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- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 12 hours ago:
I’m not sure that’s true. We do get bad chemicals when we don’t breath though via CO2 build up. Isn’t that very similar to the pain response from lack of eating?
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 1 day ago:
Imagine having to force yourself to chew and swallow substances because you will die otherwise.
How would it be different than breathing then? I don’t get actual pleasure out of breathing, but its not a chore either. If I don’t breath, I will die.
- Comment on A chat with Gary Carlston of Brøderbund 1 day ago:
Broderbund was an important staple of the Commodore 64 world.
!c64@lemmy.world
!retrogaming@lemmy.world
…would also probably appreciate this content.
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 2 days ago:
I will say more, the same exact team that spends time managing EKS clusters could manage self-managed clusters and have money to spare for additional hires.
Your suggestions is a large expansion of skillset needed for your alternative to the cloud solution. Your own experience in attempting to hire workers should point to the reason thats a bad idea. You’re going to need even higher skilled people, and they are going to ask for significantly more money.
- Comment on YouTuber PatMan QC has passed away 😔 2 days ago:
Thank you for letting us know about this sad news. RIP PatMan.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 3 days ago:
I have no criticism of the original post. My statement was aimed at Sal’s hyperbolic interpretation and self-projection of those few words.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 3 days ago:
Thats why creating transparent pre moderation tools like the image scanners used by many fediverse instances is so important.
Are there any moderation tool projects going on right now one could throw a few bucks at to support it?
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 3 days ago:
Again, I ask: Why are you surprised that literal anti-capitalists hate billionaires?
You’re making authoritative claims to what the Fediverse is, who the people posting here are, and what their collectives beliefs and goals are. The Fediverse certainly isn’t a monolith that you can do that to. Hate isn’t an identity, nor is it the goal of the Fediverse. I think this part of the original closure notice may apply to your line of responses here.
“The worst part is that they’re so caught up in their own self-righteousness that they can’t see they’re just as bad or worse than what they’re spewing violent rhetoric at; trying to talk sense into anyone or de-escalate things is immediately met with “bootlicker”, wild accusations, and/or worse.”
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 3 days ago:
I agree with you. However, I don’t think most people understand that. For most folks they haven’t been exposed to the most mentally darkest souls among us.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 3 days ago:
but also what did they expect?
Can I ask you what the worst examples of community management looks like? As in, what do you believe would be the worst part of the job?
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 3 days ago:
Read his rant. It just sounds like he’s mad at us for being mean towards the poor wittle billionaires/nazis.
Considering how few references there were in the post, and your projection onto it. I think you may be part of the group he’s talking about that is causing him to close up shop. Its just my speculation though. If I’m right, how does that make you feel? Are you happy he’s closing up the instance and leaving the Fediverse or are you sad that a heavy contributor to the Fediverse is leaving?
- Comment on I wonder if the spice girls still get along or if that "friendship never ends" thing was just a lie. 3 days ago:
For those that follow motorsports, Ginger Spice’s (Geri Halliwell) husband just lost his high profile role as lead of the top rated Red Bull Formula 1 racing team. Yes, she’s married to Christian Horner.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 3 days ago:
Thanks for that context.
The specific “burned out” is a common killer among folks that try this: community management
“Well, two years in, and I cannot say this place is any better, just differently bad if not worse. Too many people here seem to think that because it’s not “corpo social media” that anything goes, and boy do some people really run with that.”
I can’t say I blame them. People can be horrible. Managing a community also means managing the worst of people. I had a former employer that did community management of a dating site. The level of mental trauma the front line workers endured was more than I could imagine. This is also why I completely understand instance admins that follow an aggressive blocking/banning approach. Beehaw put up tall walls and defederated aplenty. Blahaj.zone actively bans based upon user activity that is even on other unrelated instances. I can’t fault either of these approaches because the alternative is dealing with the worst users en masse.
I hope that instance owner/manager gets some of that much deserved rest.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 3 days ago:
This project has been discontinued and the repo archived. I am done with Lemmy, the Fediverse as a whole, and have no desire to continue developing for the platform or (especially) the demographic thereof.
Wow, what the heck happened? Do we know the dev’s lemmy username for any clues?
- Comment on What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"? 3 days ago:
Can I ask if you receive these opinions if it is after you share your positive views on “black pilling”?
- Comment on What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"? 3 days ago:
If you’re posting on the internet in a broadcast form (just as Instagram) about deeply intimate details of your life, you should not generally expect heartfelt nuanced discussion. You’re going to get short attention span pithy responses (as your example shows) or harsh reactionary responses from fringe minority positions (also as your example shows).
Those are internet responses. Those are not representative of real life. This is what the prior poster was telling you.
- Comment on What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"? 4 days ago:
there’s a TON of hate/distrust for asexual people. “you are just ugly” “you just haven’t met the right person” “why are you celebrating that you don’t have sex? that’s weird” etc.
What kind of conversations are you having with people that would respond like this where they’re learning about how much sex or not-sex you’re having?
- Comment on Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really) 4 days ago:
“trump is the highest scoring individual in a number of areas. As an example, trump is the national all-time leader in being impeached as President.”
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 4 days ago:
100% agree. The biggest overlooked benefit of immigrant culture is the mirror it offers us on our own practices and beliefs. When seeing what others do it gives us the chance to reaffirm that our actions are correct, or even more important, modify our actions for the better by adopting their view on something. We get to cherry pick the best parts of cultures around the world and discard bad practices that are perhaps “traditional” because we see our immigrants have a better approach. In the end of either we get the chance to be the best versions of ourselves with constant exposure to new ideas and ways of doing things.
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 4 days ago:
Its not inherently bad, but when 15-20% of the countries population is below the poverty line,
By 15-20% you mean 11.1% (or possibly a bit higher)?
then yes, it is a very bad idea.
Further, your response sounds like its just to my rhetorical question of “is it?” without any recognition of the future policy you’re implying of banning paying for blood. Let say you get your way and paying for blood products in the USA is banned as it is in most other countries immediately. More than 70 percent of the entire world’s plasma used for plasma therapies is now gone. How many lives has your policy cost in the weeks and months from patients around the world going without these and dying? What is your plan to not only deal with aftermath of your policy, but create an alternative that would prevent future suffering and fatalities for scarce supplies?
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 4 days ago:
Paying people for donating parts of their body is obviously a recipe for disaster.
Is it? The alternative is domestic shortages. In fact, while most of the rest of the world doesn’t pay its donors, but it happily accepts blood products derived from US donors (paid or not).
“The US, with 5 percent of the world’s population, supplies more than 70 percent of the entire world’s plasma used for plasma therapies, and over 80 percent of ours. It is able to do this because in the US, donors are paid.”
“The only countries that don’t rely on American plasma donors are countries that also pay donors for plasma, including Germany, Austria, Czechia (the Czech Republic), and Hungary. The commercial plasma sector in these five countries together makes up more than 90 percent of the entire world’s supply of plasma for plasma therapies.”
Many countries have laws preventing offering money for blood donations. Canada, for example, is one. Knowing this, as an American, Canada is where I donate blood to help our Canadian brothers and sisters. I’ll say that this has been more difficult that I expected though. The Canadian Blood Services location in the border town I’m closest to in Ontario stopped taking whole blood donation and only does apheresis, which I’m not interested in. In Quebec, I had some troubles donating at Héma-Québec as the questionnaire required name and address, but only listed Canadian provinces. The helpful worker there put in her own address under my name so I could donate.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I don’t know if its possible, but when reading instead of focusing on the pronunciation of a word (because its not needed at that time when you’re just reading), I skip right to determining the meaning or the concept the word describes. The only time this gives me difficulty is when the author of what I’m reading is trying to do word play or make something rhyme. Since I don’t “hear” it, I don’t get those meanings. This is rare though. Other then that, this gives me the most comprehension when I’m reading in my non-native language.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 6 days ago:
If you’re not willing to concede that a future state of people skipping beef meals does lower demand compared to those same people choosing to eat beef instead, then I don’t think we have any basis for continuing to have a discussion.
I couldn’t figure out what pedantry you’re trying to play at, nor any value for it. The best I could guess is you like dancing around on word play for some reason. That is not an interest of mine. Then I looked at your post history and see this behavior is entirely on-brand for you with your conversations with most folks. Feel free to reply to the void. I’m not interested in your games and won’t be interacting with you anymore.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 6 days ago:
some people are eating fewer beef meals
And for those people that eat fewer beef meals that does help. That is unambiguous. We’re talking about choices individuals can make for themselves to affect positive change. Those that eat fewer beef meals remove themselves as demand drivers of beef for those beef skipped meals. Were those individuals that would have eaten beef chose to eat beef for those future meals, then demand would be even higher with even higher climate impacts.
Do you disagree?
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 6 days ago:
it’s not theoretical. plenty of people (claim to) have cut back on beef, but production continues to rise.
Then you skipped the entire first half of my statement where I said “If people are eating fewer beef meals,” So sure, if you ignore half of what I said then you can say I am wrong. At that point what are we even talking about?
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 6 days ago:
i don’t think that’s true, if meat production continues to grow.
If people are eating fewer beef meals, where is the beef production growth coming from in your theoretical?
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 6 days ago:
The most important takeaway for the target group:
“If you’re trying to reduce your carbon footprint, eat less beef,” Rose advises. “You don’t have to give it up entirely, but cutting back or making substitutions can make a significant impact.”
Any fewer beef meals you have helps. We’re also just talking beef here. If you choose pork, chicken, fish, or even game meat over beef you’re helping the climate.
- Comment on Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows 6 days ago:
The meme game is incredibly weak compared to here (thanks PugJesus, The_Picard_Maneuver, cm0002, Stamets, LadyButterfly, etc.). Lemmy has an incredible amount of fantastic memes for it’s size.
I’d like to echo this. My entire knowledge of meme culture is supported by these diligent individuals.
I’ll also add the prior work of @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world . Miss you, squid. Hope you’re doing well in your new home.
- Comment on The worst part of getting old is that you get less and less "first experiences" and are always comparing current with previous ones 6 days ago:
The time, yes, but the resources? There are monetary limits to many “firsts”.
- Comment on How can I improve this? It's my current living and bedroom. 1 week ago:
First, I think you should stop living in an AI generated picture.
