Tim Sweeney is awesome. He’s one of the biggest conservation donors in my state and is personally responsible for permanently saving over 50,000 acres of land from development, protecting crucial habitat in a rapidly developing state, allowing public trail and nature preserves to get created. He lives in a normal house and drives a normal car and hikes the land he preserves when he’s not working. He’s a billionaire that lives a modest life, doesn’t mess with politics, and a true philanthropist. He doesn’t give to get press. The few articles out there about his philanthropy are because reporters stumble across it when reporting on whatever new nature preserve is opening in their area.

He might have some business practices that are problematic but are endemic to the industry.

Can someone explain/ruin the joke so I know what the kids are saying these days?

For all of those who are down voting the nope, read the instructions on how to apply in the post. You all failed that trick test teachers handed out in grade school, where if you actually read the instructions, it tells you to put your name on the paper and put down your pencil without trying to answer any of the questions on the test, because the test is “do you pay attention to shit” not “do you know the answers”.

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Thanks for the update. Also, this comment is a downvoter honey pot. If you don’t stop harassing me, I will start my own instance to find out who you are and report your account. Thank you.

Daftdrummer is more like it.

I didn’t realize I was being a little too ironic, like rain on my wedding day.

Just like every communist revolution has led to a better life for all, including the millions purged. You’re off your rocker if you think your revolution won’t lead to just a wall for countless numbers of people.

One knock-on effect for me is that encountering those folks on here made me want to triple check my tone and emotionality when I post or comment. I absolutely want this to be a better place than reddit, and I constantly find myself going back through my comments, editing to add corrections, or outright deleting them if I realize in hindsight I was being a cranky asshole. I’ve got to admit, I’ve even appreciated the notification-free moderation here - if I got into a fight with someone and our lack of civility broke the rules, I’m happy when a mod wipes out both of our offending comments. Nine times out of ten it takes out the comment that caused me to fight in the first place. And as heated as I can get, after going on an online tear, afterwards I usually feel terrible for being driven by anger. And angry posts almost never do anything except stroke my ego.

Oooooooh, I see. Capitalism should fuck communism, and give their social democratic love-child to us folks in the USA!!! Woot.

I hadn’t heard that Hamas was blocking civilians from leaving Gaza, but they do like using their people as meat shields. Though it wouldn’t make any difference if they allowed such an exodus, because both Egypt and Israel aren’t letting anyone out.

Very similar to the existence of Nietzsche nihilists that were in my high school class back in the day. “God is dead” only gets one so far. To go beyond being an edgelord ideologue, one needs to take the next step and create one’s own meaning. And having some life experience does wonders for that.

Relevant: Excellent congressional legal memo explaining the current US law on CSAM (as of 2022) Link

AHS? American Home Shield? American Horror Story?

People are downvoting you because you’re acting like a dick.

I figured it was overrepresentation but wow. The last time I encountered people that militant was bb anarchists in college. It’s like that except they don’t care about flying under the radar.

I’m left. But what the fuck is the deal with “tankies” though? All of the sudden there are revolutionary communists (with no sense of the historical irony of this label) everywhere. I hadn’t even heard the term 6 months ago, it’s then all over Reddit, and suddenly I’m seeing people talk about violent revolution elsewhere on the lemmyfedi. I know part of it is the nature of the ‘verse, but is part of it that these people are the black box anarchists of yesteryear and I’m just behind the times?

Where can I learn about transferring my community to another instance? Lemmy.worlds silence about threads means he has no intent to defederate so I need to move over to lemmy.ml.

Or is this not possible? Do I just need to walk away from my community because @ruud doesn’t care about the issue?

If that’s the case, how do I add a mod that doesn’t care about meta expressly stating they are going to add features to ActivityPub protocol (step two of EEE)? I don’t want to keep coming back here if it is federated with threads but I don’t need to leave whoever is staying here high and dry.