this looks like the trex skeleton they have on google's campus and it makes me wonder if this is some kind of psyop. lol

headlines are expensive and they took effort to ensure that we understood that they were black and hispanic in a story where hispanic rags don't bother with that distinction; but english speaking ones do. i didn't realize that the french were so much more closely aligned with the anglosphere than the spanish world.

i can understand posting to lemmygrad and .world because of the defederation; but i don't understand why .ml? those guys don't defederated with anybody.

i needed this; thank you.

i don't have a holy book to fall back upon to comfort me and i ascribe the leftist ideal that religion is an opiate for the masses; but i do recognize the need to acknowledge that your batteries as a ordinary human will wear out when you're able to see how thoroughly fucked up we are as a society and a species and the incessantly increasing lengths they go through to perpetuate it.

reminding ourselves that to keep our eyes on the long game is probably the only way to convince yourself to keep going because their efforts have an expiration date and no amount of money can keep this late stage capitalist rat race going forever.

protected by rain ponchos and plastic sheets like expectant audience members at a gallagher show

For instance, one of her policies is an anti-genocide policy. This might seem a bit radical and extreme but it’s apparently very popular.

it saddens me greatly that the question of genocide in this overton window is not whether or not genocide should exist; but instead the question is how much genocide is acceptable and the only incorrect answer is "zero".

it makes me sadder still that social media is dominated by manufactured consent so thoroughly that pointing something like "genocide is bad" only brands you a radical; a malcontent; too idealistically optimistic; or simply ignored.

the people who pour their heart and soul are the people they want. i'm the kind that they don't want: software engineers that have been doing IT/operations for so long that we understand & accept "good enough" and don't give a rat's ass if they don't implement something we've been working on; so long as we continue to get paid.

they search for people like you in the hopes of avoiding people like me because mind sets like mine are both more common and more difficult to manipulate.

to be clear: they'll still shit on you like they do to anyone else, but know that you're the kind of people that they want and, if you can figure out how to leverage that for yourself, you'll be doing very well.

watching all the manufactured attention go to ukraine & all the efforts to swat away attention from gaza while very little of anything goes to cuba makes me wonder about the future of cuba and whether or not it's people will be able to survive the cruelty inspired policies that are doing their job right now.

the fact that it's been over a half century by this point and still no where near on the lips of voters lays bare the effectiveness of manufactured consent and i wish that people could nudge their heads 1/10th of a degree so that this was in their field of vision so that maybe we would do something about it. however that half century is a testament to how well our handlers have become adept at their jobs and the surest sign that this mountain to climb requires a multi-generational hike with no rests for the weary or desperate and at the derision of the mainstream.

in the mirror universe: the dominion sends their shock troops to bombard local populations with love bombs and flash mobs. the mirror universe's civilizations love them too much share them with anyone else; that's why the dominion is unknown outside the mirror universe gamma quadrant.

i want a world with himbos as far as the eye can see!

the gazans will be reduced to native america reservations in isreal with populations too small to ever resist the collective boot on their necks in the future; as they are in the united states right now.

additionally, all the wanton destruction levied by the idf over wealth building assets like real estate and the local economy imposes both a new generational impoverishment and maximizes the reduction of any previous generational wealth to guarantee that the future gazans will be dependent on governmental purse strings as the native americans are today and will be controlled by those purse strings into the future.

in the fediverse; blocklists only serves to remove you from the group chat that everyone else can see.

then i hope that americans can rediscover religion quickly if kamala loses; amen. lol

being alive to see the controversy first hand when they first redid the klingons after the first movie and again after discovery has taught me to smile at fan controversies. lol

clinics in abortion-free states start becoming official Satanic Temple places of worship left and right, complete with minimal decorations and everything, clinic doctors as priests, things like that.

why bother pretending that they're places of worship? religious hospitals and schools don't pretend to be places of worship and they apply their their prejudices anyways; so long as it they don't violate federal law.

just create a satanic hospital with an extremely generous obstetrics wings & laboratories and satanic obgyn schools.

they could even take this a step further and get trans people to identify as satanic and that their trans identification is an expression of religion; protected by law and invalidating any anti trans laws.

they could also apply this to library book bans by saying that the trans and gay books they're banning are texts sacred to their religion and must be displayed like the bible or the ten commandments.

If Lemmy doesn’t solve its core issues I don’t expect it to last long and will move elsewhere sooner than later.

you're absolutely right however those "core issues" are intrinsic qualities that come from the fediverse's tankie roots and they're intend to shed power tripping & bad faith users by design.

those qualities like the "fragmentation" keep the discourse going despite the inevitable power tripping mod/admin. the fediverse effectively makes blocking/banning/defederation pointless because doing so only serves to exclude yourself from the main group chat that everybody else can see.

that "sea of inactive duplicates" is probably the biggest outward sign of the intrinsic qualities that serve to sustain its intended tankie users and repels everyone else. if you embrace the fediverse using it's tankie roots on lemmy, you get a wealth of content from niche communities on an entire spectrum of activity levels like the bustling and relatively large star trek communities with the comunist-socialist/doomer-humor/genz-trans perspective on hexbear; or star trek communities with the sarcasm-mandatory/american-political-commentary/propaganda-speak/anarcho-communist perspective on lemmygrad; or star trek communities with the center-right-leaning/moderate/capitalist perspectives from the reddit fueled instances like .world onward all the way to the other end of that activity level spectrum to even deeper niche communities that you could also learn about for yourself if it weren't for banning/block/defederating.

the relatively large user increase from the reddit diaspora has effectively turned the lemmyverse into a digital version of an american center-right mainstrain group gentrifying a tankie digital lemmy neighborhood whose plumbing was built to ensure that no one person/group from the entirety of the leftists spectrum can control/dominate the discourse and that plumbing is going to do it's job and push away the self sorted and mostly inactive liberal echo chamber users.

it's all effectively like digital anti-homeless architecture (eg builtin spikes and split public benches); but with a focus on users who try to power trip when solely permitting nothing but rigidly moderate perspectives through banning/blocking/defederation and only the people too unpleasantly rigid in their world views will be the ones to move on elsewhere; but only to discover that no reddit diaspora has ever survived and they'll end up going back to reddit or sign up for future enshitification with bluesky; where they will do this diaspora thing all over again in the future.

in the long run, the most fortunate thing about this diaspora was that the massive userbase bump was as big as it could be and the political makeup as well suited as possible compared to the other previous reddit diasporas; this effectively guarantees that everyone that could be here to enjoy these leftists safe spaces is already here now and also gives the feddiverse the best likeliest chance for any reddit diaspora to survive.

i once felt the same way about the lemmyverse you do and when i first joined as a reddit refugee. i spent most of my time on .world and the inactive diet reddit clones. eventually .world started defederating at first with hexbear and later with lemmygrad; the controversy peaked my curiosity due to the virulently and almost irrationally strong opinions from the reddit refugees and reading about it has begun to show me how propagandized i am as an american despite thinking that i wasn't as a leftist.

like martin luther king jr wrote about in Letter from Birmingham Jail: moderates have a shallow understanding and the information contained in those instances & known by its users that moderate users ban/block/defedrate from on lemmy have lots of information that edifies that shallow understanding. the moderate users' collective desire to maintain that shallow understanding is going to drive them away from lemmy and these leftists safe spaces are now as fortified as possible to keep chugging along ready to accept future bluesky refugees during their own future enshittification induced diasporas.

are you me? lol

i'm likewise seeking a passport and the bureaucratic maze inspires oddly conflicting emotions.

I’ve got smile lines and the beginnings of crows feet, I am weathered! Why am it getting carded now

i've learned recently that i wear tank tops revealing enough that the perpetual double nip slip got me kicked out of a grocery store; so i know that it's impossible to not see my iron grey hirsute upper body in addition to the copious weight loss induced and age defining face wrinkles that make me unrecognizable on the identification that they use to card me with.

tldr: rents will go down once landlords are unable to find willing renters for a long enough period of time that the petite landlords will start to need the rent money and begin accepting smaller rents; which their algorithms say is in 2026.

i didn't know that existed for smartwatches.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record: THANK YOU!!!