asking if they subscribe to other myth based beliefs, religions, etc
What you actually said:
Out of interest are you religious or subject to some other form of mythical belief system? I ask because clearly you lack motivation for the truth, preferring hearsay and urban legend that I must assume supports a wider world view. by @Hackerman_uwu
My thought: this kind of behaviour is one of things that made Reddit fucking awful and I’d hate to see it flourish here in the fediverse.
So, it’s basically 4chans all the way down.
F*ck Ted Faro!
Nominally, you’d need to go through some request process to request federation with other large instances. Then they’d vet your configuration before adding you.
An online cafe dedicated to harvesting baby seal fur SEEMED like a good idea…
You’re absolutely right. You’re no physicist.
But seriously, for a practical example of “action at a distance”, consider quantum key distribution.
The famous example you’re thinking of is Jimmy Snyder, aka Jimmy the Greek, a sports commentator and sports betting expert who used to work for CBS sports. He was interviewed as part of a series about civil rights in the US, and the interviewer was sort of expecting him to say something pleasant about black folks’ success in athletics opening doors for education and leadership, etc.
Instead he made some pretty astonishing claims that were intensely racist.
California, actually. Although that’s probably worse.
I would proudly stink of back-bacon and maple syrup, if given the opportunity.
What would “discrimination” look like in a reddit-like link sharing service?
I’m not even sure what that word would imply in a discussion forum. It usually applies to things like wages, job opportnities, access, etc.
I just figured it was named for lemmings.
You’ve got Pneumail™!
beehaw.org – a lemmy instance specifically geared toward quality discussion and keeping everybody nice to each other – has basically been told by Lemmy devs that the moderation tools they want and need just aren’t in the roadmap, and they’ll need to fork and develop their own version.
That’s an incredibly disheartening attitude.
I think the big challenge right now is sustaining growth. I don’t think many reddit refugees are paying for their fediverse services.
I support dessalines on Patreon, but I don’t really know what else I should be doing. I think that folks who want to run these services need to figure out how to charge money for it, or they won’t be able to buy infrastructure or network bandwidth.
EDIT: OK I just bought 5 coffees for ernest: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin
Then we should probably call it a “red flag” instead of a “dead giveaway” (per post title) :-)
. Mitigating circumstances like a person’s childcare situation are only mitigating circumstances because there was irresponsibility in the first place to mitigate. It’s still irresponsibility.
I took the cart into the store to shop with my cognitively disabled child. This was a responsible decision.
Due to my child’s medical disability and changing circumstances resulting in a behavior meltdown, I had to take him back to the car and stay with him, to prevent elopement that could put him and others at risk. This was a responsible decision. Due to the changing circumstances, I can’t return the shopping cart to a particular location.
At no point do I abdicate responsibility. My first responsibility is to the safety of my child, and others who might suffer if he elopes. If you think I’m a bad person who “gives zero shits” because I put that first, then I call that error.
If you want to live in you self-righteous bubble and judge people from afar without knowing jack squat about their circumstances, I call that error. I’m sure my situation is not unique; issues must come up all the time with children, pets, the elderly that necessitate putting a shopping cart aside and attending to the needs of others, and it’s not always possible to return the shopping cart.
I can’t stop you from making an error, of course, but I’d hope than when the error is explained to you, you’d commit to avoiding it.
This is the kind of balanced, nuanced take that will get you absolutely murderlated with downvotes.
For reasons that I can’t quite fathom, they’ve been taking them away in California. Stores that used to have them, don’t any more.
Often there isn’t even a safe place outside. You could put them up on to the sidewalk in front of the store, but is that the best place? It’s convenient for the workers but it also gets in the way.
Or maybe it’s because I have a special needs child and I can’t always leave them alone, even for a minute or two?
When you make snap judgments based on initial appearance, that’s precisely the kind of error you can make.
The article’s summary paragraph at the top attributes a statement to DeSantis that he didn’t make.
Gov. Ron DeSantis says people aren’t living as long as they used to, so that should help protect them from losing Social Security and Medicare protections when they get old.
That paraphrasing is deceptive, IMO. In the text of his remarks, it’s clear that he’s drawing an actuarial conclusion that lower lifespans eliminate the need to raise Social Security and Medicare benefit ages. What he actually said:
So, I think it’s hard to say, you know, raise the age (for Social Security eligibility) when the average life expectancy is going down. We used to think that life expectancy was just going to keep going up and that’s just not been the case.
DeSantis says plenty of crazy shit, we don’t need to invent stupid things and pretend that he said them.
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