I didn’t even know sweat bees could sting. When I drove a cab I used to sit in a field with my feet sticking out the window and they’d inevitably come land on me and suck on my toes. I suppose it wouldn’t make much sense to sting your food source if you don’t have to, though.
Building more housing only reduces the cost of housing if you don’t allow all of it to be turned into air bnbs. We need to modernize zoning laws.
Do people who make these memes actually play at tables like this, or is this hyperbole for the sake of clicks? Do they play at all?
It’s an environment that’s mechanically centered around dunking on people. It’s all upvotes, downvotes, and arguing. The design of the platform itself encourages it, because that’s what it’s built to do. Lemmy isn’t really any different, it just hasn’t had as long to develop the same level of toxicity. The same mentality is here too, though, and is growing pretty consistently.
A year ago Lemmy felt like a relative breath of fresh air in comparison to what it’s quickly become. These threads are half arguments and the feeds are half people spamming 6 threads in five minutes to build up some sort of visibility.
Honestly I feel like Lemmy sort of tricked me into wandering into Reddit 2 after having mostly left Reddit.
I’m still not sure whether this was referring to Samalamadingdong or if there’s another episode that hasn’t dropped yet.
That’s not the story Billet told.
That’s not how you spell “steals”.
It’s crazy that we have intersex kids having surgery forced on them to put them into one box or another and at the same time people are pretending that it’s actually happening to trans kids. Like, literally building a society where this is done to one group of people while lying about it being done to another.
Looks like it’s mostly being covered by left-wing and neutral sources.
I have a feeling that people who spend their time posting memes about shitty relations between players and DMs probably aren’t actually playing that much.
Also, like, every social media platform seems to thrive on conflict, so there’s probably a relationship between spending loads of time engaging with those platforms and having a shitty attitude in general.
Yeah, that’s the conclusion I came to after reading their wiki. It doesn’t make me think it’s a very nice place to be. Like they explicitly only disallow Nazi symbols in the areas covered by German law.
It’s become really hard to tell what something like this actually means. Does free speech mean being able to speak out against authoritarian power structures? Or does it mean throwing slurs and hatred around? Because one of those things is something worth defending, while the other is a pretty reasonable expectation for a service provider to want to limit.
The fact that they just typify it as having a free speech policy without qualifying what that means makes my skeptical.
This headline is wild. It’s basically the biology news equivalent to “so much for the tolerant left”. Bonobo society is peaceful because they stand up for their young rather than just allowing infanticide from males. Their relative peace compared to their male-dominated cousins is a result of actively refusing to tolerate that sort of violence among their own groups.
Makes sense. The biggest strength of robust worldbuilding isn’t showing it all to your audience, it’s hinting at small pieces of it that shows a connection between them and hints at something deeper. Having what feels like a detailed history makes the world feel real, because you can see shadows of it in the foreground. If you actually dig into all of it explicitly in your story that just makes it feel shallow, because you’re showing the whole iceberg.
It’s why the mystery of the clone wars and Anakin’s apprenticeship and betrayal of Obi-wan were intriguing in the original Star Wars trilogy, but end up just being some action movies once it’s all fleshed out on screen. Depth stops being depth if you bring it all up to the surface.
Weird timing.
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The article literally starts out telling her she was never vegan because her stated reasoning for abstaining from animal products involved her own personal health rather than cruelty to animals. Utterly unhelpful.
Those eyes! 😍
I was once turned away for a scheduled covid vaccine at a Rite Aid that had been bought out by Walgreens because one of the pharmacy assistants couldn’t figure out how to put my gender into the system.
Is this fun for you?