I mean, everything else matches; it’s exactly where the worst of the fires happened (Lahaina), and nothing else anywhere near there looks like this. It’s probably a structure that was added after the one at the top. Temporary floating dock or something.
Commenting this just bc it sounds like you’re casting suspicion on the photos, but I’m pretty sure they’re the same place.
Closeup photo of two light-grey long-haired house cats who are standing directly underneath a swing-arm desk lamp. They have long, luxurious whiskers and luxuriant “ruffs” of fur on their upper chests. They are both facing the camera, one behind the other, but they are looking directly up into the light bulb. The cat in...
For example, I’m on Lemmy.ml and I’ve joined !photography, !photography, and !photography. In this example, it’s not very different from the number of similar groups on Flickr but, in comparison to Reddit, it seems like the decentralized platform can be a little unruly....
Much like I ignored reddit usernames in the comment section, I tend to ignore which instance a post is coming from while scrolling. So I subscribe to all the relevant ones, and just scroll from my “subscribed” in my instance.
I’ve been reading way too many historical novels, because I read “called on” and thought, oh that’s nice of them to visit them after what they went through. 🤦
First off, I’m glad to know you’re reconsidering your previous actions. While it’s a good thing to regret and genuinely feel remorse for things you in hindsight maybe should not have done, beating yourself up over it won’t really help you, and all you can ever do is change your present and future, not the past.
Now: as for my opinions on that sort of thing, I have a few. LOL
On a smaller scale/short term, fake stories are mostly an annoyance depending on where they’re being promoted as real; in some cases as in subreddits/places that are attempting to help people with serious problems, it can be more problematic. There was a sub called justnomil about in-laws who were causing problems in people’s marriages. There were some creative writers who seemed to be going through some awful abuse, and were describing ‘found memories’ of previous sexual abuse in somewhat graphic detail. The problem with that is there were people in that sub with actual traumatic SA in their past who read those things and felt deeply for the OP, who were devastated and to a degree re-traumatized by the fact that they had invested their emotions and energy into something that wasn’t true.
On the larger scale, though, fake stories can be of a societal problem in a subtle but real way.
People form their world views from everything around them, including stuff they read online, even if they aren’t trying to let that stuff influence them. So if they’re reading a ton of (fake) stories presented as real where, say, someone’s girlfriend/wife is cheating on them, or cops egregiously abusing their power, or men beating up their SO’s, or trans people littering, they may not on the surface believe all of them are true, and may doubt many of them, but sort of the whole glob (lol IDK what to call it) of those type of stories will subconsciously form part of their opinion about cops, men, women, trans people, or who or whatever.
People like to think that they’re above that but our brains are tricky things and process stuff below the surface that we don’t realize.
So that’s why I get soooo frustrated with fakers online. It seems like just a minor thing, but even known fictional stories can shape society, so fake stories that people actually think may have happened, or could have happened, are IMO at least that powerful.
I suspect it’s that in some way people who write those understand the power/influence they have and it fills a void in them, but the problem is the way they are filling that void or need to feel important (which is a natural need that all of us have) is unhelpful or potentially harmful to others.
A lot of groups coordinate on discord; they’ll have a template & an area they want to target. Some of the larger groups may have thousands of people. It depends on the group, but in one I’ve seen, they organize people by birthdate for some of the designs, and by color for the larger part of the design, and let people go.
There’s a way you can get an overlay of the intended design on the r/place canvas, supposedly, but it didn’t work for me. But like they’ll have templates or whatever.
One of the largest groups is “the void” and normally it just tries to black out the canvas. This year it looks like they’re helping out the fuckspez black and white design mostly.
I have most of the Fediverse-based account and seem to have just gravitated towards Lemmy over Kbin as found it very confusing, What makes you prefer Kbin over Lemmy or any other Fediverse instances?
I don’t really; I’m just hedging my bets. I have noticed that kbin doesn’t seem to go “down” as often as my Lemmy instance; on the other hand, there are still some bugs going on with kbin and I don’t like that you can’t yet collapse comments in threads. (unless I’ve missed something.)
I think Kbin has a lot of potential. I also think changing the name to something more catchy would help it grow more although IDK.
A group of four female athletes are in various states of repose after completing a relay event at the Olympics. Three are looking toward the upper right at something offscreen; the woman on the left has anxious tears in her eyes. The fourth young woman is facing the woman on the left who is crying and comforting her. All are...
Re: the rules on the side: “Alt-Text for vision-impaired users in the post body or in the comments is highly encouraged. Just pretend you are describing a photo to someone on the phone.”
Some instances have “alternate text” boxes that don’t show up for everyone but allow screen readers to read it, but if not, just put it in the body. Or as a comment.
Like many of you I’m here because I’m done with reddit. I’m just getting started here and I found a front end for Lemmy that provides the old reddit interface. I like the lemmy.world interface just fine, but old habits are hard to break. I think using Lemmy with this front end will help me spend more time here because of...
To add to that, there was a bit of a time limit in which we had reason to believe we needed to secure the name so that it wouldn’t be taken by certain persons and then just sat upon with no activity.
Spineless Mitch McConnell Immediately Bends the Knee to Trump (newrepublic.com)
Mitch McConnell has announced his endorsement of Donald Trump for president....
Maui Fire Before And After (lemmy.world)
Pet Renaissance: Blinded by the Light (i.imgur.com)
Closeup photo of two light-grey long-haired house cats who are standing directly underneath a swing-arm desk lamp. They have long, luxurious whiskers and luxuriant “ruffs” of fur on their upper chests. They are both facing the camera, one behind the other, but they are looking directly up into the light bulb. The cat in...
Biden (for the first time publicly) openly acknowledges 7th grandchild, the daughter of son Hunter and an Arkansas woman (apnews.com)
How are you managing your interaction with redundant communities?
For example, I’m on Lemmy.ml and I’ve joined !photography, !photography, and !photography. In this example, it’s not very different from the number of similar groups on Flickr but, in comparison to Reddit, it seems like the decentralized platform can be a little unruly....
Police called on boy with autism and mum using toilet in anti-trans incident (www.thepinknews.com)
More toilet hysteria....
Trump lawyers arrive at office of U.S. special counsel -ABC News (www.reuters.com)
What are your honest opinions about fake reddit stories?
As you might know by now, I’m a story faker on Reddit, or I was. I haven’t even opened Reddit in days and I’m detoxing....
Before the Surgery (i.imgur.com)
r/place eli5
was a 5 year redditor before bailing last month but never paid attention to r/place until now (fascinating!)...
So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
I have most of the Fediverse-based account and seem to have just gravitated towards Lemmy over Kbin as found it very confusing, What makes you prefer Kbin over Lemmy or any other Fediverse instances?
This meme is good. Is not it? (i.imgur.com)
Disquietude of Maidens (i.imgur.com)
A group of four female athletes are in various states of repose after completing a relay event at the Olympics. Three are looking toward the upper right at something offscreen; the woman on the left has anxious tears in her eyes. The fourth young woman is facing the woman on the left who is crying and comforting her. All are...
mlmym.org is a front end for Lemmy that looks just like old reddit. It provides a familiar experience (mlmym.org)
Like many of you I’m here because I’m done with reddit. I’m just getting started here and I found a front end for Lemmy that provides the old reddit interface. I like the lemmy.world interface just fine, but old habits are hard to break. I think using Lemmy with this front end will help me spend more time here because of...
/r/AccidentalRenaissance moderators have all resigned. The subreddit has permanently shut down and moved to Lemmy. (lemmy.nz)
AccidentalRenaissance has no active moderators due to Reddit’s unprecedented API changes, and has thus been privated to prevent vandalism....