KoboldCoterie

Cutting spending by 20% while not reducing output will definitely accomplish that, too!

That's strange.

We have a 'Subscribed to communities' box below the Trending Communities and the instance details sections. If lemmy.world doesn't have this, you'd want to talk to your instance owner about it.

Does lemmy.world not have this functionality? Here's what I see on the sidebar (when browsing posts, not while inside of a post): (I've removed the content for this screenshot, because I don't need everyone seeing what I'm subscribed to, hah)

I don't like your example. You aren't telling your kids that drivers have bad eyes, or are blind, or are bad at situational awareness, you're telling your kids to assume that they're in the driver's blind spot. That's not a stereotype.

If you were telling your kids that they should be more cautious around women drivers because they're bad at driving, that would be a stereotype (but not a constructive one).

You don't have to request a dinner date or a movie or something. That might scare her off. Something quick and simple, though, shouldn't be a problem. "Hey, there's a Starbucks a few blocks from you, can I buy you a drink [tomorrow, whatever]? We can have a quick chat and see if we click." Or whatever's appropriate for your situation. You're not asking for a prolonged thing, just a brief face-to-face meeting, and if it goes well and you decide to go get lunch or something, fine, but you don't need to set that expectation up front.

The lyrics aren't too ambiguous, I don't think...

O is for Other, P is for People scratchin' temple

The last P... well... that's not that simple

It's sorta like another way to call a cat a kitten

It's five little letters that are missin' here"

[...]

As for the ladies, OPP means something gifted

The first two letters are the same but the last is something different

It's the longest, loveliest, lean- I call it the leanest

It's another five letter word rhymin' with cleanest and meanest

I had no idea what 'OPP' stood for as a kid, which is funny, because it's right in the lyrics, but I was too young to understand what that meant. So I, too, would just belt that song out whenever it came on. Nobody stopped me, either.

Alternately, maybe it's the case that doing something bad to bring attention to another bad thing isn't okay just because the thing you're trying to bring attention to is worse.

I actually support the protests where they're throwing soup on paintings or whatever. Those paintings don't really matter, but some people sure think they do, and it's effective to get a dialog going. Libraries are a public good, one of the few we really have left. It's like ransacking a food bank to draw attention to starving people in Gaza; it's not helping the cause they ostensibly care about, but it is hurting others.

I'm responding to your implication that actions in protest that get people talking about the issue are inherently valuable and worth taking. To make the point that that is not the case, I am using an extreme example to demonstrate a scenario where your statement is (I hope) objectively false.

I think I clearly stated my counter-point, which is that just because we're talking about it doesn't mean it is an effective or worthwhile form of protest to be engaged in.

I'm not really sure where you're confused here.

If I went and shot someone in the name of Gaza awareness, and painted these messages on the sidewalk using their blood, that would be getting talked about, too. Point being, there's effective forms of protest that we still shouldn't be using.

I can't help but feel that Dwight would be a much better friend to have than Jim.

Yeah, I suppose I should clarify - that was in response to the objection to paying for pirated content; it's different from the service provider's point of view, but from the end user's point of view, they're paying for pirated content either way.