Yeeaaaah, I miss the dark humor, people here are sometimes a bit too literal. To be fair, they have their reasons, from being neurodivergent to being from cultures that just don’t do dark humor. Our All feed really is everyone.

Weeeelllll… technically there are a couple of Lemmy cliches, but you make a good point. Canned bot responses to farm karma are certainly awful, with the only human exception being “look up en passant” because that was intentional predicability.

So what, Irvine?

Around here, you can say what you really meant quite outright and most instances won’t blink (except, ironically, the one you and I are on got a little heat for this exact thing, lol, they want to be most like Reddit).

True, I’m wondering how many neolibs and moderates would prefer other options. Republicans likely won’t care much about the primary, but those groups do make up a fair amount of California too. Though I don’t even remember who Gavin was up against.

I do remember the Governator, though. Ugh

I’m down for Governor Porter, but I also think DNC’ll just back Harris following their usual bullshit “she earned it” bs. Honestly Porter is definitely more aligned with the standard Californian, especially after Harris moved even farther right trying to appeal to the general US (but let’s be clear, she was still right of Porter even before that).

Bad, no, bored, yes. I generally just keep up with some web comics on there but as they at least move to BlueSky, that’s less an issue. Plus the quality has dropped. I don’t expect them to come to Lemmy, even if we do have a couple of good, very-Lemmy oriented comic artists.

Ironically, a lot of stock trading already is done by bot, it’s a problem from a while ago. Not LLM, of course, much simpler but it’s why it sometimes goes hive mind.

Man, I want to be at that shareholder meeting; “how about we just don’t have a CEO and pocket the savings?”

To be fair, they really ramped it up on Reddit, however I think Lemmy just depends on the community and instance. I mean, hell, 196 split up kind of over this stuff (or at least, that was the initial trigger imo).

If you find yourself censored on World, there’s quite a few other options (although usually farther left or tankie). Folks just need to host their own versions of things, although we rarely see more conservative folks bothering. Given how federation works, it’s actually a wonder there isn’t a Truth Social style community out there for most of us to block. >.>

Fake pizza, sure, but doesn’t imply it’s bad. Plus ironically, you can find Italian style pizza in the US if you look for it.

That said, I’ll still apologize for Dominos, Pizza Hut, et. al. for fast-foodizing the concept of pizza.

Social identity is key to survival, so it’s no surprise how resistant people are.

An old mentor of mine at UCLA did a study where they put people in an fMRI machine and monitored brain function when feeling rejected during a digital game of catch. When the other two “players” (NPCs) started only tossing between each other and excluding the participant, the part of the brain responsible for physical pain triggered.

Not being rejected from others around you is so important to human survival that evolution hardwired our brain to feel pain at the slightest hint of being rejected. Other experiments found similar, we forego an awful lot to stay in good graces with our society.

I’m not actually sure, but the milk I buy isn’t and most milk I’ve seen doesn’t seem to be given they expire in days so I’m guessing not. Nutritionally, it doesn’t matter but it does impact the taste at the cost of lasting a long time and I have tasted bad milk before from the big box stores.

Oh. More or less what I expected, but still absolutely horrible.

It’s not like we don’t have mod drama but at least when you’re federated, stupid decisions get limited to a single instance and others can simply defederate. Does allow for pretty… erm, interesting views you don’t see on Reddit.

Oh no, he found out countries play by Capture-the-Flag rules with our founding documents. He’s going to hand it over like it’s the deed to America and we’ll all be cooked— cooked, I say!

Don’t give them ideas, this is already five times more taxing on the environment and they’ll gladly double it to avoid these memes, lol.

Plus… C’mon man, humans should know better than to think it’s true. I know I’m wrong saying that, but still.

Really? I nearly gave up a few months ago, especially since rebate was pretty limited when I checked. I might still hold off though, I’m still worried about… well, everything, right now.

Product of the times isn’t a great way to put it, but you can certainly make the argument that most people have shades of grey morality.

Science can back you up, too, as I teach social psychology and when you dig in, you find that normative human nature is pretty complex but generally very supportive for in-group and mildly empathetic even with strangers. It’s only when you dehumanize a group do you get the worst behavior, and in all four cases you see that, be it slaves or indigenous people.

When you look at those times, it’s people who recognized their humanity that ended up in the just side of history.

0% in this economy? Interest rates are still up, it’s been hard to find any 0%s after rate hikes, they really are desperate.