You guys are all delusional and lying to yourselves lol, if they sold a roomba that could paint your floors or the upgraded version that allows you to subscribe to paint your walls, all of you fuckers would be posting pictures of the meme’s you’ve plastered all over your house.

This is rather pedantic and obfuscates the reality and consumer rights. Don’t shill for big corp with that narrative, you could argue you don’t “own” a book either if we’re just doing silly talk in here.

Oh gotcha, too used to extremist civil war comments I guess lol so I apologize. I’m a huge proponent for Co-ops so I definitely get your thinking. It’s one of the more peaceful paths I hope everyone gets into. Unions only work so far unless legislation gets involved (or things tend to get dicey and you’re constantly battling a company daily).

I honestly believe that co-op communities that involve residency and occupation (separate entities though) is one of the only ways to protect yourself from capitalism, it’s kinda crazy it hasn’t worked on a large scale yet but I imagine competition both economically and policy wise tend to shut things down pretty quick if capitalism sees itself losing a foothold. Something like Land-o-Lake’s company running in a town like the Bronx co-op city. Could have a whole slew of member owned companies servicing the area (food,transportation,etc), even have a Co-op that helps other co-ops come to fruition like a credit union (also a co-op) gives out loans.

It’s all there, just no clue why it hasn’t been implemented before. Got really heavy into researching and designing a small community area like a self-sustaining village that emphasizes co-op based services. There’s been plenty of other examples and ones that exist but always seems to be some weird niche thing instead of just a regular ol’ town of people that have different perspectives but can agree personal life shouldn’t be a constant economical struggle for everyone. There’s some weird gate-keeping or lack of social awareness around alternatives, both from mainstream and individuals so I don’t get it.

I second the boob analysis (ass myself). The whole having his feet washed and with their hair means he was probably looking down the shirt. An ass man would have them washing their own feet. Of course, it could be neither and just a foot fetish thing instead.

It took me way too long to figure out what was going on with those settings. One of my relatives tv’s was like this back in the day and at first I thought it was just their “HD” setup which made me completely write off getting anything HD because of the fake look like a soap opera. It wasn’t till I was gifted a blue-ray player that I realized their tv just had horrible “enchancement” shit.

The only reason this is even a case is because of the National elections and Trump’s actions that he was held unaccountable for apparently.

The changes in North Carolina were among the most extensive state voting reforms passed last year and continue a trend among Republican state legislatures, many of which have passed laws since 2021 adding new voting restrictions. The laws were pushed through after former President Donald Trump began falsely claiming that widespread fraud cost him reelection, claims that have resonated with many Republicans.

Democrats in North Carolina and elsewhere have criticized many of the new laws as attacks on voting rights that often target minority and low-income voters. North Carolina’s changes in 2023 were pushed through without any Democratic support by Republican lawmakers who hold a super-majority in the legislature. They overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, whose final term ends this year. (link)

If Trump had been held liable for election interference /fraud / misinformation, you wouldn’t have people down ballot having the courage to be so shady. If the Democrats actually tried relinquishing some of their control over elections, we might have a system that was fair and honored the citizens participating (they do very little in the way of FPTP problems like informing their base and usually step in to stop changes)

ouch, you had at least a resemblance of an argument till the excision remark. War and battles aren’t operating tables, ask anyone who has actually participated in a war and ask if that’s possible. I doubt you would find a sane general in history who tells you combat is a precise procedure, it’s messy and everyone gets hurt.

“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” - Douglas MacArthur

“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” Herbert Hoover

“There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.” Sun Tzu “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” Sun Tzu

ok, but these conversations do absolutely nothing but flourish your creative writing skills. I have no clue what you and @Shiggles@sh.itjust.works are talking about but vague references with no real data or links to follow along or personally interpret.

Sure, except from what I’ve read most liberalization we care about didn’t happen until the 20th century, at least 50 years after the 1848 uprisings, and at least 100 years after the French Revolution.

What did you read?!?!

We even have modern examples of getting out from under dictatorships and oligarchies.

Why did you not even give one example!?!

The main problem is people just say shit to say shit. Almost everyday I’m actually having to look up multiple tabs of shit from comments because “everyone knows the truth” (or at least so emotionally invested in their own truth they won’t even consider they might be wrong or read something false).

And now to follow along with both of you I have to abstractly search using websites that are just fucking abysmal to actually use the search function on, instead of just one little tiny link pointing me to a passage or reference. It just makes me want to tune out the conversation because there’s already too much shit I have to learn and do everyday. I WANT this information though, I think history is important but it just looks like two people arguing over interpretations of data that we have no clue of.

Real “Old Man on the Porch” vibes coming from this one. I was around for the early internet, you’re completely losing touch with society and reality if you think it’s the same.

Most people at that time didn’t get their news and gossip from a device in their hand. It was called a newspaper, education, or listening to your peers. Internet extremists were still considered fringe or whacko’s and you had to hunt them down to learn more, they weren’t blasted by an algorithm on a front loading page for you.

People’s businesses and way of life weren’t determined by their access to internet and the corporations didn’t have such a stranglehold across the economical board when it came to online. The hero worship of those that control the companies wasn’t at such an all time high, but considered a weird cult.

I’m not even going to go into the difference a child has on the internet today versus what a kid going through the 90’s was like, there’s just no comparison to what’s going on now. Yeah we had obscure boards, messengers, and silly videos on multiple sites…that’s seriously nothing compared to how mainstream everything has become.

Ahh, I believe we just have a different perspective on what the best outcome for the lemmyverse is. If this place was as popular as Reddit I would want to see hundreds of communities for a subject and not have one that has a majority of users. You can have a main link one like r/science I guess that has super strict posting/commenting regulations and discussions get branched off into subcommunities maybe.

Honestly, even .ml feels too big for me atm and I’m thinking of switching out soon. I believe, if you actually use this site to engage in conversation and read through the links/articles people post, that you really only have time for a few interactions. If you’re just doom scrolling and voting away I guess I would want something like Reddit but I’m already neglecting conversations I want to have on here because there’s so many people and things to talk about all the time (and memes, can’t forget them).

lol I’m trying to follow along with all your comments but it just feels like you’re trying to recreate reddit but with some type of block-chain servers handling the load instead of centralized servers.

Like, I get it. When you break it down, what’s the difference between reddit and Lemmy? You don’t like c/Games@lemmy.world, you can make c/Games@sh.itdoesnt.work. On reddit if you don’t like r/games, you can make r/games! or some other bullshit.

Only 2 big differences for me is 1. the hope that just having different instances gets people away from the “Main Hub” communities, 2. multiple instances means less chance of corporation enshittification. Your solution would just promote the eventual lose of both of the reasons I’m on Lemmy to begin with.

I do heavily encourage cross-posting though. Would love some sort of “tag” or something where it’s easier to cross-post to all of the communities that opt-in to be tagged in that category. Could have it so you can filter multi-posts using this feature so you’re not blanketed with the post if you’re subscribed to multiple communities in that category (could even choose a default like only the one with the most comments or your most active community gets highlighted while blocking all the rest, while still having the links in the post like how crosspost currently displays).

I swear I need to make a log or something at this point for when this inevitably gets brought up so I can just paste links. I frequent any community and respectfully disagree all the time. I have one moderation from when I first started and didn’t “respectfully” comment (making pooh jokes, I wasn’t trying to engage seriously in a discussion and back the mod action).

Let’s make this easy, show me one example of what you’re talking about so my mind can be changed.

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This would allow for the necessary centralization

The fediverse is a collection of community-owned, ad-free, decentralised, and privacy-centric social networks.

oh wow, not sure what was said but thankfully I’m lazy and hadn’t replied to that person in another post I still had up (science post I was gonna answer their incredulous questions in case they just didn’t understand but I see now it’s just a troll account). Looks like they got site banned but it’s unfortunately the shitty way where you can’t see anything they did to know what happened.

I always thought it was such a weirdly-cute thing personally. Like, “Let’s go Brandon” kinda feels uplifting (especially with how everyone uses it out of context to show excitement now) and I have no idea how any of it was suppose to be a dig at the guy.

I think my minds just confused and needing to recenter to the new normal at this point. ITT we have “constitutional citizens” going after Trump and Left-wing Preppers not realizing they’ve joined the community already.

I doubt every company who shits on it’s user’s privacy and their preferred experience is gaining massive profits right now, we’re just discussing the successful ones. I think the two leading factors in this scenario are “Brand Recognition” and “double dipping into as many aspects as possible with your user’s data.” The whole ‘if it’s free’, apple is definitely getting a kick back sending all this data to them even if it’s “secure”.

seeing a blank comment, what do I do with that information to fix it?

I don’t think it’s fair to say “once again a headline on lemmy”, by connotation you’re vaguely suggesting Lemmy is responsible.

I’m a big settings person as well but honestly Apple is a fucking evil genius at hiding options in menus within menus. Plus this was an opt-change done randomly in the middle of “nobody knows”, I don’t check all of my settings and their subsequent menus daily for any changes being made.

I’m just flabbergasted by the whole apple industry though. Like it’s obvious when a company wants to offer a new user experience (their newest innovative design!), and it’s obvious when a company wants to only tailor to “Their preferred vision of what an apple user and their experience should be”. No one asked for this shit, and it’s being shoved down everyone’s throats.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I still watch people walk into a Dollar General knowing how crappy that company acts and how much more costly everything is. We’re all slowly being pigeon holed into a “unified user experience” and it’s the shittiest outcome.

I find it’s best to use the orange hand cleaner, if you’re leaving the skin on you can rub some of the grittiness underneath so you get more texture in every bite.

I wonder if you would be able to smell the different layers unique flavors as eras favor a certain alcohol cocktail over another. Could have a really famous scientist in 1,000 years that could tell you within a 20 year time period what layer some sediment came from by just taking a whiff.