A contrarian isn’t one who always objects - that’s a confirmist of a different sort. A contrarian reasons independently, from the ground up, and resists pressure to conform.
I filtered out all these words associated with current political headlines and now 2/3 of the threads on my front page are hidden despite me not even following a single political instance other than world news ones. Just goes to show how toxic this place has gotten recently.
Often when I see a spot like this I like imagining how I’d make it as cozy and functional as possible if I had to live there and had a moderate access to resources.
15 - an alcoholic neighbour of a friend of mine saw me an my 2 friends hanging at a playground at night and invited us for a drink. He was quite drunk already and passed out pretty soon after so we stole the rest of his beer and wine and went to my friend’s place to continue drinking. Pretty fun experience all in all. R.I.P. Eki.
Put these three filters in your adblocker custom rules:
lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/trump/i"))
lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/elon/i"))
lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/musk/i"))
I can’t think of them almost ever helping me in any way. The vast majority of things I worry about never end up happening and even in the cases where being prepaired has helped/saved me I likely would’ve been prepaired without all the worrying too because of common sense.
Many of them. Personally I’m just using my adblocker for that since I’m only using Lemmy on Firefox.
“Opposing fascism is more important than following posting guidelines”
But for real, I agree. Forcing US politics down the throat of everyone just builds resentment and makes people completely check out from it. I have content filters set to hide all of it. I’d like an option to show me the most important ones but that is not an option. It’s to either be firehosed by Trump and Musk articles or blocking it all. I choose the latter.
There’s a dedicated community for discussing this exact topic
It’s always going to be a tradeoff. If it’s unmoderated then you’re going to encounter a lot more spam and off-topic which you have to deal with by yourself but with moderators you’re going to get power tripping. With a truly competent AI moderator you could possibly get around this but not with humans.
In my case, I’m already doing the majority of managing what I see on my feed by myself so I doubt I’d see a huge difference were the moderators to dissapear.
Not really. Only thing that comes to mind is this vintage Stanley tape measure that I always have on my desk to use as reference when researching construction supplies. It’s small and has both metric and imperial measurements which is handy.
Apparently it’s old enough that I can’t even find a picture online of the exact same one but this is quite close. The label is a bit different on mine. No. 1210 is the model and it’s made in England in case someone wants to look into it.
EDIT: Just realised that the casing is metal, not plastic. No wonder it still exists today.
I didn’t know that averaging 10 messages per day is considered “posting like crazy”
Lets hear your theory then about what that means.
I wouldn’t agree with “sticking fingers in my ears and saying it doesn’t matter” being a fair representation of what I’m trying to say here.
I would claim that in the case of person’s skin color we truly shouldn’t care about it any more than we care about the color of their hair or eyes. It’s it’s a description of appearance, not a reflection of who they are. If we want to live in a world where this is the case, then my argument is that paying more attention to it is not the way to go. I’m sure the people behind this have good intentions but it’s the method I disagree with here.
The only company I’ve ever truly been invested in is the one I’m running myself. I’ve never seen working for someone else as anything more than trading my time for monetary compensation. The only reason I ever cared about a company’s success was to ensure I still had a place to earn a living from.
If it were a small business where I felt valued, then maybe it would be different - but not when we’re talking about a company that employs hundreds and the CEO doesn’t even know me by name.
Finding out that we live in a simulation would change nothing about how I see other people or myself. That concept is perfectly compatible with how I’m living my life right now.
I’ll save them the trouble then and out myself here by posting the only other mention of skin color on my entire post history. Clearly I can’t stop talking about race.
Concluding that someone is a lesser human because of their skin color seems just as illogical to me as calling someone a racist because they drive a lifted truck. These things are completely unrelated.
Interestingly, your post history shows that you are very interested in skin color yourself.
Feel free to dig thru it and post it here for everyone to see.
I think we should come up with a term for the kind of people to whom the color of a person’s skin is this important.
There is no more consensus about anything between MAGA people than there is among the left. People are individuals and they have different values. Voting for a party/candidate doesn’t mean they agree on everything. There’s likely greater differences in views and values within the groups than between them.
World would need some Good Guy Greg right now
Personally I’m longing for more discussion about ideas and less about events and definitely less about people.