Supposedly Alexander the Great went to visit Diogenes in a suburb of Corinth to see what his deal was. When Alexander asked if Diogenes wanted anything from him, Diogenes reported replied “yes, move, you’re blocking the sun.”

Afterwards, Alexander was so amused and impressed that he’s quoted as saying “it I were not Alexander, I wish I were Diogenes.”

Fucking awesome.

You guys are buying shows and movies?

Yeah, honestly that’s the primary, convincing argument against Brave, I feel: they’re helping Google monopolize the browser market, and, consequently, enabling Google to further dictate how the internet operates.

The article skipped over that entirely, and the author had never heard of LibreWolf, the current zeitgeist in privacy-focused browsers, so I question the motives for writing the article and question that the author has the technical chops to be able to speak to this issue with authority. Seems like he mainly doesn’t like that the founder of Brave donated $1000 to Prop 8, which, while fair, is hardly the main reason to not use Brave.

The really really concerning thing he actually mentioned was that Brave was at one point adding affiliate links to URLs without the users’ permission, but that was buried lower in the article under comments on Eich’s admittedly cringe politics and weirdly angry blurbs about Brave’s crypto token, which he never mentions requires a voluntary opt-in (probably because he didn’t know).

He’s not wrong, but he’s right for the wrong reasons.

It’s “mind-bogglingly,” fyi, unless you’re using “mind-bottlingly” in an intentionally ironic way

Who you calling a NIMBY? Did you even read the article you posted?

Salonen supports last month's announcement to build 10,000 affordable and attainable homes in the region by 2030.

She’s quite literally the opposite of a NIMBY.

This is when you put a small pebble under each of the tire valve caps and screw them down tight enough to depress the spring, open the valve, and let the air out all of the tires

when asked whether they agreed with the statement that members of the opposing party are “not just worse for politics—they are downright evil,” 42 percent of both Republicans and Democrats responded “yes.”

Yikes, that’s a terrifying mentality for 42 percent of people to have, that’s downright ruinous to any attempts to salvage the democratic system.

Fuck yeah, subscription-unlocks for existing features on cars should be illegal, and until it is I fully support all jailbreaking/hacking of these companies’ products

In this case I’m pretty sure it’s a play on “coomer,” given the masturbatory nature of the referenced mentality

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You probably already have, but if you’ve not yet check out Wine and Proton, I’ve seen numerous guides on setting up a Linux gaming rig that runs Windows games.

The only good Lifehacker articles are old Lifehacker articles.

Not pumped about posting an instagram link lol, but it’s Cal Kearns

Idk that anyone in their right minds would ever call Big Mouth’s Elliot Birch “well-adjusted,” but he’s certainly different from classically idiotic Homer Simpson or unhinged Randy Marsh.

Yeah, seems like the poster didn’t read the actual article, either

Love how you’re getting downvoted for promoting a vegetarian diet in a thread about…eating less meat lol, I guess there are more ex-Redditors here than I realized.

Idk, I counter the “God created Earth” argument with the Biblical injunction to Noah and his descendants to be good “stewards of creation” after the Great Flood, which usually works to end that line of flawed reasoning, at least.

E.g., “God created the world, yes, but he gave humanity dominion over the Earth and trusted us to govern it well. We’ve been given 10 talents (aka gold coins), and when the Master returns we better have used the first to earn 10 more rather than bury them like the frightened servant or waste them like the prodigal son.”

Maybe I’m too participatory, but you can sway religious peeps by arguing using the same framework they do. Worked pretty well on my Catholic parents, although they still question the “degree to which humanity is responsible for global warming,” meh.

The efficacy also be dependent on which denomination of Christianity you’re arguing with, though, since the argument kinda relies on exercising free will and choosing to be responsible as part of the effort to go to heaven, which might not play super well with crazy predestination theology…

As for the echo chambers, yeah, idk what to do about that.

Would honestly love to see “no amp links” implemented as a Lemmy rule

Who’s the first villain in the top left corner?

It absolutely is hero worship any time someone is put on a pedestal and their flaws are ignored.

That’s what the author of the linked article has explicitly done. He waves away the fact that she consistently defers to Democratic Party leadership—except for occasional, “token gestures of resistance to solidify the illusion” that she’s a hard-line leftist—and then holds her up as the face of progressivism.

If that’s not hero worship idk what is.

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Hopefully they’re as good as the Paramount+ show! /s