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livus, to theonion in Israel Military Reports It Was You, The Reader, Who Blew Up Hospital
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Damn the Onion is on fire lately.

livus, to showerthoughts in 100 upvotes on Reddit is 1 upvote on Lemmy
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I'm trying to stop caring about it. On reddit I have well over a million karma, and what have I got to show for it?

Here in the fediverse I hope to concentrate on quality interactions rather than quantity.

livus, to 196 in staring rule
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I remember being young and thinking middle-aged people are staring at me because they want me /they disapprove/whatever.

Now I'm middle aged myself, I know the staring is way more likely to either be something along the lines of "ah that kid is so 90s, I never had that green colour but blue Fudge used to wash out to green like that..."

Or "have we run out of natural yoghurt, we bought that 500ml pottle last week but we had curry twice, maybe I should get some more..."

livus, to asklemmy in Why is Lemmy obsessed with the word "enshittification"?
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Selection bias. Lemmy users by default are probably more sensitive to/negative about enshittification than those on reddit.

Many of us came here in response to the enshittification of reddit.

The term "enshittification" is a useful neologism because without it we'd need half a sentence to get the same concept across.

livus, to worldnews in Nearly 80% of Texas' floating border barrier is technically in Mexico, survey finds
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Yes and it's causing deaths (it has nets under it), so the US govt is not best pleased.

livus, to world in Sinking ship hit by Houthi missile leaves 18-mile oil slick in Red Sea, US officials say
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This is especially annoying because 6 months ago there was an amazing collaboration between both sides in the Red Sea to enable an international team to remove oil from a wrecked tanker.

All the people involved thought it was a great framework for more peaceful negotiations.

But now Israel has got its genocide on the Houthis are kicking off and saving the environment is no longer anyone's priority.

livus, to youshouldknow in YSK that kbin.social is now federating, adding hundreds of communities and ~26k more users content
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Does this mean you are posting this on lemmy.world and I am reading it on kbin?

For those of us new to the fediverse, this is so exciting!

livus, to asklemmy in You and an old friend catch up at a restaurant. When the bill comes, how do you make sure the poor waiter takes your card?
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I don't, we split it or I pay or I concede gracefully.

If someone is my friend, I'm not going to engage in weird power-plays.

livus, to worldnews in New revelations from the Snowden archive surface
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The most disturbing part of this for me is how:

  • 99% of Snowden's revelations have never been published

  • several of the existing copies of Snowden's documents have subsequently been destroyed

I also find it depressing that people like Appelbaum are routinely criminalized:

Public speeches made by Appelbaum taking a humorous and provocative tone and with titles like “Sysadmins of the World, Unite!” were interpreted as an attempt to recruit sources and as incitement to steal classified documents. To this day, however, there are no publicly-known charges against Appelbaum or Harrison.

livus, to technology in Child psychiatrist jailed after using AI to make pornographic deep-fakes of kids
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The part that freaks me out is more that he was in an influential position in children's lives and he was making images of the specific children who were his patients.

livus, to worldnews in They let humanitarian aid in. Then they bombed it so that Gaza would starve.
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For those wondering I was able to find independent coverage from PBS a bakery in Nuseirat refugee camp was bombed by Israel.

I was also able to find drone footage of the Nuseirat refugee camp bombing from the Guardian.

livus, to asklemmy in What is the scariest/creepiest theory you know about?
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That the next pandemic is going to be a Prion disease that develops within the factory farming system.

livus, to asklemmy in why are incels frowned/hated upon?
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@Darth_Vader__

"Incel" doesn't just mean someone who is involuntarily celibate.

It's a bit like how "Democrat" doesn't just mean someone who participates in a democracy and "pro-life" doesn't just mean someone who likes life on earth.

Incels are a specific subculture, it has a violent misogynistic ideology and has spawned several mass murderers.

livus, to worldnews in Yemen will publicly stone & crucify 10 gay men in “gruesome public spectacles”
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It's the Houthis in Yemen, not "Yemen".

Grazia Careccia, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director, called the planned executions “gruesome public spectacles” designed to spread fear among LGBTQ+ people and the Yemeni population at large.

livus, to reddit in Reddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months later
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Reddit is going to poison LLMs sooner than I thought.

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