100%

I suffer from depression, so reminding myself of how fortunate I am is pretty important. I know objectively that, even with my struggles, there are billions of people who’d switch places with me if they could, and my life is pretty okay.

100% his best role ever.

Can confirm. Zero flaws detected.

The planet will be fine once we’re gone.

Hopefully better stewards come next.

Kitty is in the mouse-killin’ bidness, and cousin’ business is a’boomin’.

Hola Kitty.

Normally I wouldn’t pimp out my YT channel on Lemmy, but I made a video on this topic a few weeks ago: https://youtu.be/kklfzIxWJ7I

I hope some of these are new to you.

Not me, but it’s important to remember that Lemmy doesn’t just feed you an algo. You have to actually post things.

Mango, you perfect little furry god. <3

Yeah, when you’re on the global feed, posts fly by at a dizzying rate. Turning on slow mode makes it so that they stop auto-scrolling and only scroll when you click that you want to see more posts.

Tango el gato los pantalones

No doubt there are bad actors polluting communities on the Fediverse

Yeah, but there’s a huge difference: human moderation coupled with better curation tools. You can block a user or a whole instance, which quiets the Nazis pretty fast.

And the people doing the moderation are volunteers who actually give a shit.

Yup.

Though I thought of it as the Internet from 2010. No ads. No algo. All chronological. Once you figure out where the slow mode setting is and turn it off, Mastodon is the fucking best. I even pay a voluntary sub every month to help my instance host itself.

And it requires just enough setup (5-10 minutes tops) that the vast majority of the Internet is too lazy to use it, which keeps the quality high.

Nice.

In his shoes I’d have done the same.

Plus walking a dog in your neighborhood probably results in increased social interaction and less isolation, probably a plus for long-term health too.

Booped?

More like blessed. By the furry god.

That guy just had a sports practice and his body temperature is elevated.

Signed, an athlete in a winter climate.

The Electoral College

If we want to say we’re a democracy then we need to be a democracy.,

Came here to say something similar.

I’m a little tired of free speech absolutists looking at terrorist ideologies and concluding “No, man. That’s just an opinion.” as if we’re deciding which condiment we like most at a burger stand. Speech is regulated in some ways, and should be. (Look at Stolen Valor laws for an example.)

There is no ‘we’ in your hypothetical, unless you’re sitting on a billionaire fortune or a member of the Epstein class.

The only power you or I have is local, and this is a national problem.

When I was in art school our TA’s were making 20k a year but stilling on 50k - 100k in student debt. They’d all been to bigger, more prestigious art schools, and they were barely getting by. And each of these schools was churning out hundreds or thousands of students every year.

That convinced me to take a different direction in life. Glad I did. I’m still a working artist and make a good living with it as a side hustle, but I’m glad I don’t have to live with the uncertainty.