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urist, 1 month ago

1. this is very clearly ai generated, check out the legs.
2. I can’t imagine someone thinking this makes wokeness look stupid. It would be great if she chose to post this with context, even a Facebook post with a blurred out name.

This looks like ragebait to me. I think she posted this for clout and there is no “maga cartoonist”.

urist, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

You can also get a dishonorable discharge as a marine for doing it (edit: it’s not related to this article, I just thought you’d also find it surprising)

Link

A friend of mine was threatened with this while he was a marine, despite being separated from his wife and going through a divorce (still legally married though). Fortunately somebody saw reason and the “investigation” went no where. I remember being interviewed during this farce.

urist, 1 month ago

You are always free to host your own lemmy instance. Then you can choose to federate with whoever you want.

If I hosted an instance, I wouldn’t want to host hate speech or weird porn, and it would also be my right to not do so.

I also wouldn’t want to bother moderating a lemmy instance for people I didn’t know, and having to hear their demands for what they want to see/not see. That’s just me, personally and I’m glad there are people out there doing the work for me.

What I’m saying is, if you’re going to interact with a platform with possibly millions of users there’s going to be ground rules, and those take time to agree on. Lemmy is unique in that you can move to an instance that fits you better. I don’t think social media should be monetized, but we can’t ignore they take time and money to run. You have to compromise on somethings sometimes.

Or you can just run your own.

urist, 1 month ago

Hmm, I’m not sure how your opinion differs from /u/eleitl@lemmy.ml then, that’s more or less what they were saying, no? They never stated they thought lemmy was completely free from control, the contrary in fact: community effort

urist, 1 month ago

a boss that is also a cartoon villain is more understanding than my workplace

urist, 1 month ago

Signs you might be having a stroke. Some people have muscle weakness before they have a stroke. The burning toast thing is also possibly a symptom but it might also be an old wive’s tale.

For what it’s worth, when I have too much caffeine I smell a weird smell that isn’t there, so it’s possibly true.

urist, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Why? Were they born

Well tbf i ask myself that a lot, but I think having children would make it worse.

Edit: Is this “mural” is about transwomen? I can’t tell for sure since the author has brain worms. (I’m a ciswoman and also a Strange Girl)

urist, 2 months ago

The largest lemmy instance (lemmy,world) is federated with them. I assume their mastodon instance also is.

urist, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I love this. Looks like AI is good for something unexpected: exposing people who aren’t doing their jobs. These journals weren’t doing peer review properly/at all. I saw your comments with IEEE and the other journals, how embarrassing for them. What a great day!

spicy autocomplete

Lmao. I don’t know if you came up with this but I’m stealing it.

urist, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Copper II sulphate makes bitchin crystals

Edit: embeds are hard

https://crystalverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/copper-sulfate-header2-1-1024x512.jpg

urist, 2 months ago

Thanks!

urist, 2 months ago

I was worried about this too! Lemmy isn’t that large for a social media site - does this mean Lemmy will scale poorly if it gets larger? Is it disingenuous to pretend self-hosting is a good idea as a the fediverse grows? Doesn’t seem feasible unless you’ve got a CS degree.

Hope the developers have some tricks up their sleeves. That reddthat post seems… troubling?

I’m out of my depth though, I’m not a programmer (unless you count some ugly scripting in R).

urist, 2 months ago

You might find friends here if you weren’t so combative. This community is full of socialists, communists and other related left-leaning folks, not democrats.

We still see republicans for who they are: fascists, in the traditional meaning of the word, not as a catch-all insult for people we don’t like.

urist, 2 months ago

TBH dudes with foot fetishes assume no one else knows what a foot fetish is, and that’s where they run into trouble. See: Dan Snyder and Nickolodean.

Example:

Dude 1 openly harasses me about my butt, I hate it and move on with my life

Dude 2 thinks he’s being slick. Talks to me for a few minutes bullshitting/smalltalk before the conversation is suddenly about how I’m on my feet all day and what shoes do you wear and what about your socks and… etc

One is a cat call, the other is some weird social engineering shit that also insults my intelligence. I’m not making this up, these dudes try this on multiple targets until they can find a mark. My coworkers have to deal with it too. Don’t see them a lot but we warn each other about the foot guy.

Sorry to all you normal, respectful people with foot fetishes, I’m sure you give awesome consensual foot rubs.

urist, 2 months ago

You seem to be very enthusiastic about criticizing apple.

I just own an iPhone so I don’t think I can engage with you with all these critiques. I bought it because at that point in time, it was cheaper than a Samsung. I had concerns about privacy, and it seemed like apple had better control of their App Store and there was less crapware there.

I had tried a custom android rom before this (it must have been around 2013, cyanogenmod) but it was too early in development maybe, and it sucked. It might have been the phone I installed it on. At any rate, I gave up on custom roms for a bit.

My job uses iPhones for an industry specific dispatch software that does not use the cellular network. So I am glad Im familiar with iPhone software, though I wouldn’t have bought one just for this reason. They were using iPods for the software before that, but the iPods didn’t have replaceable batteries and had to be disposed of (which is a shame, they were much smaller)

My iphone is 5-6 years old now, I’ll buy something else when I have to. Probably something I can try lineageOS or whatever the new rom is.

urist, 2 months ago

I am a leftist and the democratic party is no friend of mine. That said:

1. I have lost a portion of my bodily autonomy due to republican policies. People I know have avoided getting reproductive care due to draconian republican laws in my state, and lack of control of medical records. Electing a republican will further erode rights for 50% of the nation. Yes, I am talking about women’s reproductive health.
2. Republicans are erroding the safety and rights of LGBTQ+ people, in my state and elsewhere. I cannot abide a future where they are able to do this federally.
3. Republicans are directly attacking our electoral processes and our partisan supreme court refuses to engage in a timely matter. A bush/gore sort of election issue will send our nation into chaos, or direct civil war. You wish us to imagine a future in which trump wins and there is a 2028 election. I can’t imagine a future where a republican government respects democracy that would allow for a possibility for a democratic (let alone an actual left party) candidate to win. The republican party is no longer a neolib party, they are a party of fascists up for sale to the highest bidder.
4. Trump will not just merely support Israel’s genocide. The middle east becomes more and more volatile each day. Remember: Trump had an Iranian general assassinated. I think it’s quite likely we will be dragged into a horrible, hellish war. No heroes, no winners, just unimaginable carnage and human suffering.
5. If anyone attempts to engage me with accelerationist rhetoric, know that I will ignore you. I refuse to engage with anyone who believes that an increase in violence is somehow beneficial. You have no idea what you’re asking for, and a glorious leftist revolution is not a possible outcome here.

urist, 2 months ago

That’s Ms Tabitha’s son Tom Kitten and the mice are gonna eat him.

It’s probably his fault.

link

urist, 2 months ago

casual

oh no

today

oh nooooooooooooooo

urist, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Well, I guess maybe black people should bring more to the table, if [insert racist stereotype] is all white people think around them.

Well, I guess maybe gay people should bring more to the table, if [insert homophobia] is all straight people think around them.

Well, I guess maybe Australians should bring more to the table, if spending your entire life living upside down kangaroos is all the rest of the world thinks of you.

urist, 2 months ago

Ah, yeah, sorry. Didn’t mean to come off as nitpicking.

I think I just need to be more choosy with the meme communities I’m reading.

urist, 2 months ago

I love this author. I hope people don’t write it off just because it’s on a comedy site - he’s very thoughtful. I read the monkey sphere a long time ago when cracked was popular and it really gave me a lot of perspective.

I didn’t realize David Wong was a pen name until your article. I recognized his style immediately.

urist, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Edit: I’m a dumbass and I did not read your comment very well so feel free to ignore this rant. It probably has nothing to do with your post but it’s too late meow. I’m not deleting it.

Hey I know it’s kind of late to reply to things in this thread but I was just thinking about this article again today and I wanted to see what other people had to say about it.

It does to city culture what it claims city culture does to rural culture

Yes, my friend, this was the point of the article. You yourself may not feel like you stereotype folks who live in rural areas but there are plenty of people who do. Some of the folks who stereotype rural people feel they are justified for doing so because they DO see rural folk as “less-than”, and admittedly it’s sometimes hard not to absorb this view due to the perceived ignorance of these rural people. It is a broad brush, but it’s an appropriate brush. He’s not saying it’s correct, he’s putting the shoe on the other foot.

I work in customer service in a very unique part of the country (Near Chicago but not inside) so I interact with a lot of different people with very different backgrounds. Some people take the train to visit my workplace and rarely drive or visit our part of the state unless they’re showing up where I work. Some people don’t leave their hometown of literally 500 people unless they’re visiting my workplace which is a mere 40 minute drive for them.

I almost never hear open racism where I work (though I’m certain there are plenty of legit racists, they just keep it quiet). We occasionally have to describe people by their appearances, and “basic-ass old white dude” has been both a physical description and a personality description I have heard and nobody pressed back against. It’s a stereotype, people hold it. And, my coworkers are left-leaning (me too) so it does just become shorthand for “this guy probably voted for Trump and is scared of my nosering”. It isn’t a healthy way to view your neighbors, nor is it an assumption you can make about people.

I noticed your last quote:

In a book filled with reams of data to back up their arguments, Schaller and Waldman show that rural whites “are the demographic group least likely to accept notions of pluralism and inclusion” and are far less likely to believe that diversity makes America stronger.

It’s not a race to see who holds the least stereotypes or the least offensive stereotypes. It’s important to identify your biases, which is what this article is asking you to do. It’s not an us-vs-them thing.

The authors, Tom Schaller, a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Paul Waldman, a former columnist at The Washington Post, persuasively argue that most of the negative stereotypes liberals hold about rural Americans are actually true.

Most? Okay which ones are wrong? Does it mean all rural people are closed minded bigots? There probably is at least one rural american who isn’t a close-minded bigot, but it doesn’t matter because they’re mostly all the same right?

Don’t think for a minute I think rural folks are justified for their ignorant and fearful bullshit, I’m just pointing out that stereotyping people doesn’t actually do anything but hurt the people who don’t suck.

urist, 2 months ago

Making someone feel unsafe is not assault. Words can compel people to act but they themselves are responsible for their actions.

That being said, there is a concept of fighting words in the USA. Scroll down to the section titled Post-Chaplinsky, there’s information about the courts’ rulings applying to personal insults.

Honestly I need to take time to read this wikipedia article a little more thoroughly but I’m on my way out the door. I am not a lawyer I just find law interesting.

urist, 2 months ago

Lovander is hilarous and its animations are perfect. You know exactly what you’re getting when you catch that thing.

This guy though:

https://palworld.fandom.com/wiki/Orserk

Two legged dragon man. Totally normal until he’s generating electricity in your base. Then he’s down on all fours thrusting at the air for his work animation. It made me stop and go, “huh, I guess I really am on the internet too much”.