Yeah I like to come for air like every few years or so

What’s wrong with Discourse? I ran a server during college for a couple of buddies and it was totally owned and operated by us, no corpos or anything. It’s just like phpbb or any other forum software AFAIK.

Proof the system works right here.

I can understand this perspective: wanting to spread the gospel of federation, etc.

But I’m starting to come around to the realization that the growth mindset is rotten. It’s what leads to these big centralized/unified platforms that concede on their core in order to reach a wider audience.

I can’t blame corpos for conceding away all identity, because engagement is how they make money, but what’s our excuse?

These aren’t refugees. They’re free to make a lemmy or masto or whatever account any time they want. We don’t have a problem with most of the people. It’s the platform, and all the fucking out and proud racists who are on it.

My grandma who owned a diner used to say the same thing, but about cops

How is that different from any other accident of birth that can’t be changed? People really do discriminate based on when you were born:

• Discrimination in China
• Zodiac shaming

Not hard to extrapolate a case from this. Imagine a landlord refusing to rent because you’re a “scorpio” or an employer turning you down because they’re looking for a “dog” person.

Yeah yeah not protected, but same could be said for requiring blond hair or blue eyes. Still discrimination

I am not a lawyer

What about star sign? That’s got to be illegal, and it’s p close to this

Thanks, I’ve got a bit of the ol face blindness

How dare you slander my people so.

It’s actually pronounced: Joe Louis

If we’re talking about French cats in this thread, you can’t not post “Curious French cat” by Sylvia Plath:

Yeah…

Not aware of any of these, which is nice, but iddqd caught my eye since that’s a Doom reference! Overall I always thought the Doom community was pretty positive (at least going by Doomworld forums, and various Doom streamers, as I remember them). I thought surely it must be some misunderstanding! Oh maybe they didn’t reply quickly enough to take down some drive-by hate speech, but that was it.

Anyway, holy shit, do not go to that lemmy instance. It’s rotten to the core. I’m going to go take a shower and play through Episode 1 to cleanse myself now.

Bird? Snowball? Looks more “soggy” than melted, necessarily.

It is a neat effect. Have you tried making your own melt circle?

The connection between madness and pineapples has been a topic of conversation for years, but no one knows exactly why the two complement each other so perfectly.

I agree, but I do feel like the harm committed by “state terrorism” is worse, in a way I find hard to articulate. It’s true that using a separate word can be a useless distinction, but it does feel different to me in an important way.

But I’m not the kind of person who needs convincing that the state can sin just as well as the individual, so maybe my perspective isn’t applicable.

A good example of this is asking yourself if you would kill your immediate family if you could do so with impunity. For most of us the answer is, of course, no. That’s because of familiarity, and how we think of them as our “in group.” Same goes for anyone else. If you’re morally developed then no one should be afraid of you, except maybe the truly vile.

I suppose with that kind of power you wouldn’t really need to use violence to influence them. Just leave a notes in the field of vision constantly until they give all their money to charity or whatever. Maybe upgrade to random cream pies to the face in public if they’re not getting it.

I mean think of if someone pisses you off now, you don’t automatically go and fuck with them anonymously, even though it’s infinitely easy to do.

I feel like after a while, and maybe with a few notes left behind, it would begin to have a chilling effect.