You have linked directly to an image of a Ukrainian stomping on a swastika flag. You are not making the point you think you're making.

I think reddit has just continued making more and more moves down their path towards the IPO, and all of those moves together have shown a lot of us that we're not interested in staying on for the rest of the ride. Complicity towards corrupt or powerhungry mods of massive communities with tangible effects on the world (e.g. r/politics), censorship, revenue-focused anti-user actions, ignoring the community, downplaying the value of volunteer mods and threatening to replace them... Yeah, thanks, no. I'm good over here in the fediverse now.

That was the whole point of the "Q"! In fact, we could ditch the LGBT and just stick with a fully inclusive "Queer".

I once overheard a pair of utility workers talking, and as I walked past I only overheard a snippet of conversation. The older one yelled up the cherrypicker to the younger one and said, in a heavy Boston accent:

"If only you could use your powers for good, instead of for useless..."

That sentence is seared into my brain.

Yes, but that led to my absolute favorite joke in Moby-Dick: the fart joke in chapter 1. (It's important to remember that the "Pythagorean Theorem" is A²+B²=C², but the "Pythagorean maxim" is 'Don't eat beans.')

"For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle."

Brawndo. It's got what I crave.

Sure, but in the case of a show dealing with the question of what would happen if the general public could download celebrities despite the non-consent of the celebrities involved, literally Futurama did it.

Y chromosomes have very little information on them, and the DNA there is pretty highly conserved. You're not really keeping any secrets by hiding your Y chromosome away.

Well, I hope they have fun playing with each other.

In a sense it very much is news. This speaks to something that people have recently been speculating about, namely: Has Gaetz pissed off enough Republicans that they will start dumping their dirt on him to thoroughly assasinate his character? The publication of this article is essentially a giant "YES" to that question of what the "moderate" Republicans are going to do in the midst of this new Speaker crisis.

Carl Sagan wrote a book, The Demon Haunted World, which is all about why people get sucked into nonsense like ancient aliens, and how to deal with it.

I've seen people saying "Lemmy can never replace reddit because the instances won't be able to afford to host video!" ...My dudes, I have never once asked my forum / social media site to host videos.

And though I like an overall science/STEM theme as my core, my personal hobbies drift towards the biological - gardening, beekeeping, homebrewing, mushroom-hunting, etc. I think it would be fine to allow all of that stuff here, or to limit the instance more tightly than that. It doesn't really matter - federation means there can be 15 different beekeeping communities on 15 different instances, and as long as all the Lemmy beekeepers subscribe to them it's just... not a big deal. And then if one instance goes down for an hour (or forever) the actual human community of beekeeping lemmings isn't fractured, we've just lost one appendage.

I think once Salamander has made their choice they should just publicize it and then we can all abide by it. No matter what is chosen, I do like publicly belonging to a "science and nature" tribe on Lemmy instead of a "default" tribe or "communist memes" tribe.

Pete, I do not need you to innovate. I just need you to make Black and White 3.

Barbarians. The world must treat them like it and shame them and their children until this stops.

Disagree. The movie is a mediocre adaptation of a fun and mediocre book into an un-fun and mediocre movie. The film was never going to be gold, but they spent an awful lot of CGI money to make a movie that wasn't as fun as just reading the original and imagining all of the nerdy stuff being described.

I'm proud to have joined this tribe on Lemmy. I don't mind having the local community list show some diversity (e.g. mushroom growing and gardening in addition to astrophysics and recent publications on COVID evolution) but I don't need this instance to scratch my "askreddit" itch. That's what federation is for! I think it's your call, but I think drawing a line in the sand is worthwhile to keep this instance moderately thematically organized.

See "outlawry" or "homo sacer" for this concept from centuries and millenia ago.

You'll take what you can get, and you'll like it!

If all people who like cat photos converge to one community on one instance about cat photos, it means that a server crash or one goofball mod can ruin everything. If all those cat photo lovers are subscribed to 10 different cat photo communities on 10 different instances... then they'll always be connected to share cat photos, will see all the content, and no one hardware pr human problem will crash the whole community of humans who just want to share cat photos.