ZombiFrancis

@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The emotional support dunkies⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Fictional characters! Am I getting through to you at all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This bill explicitly excludes batteries and storage of power. This just makes it so solar companies have to match their production with fossil fuel purchases.

  It is to stop or slow expansion of renewables, as companies will essentially have to additionally and directly invest in fossil fuels to expand their industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes a man, Mr. Lebowski? Is it being prepared to do the right thing, whatever the cost? Isn’t that what makes a man?’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I read this thread title in Alex Jones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If history is any precedent I think ICE agents will pivot to claiming anti-communism as a defense and be just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't even have a PieFed account ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah to have spite donation money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the average person have no critical thinking?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People focus their energies on getting through the day for the most part of their lives. It is very hard for people to muster the time and energy to paying attention to politics, let alone ideologically political propaganda.

  The vast majority flat ignore it entirely and remain in an apolitical state. This is a primary function of propaganda: insulating people from political action or thought that might alter the status quo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it true that femboys are "fetishized" by right-wingers or something like that? Or is my friend(who told me this) tripping balls?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think femininity itself is the more fetishized component, so it just means the femboy is successfully femming.

  Especially when you consider how right wingers tend to interpret gender roles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point in getting married?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got married while standing in a river and I incorporated a pagan ritual in front of a select few of unsuspecting parents and their spouses.

  Worth.

  A month and a half later we held a fancy reception dinner and served pancakes.

  Also worth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨never understood this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am willing to bet this is the same crowd that got real mad Nexus started removing adult content mods involving underage characters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. For science and curiosity did you try them using a keyboard+mouse or a controller?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory FromSoft lineup suggestion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump official declaring ‘anyone who preaches hate for America’ will be deported worries users: ‘They just skip the First Amendment’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty tame for Miller. His normal rhetoric is something closer to Goebbels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where Misato like women exist when I was teen.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always assumed the Mommy-Misato hangup thing was just a projected self-report.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had no idea y cunt was this powerful⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your brain on Nick Fuentes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I lost 6 to 10 years of my retirement last week!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rainwater with pure grain alcohol, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hello, ladies!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pff. My shirt is tie-dyed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel’s Genocide Has Reportedly Killed More Journalists Than WWI and WWII Combined⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe these would be documented direct killings of journalists while doing their jobs. Not civilians who were journalists killed in indiscriminate bombing campaigns and death squads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  These folks include presenting a false person as being of age, then switching to underage at the time of meetup when the target shows up.

  A group descends upon the target who is now told they’re a pedophile.

  Then the group tries to kill the person who was trying to meet what they thought was an adult.

  And the perpetrators think this is justice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t the medical definition at work, here. It’s the legal one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ding ding ding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I believe the next step in this process is to make the easy jump into hunting all those people expressing ‘Pedo apologia’. Half this thread suddenly is fair game to ‘investigate.’

  It’s a bottomless well, really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, KiwiFarms style tactics is becoming more and more common and mainstream. It’s on Lemmy too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virgin Physicists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eyeball it. Gotta squint right tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the kind of content instance admins are and need to be concerned with on the topic of defederating instances. However most of the time it’s over whether some user in a shitposting thread was unfairly moderated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Instances are servers that host communities.

  Instances are servers that host user accounts.

  Federated instances allow users from one instance to view and post in communities on other (federated) instances. If the instances are defederated there is no connection whatsoever being made between the users and communities.

  Now, there are communities that have very strict and often very political moderation policies. Technically only the instance administrator has the power/authority to override communities, but only on the instance they administrate.

  This can become an issue, especially when people who get moderated run to the admin demanding to talk with who is in charge. The netKarens get really mad if the admins back up the community, so they’ll start these instance crusades demanding defederation and such.

  So as a result there are some natural divisions across the major instances based on how the admins tend to back up community rules.

  So for a rough examples: .ml communities have zero tolerance for American Liberalism. Lemmy.world allows communities to be heavy handed against criticism of NATO or Israel. Blahaj.zone has zero tolerance for transphobes gatekeeping. My instance, sh.itjust.works, allows for combat footage and communities dedicated to documenting(harassing) the .ml instance, their admins and the lemmy devs (who admin .ml).

  The average user need only pay attention to the communities they post in. The instance of the user is mostly irrelevant, nevermind the butthurt individuals who want a worse and fragmented Fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That isn’t really what he means though. Miyazaki knew this was AI generated and knows what it means. They explain the machine which they sought to create art like humans do ‘learned’ how to move and that ‘it doesn’t feel pain’ and called it ‘dancing’. Then they say it is creepy and could be used for a zombie game.

  Miyazaki then states ‘whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is’.

  That is the criticism he appears to be levelling. The demonstration of such horror without an understanding pain robs it of human connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tossup between 2 and 5. Forever locked in competition with their strengths and weaknesses perfectly inverted to each other. I used to use 5 for lineart and then shade with 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get you. For me after my grandparents passed I realized I wanted to be a grandparent. So I gotta play by some of society’s stupid rules to see if I can see that through.

  Careerwise: biggest thing for me was jumping into public service and working in local government–in America, no less. Now I work remotely and have a well-compensated union-represented government job with a pension that doesn’t require me to do management or have a medical or law degree.

  I knew to steer clear of the Fed too, and that’s paid off in spades.

  All in all though as a former kid and current parent: kids need their cool aunts and uncles, related or not, out there having fun not making them cousins. So there’s zero shame in having no rush or desire for trying to strike that balance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I did a lot of the fun in my teens and twenties, and then realized I wanted a family and was lucky to find a career that fit.

  It’s definitely a challenge to find a balance though so it can often feel like a trade-in. But if you’re honest with yourself it doesn’t have to be nor an unwanted change.