Beau Brummel’s influence is the reason, though he would have detested the uniformity of it all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beau_Brummell

A good Behind the Bastards on him: https://open.spotify.com/episode/00n2CANk00e5P2L0H348h1?si=1VhgCCRnQQueiPBFSfjJLg

No, it’s not.

It’s literally a concept no normie knows about nor would care about.

They are not trying to follow some tankie on a banned Marxist instance, they’re trying to follow cute cat pictures on lemmy.world.

End of the day, just like with safe site filters etc, you’ll end up with most instances following similar enough protocols and federating with each other and the vast majority of people seeing the vast majority of people, with some fringes blocked for some people.

I don’t think there’s any less karma farming on here. People still look at their up and downvotes, and I don’t think there was a legitimate industry for selling high karma accounts on Reddit. Not one that would make a difference at scale anyways.

The problem with Mastodon and Twitter is structural, it’s based around following people, not topics. It is inherently problematic because a) personalities and status get elevated over the logic of the argument, b) following people instead of topics inherently feeds people’s egos in a problematic way, and c) a given person can use their followers problematically (brigading, etc). On Reddit / Lemmy by following decentralized topics it eliminates or reduces most of these effects, though the mods controlling each subreddit can exercise some of the same influence.

Reddit’s early days were also far more left leaning then they eventually became.

When you have a small niche of nerds who enjoy discussing topics and ideas, then far right wing points will get downvoted to hell because they are, quite frankly, dumb, divorced from logic and the real world, and don’t stand up to actual critical scrutiny.

Reddit got more right leaning as it grew and expanded into the general population and more dummies started upvoting dumb posts, then got more right leaning when right wing political orgs took notice and started trying to influence it, and now seems even more right leaning because they’ve changed their algorithms to prioritize controversial comments and posts that get people angry because it boosts engagement.

Professor with tenure.

Those Ikea snap together decking tiles. We rent but have a tiny all-concrete backyard, and for like $250, we transformed it into a remarkably pleasant deck between those tiles for the ground and planters for the perimeter.

The Govee Dreamview TV lights and Philips Hue lights are also pretty high up there.

3D printer is now, but it took it several years of occasional use and occasional CAD upskilling before it got really useful.

Automatic cat feeder for dry food. It’s so nice to reduce cat feeding to just the wet food, and it makes it way easier to put them on a diet.

Dyson handheld vacuum, but only because I got it refurbished and on sale for substantially less than half the original price.

Edit: oh and the biggest one by far is my Onewheel. I hate the company and will never buy anything from them again (will be making an open sourced VESC board or buying a Floatwheel instead), but I bought the board at the start of the pandemic to have something to do during lockdown and I now have ~7000km on it. It’s way more fun and practical then I was expecting. Even compared to like an e-scooter, a Onewheel still give you both hands free and is small enough to fit on the bottom of the grocery cart, making it surprisingly more practical for hauling stuff.

I mean, companies off shore software development all the time.

I mean it does, god wanted him to get shot twice and survive and then build a bulletproof popemobile to not get shot a third time.

God’s will is a pretty ironclad argument as long as you don’t really believe in free will, or at least believe that God is powerful enough to know how every decision will be made in spite of free will.

Yes we do. FPGAs and memristors can both recreate those effects at the hardware level. The problem is scaling them and their necessary number of interconnections to the number of neurons in the human brain, on top of getting their base wiring and connections close to how our genetics build and wires our base brains.

Lol some of us grew up in socialist households and still recognize the dangers and failures of communism every time it’s been tried.

Licensing reduces the number of guns in circulation and ensures that their owners are more responsible than the average unlicensed owner, making their guns less likely to end up on the black market.

Outside of potentially a car or truck, all of those things take significant time and planning.

The reality of most murders is that they do not happen when given a cooling off period. Similar to suicides, they’re often situational and in the moment.

Because every other country with similar problems can be slapped with the label of “underdeveloped”, I assume?

What countries are you thinking of?

“Gun violence” is not a cause of death. Murder is.

Technically no, a bullet wound is, or a stab wound, or blunt force trauma, but murder is the legal definition of a crime that involves death, circumstances, and intent.

Do you think if they took away the guns, people would just stop being violent? Or that they would just find another tool?

I think that they would find another tool, be forced to decide whether to commit to a close quarters fight to the death instead of sitting back and spraying from a distance, and in the vast majority of situations the overall outcome will be far less severe and easier for police and security to contain.

Have you really thought about it?

That’s not why.

Lol, yes it is absolutely part of the reason.

It’s because not enough people care

Yes, that is also part of the reason.

and because police work for the government and secure the interests of the government, so putting them in jail is essentially kneecapping yourself if you’re a politician.

No, that is the case in literally every single other country too.

Again, nothing to do with firearms and everything to do with culture.

Sounds like a gun owner in denial, not a reasoned point.

What’s insane is thinking that we are the only country in the world with a problem with violence.

You are the only developed western country with a problem as severe as yours. You’re the only one where there are regular and repeated mass killings. You are the only one where violence, and specifically gun violence, is a leading cause of death amongst children.

The Nice, France mass murderer killed more people with a commercial truck than any mass shooter in history.

Yes and more Americans have been killed by gun violence in 2024 so far.

They’re not entirely wrong, handguns should also be banned and regulated if you actually want to address gun violence in the way that literally every single country that doesn’t suffer from regular gun violence does.

You realize that the reason that police get away with homicide in the US so much is that every single person might be strapped?

You know that in Canada and the UK and countries where guns aren’t common, police have a much harder time justifying drawing a firearm, to the point that just drawing one unnecessarily often makes national news?

What’s insane is being the only country in the world with regular mass shootings and thinking that you’ll shoot your way out of the problem.

Not in Canada, the UK, the entirety of western Europe, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Australia, New Zealand…

This is dumb as fuck, literally nothing about that mentions anything about firearm licensing. Did you understand the words you quoted before getting high and mighty?

It’s illegal for felons to possess firearms regardless of whether or not legal owners require licensing, and nothing in here says that they didn’t just get a tip that some criminal was stockpiling weapons.

Given that the whole context of this thread is why theists are scared of dying, you kind of did insinuate that with your story.

Be scared of dying. The whole context of this thread is someone asking why theists are scared of dying, when the answer is the same reason that atheists are, dying can suck, no one is 100% certain about anything except for zealots, and fear of death fundamentally does not come from the logical part of our brain.