I love the way you put it in that last line.

Early abrahamic philosophers go over the god question like this, basically saying that if God/Yahweh/Allah exists and is all-powerful and doesn’t stop suffering, then he can’t possibly be good. Other religious philosophers figured life is a soul building experience, therefore the net good of making positive choices is greater than if everything was perfect by default.

The way the problem is set up in Pluribus is insanely well done.

Tell me more.

Jesus Christ. Can you tell us more?

How did they fuck up dying?

Can you say where/what they called themselves?

What was the most batshit crazy part of it?

Yay! More Auroras!

Fuck, I love the sun. I hope it kills us all.

Plus mosquitoes.

This one is too slow :(

Dealer’s choice.

My friend felted the dog fur into a sweater for her hairless cat. Felters truly are the trash goblins of the art world.

I didn’t use reddit much outside of a few niche communities, it had a repetitive brand of humor and weird dogpiling I didn’t jive with. Here, I find people genuinely want to engage, with moderation suited to a more mature crowd, at least in the communities I hang around.

There are culture shifts between instances and communities, so I try to have a look around before I speak up. Some places you gotta lurk to get a feel, others are a free for all. I stepped on a few toes while I got my footing — just read the sidebars if you want to avoid that.

Browsing by subscribed is the best experience, in my opinion. I see every instance so ALL is a cacophony of back alley circus heretics if I don’t tailor my feed.

Here are some useful tools I picked up in my time here:

Check defederated instances: https://federation-checker.vercel.app/

Fediverse Observer: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

Comparison of Lemmy instances: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

Lemmy apps and discussion (2 years old): https://lemmy.world/post/465785

The Lemmy Rat: https://lemvotes.org/

Wait, THIS is what people are talking about when they say the devs are transphobic?

The dev admitting he said stupid shit in private, supports human rights for everyone, and his personal views should have nothing to do with his work?

Consider the first rule of the Lemmy code of Conduct is:

We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of level of experience, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other similar characteristic.

Let’s examine that.

The points on Who’s Line don’t matter, as a rule - but they do matter because they give the rankings at the end of the show. If the points really didn’t matter, we wouldn’t know about them. “Points” wouldn’t be a subject on the show, and yet they come up at the end of every skit. One person even tallied them up. The points mattered to them, a lot.

Anyway, do you have information or were you just itching to make that quip?

All the missing indigenous women in Canada say otherwise.

But you’re right, homicide rate is a great indicator of violence in society. London is much more densely populated and interconnected while Canada has lots of places to hide bodies.

As are the rules of most instances.

The name/s Adolf/Adolphe are still in use in German and French former colonies in Africa, and WW2 wasn’t that big of a deal in a lot of the continent. A lot of them had other shit going on, still do.

The internet and easy-to-access translators are more common now, leading to a further decline in the name, but in Namibia in the 1960’s? Totally understandable someone would hear/see the name Adolf Hitler without context, assume a strong German name would help their kid get by in German-Occupied Namibia, and leave it at that. Looks like it worked.

All the humans live in the U.S. and Brazil.

Edit: Just checked, Lemmy.Today isn’t blocked by any instances.

Last I checked .today was defederated by one instance, don’t know why. I’m open to more info.

The description and the rules are boilerplate, no bigotry or transphobia kind of thing. The admins have been helpful and responsive. I can see why conservatives would join an instance like this, but there’s nothing inherently conservative about it.

When I joined the most-visited local community was conservative, but they’re pretty tame by right wing standards. A couple of the mods posted left-leaning articles to my community, too.

I don’t pay attention to a lot of Lemmy drama unless it crosses my feed, so I could be wrong.

The hat man is my emergency contact.

Oh damn are you a real doctor? ARE YOU THE DOCTOR FROM THE MEME? How much ambien are you allowed to perscribe?

For an extra ten bucks I want him to wear a she/her trans pin and eyeliner. I need a new scandal to distract them from the smoke bomb kerfuffle.

I joined Lemmy.today to see all the instances, they don’t block anyone. I expected chaos, but it’s richer. To be fair, I rarely browse ‘All,’ instead sticking to subscribed coms where the backwards-speaking wanderers from hexbear are more of a feature than a bug.

Now it’s my main account.

PR Edit: I meant no offense to the good people of hexbear, I’m just confused by your ways.