Gradually_Adjusting

Gradually_Adjusting , 3 months ago

Still on your anti voting bullshit huh? Couldn't find a suitable meme relevant to this decade or even the last one though

Gradually_Adjusting , 3 months ago

The idea is sound enough, but the rhetoric is deeply unpalatable. Focus on what you think people should be doing, not not doing.

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

I am not thinking about thos beans

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

God, I wish. Weee are the men in black 🎶

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

I was approached by a guy who recently moved to the area and needed help getting some things printed. I walked with him halfway to the library and we chatted about stuff. Hope to see him around town again

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

"You can't just decide we were wrong about IP, that would make us broke!"

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

Thanks, I hate it

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

I want an Opener Blackfly

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

AI to save me the trouble of becoming a douchebag? Marvellous.

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

Literally most of history since the black plague has been about this, so like, yeah exactly. What you gonna do?

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

Voting on your post might reduce the harm of this rhetoric though 🥂

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

I'm no expert, but dreaming here - is there a FOSS search engine that can be run in a distributed way by a community? I would happily switch to that if there was.

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

I have heard of searches that are non commercial, so it can't be impossible. I read this recently: https://lemmy.world/post/10979517

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

Comes down to editorial quality maybe; what sites do you trust?

Jimmy Wales has a social media project with "whom to trust" built into the algorithm. I'm not sure if it is an idea with legs, but I like where his head is at

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

YES

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

Good one!

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

It seems like there are others in the thread with good options

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

Tagging users should be a basic feature. I can't hardly keep track of the real people in my life

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

It's free on boost anyway 👾

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

This is the best thing I've heard all day

Still in bed, but what a start

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

Because these days there's a dialogue about whether driving is economically worthwhile, moral, or even fun. There used to be no talk about that, and so the only question was whether you could afford a beater or a status symbol.

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

Haha nice

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

The lemmings have a bit of an irony deficiency at times. Lovely people truly, just a bit more linear in their humour.

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

The problem is the subscription, not how it was implemented

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

The game is rigged. First past the post forces this kind of devil's bargain, and if we ran an America simulation a thousand times you'd get bored of seeing it. Additionally, neither party's leaders will ever have any motive to accept an alternative voting system at the national level. Unless you're advocating accelerationism (itself a deeply unethical route), it makes sense to keep playing the rigged game for now while we build a dialogue about radical reforms.

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism?wprov=sfla1

Kind of

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

I need an ironic WWII style scaremongering propaganda poster about class war. The 1% have class awareness. Do you?

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

I like the otter bat dudes. 😁

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

Ooo they're tryin!

/Meseeks

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

It's a mess lmao

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

I have met conservative Trek fans. I think some people really do watch stuff without ever thinking about it beyond its superficial spectacle.

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

Because muh rugged individual

Gradually_Adjusting , 4 months ago

Sheesh. Satire really ain't shit to a fascist

Gradually_Adjusting , 5 months ago

The only avocation for which a fifteen year old is even marginally suited. Even so, not all succeed.

Gradually_Adjusting , 5 months ago

I kinda like a few of the US sanctions

Gradually_Adjusting , 5 months ago

They were all made by the same user and each instance has zero posts. I don't think Lemmy's "trending" does what it says on the tin

Gradually_Adjusting , 5 months ago

If my FP4 dies in the next year, I will fix it. Because iFixit gave it 10/10.

Gradually_Adjusting , 6 months ago

I thought they were pog slammers

Gradually_Adjusting , 6 months ago

They'll be the first company with their backs against the wall when the revolution comes

Gradually_Adjusting , 6 months ago

I wonder what it's like to still feel like this is relevant

Dude's got jokes from before the twin towers fell

Gradually_Adjusting , 6 months ago

I'm not a Mac stan by any measure. It just feels like a tired bit. How are people still laughing about this?

Gradually_Adjusting , 6 months ago

The only way to 100% solve this is by:

1. organizing, supplanting party insiders from the ground up over years, with hard work and dedication through many years, with no guarantee of success

2. risk it for a biscuit

3. accept messy incrementalism into your heart

Gradually_Adjusting , 7 months ago

Deeply unwelcome. I hate that this is even a thought that he has had.

Gradually_Adjusting , 7 months ago

There's that, and the fact that Jimmy Wales might have a reverse uno card, as he is quietly developing a free and non profit social media platform of his own called trust cafe.

Gradually_Adjusting , 7 months ago

This is a disconnect I always have with conservatives, and it took me ages to put my finger on it.

To them, this is funny because of the cruelty.

Gradually_Adjusting , 8 months ago

We live during a critical point in history, and I am determined to laugh at it

Gradually_Adjusting , 10 months ago

This is really the only answer. The only thing that makes it "hard" is having to face the brutality of moral calculus

Gradually_Adjusting , 10 months ago

It's not that interesting. If you rephrase the question as a choice between a good option and a less good one, it's still barely even a choice.

"Would you rather have only one (or, say, trillions) die now, or would you like to allow *at a minimum *twice that many people die the second we talk to a sadist?"

If you can't choose the smaller number, all it means is that you lack moral strength - or the test proctor has put someone you know on the tracks, which is cheating. A highly principled person might struggle if choosing between their daughter and one other person. If it's my kid versus a billion? That's not a choice, that's just needless torture. Any good person would sacrifice their kid to save a billion lives. I take that as an axiom, because anything else is patently insane.