What better way to show how much you don't care about Reddit than to spend all your time talking about it?

Nah. That's what Local is for

I had been an advocate of getting just an ordinary person to do the first Lemmy ama but apparently we've got an absolute legend.

Have you ever had a favourite reference to your joke come up?

I've been watching sh.itjust.works implode in hand-wringing what-ifs over the prospect of having to defederate alt-right instances to keep from having their hate speech plastered all over the internet. This is an appropriate time to remember the actual human life costs of letting people think their anti-human garbage is widely accepted.

That employee mentioning the time card modification sure did the fired manager dirty, hope they didn't face serious legal consequences for that.

I saw, and smelled, things in my medical student days that are just best not explored too deeply online. There are holes, abscesses that form in dark places, abscesses that fill with things, and age, and rot. There are things that can make even experienced colorectal surgeons get a bit queasy. The details are best left unspoken.

It's amazing how "righteous fury" people seem to get over folks protesting sporting events because the fucking planet is on fire.

"Oh but couldn't they be more calm and quiet about it, I want to watch the race!"

"Under my window alone I've had a shootout — guns blazing between cars. So my understanding is you'll have benches in the middle of the street and people can gather. It's not a great place between Amsterdam and Broadway to open up to the nefarious folks, you know."

God this is frustrating. Literally sees problems happening with the cars and somehow assumes it will be worse without the cars.

Agreed. I don't envy them at all, in fact I think there's evidence both anecdotal and scientific that being ultra-rich fucks you up quite seriously, and/or you need to be seriously fucked up to get that way. I actually pity them, to some degree. My pity is, however, eclipsed by my anger at a world that allows them to exist, in a cycle they perpetuate.

Frankly, I suspect pamela rutledge's out-of-touch words suggest she is beholden to some of their interests. I see much less envy than I see anger at the ultra-rich.

The far right is seriously outnumbered. Encouraging people to apathy helps them, because most people who get involved are their enemies.

"our community continues to thrive" even though we'll have nothing to talk about.

Folks round here do need to understand though that there's really not likely to be all that big an influx of people on the first. Reddit has far, far more inertia than the Lemmy community likes to imagine. This is a great example.

I'm sick to death of Reddit/spez salt and this still made me snort. Well done.

Speaking as someone who is plant based, it's a false dichotomy anyway. It's not "go vegan or eat lots of meat". People who don't share the vegan philosophy could just eat very little meat and make a huge difference to the planet, just like how I bike or walk to work but once in a while I drive.

One Elon musk can feed a family for a year.

One farm fertilized with musk mulch can feed a city block!

Jeez I want to go to your movie theatre that seems to have fresh pretzels

We probably are but it's also very important to remember that were not past the point of no survival. The trend for oil propaganda has been to go from "climate change is fake" to "it's real but it's too late to do anything". It's too late to go back, but it's not too late to act. Don't forget that.

Yeah. A common argument against bike lanes in my city is that "nobody bikes", and people don't understand that nobody bikes because we have to bike alongside their murder boxes.

Jerboa is really jank still but is headed in that direction.

I always assumed that was a joke, because they're just kind of bland generic rock and roll that it seems like it would be comical to pretend to have any really strong negative reaction to it. Then I met a few real people who actually despise them, and realized it's not a joke.

Generally true but I will say, there's a concerning amount of astroturfing going around on eg. sh.itjust.works about how iMporTanT it iS to let tHe hatErs sPeaK. The place seems to be going full 'nazi bar' very quickly. It doesn't matter how tankie the original devs are, we still need to be wary of our spaces. If there's one thing the alt right has proven effective at out of all their massive incompetences, it's turning social spaces online into shit holes.