Is that a climbing onion blossom? I forget the name; some have called it an “African Beach (beech?) Onion.”

2024 > 1985

FTFY

Unused to wonder if the radio announcers that are always reciting the station call letters found that the letters stopped sounding like individual sounds, and the whole recitation became a sort of “word” for them. Like “You’re listening to 102.9FM WBLM!” Did it stop being “double-you bee ell emm,” and turn into more of a mashup of “dubbleyabeeyelmm”?

True, the difference is pretty subtle, especially to a listener, but I wonder strange things sometimes…

Don’t tell them about insid-- dang! Too late

Good drugs

The pedant in me has to point our that if it’s the “best song we’ve ever heard…” then we already heard it, and it isn’t still “out there” as in unheard and waiting to be listened to.

It would constantly be telling users how much nicer people are better things are for inexplicable reasons, but would have very little other than news to talk about.

Osm-- dangit.

Not temporary.

Looks temporary to me:

No interest in engaging with you further. Good luck, comrade.

Looks to me like you got (temp) banned for posting apparent incel comments in a hateful way. Not to mention your advice was exactly what the OP said they were avoiding from their own friends.

Perhaps reading the room is a good start before you click reply. Doubling down when called out for hateful comments will rarely go well, and defaulting to name calling and reducing well-received advice to a “lib salad” (whatever that means) won’t either. Perhaps stop behaving like the internet is some place where manners and respect are optional, and you’ll feel more welcome wherever you go.

I’m not trying to call you out or rehash that relationship advice here, only pointing out that you can disagree with people politely if you truly do desire respectful discourse. I hope you reflect on the ban and the comments replied to you. The world needs fewer, not more hateful incels or “alpha males.”

Yes, I’m clueless with regard to others liking or noticing me. My partner sees it and points it out for my benefit. Usually with, “Poor man, never knew he was hot until he met me!”

Everyone should be so lucky to be adored like I am now by my partner. And for things like, “your hands are perfect!”

“They… are? Thanks!”

You just haven’t met anyone like my partner. She pauses movies and TV to point out how my neck “is sexier” than the actor’s. “Yours isn’t little and thin like his.”

“Thanks!”

She is definitely obsessed. Maybe not a fetish, but certainly a point of interest.

Don’t get too worried about OP. “To a hammer everything is a nail.”

Kitboga on YouTube

Kitboga posts on YT, but he’s based on Twitch, where he goes live almost daily.

This comment seems to be the first reply. I don’t get a “just for argument sake” or a combative vibe from it, nor does it mention mythology or religion. A later comment does call the source for anecdotal (and provably false) information “idiots,” which is unnecessary and likely grounds for mod action or warning.

I don’t really read anything wrong with the mod saying to keep it clean, though the thinly-veiled threat of, “I’m a mod here and I’m not afraid to ban you,” is poorly worded at best.

I completely agree with you about politeness. At the end of the day, I think that, judging methods alone, OP was out of line with his comments about the mods friends, but correct to point out bunk facts.

If I was OP, I’d probably edit my comments to remove the name-calling, but as a Lemmy user, I want these discussions to take place to provide fact-checking for hearsay and debunked science. Politely, whenever possible.

I’m pleased with activityPub beginning to make “protocols not platforms” a reality.

Ruud decided matrix was too hard unreliable to use for this purpose and bailed a few weeks ago

ETA: wrong adjective

I happened to catch a message on Matrix from @ruud@lemmy.world that he didn’t like the way mentions work when you’re offline and lots of messages build up, but I didn’t realize that meant discord was replacing matrix, especially for community notices.

Add me to the list of folks who won’t use discord.

I feel you. Thanks for the comment. “Right to be Forgotten” was the phrase I needed to see for that to click.

I think your analogy is off the mark only in that, in the situation you describe in the lemmy platform, the teacher’s video disappears, but everyone can still see that they posted something.

I do hope that in time, lemmy devs remove the username next to deleted posts.

As I said to OP in another comment, lemmy gets a lot right when it comes to privacy, and much more right than most social media platforms. For me, I won’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

What does post/comment permanency have to do with privacy? The linked post is an opinion, with no facts backing up their extreme claims.

It’s true that if you delete a comment, your username remains, but is that a matter of privacy? Was it acceptably private before deletion? Why does that change afterwards?

I’m extremely skeptical of the poster sharing partial truths with opinion and no sources.

Edit: I read some of the comments. Poor jorgesumle4, yeesh!

Edit2: and won’t be going anywhere near raddle, either. Oof! “My echo chamber isn’t echoing right! I must now yell and spew some ad hominem hate! Ahh, much better.”

Edit3: To @orientalsniper@lemmy.world, I would say your OP question, “is there truth to this?” is being asked about an opinion. Can opinion be true or false? I don’t really understand the premise. If you’re posting on the public internet, that’s not private. Full stop. Any platform on the public internet, no matter how you can or cannot delete your contributions, is not private.