Some people seem to think that if we just correct all of our unhealthy habits we will live forever. My life has been better with some unhealthiness in it, and times that I’ve stopped has proven that. It’s your body and your time, so you should be able to use it like you want to.

Because every Far Cry game, either directly or subtly, has a major pro-America bent to it. In the early games, basically every protagonist was a white American who was ready to kick some local ass for varying personal reasons. Then, we moved into culturally appropriate protagonists, but they all still heavily represent an American view of positive values, often surrounding democracy, equality, and/or self determination.

This isn’t necessarily a negative, it’s just the genre. Like 80’s action movies, it’s about making a western audience feel badass rather than representing any sort of reality. I’d hazard a guess that Far Cry isn’t a bestseller in Cuba.

If you never stop seeding, you never have to worry about it.

Not long enough.

You’ve never been to Huntsville. Alabama has a surprisingly large number or rocket scientists living there.

Luckily, I’m not. But I did find Huntsville to be surprising—both for the beautiful landscape and clear uptick in IQ points compared to the rest of the state. Great German food—bet you can’t guess why.

As the story goes, the ex-nazi scientists that the US brought in to work on rockets were first stationed in Houston, but they all hated the heat. They requested a transfer to Huntsville because the landscape was similar to the German countryside.

And that is how the US government allowed nazis to decide the primary location for NASA rocket research, which also happened to be in the same state as the headquarters for the KKK. Clearly, nothing could go wrong.

You seem to be lost, stranger. This is Lemmy—we’re decently civilized here. Your tone suggests you must be looking for Reddit.

Highly recommend piracy.

It will get better quickly—there are people working around the clock on apps and improvements right now. This isn’t like your normal social media site where they can use seed money and advertising to buy the best infrastructure right off the bat. This is a grassroots effort to make something that can evolve into a unique and independent service.

If we all stick it out with alternative options like this right now, we will be looking at a much freer future for online communication later. If we get annoyed and go crawling back to the capitalist overlords at FB/Twitter/Reddit, then we give them everything they wanted in the first place, and the internet will take one more step towards being a walled garden casino of ideas.

I’d be willing to risk it all for the pi.

The real question is: what are you doing on Reddit, scab? /s

I don’t want to jinx it, but other than a slight slowness in posting replies, I have had no issues loading lemmy.world on Memmy today. If I didn’t know any better, it would feel like any other day in the Fediverse.

So it sucks that there are issues to work out still, but it is also worth acknowledging that the hard work by the admins has kept the site running without major issue for a lot of users.

This whole trend of Beehaw picking and choosing who is valuable in their space, even before an infraction has been committed, is disturbing. I understand their moderation limitations, but it seems like their choice for exclusivity could easily be taken too far.

Right now I guess we just wait and see what happens, but my gut says this is a bad idea.

The danger of passing a cigarette on the street pales in comparison to urban pollution, poorly regulated restaurants, and even household cleaners for the number of toxins you expose yourself to. Worrying about second hand smoke outside makes as much sense as worrying about malaria from a mosquito while you’re trapped in a cage with lions.

Never underestimate the pettiness of the u/gallowboobs of the world.

This is the best equivalent on lemmy.world, but just in case you don’t know this about the Fediverse yet, you don’t need a community to be on your home instance to subscribe to it. If you find any community that you like on any other instance, you are able to subscribe by searching for that community from your home instance.

Just wanted to let you know that you aren’t limited to the communities you see on the lemmy.world community page, or ones linked in c/newcommunities.

Im sneaking a peek at my wife’s right now.

I’m with you on all except for the top, and if you’re down, I’d like to hear more about your opinion on supernatural beliefs. If you told someone 500 years ago that there is a minuscule and invisible world all around us where the laws of physics break down, that would have been considered lunacy or witchcraft. Today, we commonly accept quantum physics as a part of our normal reality.

Of course, there are instances where people are clearly engaging in delusional thinking, but there are also plenty of examples of people who have had experiences that they are struggling to explain, and they are progressively building a hypothesis to explain it. Is it more rational to deny your own experiences to make your worldview fit the commonly accepted consensus? Or is it better to keep an open mind and continue to investigate if you can?

I ask primarily because I know I hold a few woo woo beliefs, but I try to refrain from making drastic decisions based on it. I’ve often wondered if some of the things I’ve experienced would be explained in the distant future, because I can loudly attest to the perceived realness of the experience when you’re having it. If you see, feel, and smell an elephant in the room, it’s a little hard to ignore it even if everyone else says it isn’t there.

This got longer than I anticipated, but I look forward to hearing your response if you have time.

If you have no sympathy for the passengers, then maybe you can muster some for the submarine captain and the Titanic history expert who are onboard also.

The top one is a stronger design. It could be the size, but it still feels too bright to me. Dark mode FTW!

The bottom one is ok, but those drop shadows were a poor choice and should be removed.