I went to college before the internet was ever considered a valid source for any material. But using the internet made research extremely easy if I could determine the book source for reference.

I went back to college right around that time the internet just became the default source for everything. It was staggering how little information was expected to be known. The implicit ubiquitous access to information was a staggering foundational shift.

Coconut oil is a superfood because you can eat it and use it to do butt stuff.

Mandatory housing units over every strip mall and big box store in America.

Even just a few units. Hell a few mobile homes up there even would go a long way. Forced mixed use development.

If it’s like 100 tacos for $100, I think I could go for that right about now.

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So you say uou’ve heard complaints about Lemmy devs, who run the instance in question here, for four years.

That is a direct illustration of what I mean: from the start of Lemmy there’s been complaints of the devs.

As the Fediverse becomes bigger, this type of stuff isn’t going to be wanted by any entity especially not ones owned by Meta.

I was more responding to the person from threads with that line. But I was more identifying a convenient alignment than a conspiracy to act.

I mean there are Lemmy communities with discord servers dedicated to brigading tankies and falsifying interactions on places like .ml. One of those communities is on my instance and comes up on my feed constantly. But I will admit that I have not seen that effort from Threads.

But nonetheless, since it is a fair assumption any thread with the word ‘tankie’ in it is going to go off the rails: I am not suggesting .ml admins and their mods aren’t overblowing their interactions or bringing a lot of this onto themselves. They’re just as mired in bad faith as the next poorly run community or instance. I am just saying I am not surprised by it.

The fundamental source of conflict is that developers of Lemmy, who are also admins of .ml, describe themselves as marxist-leninist. Their very allowed existence is a conundrum for some, regardless of what they do.

So there is absolutely interest in the elimination of instances like .ml from the Fediverse, especially as things like Meta’s Threads moves in to centralize communities and standardize discussioms so everything can start aligning with thr valuation of their investment.

Over the past year on Lemmy I have witnessed a constant fight between people on hexbear, lemmygrad, and ml and people on communuties like tankiejerk, meanwhileongrad, and the like.

Both appear to constantly brigade and overmoderate their respective areas of control. Since my instance: sh.itjustworks, is some combination of defederated to hexbear and lemmygrad, I mostly just see threads like these complaining about tankies. I only assume the effort is being matched by those instances I don’t see to warrant this problem being so persistent.

So to me there’s so much active bad faith behavior between the camps I assume they all just have a paranoid view of the fediverse and are mostly just perpetuating a cycle of bad faith. Maybe that relationship is terminal if just people can’t handle each other.

I think fiction is absolutely fine for classes in literature and language which is often a major core component of education. Historical fiction I wouldn’t add to curriculum but are great as recommendation to compare with a lesson for an interpretive context.

Not sure how you can teach STEM with fiction though.

The faster you finish the faster you can start a new run.

Even at that level of pixelation: clear as day.

I think it is all one anime.

This has been the plan for decades.

Telecom companies existed before the internet and have made every effort their television fiefdoms would have the right to own it as well.

Then again the only bastion of defense against this has been a parade of old ass people who don’t own computers and were handed a smartphone 15 years ago but only want campaign donations in exchange for not understanding the problem.

So it really wasn’t much effort at all to turn the internet into TV 2.0.

Buffing the BBEG is the natural response but weakening the PCs is another route. Debuffs can go a long way and can be a problem for the players to focus on and strategize around.

When in doubt, its a [Lich] and there’s a [Phylactery] that involves a moral conundrum or sacrificing something or becoming cursed in some fashion: convert the hard rolls a mental one for the players. No natural 20 rolling you way out of willfully giving up your PC’s left hand. Or a permanent aura of stench.

Unless they do XYZ of course. Or maybe. They should have listened to that NPC on day one more.

I think there has been some influx where a lot of new users made room for themselves while pressing others to leave/defederate. Beehaw was the notable and initial example where the growth of people from reddit resulted in less interactivity.

I always interpreted this as a willful mistranslation considering what a granary looks like.

I always found it interesting that the fighting wasn’t over for either shots and I believe half the people pictured in each photo died on Iwo Jima afterwards

They’d already chosen Improved Sunder. It was inevitable anyway.

Yeah, but mother-in-law.