Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.
Best time to start was DEFINITELY yesterday.
But the second-best time to start is still today. We have the advantage of being up against incompetents. That might buy us enough time to save ourselves. Might. But we won’t know unless we fight for it.
I liked Korra, but Season 1 had trouble finding itself, and Season 2 was awful. 3+4 were masterful, but I think most people had made up their minds by then.
Going to new, or staying on hot?
Oh yeah, there were a whole bunch of issues early on. I’d completely forgotten about that particular incident. I think some of the instances had to wipe several weeks of their image caches over it. I forget what the exact solution was, but apparently there’s some technical aspect to preventing such things that’s been implemented now.
dbzer0 is kind of ‘the’ piracy instance. Run by an anarchist, a good egg, db0.
.world here is kind of the ‘normie’ instance, very left-wing by US standards, but centrist by European standards.
It was an utter disaster in those first few months. I stuck it out only out of sheer stubbornness in not going back to Reddit. Lemmy.world was always down, federation was borked, it was just not ready for the big-time. Just what happens when your userbase balloons 30x inside of a month. Now we’re in a much better position to absorb new waves. The big thing is trying to get niche communities started on here - a bit of a arduous task. The mainstream communities are all pretty active at this point! And anything about Linux.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=48
65k Monthly Active Users (MAU) in July 2023, 33k by November 2023, 44k now.
Users about halved in the ~3 months after the initial exile. It’s increased since then, but not yet to the point that it was at during the initial exodus.
Why then do countries with existing left parties and proportional representation elect further and further right-wing parties in Europe?
Obviously they haven’t gone far left enough. /s
Some people want easy solutions. Not unlike Trump voters.
Artists require an audience if they’re going to share their work - otherwise we might as well just hang our works up on our fridge and be done with it.
Lemmy is a very small audience at present.
When I was a kid in the early-mid 2000s, knocking on the door was always a daunting prospect - people sitting out on their porch or steps were much more approachable, and much more the norm.
WFH + ADHD + Cripple = Terminally online
Pour one out for me 😔
(More seriously, I alt-tab away from whatever I’m doing to make a quick post every few hours. I’m just a meme vector, not a meme maker; it takes me like ten minutes and contributes a little life to my favorite Fediverse communities, so it’s no skin off my back!)
Younger Me was so upset when there was no way to have Atris admit her love obsession and join you in a Dark Side playthrough.
That’s disgusting.
Obviously the only true path is for the exile to admit complete and total wrongdoing and join Atris.
God I just want to belong to Atris, I can’t help it, I like girls who are objectively bad for me
KOTOR 1 was good, but KOTOR 2 was a masterpiece if you can stomach the janky combat from the first. The writing is [chef’s kiss]
Kreia: “Helping people? What are you, five?”
Kreia: “Hurting people? What are you, five?”
Kreia: “Ignoring people? What are you, five?”
10/10 mentor figure
Unfortunately, the insane are very loud, and to the marginally engaged, loud insanity can sound like informed and passionate sanity.
People in this country are taught voting is a moral duty, but not taught why it’s a moral duty. So the lunatic position of “Don’t vote for anyone you disagree with!” dovetails nicely into our broken fucking civic culture. In reality, voting is, as you said, strategic - it’s a moral duty insofar as we are morally obligated, as citizens, to examine the power we have, to exercise it in the most effective way we can, in service to the moral aims we have.
Too many people in this country view voting spiritually. We aren’t Christian martyrs preparing to be fed to the lions in the Colosseum. We’re closer to congresscritters when we vote, than canonized saints. Take a look at your choices. Decide which one is closer to your goals. Vote accordingly. And be prepared to answer for it.
I mean, the ongoing Palestinian genocide is important, vile, and our support of its perpetrators a stain on our national soul.
It’s just not an excuse to let fascists start an additional genocide here in the US. Without even stopping the ongoing Palestinian genocide.
LOTR orcs are like wine. They are the original. Elegant, refined, complex.
40k orks are like hard liquor. They are distilled down to their essence.
I love the lore of it, but I have the same problem with the hobby. I ain’t spending 30$ on little guys I gotta paint myself, and then make a whole army of the expensive little bastards!
“What the fuck” with a disgusted look is my go to.