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That society was completely built around men’s prerogatives and therefore anything bad about society should be blamed on men.
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/c/newusers would be glad to partner up
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It happened sometimes, but it was easier to filter those people out. Now those people have become the norm. Tinder absolutely is to blame for this.
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Tinder ruined dating. It’s made interactions very transactional.
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Several (attempted) murderers have owned copies of The Catcher in the Rye.
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Ragebait like noahgettheboat, idiotsincars, publicfreakout. It’s the Jerry Springer of the 2020’s.
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AMPutator, RSS bot, timezone bot, a bot to provide a Reddit archive URL when someone posts a Reddit URL so we don’t have to send them traffic.
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In a similar vein, a bot that links to a timezone converter.
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A lot of places in the US have (had?) small, weekly, free newspapers that are actually pretty good. They get by by being full of ads, often the kinds of ads more family-friendly outlets wouldn’t publish.
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And yet many of their colleagues want to believe long covid doesn’t exist.
Seems the social media giants are committing seppuku. Will the fediverse and Discord be the next wave?
A community for onboarding new users. [New Users](/c/newusers@lemmy.world) !newusers@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/newusers
# Fediverse Short for “federated universe”. In the first decades of the Internet, it was decentralized. In the 00’s the Web became increasingly commercialized and centralized, largely thanks to social media websites. Fediverse users and services seek to combine the social elements of the modern Web with the dencentralization of the old days. # Threadiverse This is the subset of the fediverse which uses platforms similar to webforums or sites like Reddit and Digg. These services host threaded discussions in various communities. The two main services in the threadiverse are Lemmy and KBin. # Lemmy and KBin Properly speaking, these refer to the entirety of their respective projects; the codebase, all instances, and userbases. To avoid ambiguity, refer to an instance by its entire URL (kbin.*social*, lemmy.*ml*, lemmy.*world*, etc.) # instance Fediverse projects have multiple independent installations on different servers accessible at different URLs. These instances federate with one another, allowing users to read and post to other instances. # home instance The instance on which a user has registered an account. Users posting to a community on their home instance will simply have their username displayed, users posting from another instance will have their username followed by the URL of that instance. # federation and defederation Federation refers to the connections between instances that allow users to read and post to other instances. Federation also occurs between projects such that Lemmy users can post to KBin and vice versa. Mastodon users can also post to Lemmy and KBin. Some instances choose to defederate from others. If Instance A defederates from Instance B, users of B will still be able to view posts from A, and even can post comments on its threads, but these comments and anything else posted by users of B will not be seen by those of A. # community or magazine Communities and magazines are topical forums on an instance, comparable to subreddits. “Magazine” is the KBin-specific term. # devs, admins, and mods Devs maintain the Lemmy and KBin projects. Admins maintain an entire instance and usually one or more also maintain its server. Mods maintain communities. Some instance admins may mod most or all of their instance’s communities, others may take a more hands-off approach. Devs maintain their own instances: lemmy.ml and kbin.social . # Mastodon One of the oldest and most widely-used fediverse projects. It is a microblogging service similar to Twitter.
- [Quick-start Guide to Lemmy and KBin](https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/16414) - [Join-lemmy.org guide](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html) - [dbzer0.com New User’s Guide](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2212) - [Lemmy.world starting guide](https://lemmy.world/post/37906) - [Lemmy guide and F.A.Q.](https://lemm.ee/post/37715) - [Welcome all new users and Reddit refugees!](https://lemmy.world/post/975361) - [A Beginners Guide to Lemmy](https://lemmy.wtf/post/20204) - [What is the Fediverse? (video)](https://framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD) - [Fedi.tips Quick Guide](https://fedi.tips/)
# Fediverse - !fediverse@lemmy.world - !fediverse@lemmy.ml - !fediverse@kbin.social - !fediversenews@kbin.social - !fediversede@feddit.de - https://www.fediverse.to/ # Lemmy & KBin - https://join-lemmy.org/ - https://kbin.pub/ - !lemmy@lemmy.ml - !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml - !kbin@kbin.social - !kbinMeta@kbin.social # Instance-specific - !meta@lemmy.ml - !lemmyworld@lemmy.world - !support@lemmy.world - !main@lemmy.ca - !lemmy_ca_support@lemmy.ca - !meta@sopuli.xyz - !support@beehaw.org - !mander@mander.xyz # Find Communities - https://browse.feddit.de/ - !findacommunity@lemmy.ml - !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca - !FindAKbin@kbin.social - !newcommunities@lemmy.world - !new_communities@mander.xyz - https://lemmyverse.net/ - https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/ # Ask & Tips - !lemmy411@lemmy.ca - !asklemmy@lemmy.ml - !asklemmy@lemmy.world - !AskKbin@kbin.social - !youshouldknow@lemmy.world - !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world # Apps - !lemmyapps@lemmy.world - !jerboa@lemmy.ml - !thunder_app@lemmy.world - !liftoff@lemmy.world - !summit@lemmy.world - !lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca - !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world - !boostforlemmy@lemmy.world - !lemming_app@lemmy.world - !lemmotif@lemmy.world - !ArtemisApp@kbin.social - !slide@feddit.uk - !memmy@lemmy.ml - !mlemapp@lemmy.ml - !olympusapp@sh.itjust.works # Rexxit - !snoocalypse@lemmy.ml - !reddit@lemmy.ml - !RedditMigration@kbin.social - !reddit@kbin.social - !redditwasfun@lemmy.world - https://sub.rehab/ - https://redditmigration.com/ - https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html#1-million-subscribers # Code - https://github.com/LemmyNet - https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin # Other Resources - https://joinfediverse.wiki/ - https://www.search-lemmy.com/
I could list a bunch of general YTers that cover retro games among other gaming topics, but for those who mainly cover retro games I like Big Ole Words, Hungry Goriya, and Video Works.
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How’s Toxic Crusader? I never got a chance to play it.
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It makes me feel old that this is a c/history question.
I think the situations in both of the invader countries is comparable. A small minority of us actively stood up against the obvious propaganda used to justify the Iraq War. We faced some repression from the state, particularly given all of the power-grabbing under the Patriot Act and similar legislation and Bush’s executive orders. But the US still has notional free speech, balance of powers, and rule of law, so most US protesters didn’t face nearly the level of repression as Russian dissidents do.
The responses abroad I think were pretty different. This can largely be chalked up to the US being the sole superpower after 89-91. There were huge protests around the world to the Iraq War. I remember the one in Berlin was particularly large. But despite the massive unpopularity in Western Europe, those governments still joined the “coalition of the willing”. Sanctioning the US would have been unthinkable given its economic status. Russia is far less essential to the world economy. The main thing they have going for them is natural gas exports.
Western views of Iraq and Ukraine were also quite different. Nobody really liked the Saddam Hussein regime (though the US was willing to work with him in the 80’s!). But that didn’t make regime change a good idea. Ukraine has been viewed more favorably as a fledgling liberal democracy. No one would deny it hasn’t had its problems, but it’s preposterous to claim Ukraine is beholden to Neo-Nazis when they have a Jewish president.
The responses of the global left have also been markedly different. In 2003 we were all united in opposing what was clearly an unjustified war of aggression. These days a lot of the Anglophone left has been captured by Russian soft power/ psy ops, despite Russia not even pretending to be communist at this stage. I’ve had to call out a lot of people for repeating Russian talking points that were used to justify the war. The German Linke (Left) party is currently split over their positions on the war. Even weirder is that the far right in the US and Europe are also claiming the title of “anti-war” by tacitly or openly supporting Russia’s actions.
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It was a bug, not a feature.
[Long Reads](/c/longreads@lemmy.world) !longreads@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/longreads Long-form, in-depth, thought-provoking articles about various topics
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The Chicago Boys’ role in Chile’s Pinochet dictatorship really puts the lie to the whole “freedom” angle of neoliberalism. Allying with a guy who rounded up thousands of dissidents and summarily executed them shows their freedom is only for the select few.
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Right-wing libertarians (this is another term with two very different meanings) are neoliberal absolutists. Center-right and center-left politicians usually have to compromise with other sets of ideals. Marijuana decriminalization and legalization is one area where right-wing politicians typically preference the social conservative side over the neoliberal/libertarian side. For a center-left example look at the Affordable Care Act. From the beginning Obama was never going to favor a true nationalized health care plan. He offered compromises within the existing framework like state exchanges.
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