This is so fucked up.

Immediately shared with all my friend groups.

What confuses me is why they chose to use white text there... surely the orange background is bright enough for black text to be far easier to read?

As someone who was lurking on Reddit every day, probably not to be honest. I know a lot of people are enjoying the smaller community, but to me it just feels... empty. The bigger instances are fine, but I was never interested in the popular subreddits like r/funny or r/memes. I used reddit for things like specific games, communities that are noticeably dead on Lemmy.

I'm using Lemmy more like an intermediary step between reddit and just quitting altogether.

Welcome to !reddit. This is a community for all news and discussions about Reddit.

I would imagine everyone subscribed to !reddit does.

Bonus pic of Sophie when she was just a puppy because she was fucking adorable.

Had to swap to my .world account for this one.

First up is Sophie. I should have named her Jealous, because she is the biggest attention whore I have ever met. She looooves toys, and will take them with her where ever she goes. She'll even fall asleep with toys in her mouth.

And this is Sophie's older sister, Vega. Vega likes being where it's warm, like under the covers or in between someone's legs. She is also very protective of her little sister.

You make it sound like humans are the only ones affected by climate change. Sea turtles, elephants, polar bears, pandas, there's a fuck load of animals we're directly killing off. Everything is most certainly not fine, even if you don't give a single shit about innocent human lives.

You people are nuts lol. I don't like Epic either, but if you think buying a $60 game is somehow less work than just claiming a free game, you're delusional. $60 is at least several hours worth of literally working for the vast majority of us, whereas a miniscule amount of hard drive space and a one-time affair of setting up an account is a non-issue. Especially if you use a password manager (as you should), then you don't even need to remember the password.

There are plenty of reasons to hate Epic, stop making up bad ones.

The crippling depression that's completely stopped me from functioning in any meaningful way. That's definitely the big one.

I got to step 20, where my password suddenly caught on fire and Paul died.

::: spoiler My day is ruined. :::

I've always been a fan of ShutUp10++. It gives a crap load of options to disable (including completely disabling Cortana) and even gives you recommendations about whether you should (and why/not). Works on Windows 11 as well, which is great.

::: spoiler spoiler :::

Tell me you hate poor people without telling me you hate poor people.

I've never understood the "piracy is morally acceptable" argument, personally. Best I can agree with is that piracy is not morally bad in some cases. Especially since me pirating something has no impact if I never would have paid for it in the first place. But it can often times be morally wrong (people who refuse to buy games from indie studios despite having the money to do so would usually fall into this category imo), and I can't imagine any scenario outside of the preservation of media where it's actually morally good to pirate things.

Like, I'm all for people not buying things that they don't support. And I feel no sympathy for large companies that make more money in a day than I'll make in a lifetime losing out on sales. But when did it become my right to play Hogwarts Legacy or watch a show without paying for it?

Seriously depends on the game. Black Ops 2 for example, a game that came out over a decade ago, still costs $100 on steam (assuming you want the DLC). At best you'll get it for $50 during sales. The fact that, even during a sale, a game with a completely dead playerbase costs as much as a modern title is absolutely nuts.

A lot of games are like this, unfortunately. Not everyone takes advantage of sales because many people are going to end up buying the game regardless.

I've seen a surprising number of people on Lemmy with this depressing attitude. Not all humans deserve to die just because those in power don't give a shit about the environment. And unfortunately, we're not the only ones that will end up dying off. We'll be taking a massive chunk of the planet with us.

Forrest Valkai. He's a biologist who makes a mixture of educational content, videos debunking creationist claims (in an educational way rather than the "look at this fucking idiot" approach that much of atheist youtube seems to take), and just some silly fun in-between.

He doesn't have the insanely high production value of other channels named here, but he's the most wholesome person I've ever seen. His love for life and science radiates off of him and watching him passionately explain how cool something is genuinely makes me happy in such a depressing and pessimistic world.

I'm not sure if actually deleted/edited comments are being restored (has yet to happen to me), but I know for sure that one thing can happen. If a community you commented was private when you did this, you wouldn't be able to edit or delete those comments. Once the sub goes public again, they'll show up on your profile, untouched by your mass edit/delete. Unfortunately there seems to be absolutely nothing we can do about this.

A loooot of people seem to completely disagree considering how many people pay for nitro even after they removed discriminators (and the ability to change them with nitro).

I mean, yes, it would be? If I can solve world hunger by sacrificing my left arm to the elder gods or some shit, I'm still losing my left arm. It's still a sacrifice.

In my eyes, if it's extremely unlikely that we're real, it's even more unlikely that another species is not only real, but has significantly better technological advancements than us as well. It's just the same problem with extra steps. But the thing about the simulation thing, is that it's completely unfalsifiable and has no impact on our reality even if it's true. So there isn't really any need to consider it outside of a philosophical conversation.