Pandantic
@Pandantic@midwest.social
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 3 days ago:
I was wondering if it was Ai.
- Comment on DarkPattern.games - a website that rates mobile games for their "dark patterns" 1 month ago:
No ads unless you want to “pay” for a free revive. No micro transactions that I’ve seen.
- Comment on Would it be weird if I took something my neighbor put out for trash? 1 month ago:
I’ve put at least 10 pieces of furniture out on the curb in the last 4 months and they’ve all been taken. It makes me glad that someone can use it.
- Comment on DarkPattern.games - a website that rates mobile games for their "dark patterns" 1 month ago:
I didn’t know there was a non-mobile.
- Comment on DarkPattern.games - a website that rates mobile games for their "dark patterns" 1 month ago:
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
If you see anyone online show the search results and pricing on Amazon, then try to replicate those search results and product price on a device that is totally partitioned from your viewing of the item/price elsewhere, you’re likely to find it is not possible. If you then go back to the original device and do the same, you’ll magically find the same product and lower price.
I noticed this on Walmarts website when asking chat GPT to find items for me. I was wondering why it was happening. Some of the price differences were extreme too.
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
Let me guess, the EU actually put laws in place to ”remediate that problem” like a ”functioning government”.
- Comment on I’m the Republican Governor of Ohio. Here Is the Truth About Springfield. 1 month ago:
Thank you, I appreciate your gift!
- Comment on I’m the Republican Governor of Ohio. Here Is the Truth About Springfield. 1 month ago:
Nope.
As a supporter of former President Donald Trump and Senator JD Vance, I am saddened by how they and others continue to repeat claims that lack evidence and disparage the legal migrants living in Springfield. This rhetoric hurts the city and its people, and it hurts those who have spent their lives there.
That’s the best he does besides defending the Haitians and the city.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I can see you’re not a hexbear, but this is a post in a .world comm where even enlightened takes on liberals such as yours aren’t always welcome. Anyway, thanks for the chat.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Thanks for clearing that up. Also, I find it ironic talking to another leftist on the Hexbear hate thread.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I see US liberals as defending both social and economic policies. Here are some examples I can think of:
- Supporting unions but also not cracking down on union busting as much as they should
- Wanting universal healthcare solutions (Obamacare) while not wanting Medicare for all or proper socialized medicine.
I am just speaking to what I observe, but I think the trick the liberal party in my country play is a show of being “for the people” and giving concessions but, in the end, being absolutely capitalist motivated.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I’m sorry, I’m an American where liberals are actually centrists, but can you explain to me what else is off-base about this chart?
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
That is one of the few instances my instance is defederated from, so I haven’t had much interaction with them. I can speak about Hexbear because I see their posts and interact with them.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I agree but I would rather think this is just this guys downtime.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
This is my philosophy as well.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I’m glad your instance stayed federated because I’ve seen some good takes from lemm.ee users on hexbear threads! 🥰
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
This guy knows nothing of the political spectrum. Image
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Thank you for saying this in a more detailed way than I have been. This is exactly right. They built their own leftist haven and became a whole culture of their own, and then became federated. There is bound to be an initial clash, but honestly I think most of the people who hate on them never gave them a chance. All they saw were the shitposts and the in-jokes and you closed the door.
When it comes to dealing with HB users here, my advice is the exact same as dealing with other users
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if you don’t like what someone is saying (because it’s idiotic, obstrusive, or whatever), block the person for some peace of mind.
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if you’re consistently uninterested on the content coming from an instance, block the instance.
I see a lot of leftists (and leaning leftists), even on .world, who would be better off interacting with the users there (maybe blocking the shitposting comms). And outside of those most-seen comms (chapotraphouse and dunk_tank), there is genuine conversation and less shit talking and in-jokes. I believe, with more instances coming in that are federated with them (mine, .ml, and lem.ee? are a couple), some of the Hex-natives are understanding how to interact with curious left-leaning people with unintentionally wrong-headed ideas.
Downvote me all you want, I stand by Hexbear. o7
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- Comment on The Tme of the Harvest 2 months ago:
- Comment on Gen 1 Pokémon Fans Are In Awe As Cubone’s Face Is Discovered In Old 90s Picture Book | Retro Dodo 2 months ago:
You know what, that image of Cubone playing the flute is so serene that it’s finally quelled the sadness in my heart since reading those words on Pokémon Yellow all those years ago.
- Comment on Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming? 2 months ago:
I watch it is for like the first 5 eps and then I don’t. I wanna get to the action!
- Comment on Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming? 2 months ago:
Season 3 had the new intro (I’m watching it now) and it was a better version, but still a corny rock ballad so I still am a meh/10.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I was watching One Piece for the first time and got to ep 160 or something.
- Comment on What is the safest way for a partially disabled person in the USA to use prison for food and shelter as an alternative to dying homeless in a gutter on a cold rainy night? 2 months ago:
Guy who shot Trayvon Martin wasn’t a cop.
- Comment on Rick and Morty: The Anime - Episode 1 discussion 2 months ago:
The link in the post seems to go to a livestream. Here’s the link I watched on: https://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty-the-anime/dub-girl-who-manipulates-time
Initial thoughts: the premise is cool, but the ep was confusing. It does make me want to watch the next episodes tho.
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 2 months ago:
Pour one out for Apollo. 🍺
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 2 months ago:
There seems to be a lot less of the snarky clapbacks
And almost no low-effort, “cult of personality” mememetic responses. I was going to list some but it’s been a year since I’ve been on that wretched site and I’ve purged my mind of them. But you know, the ones where you can basically predict the top comment before opening the page, probably propagated by the prevalence of bots on the site.
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 3 months ago:
Me too.
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 3 months ago:
I believe .ml was the first lemmy instance - the one made by the developers.
