I agree in regards to whites only spaces, but men’s only spaces have apolitical reasons to exist (just as not all of the reasons for women’s only spaces to exist are political.) The experience of being male is just different and sometimes some people just need space to discuss.
Never with “everyday” purchases. The two times it happened to me were a VST plugin and a game engine license.
(I’m also in the US with a nonwhite name.)
I just think the nature of how Lemmy came about and who created it means that it’s mostly used by very serious people worried about the state of the world.
It’s one of the reasons I still use Reddit honestly. Lemmy is good for politics, FOSS, and Star Trek.
If they could take an Xbox One/Series SX controller and add in this order:
Gyroscope
Two extra face buttons (for fighting games)
a rotary dial
a trackball (both primarily for retro games that use them)
a touchpad (or even better a touch screen)
HD Rumble
without making the controller uncomfortable, that would be ideal to me.
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Back when they were significantly cheaper than competing products, it was “you get what you pay for.”
Now…just go to Wendy’s.
I honestly feel like Lemmy got considerably less vitriolic toward Americans after the election.
I used to think Lemmy was too insignificant for Russian influents, but I’m not sure anymore.
It really does feel like online communities get more relentlessly xenophobic when they have more Europeans. It just seems like a lot of you can’t get by without mentioning where someone’s from. Like, no, someone not seeing the value in retro computing doesn’t say anything about “the intelligence of the average Scot.” And if you can’t tell where they’re from, American by default.
ITT: As per usual, Lemmy thinks living in conditions and condoning them are the same thing
Good. Living in a super power seems to suck period, because super powers care about ideology and power, not people. Do we need “hyper?”
If we could internalize the notion that real patriotism is the drive to create a better tomorrow for the people instead of blind conservative hatred of the unfamiliar we could do so much good.
Favorite: Same Old Lang Syne by Dan Folgelberg
Worst: Dominic the Donkey
Leftists often argue for unilateral disarming the minute after they win the revolution because their glorious revolutionary party couldn’t possibly betray the working class in any way.
CSAM is the reason I wouldn’t consider self hosting tbh. I fear it could result in me having hundreds of GBs worth of the stuff without me even noticing.
Nothing like this should ever rely on an external server.
I mean, that’s why BBC, NPR, NHK, etc. exist. And the result is that in a lot of ways it is more reliable than for profit news, but at the same time they’ll never really bite the hand that feeds (aka government, more specifically the Dems in NPR’s case.)
I audibly laughed.
I’m young enough to tell you that it’s not just nostalgia. Most new tech now is like “cool but impractical” at best and “I’m worrying about how this will be used to make the world worse” at worst. Nothing to make me think it’s the future.
More likely, daisugi/copsing just doesn’t yield enough to meet demand.
I guarantee you that most of those pizza arguments are between two Americans. Maybe the odd one that features an Italian.