You too!

Eddie Teddie

Not much when you use an already trained model, actually.

Migrants brought us gays that destroy our country

Does it, though?

Hey, welcome to Lemmy! Hope you like it here :)

As in everywhere on the Fediverse, there is no consistent etiquette for every place, as different people concentrate in different places. But overall, if you’re nice to others, they will be nice to you!

For the most part, Lemmy is politically left, LGBTQIA+ friendly, privacy-minded, welcomes copyleft and piracy, loves to get geeky. The most loud audiences are IT crowd and scientists, but people from all walks of life are present.

If you don’t fit into something, it’s alright - you cannot be globally banned by anyone but your instance admin, and even then you can move on to another instance. Downvotes also mean nothing and don’t downrank your posts and comments. There’s no karma system - technically, servers do record your up- and downvotes, but they don’t affect anything at all.

Still, be nice and you’ll be warmly welcomed by the community. Here, you have a real chance to become a legend!

United States Department of Defense

Nah, just…make them work regular hours for a pay of an ordinary employee. They could take extra hours to earn more and demonstrate to everyone how to “work hard and earn big”. This will be cruelest punishment they can get.

Oh, and put them on a KPI and control their work productivity.

lemmy.today is federated both ways with pretty much all of Lemmy, from .world to tankie triad to beehaw

Finding better microbes

Alan Walker

The dude has just seen one tune go viral and decided “why not make ALL of my music exactly like this?”

I see where this is coming from, and from that angle, it might seem (and sometimes be) noble.

The problem arises when the oppressed group starts falsely lumping everyone outside the group into oppressors, which so often happens around gendered issues, among others. So many times I’ve seen women in such spaces lashing out at men at large and then bringing this mentality to the world outside the group.

“Men can’t be discriminated against - they are oppressors” “Men are abusive by nature” “Men are unsafe to be around” “Men are the problem” “It is always men” “Sure, a man might just be a chill person, but he always carries privilege and is thereby part of the problem” “Men go through different socialization that breaks them and makes them abusive”

These are just few of the arguments I’ve seen in the wild, on several occasions.

To be clear: it’s not by any means exclusive to women. There are plenty of examples of men grouping together on much the same grounds, spreading similar false narratives about women. And this is something that shouldn’t happen, ever, under any premise. It erodes our ability to build bridges, to communicate, to find actual solutions - and to support each other, whatever the gender distribution of any given place is. And currently, Lemmy is certainly not the worst on the scale, even though it could fare better.

The problem is not being allowed somewhere. Women are allowed pretty much everywhere, too.

What is inadequate is building what are essentially hate groups and not letting the opposite side defend themselves.

This turns to unnecessary and brutal radicalization that is antithetic to a productive change.

Much like the original.

Turns out, a community exclusive to some gender almost inevitably turns into a hate pool, exactly because the most common scenario in which they are needed is “let’s shit on someone and not let them defend themselves”.

Naturally, those excluded find a way to get into the conversation to stand up for themselves. When men come together to spread hateful takes on women, this naturally puts women in a position to defend, respond, and possibly retaliate. The same works the other way around.

And honestly - it’s how it should be. Those spreading hate and silencing all other voices should not be given platform for it. Let’s remain constructive and keep the conversation going. Division and hate hurts and ends up gross for everyone.

GPL > BSD

I cannot express how much peace of mind switching to Linux has granted me.

“Windows now has this horrible feature! Windows now breaks user experience! Windows has ads shoved everywhere!”

And here I am, comfortably sipping my cup of tea and watching the world burn from afar.

This.

Honestly, I’d rather not have copyright at all. The problem is not that copyright law doesn’t apply, it’s that a particular kind of wealthy businessmen are shifting our policies to fit their needs.

Quite unexpected. I love soy sauce in a classic tomato-cucumber salad, but soy sauce + beetroot is something I cannot comprehend. Maybe I’ll give it a spin, though!

On the other side, being killed by a bear is not particularly healthy