Non-profit, not-for-profit, “lifestyle” companies, and so much more - yeah.

Even Boeing was an entirely different company before it bought out that other one, then ended up with the CEO of the former, failed business, somehow in charge of the successful one that bought it (due to some kind of sex scandal or something iirc where the CEO of Boeing had to step down so they handed the reigns of power to the other guy). And that transition into the former style did not happen overnight - they moved corporate headquarters away from the engineering facilities, so that the managers would not be “distracted” by trifling concerns like whether the planes can actually fly. It’s a really fucking tragic story, depicting how that other guy basically managed to “fail upwards” and take the entirety of not only one military contracting airline with him, but then it looks like all of Boeing as well. :-( It definitely reveals that there are foundational, fundamental cracks in the system itself, which allowed this to come to pass.

Everyone has different skills. Some are good at thinking, and spend enormous amounts of time at improving that skill. Others… don’t. Which would be fine, if they weren’t the ones in charge - e.g. claiming to be Pro-Life while killing people.

If you are interested and haven’t done this deep dive yet, Innuendo Studios’ The Alt-Right Playbook goes into imho the perfect amount of depth to explain so much about how people fall for such logical traps. And Ian Danskin is a fucking international treasure - his other series on e.g. Protagony I cannot recommend highly though (edit: WHAT, I meant to say ENOUGH - I cannot recommend it highly ENOUGH! It is a freaking AWESOME video!!!).

Anyway, my unasked-for thought is that I would guess that you feel frustrated bc you have unrealistically high “expectations” of them. Lower them - they simply are not capable of doing what you can do, and while yes a good deal of that is choice/nurture, a lot of it is innate/nature as well.

Ofc, do what you want and more importantly feel how you wish, but I hope this suggestion helps!:-)

As always, the video is just over 10 minutes long. And it zooms in on the face. Yeah, suddenly I just don’t care enough to finish this adventure. Downvote me if you wish - I’ve never not been disappointed whenever I ignore those signs and push through anyway.

Bill Gates I guarantee you could have hidden this if he had wanted to btw.

I am so sorry, to hear of this loss of your sanity. RIP your brain.

Thanks for sharing the link:-).

We are edukashunal:-)

So, there’s that then, to look forward to… :-|

It does not appear so for me, with Ublock origin on Firefox.

Seems

Legit

So then…

The puppet is female?

And don’t forget about all the (literally) record-breaking temperatures, like that day where the Artic spiked 39 C / 70 F in a single day (article). Ahhh good times… Hey, listen to all the bugs outside? Such quiet indeed.

There are some places on the Fediverse where intellectual discourse - and honest questions - are outright welcomed. Sadly, whenever communism is brought up in such a prominent community, it summons the trolls. “They” have decided that it is to be thus, and with their numbers they enforce their will upon the rest of us.

It was this way on Reddit too, towards the end, and even more so now. Also X - these latter two more from far-right than far-left but whatever they claim to believe, their attitudes seem to be the same: the consent of others matters little to them (edit: actually that is probably not true - it seems to only embolden them further to think about overriding those; if you go into their spaces and read their chatter you will see this for yourself).

I have some high hopes for platform alternatives to Lemmy - including Piefed, Mbin, and Sublinks - that will allow for some larger-scale changes to facilitate further separation from at least that particular source. But for now, if you do a Lemmy search for the keyword “tankie” (yes it’s a pejorative but… this is a search, and it’s what people use), you will find many, Many, MANY posts on this topic.

It is probably the single biggest division in all of Lemmy - and imho at least (+ that of MANY others, including Reddit mods of major subs as you will read) it is the single thing that prevented Lemmy from going mainstream, back during the Rexodus. “They” don’t want to hear “Western propaganda” on “their” platform, and vice versa, except almost every admin across the entirety of the Fediverse has refused to defederate from all of the “tankie” instances (notably, lemmy.cafe is the only one that blocks from all 3 - lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, and lemmy.ml - though the much milder midwest.social is still federated).

Is that possible? With lemmygrad.ml being defederated from Lemmy.World I mean, where this community is located. They could always use alts ofc, e.g. from lemmy.ml.

Wait… do you mean to tell me… that we are not all furries!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Literally every food has negatives as well as positives, so if that were the definition of superfood then superfoods do not exist, as others here are also saying.

Oatmeal has a ton of positives though, and it’s often considered a superfood - at least often enough to warrant a mention and a deeper look.

I did not see it mentioned so I’ll add: meme generator on imgflip. It’s probably easier to just make your own, but that one works from a mobile phone:-).

Oatmeal, perhaps surprisingly.

No…t entirely.

There is a lot of extremist propaganda here - e.g. advocating for literal murder (just search for the word “guillotine” to quickly get an idea of what I mean). Also, if you criticize Russia or China on lemmy.ml, or try to claim that e.g. genocidal practices happen (even share your second-hand accounting of Uyghur family members) you will get banned from communities that you’ve never even heard of across the entire instance, with no prior warning.

The “funny” part there is that both Russia and China are capitalist nations, not communist. It helps to think about children talking about what they think (or rather wish) communism is, rather than the real world. So they’ll tell you to read certain books, while studiously ignoring e.g. that the Tiananmen Square massacre actually did take place, i.e. they cherry pick and only talk as if they care about it, rather than actually doing so. Think Truth Social, but claiming to be leftist rather than right.

But e.g. there’s also Star Trek memes, and… well I am sure there are other things too, somewhere!?:-D More seriously, each instance has its own focus, none of which (anymore) is “conservative”, all of which is left leaning, but the vast majority of which is not extremist. Mander.xyz for instance has some fantastic scientific content.

Check out !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca - I refer back to it often, e.g. to remember how to do things like use links to communities from different Fediverse instances. I wish it, or something like it at least, would be shared with everyone, but Lemmy is extremely primitive when it comes to such things (case in point, if you go to lemmy.ml, visit their sidebar, and click “What is lemmy.ml”, it takes you to a post that does not exist).

I have been advocating for labeling such communities and instances - that way, like porn, people can enjoy it all they like while also being friendly enough to let others know what’s present therein, and that way we can get along better. However extremists famously resist labeling themselves as such, treating their own views as the sole correct one and rather it is everyone else - yes literally the entire rest of the fucking world - that is “different”. So instead, each person has to find out mostly on their own what these subjects are all about. Kudos for sticking around long enough to do so.