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So instead of an unfaithful dupe, we should really consider him as a ponzi scheme pushing, bubble inflating, fascist supporting, money hoarding, economy ruining, billionaire (derisively) cheater? Sure. Sounds good to me.

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  • [–] 20 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    Nice to see him personally eat shit, but it won't change anything substantially. This bubble is bigger than one douchebag.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 20 hours ago

    If your goal is just "moar posts", then sure, there's no problem, but it will also subsume the original (and imo better) form of this comm as people who just see it as another meme community post low effort images for the attention. I don't think that's worth losing for more content, but for some people it will be.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 day ago

    Not only has it only been one week since the US midterms, the newly elected reps aren't even in office yet. Maybe learn how things work before slinging shit about something you clearly don't understand.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    Filtering won't help much if the community just posts images, and when image posts get hundreds more votes than the traditional text posts, that's what will get posted more and more, letting the front page influence what "fits" here instead of the topic of the community.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 day ago*

    it's nice when the title text is setup to a joke, with the content (text or image) being the punchline. I personally try to come up with my own punchline before checking the description, so the format really works out.

    This is the best form of this community, imo. I still think images are bad even in the post body, but at least it'd stem the meme-ification of the posts. The main problem I see building is that image posts are easy and popular on the front page, where votes are given regardless of community, and it won't take much attention seeking to leave this community a shell of what it was.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago* (1 child)

    Right, because the only alternative is reverse engineering professional hardware. /s That's seriously what you think? No wonder you feel "compromise" is your best option. Good luck with that.

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

    You're acting like it's the only option, but it's not. You don't need to lock yourself into a walled garden. You don't need to buy into a sunk cost fallacy. Even participating a little perpetuates and reinforces the bullshit you're complaining about, and they're never gong to suddenly give in to the way things should be. Stop letting these companies hold what you want hostage, dictating how you view your options.

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    With the show being one of my favorites, I'm happy to say that I'm really enjoying the novels as well. That said, it keeps bugging me when the term "thrust gravity" is always used to describe something that's explicitly Newton's 3rd law - ie, not gravity. I'm probably not understanding something, but it bugs me to see a series that makes a point to be at least reasonably scientific to use a term that seems so wrong.

    Side note: How come the third law missed out on natural feeling shorthand? 1st - inertia. 2nd - f=ma. 3rd - ???. Feels like something got overlooked there.

     

    The next Bandcamp Friday is coming up and I like to look for new and interesting bands. Would love to hear about lemming artists, or even some favorites I've probably never heard of.


    To add to the discussion, here are a few of my favs:

    • Sincere Engineer Found them on a random fluke and they quickly became a new favorite. Garage band style with just a great sound. A bit moody, but still high energy with really satisfying lyrics. They've got a new album that I plan to pick up myself.

    • Gunship Fairly well known, I think, but I picked up Unicorn shortly after it was released and listen to it front to back regularly. One of the few synthwave albums I actually enjoy. The ripping sax solos on pretty much every track certainly help.

    • aivi & surasshu A married duo that is probably most well known for their work on Steven Universe (that's how I found out about them). Their most recent album Meanwhile is such a wonderful mix of digital and acoustic. Very soothing melodies without lyrics. It always puts me in a pleasant mood.

     

    I feel like it's pretty common in fiction these days, Game of Thrones being probably the most popular example with character viewpoint changing chapter-by-chapter and gradually weaving the different threads of plot into one connected whole. It's used in movies and television constantly, too.

    The oldest I'm personally aware of is Dune, more-so in Dune Messiah, which I've read for the first time recently. I presume Herbert wasn't the first, though, and have been wondering how old the technique really is. Anyone have any insight (or even good guesses) on where it started?

     

    Noticed I got caught in a wave of bans by the mod of apologiafreenews@lemmy.world after downvoting their obvious distraction propaganda. They got pissy in the comments because their first post got heavily downvoted. So they deleted that post, banned everyone that downvoted, then posted it again to game the system. Classy. I wonder how lemmy.world admins feel about mods abusing their authority like this.

    Original post: https://lemmy.world/post/45785126
    New post: https://lemmy.world/post/45804062
    Completely normal comment in between: https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/e8b1e023-d087-4121-941d-f2010ed1a7af.png
    Ban (for 2 downvotes): https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/279c070d-936c-41c4-86ba-f767d59fca08.png

    *Also, still can't block communities we've been banned from on the community page. What a joke.

     

    I'm not sure if it's a growth issue, or if I'm just getting tired of it personally, but the spamming of identical URLs over multiple instances is getting out of hand. Even worse when I block one post for whatever reason, only to have to repeat the task upteen number of times because one or more users (usually one) "helpfully" post the link in every tangentially related community.

    Instead of that, it'd be better to have the front page (all/local/subscribed) automatically group any post of an identical URL into a single "post". In essence, each new post of that URL would create a separate discussion thread to the given community, and each thread could be listed under the "main" post similar to how crossposts currently are instead of cluttering up the front page.

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