they had one, at all.
As far as the death threats… meh, who knows? From all their comments, and their attempting to defend themselves in the third person using alt accounts, they seem to be quite a drama queen with only a loose connection to reality. They interpreted lots of rather rational comments back in the beginning of all this saying ‘dude, you can’t just force people to use your blocklist’ as vicious attacks against their person and character, so I can see them interpreting more aggressive ‘how dare you tell me what to do’ comments as actual threats against their person.
On the other hand, negative self-centered people tend to attract negative, self-centered people, and I can imagine that some of those might take… poorly to finding out they’d ended up on his blocklist for disagreeing with him. Especially if they had thought they were on the same side.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Lot of the same energy there.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That still doesn’t excuse the DDOS.
And given how well he hid it, it’s obvious that he never intended that anyone see that list but him. That’s most of the ‘how dare he block so-and-so’ that I’ve seen; people mocking him for blocking them, yes, but they almost always tied it back to the fact that he was censoring the feeds of others without any kind of notification or opt-out for his users.
Saying ‘here’s my blocklist; if you don’t like it, you can toggle it off, or find another frontend’ is curating, and that’s okay. But deciding what others get to see because ‘you know best’ and hiding that list of people and instances you blocked so no-one can find out what they’re not being allowed to see is censorship, and it’s not okay.
- Comment on Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks? 1 month ago:
There was some drama recently relating to hism deciding to make instance block content creators from engaging too much. Probably related to that.
- Comment on Beware Beans! 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t say all of them. My parents’ last cats… well, one got chased all over the house by a squirrel, and once lost a fight with a mouse. The other made friends with the birds that landed on the roof.
- Comment on knew a few guys like this 1 month ago:
Sadly yes. I think he lost himself in his stage persona.
- Comment on knew a few guys like this 1 month ago:
Y’know, sometimes I forget Chris Rock used to have a functioning brain.
- Comment on Thirsty much? 1 month ago:
Ahem. From the article:
This is what Hambrecht and Parsons are doing with their male-only gyms. They’re spreading conspiracies about morality and traditional marriage that cast women as dangerous. They’re promoting men rising up as warrior-kings who are ready to fight evil, and they’re getting rid of women who they claim are ruining everything.
- Comment on Badge of Honor 1 month ago:
Sorry. I tend to use Lemmy as another stand-in for fediverse, same as people say Kleenex for facial tissues.
But you still seem to think this ban on interacting too much with people is a good thing, which I just can’t fathom.
No-one can vote on a post more than once, and the votes are meaningless anyways. Plus, the more content and interactions, the better the fediverse is. So why stop people from voting to their heart’s content? The admin even flat-out said he thought too much interaction in the fediverse was a bad thing, which is like… that’s why we’re here? To interact with people?
- Comment on Badge of Honor 1 month ago:
Yes, but PugJesus hosted all his stuff on Pifed. That’s why he left; it was just too much to move.
And again, if he was hitting it regularly, just a regular Lemmy content creator, that limit was way too fucking low.
And again, since the limit is well-displayed, it’s not hard to get around it.
So it’s fucking stupid.
- Comment on Badge of Honor 1 month ago:
No? Again, one account, one vote per comment. Each account votes once, on one person’s comment, isn’t going to trigger shit.
If anything, making a ton of puppet accounts and having only some vote in rotation to push your agenda would be the best way to get around it. So it encourages a problem while claiming to fix a problem that isn’t there.
Worse, it drives off the people who are on Lemmy a lot and make a lot of the content. That idiot admin just wants Lemmy to be silent, and he should just unplug his computer and go touch grass on a mountainside somewhere if he wants silence.
- Comment on Badge of Honor 1 month ago:
But again, that’s a group. It doesn’t trigger over an entire instance, it triggers only on individual accounts. So it would do absolutely nothing against an issue like that, as I pointed out.
- Comment on Honestly...How She Do It?!? 1 month ago:
Maybe that was what the wrestling was about? She was trying to force the manatee to be more modest by making them wear a bikini?
- Comment on Badge of Honor 1 month ago:
Right, and like he points out, as a frequent poster he often engages low-key with the people who comment on his posts with upvotes. So this really made it hard to engage for him.
Regardless it’s a shit decision by the admin. Everyone on Lemmy gets one upvote/downvote per post they interact with. It’s not as if you can upvote or downvote a post multiple times (unless you go though multiple accounts, which that stupid rule wouldn’t fix anyways), so who cares if some people are upvoting or downvote voting more than others? That just means they’re on Lemmy more, which is fine.
So it’s a shit rule for something that isn’t a problem, and doesn’t address a possible adjacent problem (making lots of puppet accounts to push personal agendas) that could actually be an issue. That admin is just an ass. I don’t blame Pug for leaving.
- Comment on Badge of Honor 1 month ago:
piefed.social
- Comment on Badge of Honor 1 month ago:
Wasn’t Piefed adding code to block people from upvoting and downvoting too much? If they’re on Lemmy a lot they might not appreciate that kind of restriction, especially if they post a lot of content.