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As always, the video is just over 10 minutes long. And it zooms in on the face. Yeah, suddenly I just don't care enough to finish this adventure. Downvote me if you wish - I've never not been disappointed whenever I ignore those signs and push through anyway.

Bill Gates I guarantee you could have hidden this if he had wanted to btw.

We are edukashunal:-)

There are some places on the Fediverse where intellectual discourse - and honest questions - are outright welcomed. Sadly, whenever communism is brought up in such a prominent community, it summons the trolls. "They" have decided that it is to be thus, and with their numbers they enforce their will upon the rest of us.

It was this way on Reddit too, towards the end, and even more so now. Also X - these latter two more from far-right than far-left but whatever they claim to believe, their attitudes seem to be the same: the consent of others matters little to them (edit: actually that is probably not true - it seems to only embolden them further to think about overriding those; if you go into their spaces and read their chatter you will see this for yourself).

I have some high hopes for platform alternatives to Lemmy - including Piefed, Mbin, and Sublinks - that will allow for some larger-scale changes to facilitate further separation from at least that particular source. But for now, if you do a Lemmy search for the keyword "tankie" (yes it's a pejorative but... this is a search, and it's what people use), you will find many, Many, MANY posts on this topic.

It is probably the single biggest division in all of Lemmy - and imho at least (+ that of MANY others, including Reddit mods of major subs as you will read) it is the single thing that prevented Lemmy from going mainstream, back during the Rexodus. "They" don't want to hear "Western propaganda" on "their" platform, and vice versa, except almost every admin across the entirety of the Fediverse has refused to defederate from all of the "tankie" instances (notably, lemmy.cafe is the only one that blocks from all 3 - lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, and lemmy.ml - though the much milder midwest.social is still federated).

Is that possible? With lemmygrad.ml being defederated from Lemmy.World I mean, where this community is located. They could always use alts ofc, e.g. from lemmy.ml.

Wait... do you mean to tell me... that we are not all furries!?!?!?!?!?!?!

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Literally every food has negatives as well as positives, so if that were the definition of superfood then superfoods do not exist, as others here are also saying.

Oatmeal has a ton of positives though, and it's often considered a superfood - at least often enough to warrant a mention and a deeper look.

I did not see it mentioned so I'll add: meme generator on imgflip. It's probably easier to just make your own, but that one works from a mobile phone:-).

Oatmeal, perhaps surprisingly.

No...t entirely.

There is a lot of extremist propaganda here - e.g. advocating for literal murder (just search for the word "guillotine" to quickly get an idea of what I mean). Also, if you criticize Russia or China on lemmy.ml, or try to claim that e.g. genocidal practices happen (even share your second-hand accounting of Uyghur family members) you will get banned from communities that you've never even heard of across the entire instance, with no prior warning.

The "funny" part there is that both Russia and China are capitalist nations, not communist. It helps to think about children talking about what they think (or rather wish) communism is, rather than the real world. So they'll tell you to read certain books, while studiously ignoring e.g. that the Tiananmen Square massacre actually did take place, i.e. they cherry pick and only talk as if they care about it, rather than actually doing so. Think Truth Social, but claiming to be leftist rather than right.

But e.g. there's also Star Trek memes, and... well I am sure there are other things too, somewhere!?:-D More seriously, each instance has its own focus, none of which (anymore) is "conservative", all of which is left leaning, but the vast majority of which is not extremist. Mander.xyz for instance has some fantastic scientific content.

Check out [email protected] - I refer back to it often, e.g. to remember how to do things like use links to communities from different Fediverse instances. I wish it, or something like it at least, would be shared with everyone, but Lemmy is extremely primitive when it comes to such things (case in point, if you go to lemmy.ml, visit their sidebar, and click "What is lemmy.ml", it takes you to a post that does not exist).

I have been advocating for labeling such communities and instances - that way, like porn, people can enjoy it all they like while also being friendly enough to let others know what's present therein, and that way we can get along better. However extremists famously resist labeling themselves as such, treating their own views as the sole correct one and rather it is everyone else - yes literally the entire rest of the fucking world - that is "different". So instead, each person has to find out mostly on their own what these subjects are all about. Kudos for sticking around long enough to do so.

I wonder... how many months would it take even Google to sort it all out now, if it wanted to? At some point, even if they haven't crossed it yet, certain knowledge simply becomes lost forever.

Ads have become so deeply embedded into search results that even Google now can no longer tell the difference between them!?!?

Imagine Jesus Christ as a time traveler, going back from a dying planet to just about the dawn of both roads and also safer sea travel than previously, those two connecting what would become the entire modern world.

Jesus: like, forget all this "religion" crap about what foods to eat & where & when & with who, and like, just be excellent to one another dudes & dudettes

Everyone since then, especially those who borrow His actual fucking name to label themselves: um... how about "no"?