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- Comment on Are the inside parts of toilets universal? 1 day ago:
They make universal flappers now that are actually universal.
And most arms are extendable and can have angle adjusted multiple ways, so basically universal.
If you replace anything else, you might as well change all the internals at once with a set
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 days ago:
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say, but I’m not expecting you clarifying to help
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 days ago:
Years ago they tried to pass a minimum amount of time you had to hold a stock before selling…
It was a fraction of a second and neoliberals and Republicans immediately united to tell everyone how antithetical to America that was.
For some reason, that wasn’t enough to show people that both groups have the same priorities and we can’t fight an oligarchy with fucking oligarchs.
We’ll never win if only a handful of politicians are actually on our side.
But it’s almost impossible to compete against dark money in a primary, and the people running the DNC know that. So they’ll never agree to get dark money out of primaries. It’s the only reason they’re still holding back progressives.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 days ago:
Why that would be huge:
It would incentize the rich to hold stocks long term, this would lead to corporations thinking more than what profits are in 3 months.
Which translates to greater stability for other investors and job security for the people who work there.
But it’s never going to happen as long as
SmaugPelosi and people like her who’s main priority is personal wealth is running the Dem party. Because we all know Republicans will never support it.But if we don’t purge the Dem party of neo liberals, and fast, we’re all fucked. We can’t keep walking down the path of “the rich always get richer” like nothing is wrong.
Wealth is finite. And with taxes and regulations the people who already have a lot will always accumulate more faster than they can spend it.
With them hoarding all that wealth, no one has any.
- Comment on Some days it do be like that 1 week ago:
In space, no one can hear a comma
- Comment on Black Ops 6 devs still looking into unfair spawning system - "yes, we saw ourselves in a Killcam before selecting a Loadout too" 1 week ago:
That’s spawn camping
This is as soon as you join the game spawns a player character that just stands there while you load in and pick your first load out.
The fix is just having it not spawn a model till the player has loaded the level and selects a load out.
What’s bad is they’re tweeting about it instead of just fixing it.
- Comment on Parents of malnourished girl were warned she could die, but father dismissed concerns as 'crazy', court told 3 weeks ago:
17 years old, under 50lbs?
It’s fucked up they let the parents keep the kid till they killed her.
- Comment on Why hasn't Kamala Harris's record of keeping nonviolent offenders in prison, despite SCOTUS ruling, while California AG been brought up much this election? 3 weeks ago:
That and it was over a decade ago.
Like, Kamala is by no means perfect. But she’s a hell of a lot better than Biden, obviously better than trump, and literally the only option at this point.
If you want to try and pull her to the left on prison reform, then that could be a good use of time and effort. But complaining about something from over a decade ago doesn’t help anything.
- FBI finds hundreds of weapons at home of suspect in Arizona Democratic Party office shootingwww.azcentral.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Why should we have to continue seeing people's replies when we block them? 3 weeks ago:
The twitter knockoffs always “mention” the person they’re replying to.
I block them because 99% of the post they make they don’t mean to make, and they never seem to understand what’s happening, explaining is just a waste of time.
But as long as they “@ you” you’ll still get new notifications.
If you’re talking about wanting to just get rid of their replies that are still in your inbox without clearing it…
Not sure why, but at least on my instance there’s a green check to acknowledge a notification and it’ll go away
- Comment on Votes won’t be counted for Arkansas medical marijuana ballot measure, court says 3 weeks ago:
It sounds like the state has been trying to stop this vote, but couldn’t.
So they pull this last minute shit after early voting already started, and not only is it not “counting” like it won’t pass, they’re literally not counting the votes so supporters can’t say it already has the votes next time.
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- Comment on Did you know that you could block communities you don't like on lemmy instead of spamming downvotes? 3 weeks ago:
On December 1, the situation, somehow, worsened when Kanye appeared on The Alex Jones Show. Over the course of the broadcast, he repeatedly praised Hitler and the Nazi party, insisting that he “loves” Nazis and “likes” Hitler, and at one point blatantly declaring, “The Jewish media has made us feel like the Nazis and Hitler have never offered anything of value to the world.” His remarks placed Jones in the rare position of attempting to help Kanye walk back his extremism by reminding him that Nazis “did a lot of very bad things.”
“But they did good things, too,” Ye responded. “We’ve got to stop dissing the Nazis all of the time.”
That was in the morning. By evening, Ye had been indefinitely suspended from Twitter for posting an image of a Nazi swastika inside of a Star of David.
- Comment on Did you know that you could block communities you don't like on lemmy instead of spamming downvotes? 3 weeks ago:
What’s weird is it’s always the accounts with no activity making these complaints…
Including this thread, OP has made 4 posts and 20 some comments over the last year.
- Comment on Twitch regrets blocked Israel accounts 3 weeks ago:
So they blocked new accounts from Israel and Palestine, and the headline just mentions Israel?
Sounds about normal…
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 weeks ago:
They probably thought you meant something different than what you actually meant.
…
You think they do an annual review of threads?
It was over a year ago I made the comment, they banned me for it five days ago.
I don’t know man, it’s weird you’re not getting that, but it doesn’t really matter.
I’m sorry if I’m explaining it poorly
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 weeks ago:
Weird, maybe because I looked at world’s modlog and not theirs like you seem to have done.
I clicked on the link, it was a comment from literally a year ago lol.
lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/3159844
I blocked the mod of that sub about a week ago, so they likely went and saw my last comment there and banned me for it.
Like I said tho, I’m perfectly fine with it. I blocked their whole instance a long time ago, I think it might have actually been that thread that valued me in it wasn’t worth ever going there again.
Thanks for finding that tho! I’ll remember to check an instance’s own modlog in the future for more details.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 weeks ago:
A “tankie” isn’t the same as a communist.
A “tankie” is someone that takes China’s side (the tanks) in that famous picture of Tiananmen square.
Being a “tankie” is using communism as a facade for authoritarian governments where a small group of “upper party members” are essentially oligarchs.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 weeks ago:
Nah, I replied to OP and they deleted the comment.
Maybe that looks weird on some federated instances or apps tho.
If it looks like I’m replying to someone else, that would explain the down votes.
OPs post gets reposted pretty frequently, always by new accounts which tend to disappear a day or two later after some lazy posts.
I really do think it’s the same person who’s bans are in the screenshots.
It’s too random that a bunch of brand new accounts all find the post and quote it with perfectly formatting including all the links just to repost it.
Especially since the new account always claims they’re “helping new users” like they’ve been here forever.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 weeks ago:
On the other hand, I’ve blocked both those instances months ago and it’s been great.
Strangely I did notice I got banned from a blahaj community like a week ago despite not commenting there for at least 6 months, maybe ever?
Which is kind of the whole point of me blocking them
Both have mods/admins that are very very opinionated about things. And they tend to refuse to let things go (much like OP or you making that sub)
So if they see something they dont agree with, they’ll pre-emptively ban an account, because, and this is doubly important right here:
It’s trolls feeding trolls drama in a big loop
You making that sub, OP making this post…
All you’re doing is encouraging them
Can you really not understand?
I’ll try and remember to come back and check if you respond, but I don’t get notifications from instances I’ve blocked.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 weeks ago:
but that doesn’t block those users on them to be fair. That has to be done individually.
It blocks notifications of replies.
Sometimes I’ll notice a .ml responded to me, and if they seem decent I’ll reply back. But I’ll never get a notification and that’s almost always as far as it goes.
Which is fine. Lots of people can make one civil comment to rope someone in a conversation.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 weeks ago:
just advising new users to watch where they are active; I
Your profile has 10 posts/comments and has been around for a week…
Are you the original OP who just keeps making new accounts to spam this?
Or do you think 10 posts/comments over a week means you understand Lemmy and should reach out to teach “new users”?
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 weeks ago:
World is kind of the vanilla instance.
Just.works is a “free speech” instance, I never see many communities hosted there, but a large amount of trolls make accounts there because just.works is unlikely to nuke an account.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, a little suspect OP’s account is a week old with barely double digit posts/comments if you combine them and most are from this post…
I’m guessing their favorite (of many) accounts got blocked by .ml, so now they don’t want anyone going there.
I don’t get the .ml drama tho, never. I realized it was a silly place long ago, so I blocked the whole instance.
I did the same for a couple others. It takes like two seconds.
Who cares if it has bigger communities than others? If that’s all I cared about I’d still be on Reddit
I think a lot or people (like OP) can’t drop this mindset because they’re not on the fediverse willinging. It’s probably the only social media site where IP bans aren’t a thing. So people IP banned from the big ones, are gonna trickle down here and do dumb drama hunting shit like OP.
- Comment on So tired to see Elon Musk in my home page EVERY DAY 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, OP has made this post and one other comment…
They could have posted anything else and been the change they wanted, now they’ll get notifications from people talking about the one thing they dislike enough to make a post?
I’ll never understand the logic behind that shit, the last post was 13 hours ago, just make a different post instead of one complaining about every other posts.
- Comment on Wagon Train to the Stars 4 weeks ago:
Nah, it’s for the same reason they never went to a jungle world.
Back in the day they just shot everything in the desert outside of LA. It’s the whole reason westerns were a thing in the first place, free setting.
So there was a bunch of props and sets from the studio, and Star Trek could do it for free.
I mean, wasn’t even MASH in the desert for some reason?
- Comment on Paradox respond to the accusation that they fix games with paid DLC - "we try to find a middle ground" 5 weeks ago:
They make a good point about this method keeping a game going a decade, but if ore how this limits people who want to get into the game 5 years in.
Base game might only be $25, but so are the 5 DLCs since.
For someone who plays that game often and buys as they come out. It’s not that bad
But for more casual or new players, they might not want to invest in the base game if they’re not sure about the mods. It feels like you’re paying for half a product.
I think they can easily get away with selling a new game in a series every 2-3 and retain more features.
- Comment on sh.itjust.works announcement regarding the recent spam wave 5 weeks ago:
It really is Lemmy wide too
I saw them start up yesterday because I browse by new and all, and it was accounts from all types of random small instances that had been created in the last week. Then all started spamming at the same time.
What I dont understand is why someone would go they all that hassle to make 100s of accounts to all spam the same thing in a language that the vast majority of people who see it can’t understand.
My only guess is it’s like how people will reply with Chinese language charectors talking about things in China, thinking that the person they replied to is paid by the Chinese government and would get in trouble? It’s the only time I see Chinese characters anyways.
Which never really made sense to me to begin with, but maybe someone is super deep into conspiracies and think by doing this all the Chinese actors won’t be able to visit Lemmy?
Shits almost weird enough for me to translate it, but it’s almost definitely going to be stupid bullshit so I haven’t tried.
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 5 weeks ago:
I mean, the NG+ mechanic is handled incredibly well.
The rest of the game is decent, but it’s definitely geared towards kids. Probably the “cleanest” modern rpg, there’s still some drugs/booze, but that’s pretty much it. And while you can be evil, there’s not a single evil companion. It’s like a PG fallout in space.
But considering all the bad things I heard about it. I was really surprised with how good of a game it was.
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 1 month ago:
Oh, I’m fully aware it sucks, just not sure why that person is defending it