https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhy8cU_ujDY

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDSm-khp-vc

I definitely avoided Lemmy the first go-round with the API fuckery because it seemed from the outside like basically just a tankie protest Reddit in a similar way to how Voat was just a neo-Nazi protest Reddit. To the Lemmy devs’ absolute credit, they don’t push new users toward any of those, though.

I thought one day after having had a Mastodon for some time that I might not have given Lemmy a fair shake, so I went back and ended up finding that most instances are basically normal Reddit fare but honestly less shitty than Reddit proper (there’s a trade-off that posts are less frequent and that small, niche communities can attract unwanted attention by having their posts almost immediately show up in ‘all’).

Literally just always projection. They say “no you” so when they do it, it looks to an underinformed outsider like it’s just mud-slinging back and forth, and it looks to a true believer like leveling the playing field.

Yeah, I phrased that poorly; I should’ve said “will be brushed off”. The person who responded CC’d multiple people, so I can tell they weren’t just placating.

The reason we have these eradication programs is actually predominantly because the flies are harmful to farmed animals. However, they have little or no negative impact on the environment when eradicated. This not only affects wildlife (whose suffering I think should absolutely be considered if we can determine it won’t have knock-on effects), but it also affects humans in impoverished areas. While animals eating other animals is almost always excruciating and fucked up, a screwworm infestation means you get eaten alive over days in basically constant pain, at which point the wound is now susceptible to secondary bacterial infection and death. The world currently spends a bunch of money keeping them contained (and trying to push them further south), and getting rid of them altogether would mean not needing to spend in perpetuity.

CosmicRaySort.

Hence “4+”, because I agree with you wholeheartedly.

When I told people that literally every aspect of life will be worse under Trump, I absolutely meant it. Republican poison will seep into literally every aspect of our lives. And this is exactly what I mean when I say “everything is political” to those who only single out a handful of hot-button issues as “political”.

With the rise of fascism in the US, just keep “everything is political” in the back of your mind for the next 4+ years, and if you don’t believe it by then, I don’t know what to tell you.

I was making a sarcastic analogy aimed at how dumb the original commenter’s request was. I do agree with you.

Oh man, I loved this part of Hengsha in DX:HR. Such an exaggerated and creative depiction of a hypercapitalist, dystopian hellhole.

And be sure not to take them to the polls with you. The stakes have genuinely never been higher, and “they go low, we go high” doesn’t work on fascists.

You can leave your friends behind

Hey, you shouldn’t presume to know what other people do with their free time.

It’s funny you should ask that; I was just about to reach out to ruud over Matrix and have been thinking about it for a couple weeks. I’d love to if that’s alright with the admin team.

>Not a country

>Donald Trump has repeatedly spoken badly about and deliberately mistreated Puerto Rico

>Donald Trump also routinely speaks extremely badly about the country Puerto Rico is in

I’m glad he’s changed his mind at the literal last minute, but it baffles me every day how ignorant people can be.

Petition to restart !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world, by the way.

I know this story didn’t happen because there’s no such thing as “too many tamales”.

Ngl, this article feels bloviating bordering on AI-generated and/or a padded high school essay. Here’s the relevant Wikipedia article. For instance, by the way:

This event underscores the complex relationship between catastrophic environmental changes and evolutionary processes, offering valuable insights into the resilience and adaptability of life on Earth. [thank you, obligatory ‘Conclusion’ paragraph from all my phoned-in high school essays.]

The Carnian Pluvial Event, also known as the Carnian crisis, has left its mark in geological records across the globe, suggesting a widespread environmental impact. [no shit it had a widespread environmental impact??]

Not only that:

According to witnesses, Bossio said, the 17-year-old was walking away from a separate altercation with a male Harris supporter when he struck Tomasko and knocked her to the ground.

He did it because he was pissed at a male supporter but was too big of a wuss to throw hands with someone who could plausibly fight back, so to solve that, he sucker-punched an old lady. They’re not just abusive garbage, they’re pathetic cowards.

Listen, if you can’t tell me, in detail, the plan the bomb squad has to defuse the bomber’s bombs, then I’m just going to have to assume the bomb squad is incompetent and vote for the bomber threatening to blow everyone up.

“Please waste your time and make me look credible by dignifying my utter ridiculousness with a legitimate response, thanks.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning