I got a cat at 18 for the same reason I don’t want kids lmao. I like kids. I also like dogs. But I like leaving the house for more than 8 hours more and for that you need a cat.

Yup. They just got their satire lessons from the same place as Babylon Bee.

Its worth noting that they had completed “15 to 20 contracts previously” and that they had negotiated previous contracts via text message. This process became the norm during the pandemic.

In other words it’s within this context that made it agreement… not that thumbs ups can universally be used to agree to contracts.

Glad to see the reddit tradition of just commenting without reading any of the source material is going strong /s

But for real my dude. You got a problem with chemicals in your meat? How bout those crazy steroids and antibiotics they pump your chickens/cows full of so that they don’t die of disease before maturation/slaughter? What about all the chemicals in the low quality feed they give the animals? Or the processing to increase shelf life?

The beauty of this technology is that it avoids all those problems as well as their chemical solutions. It uses mitosis, aka the same naturally occurring process all cells use, to grow meat in an isolated environment that disease cannot thrive. Meanwhile we can use genetic modification to improve the quality of the protein. The end result will be healthier, more sustainable and have a significantly longer shelf life.

And this technology is only going to improve.

booba

Holy fuck this is an old picture lol

I used to do security at some shelters and the local Ministry for Social Development offices (Welfare office). Through those experiences I learned that there is a big, big difference between calling someone homeless/addict or saying “experiencing homelessness/addiction”

The title says it the correct way, the opening paragraph does not. That being said, “unhoused” doesn’t colloquially imply homeless and could be misconstrued as people being evicted. Regardless, after reading the article I don’t think the author intended to degrade people with their wording.

Anecdotally, I think we do a disservice to the people directly suffering from homelessness/addiction/mental health by misdirecting our frustrations towards the journalists increasing awareness of the problem.

Similarly, I think we do disservice to a lot of victimized and marginalized people by continually ‘improving’ the language surrounding specific issues and subsequently attacking people -who are engaging the topic in good faith- for not adopting the prescribed nomenclature fast enough.

Yo so I like/agree with your post but NGL the title is off putting. I ran your post through GPT and it spit this out.

“Unveiling the Power of Federated Universes: Rethinking Digital Autonomy”

Yea I think bot posting and rehosting content from reddit has served its purpose but come July should be dialed down significantly.

Even if it isn’t reddit content, bot posting should be restricted. There are niche examples where it’s beneficial. Eg, Daily Stock Tickers, Geolocal weather, or weekly Q&A threads, but those are clearly different than just content aggregation.

Comment bots also provide value. I agree grammar/etc bots are annoying but as long as people can easily block/delete their comments its okay. Prequel memes chat bots were hilarious and if a community wants them they should be allowed.

People are what makes internet forums fun. Keeping lemmy.world a space for human interactions is important.

Inspired by this bit about Anakin and Podracing…

I’d like to see a show that is comprised of low stakes single episode plots. Each episode would feature different characters and take place during those periods of time the movies skip over. They’d largely be about character development, world building, comedy, or just following up on untold stories.

Some Examples:

• Luke’s life before he met obiwan (blasting wampa rats etc)

• C3P0 & R2 working for Leia between episodes 3 & 4

• Jar Jar Getting exiled and living on his own

• Anakins previous podraces & sebulba

• The alluded to past adventures of Anakin as Obiwans Padewan

• Leia becoming a leader in the rebel alliance

• Chewbacca and Han meeting / having adventures

• Yoda training child Obiwan / Ashoka / Qui Gon

• Hoth/Yavin prior to the Empire’s discovery

They want to bully people. They’re only able to feel better about themselves by making themselves feel superior. This is why when they rely on culture wars because as soon as they don’t have an enemy to hold their attention they all turn on each other out of necessity.

the complaints aren’t really about fascism but are actually complaints about right-wing authoritarianism or even political conservatism in general

You keep splitting hairs like that and your chin gonna be bald to buddy.

FYI fascism doesn’t come from a genie in a bottle… its born from authoritarianism and bigotry. Maybe you should take a break from the internet and let those brain cells grow back so that your ancestors don’t have to rise from the dead and slap some sense into you lol

I wasn’t fed up with reddit enough back then to stick with voat. IIRC it literally was a reddit clone just with 1% of the content.

First, thank you.

Second, you guys are ON TOP OF IT!!! Excellent work, you guys are amazing!

Third,

Surprisingly nobody here was interested so now we deleted them completely

HAHHAHAHAH so you saw my comment???

“FYI nobody is interested go back to reddit”

Holy shit… either that was in the last 10 hours or my lemmy was lagging.

Props to the admins/mods!

NGL part of me wanted the banned mod (OptionHome I think) to stay and be our community laughing stock.

brilliant.

The unilateral rejection of right wing antics gives me hope for humanity. Not just that lemmy admins are willing to take a stand… but that the entire community here is downvoting them and not letting them thrive anywhere.

When I joined a week ago, the founder of c/conservative had already been run out of his own community and created c/conservativesonly… which he was subsequently run out of a second time and forced to make a new account to mod it.

In a weird way… lemmy might be the proof of concept we needed that democracy can beat fascism.

I get the inclination to want admins to ban them… but not only is that unnecessary (at this point in time!) it’s also a far, far weaker rebuke than the entire community refusing to let them trend.

We saw how on reddit, banning subs simply resulted in them making new ones.

At least on lemmy there is visible evidence that no matter what they call their community it will be rejected by the lemmy community as a whole.

At least here’s hoping!

Would you be happier if it was only upvotes? I don’t follow your logic at all.

True but have you looked at the vote scores in those communities?

On reddit they were cesspools but on lemmy they’re laughing stocks. The only posts they can get above zero are antithetical ones pointing out the criminality and incompetence of trump/republicans.