Aye, I'm attached to my favorites as well, including the one I've carried since 99 or 00. But new knife day is still a delight :)

Ask that mother and daughter that got arrested for an abortion after facebook ratted them out.

That's why privacy matters. Not because something bad can happen now, but because that information can be weaponized down the road

Man I fuck wit fire. Well, used to; my old, crippled ass can't fuck wit much any more.

Point is that being the fire tender isn't exactly a no skill job, and it comes with some serious benefits.

You gotta have at least a basic understanding of how fire works if you want to keep it going, and learn how to keep it controlled. That's why fucks-wit-fire is such a coveted, but demanding, position. See, you gotta keep an eyeball on it. Stacking in fresh fuel in the right way. Keeping adequate air flow. Moving unburned fuel into the center. It's a dance.

And for that effort, you not only get the delightful scent of wood smoke in your beard, and the glow of warmth across your flesh, you get to see the ever shifting beauty of the fire and the embers. A constant flux of colors and lights that seems alive. I'd hypnotic, meditative, and can be a spiritual experience if one leans that way.

Ash, drifting on breeze settles into your hair as sleep looms and you bank the fire, setting things up for the chilly morning to come, you look down at your friend glowing beneath ashes that only reluctantly settle in for the night.

You go to your rest warm, fulfilled, and at peace.

Well, that's where moderation comes into play.

As much as people hate the idea, you need strict moderation to keep a given platform civil and on topic. To do that you need either robust tools (which lemmy does not have yet), or moderators able and willing to put in the time to keep things on track.

When a forum is run with a low tolerance for incivility, it will eventually become less of a target for jerks.

I catch hell any time I say that because people seem to believe (in spite of a millennium+ of evidence otherwise) that the default state of discourse is friendly and orderly. It simply isn't. People are assholes. When they have the veil of quasi-anonymity, there are large amounts that won't even pretend not to be.

I've seen it happen over and over again since the first html chat I was involved with in the nineties. Even before that, but when you were dealing with pre aol era internet, it was much less of a problem because of the barrier to entry.

You want friendly, chill communities, you have to pick between firm moderation with large and open numbers of users, or light moderation and limited access/numbers. The middle ground is just too open to bad actors.

On reddit, I saw strict moderation change a sub. I saw subs go from constant flame wars and nastiness into a fairly relaxed vibe in a matter of weeks just with active and mild moderation. With stronger moderation and clear community rules, you really can maintain a great community with only bare minimum randos stirring trouble.

That's a misleading description of what bees do.

That being said, if we could actually make honey that way, id be making my own and be happy with it

First, never whine about votes, nor crow about them. It's just not cool.

Second,I suspect the cause has nothing to do with your edit. More likely, people suspect it's rage bait rather than a genuine post. I agree, after seeing your responses in comments, and regret having originally upvoted.

That out of the way, I actually only disagree about the idea that it's the ideal pairings. Age gaps only matter in sex when one person is using their age as a tool of manipulation. But they aren't automatically better when farther apart. They might be, but there's a lot to be said for similarities in age cohorts being a better indicator of compatibility than the erroneous assumption that age = skill. You did mention that there are exceptions, I'm using that specific aspect as an example just because it's easiest.

Yeah, lemmy using the ! for communities kinda screws it up across the board. Some apps can't seem to make it be recognized as a community tag, and it makes the spoiler markdown annoying as hell.

I really wish they'd picked a less important marker for communities. ¢ is like, never used for anything and kinda looks like the c/ thing in a way lol.

I tend to favor evaluations in this community staying away from the original topic. This is one of those cases where it's impossible to address without doing so.

I don't think any reasonable person could read the comments presented and come out with the same take on their content. It was the opposite of apologia, and doesn't get close enough to zionism to even shoot it in the ass, much less be confused with it.

As such, it would be at least mild PTB with comment removals only. But a ban under that reasoning? No way. Full PTB, and I would even argue that it's severe enough that the mod in question may need to be removed from their position. I don't think I've ever actually said that here before, about anyone. Thought it a couple of times, but never felt something met my inner threshold that I should say it.

This one? I'm not sure why the mod in question reached the conclusion they did, and I'm trying to wrap my head around it. I just can't see it being for any acceptable reason. Even if it was a bad day and a misinterpretation, that's still time to take a step away from moderation, even if temporary. That's how severe of an overreaction and outright fabrication of cause this one is.

Apparently, the mod team is pretty anti-sexworker. I got banned for this.

Go figure.

I understand your frustration. It's justified. The dentist should have explained why they aren't willing to do the job, and why it's not the best choice overall.

Now, I'm not your doctor/dentist, so take this with that in mind.

But, unless you have a specific medical condition that is going to result in tooth loss no matter what you do, implants are a poor choice. Even with one of those conditions, you want to wait as long as possible because implants have limits and they don't always preserve the jaw properly.

Ever known anyone with dentures? They tend to lose their fit fairly often. Part of the reason for that ia that the bones of the jaw are maintained by the act of chewing. The motion of natural teeth in their sockets keeps the jaw strong and healthy in a way that implants can't match. Mind you, implants do stimulate the jaw some, it just isn't the same, and it isn't as good. So delaying that as long as possible is the standard practice. You'd be in the situation where any dentist or oral surgeon willing to do the job (again, assuming no underlying condition) isn't practicing good ethics for their field, so you wouldn't be able to trust their work very much.

Restoration > extraction, every time.

There are limits, obviously. Sometimes there's no way to restore a given tooth, and it needs pulling. But you'd be better off overall doing it when there's no other choice, tooth by tooth.

And it isn't like implants are truly a once and done thing. They require maintenance and work as well. They can break, the area around them can get infected. Worst case, the bone degrades enough around the implants that you lose the implant as well as pieces of the jaw. That is brutal as fuck, btw.

I get it though. One of my friends had her teeth yanked maybe fifteen years ago. She had some family genetic thing where their teeth just straight up suck. They'll literally just fall out because the root dissolves sometimes. Finding a doc to do it so she could do dentures took some calling around. And that's with one of the medical issues where it's an inevitable outcome. The only difference would be how long she'd have to deal with pain and issues before them being gone anyway.

So, again, your rant is totally understandable. I'm not saying otherwise. Your dentist should have explained all of that to you, with pictures and diagrams. And they should have explained that they're ethically constrained to not jump into that severe of an action.

I dunno, back in my younger days camping with my family I was always up in the smoke and my clothes were fine. Had long hair, and it was never a bad smell. As I got older and did have a beard, I can't recall it ever smelling unpleasant the next day, and I'm known for catching even faint smells after years of taking care of patients where faint smells can be a sign of something important.

Maybe it depends on the wood? I know a pure deadfall fire can be stronger smelling, and you can get some strange odors indeed if you buy firewood that's been sitting, though I can't think of any that stank.

No clue. But it seems to be most common among people that are most likely to believe that they should be able to say whatever they want, wherever and whenever they want.

Popularity × audience + accessibility to devs.

Popularity is a vague term for how well represented a pantheon already is in popular media; movies, books, tv, comics, gaming mostly, with maybe some music being a factor.

That's amplified by the intended audience. If your audience is focused on one place in the world, chances are better that their pantheon, whatever it may be, will get picked. Otherwise, it's likely to be a Western pop culture audience.

And it's likely that developers are going to go with what they know best. It's like how jrpgs pull more from Japanese mythology when they use mythology, and korean devs often pull from their history and legends first. It isn't as heavily weighted as the intended audience, but it's in there.

So, there's typically going to be a bias towards mythologies that are easier to research, when the devs aren't familiar with something, and it ends up with a lot of the published and easy to find info on pantheons in general is in English, and is heavily biased towards European and Mediterranean mythologies.

There's also the factor that a lot of people default to what's in Bullfinch's mythology. So, Greek/Roman, Norse, and that's about it lol. Even Celtic mythology gets shafted in that regard, the slavic gods get totally ignored, and you might as well just pretend that any deity that wasn't also in Clash of the Titans doesn't exist.

Egyptian mythology tends to be horribly misrepresented even compared to Greek. And pretty much any pop culture use of mythology ignores the fact that pantheons weren't some kind of static group that never changed, and weren't all worshipped the same everywhere. Hell, it wasn't even always a pantheon that was worshipped at all, it could be single deities, where the others just got a nod occasionally.

I ran into some of the trouble when looking into mythology when doing world building. It's fairly easy to find translation into English if you stick to those cultures. You can often find translation of original texts and later recordings of oral writ, not just stuff like Bullfinch's.

Finding anything even remotely unfiltered for anything from the Asian regions is harder. You can usually find good translations of some of the more well known texts, but past that you're relying on what some other person's interpretation of what they read is, and that's not the same as a translation.

So, it isn't just a gaming industry thing. It's everywhere.

New cane day is nice, if not as nice as new knife day. Or new insert hobby item day by virtue of canes being an unpleasant necessity most of the time.

I don't have a lot of them. But I also tend to carefully select mine. My main is a cane masters basic version. A handful of folding aluminum ones (including the backup one in the car). One that's more of a walking stick than a cane by virtue of a head that's impractical for bearing weight (lumpy skull). Two sword canes; one that's cheap and decorative, the other useable.

I need to save up and snag a backup cane masters one, but they've stopped selling that model, and what they still sell tends to be more aggressive looking, and I prefer something less questionable for the rare visit to places that are restrictive. They're fairly over priced as well, but there aren't many companies making canes are the dimensions and handles I prefer, so I'm stuck

Hope your new one gives you many miles :)

Okay, but why did they use that creepy-ass picture for this?

This community turned to shit overnight. It's ridiculous.

Also, be aware that banning someone for something that isn't even in the rules is not a good thing.

Finally, an ai project worth the cpu cycles!

That one kid looking at the photographer with intent to harm

I'm trying to use it, but I keep getting an error, "missing field infinite_scroll_enabled"

I have no idea what's going on lol

Yeah, I eventually realized that. I'm an idiot. I knew there were two versions, but my dumb ass didn't bother to check both instances.

Thank you very much for the help, and the tool itself