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You can still get hit, but you really need to ask for it (slrpnk.net)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/memes@slrpnk.net
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[+] 51 points 5 months ago (16 children)
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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago* (11 children)

    For real. If I get hit. It better be infrastructure. Gonna go after those rich public coffers not a broke ass Nissan driver.

    !My uncle got hit by city bus was he was 17. 40 years ago. He is still living off that today. Mfer owns two houses!<

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Your spoiler tag syntax seems to render properly only on PieFed but not Lemmy web UI, e.g. on programming.dev. Just letting you know!

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    It also works on Eternity, whereas most spoilers don't.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Wow, that's an app that I haven't heard mentioned for like... years. Is it still being actively developed?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Not really, last commit was last year. Still works, though, and I haven't found anything yet that I like better.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Then keep using what you enjoy! 😁

    Fair warning that I've heard people say that Lemmy 1.0 will break compatibility with old apps. I don't use 3rd party apps but wanted to offer you that heads-up so you won't be taken entirely by surprise if it happens.

    Your instance also looks increasingly likely to defederate from Lemmy.world too, which even though it now has "only" 50% of all the active people present on the Threadiverse (compared to the 80% that it used to have), nonetheless it also still has sth like 90% of the most popular communities. Your instance would also thereby block the top posters too, like ThePicardManeuver and Sunshine's PieFed accounts. Even if you aren't into all the political leftist in-fighting drama, you nonetheless will be affected by it when Lemmy starts looking a lot more empty after that. So you may want to start looking into making an alt, for multiple reasons.

    And if you need a recommendation as a place to start, I suggest checking out slrpnk.net. You would still be able to access all the same communities from there, since it's neutral territory. Please note I have no pony in this race - obviously feel entirely free to ignore, I just offered this as a thought to consider:-).

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (3 children) 
    [SPOILER TITLE][SPOILER CONTENTS]

    renders

    [SPOILER TITLE][SPOILER CONTENTS]

    also my lingual glands are satiated spoiler does not look like a word anymore.

    this is what i do from the lemmy web interface and jerboa. seems to work

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    This is the official syntax and should always work.

    Spoiler alert: it doesn't:-P. There's a bunch of old apps that never bothered to implement it, yet people still continue to use them anyway.

    Sometimes you'll see NSFW tags to accomplish the spoiler effect, on posts anyway (doesn't work on comments beneath a post).

    It's always a tension between the things that move forward quickly vs. those that remain glacially slow or even half altogether. Like PieFed even has a separate NSFL (gore) tag to distinguish it from NSFW, and numerous options to either hide, blur, show as semi-transparent, etc., and you can pick a different rendering for each (one for NSFW but a different one for NSFL). And this on top of a plethora of features like polls, user and post flairs, hashtags, keyword filtering, user-customizable and shareable Feeds, and so much more. All of Lemmy remains behind in comparison. But even for Piefed, the vast majority of these features are not offered by the vast majority of apps available for the Threadiverse.

    I suppose it's good to have choices. But that entails people making different ones. 😁

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Yeah, but I don't think the person wishing "I hope I get hit by a bus" – unqualified – is wishing that they somehow survive and get lawsuit money. I mean maybe if you take the "survive" part out and still assume it's the operator's fault, the lawsuit money could go to the estate...

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    But if you're anti-car infrastructure, then you don't want to get hit by those alternatives, because the anti-mass-transit crowd might use it to villify mass transit.

    If you get hit by a car then you can become an anti-car martyr for the cause

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Buses, trams, and trains in their great efficiency would also be more efficient at traumatizing more people. And cars are by far the most likely thing to randomly hit you out of nowhere while still having the capacity to easily kill.

    I think "car" is reasonably common; I've definitely at least heard it a few times before.

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    • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    I once had a woman bicycle into me on a somewhat narrow path, I thought she saw me and was turning but she didn't and ran right into me at a running pace.

    I instinctively put out my arms to stop her, grabbed her shoulders and then realized she might fall over if I just did a brief push to stop her so I kind of lightly held her in place for a second until she stabilized herself.

    It was the most harmless yet awkward accident I have ever been in.

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    [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    How can you be anti-car and forget about trains?

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    [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Bus?

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    • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Lol, a few weeks ago I was drinking with my buddy and his brother. My buddy said he does not like suicide jokes after I made one.

    A little while passes, buddy mentions he wakes up at 5 a.m. some days. His brother responds with "5? If I had to wake up at 5 a.m. I would... not do that."

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    [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    How about getting hit by a car which starts a chain reaction to actually build a car-less society?

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    [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Cargo bike?

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