PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org
Why don’t you have a second account?
Lazy. Don’t care if my shit gets fucked. But if you do care if your shit gets fucked, then you shouldn’t rely on centralized social media.
—PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@vlemmy.net, Professional Life Regretter, about a week before his shit got fucked
- Comment on SDF outgoing federation seems to be stuck 2 months ago:
Or you’re just not posting trash enough content.
- Comment on Choose your fighters, chatters. 2 months ago:
I’m intrigued but completely out of the loop. What’s the difference between these two sets of books?
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 2 months ago:
Is like saying oh you don’t like your local librarians? you’re free to make your own library!
I’m probably being pedantic here but you kinda can, e.g. Little Free Libraries, although the reason isn’t “my local librarians suck”, it’s closer to “more libraries please”.
Okay well being free to do something doesn’t magically make it a real option.
Agreed, but I fail to see how, with enough consent from the user base, how moving to another existing server is not an option.
Are there even any exceptions to that that aren’t entire communities agreeing to move together off instances?
I’m not aware of any off the top of my head, but it absolutely does not seem implausible that we could move this community if the need arises. Entire communities moved off of Reddit during the boycott; I don’t see why we can’t do that again within the platform if the need arises. For the most part people are okay with the moderation here, as am I, but the minute that changes people will flee somewhere else.
For literally the entire time I have been on lemmy I have heard laments about the centralization of comms on lemmy.world and seen attempts to mitigate it but every pie chart just shows lemmy.world with more of the pie because growing a comm on small servers isn’t simple!
Hard agree there. I’m not sure how to fix it.
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 2 months ago:
We’re failures as shitposters when a shitpost generates that much drama
Hard disagree lol, I love when a shitpost actually gets people to debate about important things. So many people would just never think about that stuff otherwise.
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 2 months ago:
That happened on reddit all the time, minus the instance part. Remember /r/freefolk?
The “instance part” is absolutely huge. If I wanted to, I could go start a /c/lemmyshitpost on SDF Lemmy [1] with a completely new set of rules [2], particularly a set of rules that possibly would violate Lemmy.world’s TOS or possibly even the law in Lemmy.world’s jurisdiction, but not SDF’s or their jurisdiction’s laws.
It’s not a big deal for the average user until the day you run afoul of the server admins.
[1] As of writing this, SDF does not have a /c/lemmyshitpost.
[2] I’m not interested in doing that lol, this is just a hypothetical. I’m annoyed at this most recent decision but nowhere near ready to leave over it.
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 2 months ago:
No just one user lol
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 2 months ago:
I think moderating comments needs to be banished.
Nah because then someone could just post (for example) medical gore in a “safe space” and it’ll just get downvoted but not removed.
It wasn’t gore, but do you remember the ThuleanPerspective (I think?) trolls from a little while back, spamming that racist photoshopped Simpsons comic by commenting it on literally everything? That effort was neutralized in the short term by deleting those comments on the spot, and then the users who posted them.
It is absolutely a useful tool, but like most useful tools it can be abused.
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 2 months ago:
I’m happy and having lots of sex /s
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 2 months ago:
In Internet culture, shitposting or trashposting is the act of using an online forum or social media page to post content that is of “aggressively, ironically, and trollishly poor quality”.
Imagine not being allowed to do any trolling in a shitposting community.
Tap for subtlety
There are obviously types of trolling that intentionally disrupt the entire community, but this was nowhere near that.
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 2 months ago:
Okay but you can always make your own shitposting community on your own instance with your own rules if you feel so strongly against the rules. That option simply was not available on R*ddit. The point of Lemmy isn’t that no one abuses their mod and admin powers ever, but that the system is set up so that you can just go to another Lemmy server, which simply was not available on R*ddit if you pissed off the site admins.
Although I personally find Lemmy users nicer and moderation better on average, their character is not the point. It is merely the result of an imperfect but better system than R*ddit.
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 2 months ago:
- Then the mods should be honest about why he’s being banned in the modlog.
- Him (charitably) being an overzealous meanie in defense of a brand of feminism does not make him a shitlord.
- Sometimes people need to be dunked on for both their own good and the good of the community, obviously myself included. A perfectly appropriate venue for some gentle dunking is a shitposting community.
It’s a shame that the thread got locked. It was getting heated, but IMO that’s a good sign that what you’re talking about actually needs to be debated.
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 2 months ago:
reason: Admitting to being a troll: “I’m an agent of chaos.”
Absolutely the limpest reason to temp ban someone from a shitposting community. From the context it was obviously an offhanded joke, not an actual admission of someone disrupting the community.
- Comment on Samples 2 months ago:
It pains me to inform you all that KnowYourMeme seems to have the best coverage of this story.
Internet users and news outlets have speculated that the sperm cups are aimed at Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz and his wife’s infertility issues. The Walz’s had their children using in vitro fertilization (IVF).
The cups therefore could be a way to champion Vance’s natural ability to have children. However, many Americans (regardless of political affiliation) struggle with infertility and use IVF.
Despite being humorous, it’s currently unknown if the J.D. Vance cup photos are real. For one, the original X user that posted them, @UsaCamy, has a profile that’s raised suspicions among many, as pointed out by X user @elisethoma5.
So basically, if this turns out to be a real thing, then they’re dunking on people who want to have kids but have infertility issues. Which … that’s just kind of a ridiculously petty thing to do.
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 2 months ago:
Yeah I actually brought that up in my top-level reply. But does the two years count the time spent as Acting President? I don’t know, but the 22nd Amendment doesn’t use the terminology “Acting President”.
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 2 months ago:
Thanks 👍. I corrected my response.
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 2 months ago:
I pasted the entire 22nd Amendment into my reply to this post. The “trigger” isn’t the numerical value of 8 years total, it’s the numerical value great than 2 years served.
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 2 months ago:
… no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected…
So having previously served two years exactly is allowed.
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 2 months ago:
I’m not a legal expert so take this with a grain of salt. Assuming the Constitution is followed as it currently written…which is a big assumption…
The two-term limitation comes from the 22nd Amendment. This amendment is, in it’s entirety, quoted below:
Section 1
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section 2
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
Concerning Section 2, it was ratified so it is law. Not important to answer our question.
If Joe Biden resigns or is incapacitated right as I post this, then Kamala Harris would become acting President until his term ends on January 20th, 2025 for 157 days, 158 if you count today, which is a far cry from two years. (I believe that she was designated Acting President for a few hours while Biden was getting a colonoscopy, so add that to the tally maybe.)
So it looks like, if I read the bolded section correctly, she would be eligible to be elected a second time if she took over from Biden should he be incapacitated or resign.
- Comment on Yum 2 months ago:
What are you smoking and can I have some?
- Comment on Predators 3 months ago:
But it gets cuter every time
- Comment on Twitter 3 months ago:
Ask and you shall receive:
NSFW, but not pornographic
Click here for a non-sexualized video of the birth of a baby giraffe. It’s pretty high!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
7y(12e+11) - 85 = 2y +12e
(7(12e+11)-2)y = 12e + 85
y = (12e + 85)/(7(12e+11)-2)
y = (12e + 85)/(84e+77-2)
y = (12e + 85)/(84e+75)
Assuming e = exp(1) ≈ 2.73, my calculator says that y ≈ 0.3878, or a little over a third.
- Comment on What Can Be, Unburdened By What Has Been 3 months ago:
Cop vs Dictator. Let’s not throw a vulnerable group of people under the bus. I got no beef [1] with felons just because the State labels them as baddies.
- Comment on What Can Be, Unburdened By What Has Been 3 months ago:
- Comment on Kids and their computers these days. 3 months ago:
The guy driving this van is probably about as functional as someone in the middle of a panic attack. Very likely erratic
I would have to talk to them first (or watch them drive if I’m in traffic) to see if that actually is the case, just like I would if the person’s car was clean.
- Comment on Kids and their computers these days. 3 months ago:
I know this is a shitposting sub but this is the exact kind of comment I’m pushing back against. No, I do not deserve to lose my driving privileges because I believe that people with paranoid delusions may be safe to drive.
- Comment on Kids and their computers these days. 3 months ago:
And I cannot stress this enough, nothing about this story has anything to do with Autism. Paranoid delusions are not a typical issue for Autistic people.
Agreed, but I am autistic and I have had this language used against me to argue why I shouldn’t be allowed to make my own decisions. I.e., it is a popular misconception and form of rhetoric that autistic people have paranoid delusions because we perceive the world differently. I brought it up because I’m arguing from my lived experience as a mentally ill and autistic person, i.e. I’m not just being an internet contrarian.
I did not mean to imply that autistic people typically do suffer from paranoid delusions. However, (at least in my view) we do suffer from neurotypical people believing we suffer from paranoid delusions.
encountering a vehicle like this and thinking “this guy just has different ideas than me, but is otherwise trustworthy” is not rational thinking.
I don’t have to find someone completely trustworthy in order for them to be an acceptable driver. Actually, I typically don’t fully trust the people I get in cars with. I only need to trust them enough to know that they’re not going to veer into traffic, they’re going to drive reasonably, and that they will take me to the place we promised to go. I think that the kinds of decisions that go into driving are completely different from those that drive a person to mark up their car.
Look, I understand the line you are trying to walk here
Yeah, I am trying to “walk a line” here and I think I understand where you’re coming from, so I’m absolutely willing to agree to disagree.
- Comment on Kids and their computers these days. 3 months ago:
“I have severe untreated mental illness and no grip on reality”
(Emphasis mine)
That is a vast oversimplification of how people work. It is absolutely plausible to me that someone might believe obvious lies but is otherwise qualified to drive heavy machinery. Analyzing the society you live in is a totally different skill than driving.
For example, if I found out my bus driver literally believe that reptilians run the world, I would still trust them to drive my bus because driving a bus has nothing to do with lizard people. Conversely, I wouldn’t trust a bus driver who agrees with everything I believe in but is currently having a panic attack.
This is important to me because I am mentally ill (treated, but mentally ill nonetheless) and autistic (which is treated like a mental illness), and this is the kind of logic that tyrants use to manufacture popular consent to further marginalize mentally ill people.
- Comment on I don’t understand quantum physics 3 months ago:
Do I understand the physical and philosophical ramifications of quantum physics? No.
Do I understand the mathematical machinery of quantum physics and how to do calculations for quantum systems? Also no, but I’m working on it.
- Comment on Just had someone say they are going to have a Fatwa put on me . What the hell does that mean? Do I need to report it or something? 3 months ago:
From Wikipedia:
A fatwa is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia) given by a qualified Islamic jurist (faqih) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government.
So unless you live in a country that runs on Sharia law and have your real information connected to your account, you can safely ignore it.
You could report the poster for being mean if it goes against that community’s or instance’s rules. Up to you. But I think someone’s just being a troll.
