Paper 100%. It’s just a better reading experience for me. I can flip around more easily. I enjoy how it feels in my hand.

Give me a devent chunk of the company so I make proportional profits. Otherwise, no thanks.

Well to be fair it probably can send dank memes, as long as a human already created the memes

Is it your property and this is a marketing attempt?

no

I don’t understand why you posted in this comm.

because it’s funny and people here like things that are funny

Do you think the fediverse has a civility problem?

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: social media (and humans) have a civility problem. And I wonder how much of it is astroturfed. When Trump was first running for the 2016 election, social media was flooded with racism. You disagreed with one twitter egg, and five more were like “debate me bro” and they had all these stats about race-science, and rhetoric to misconstrue the nature of equality and the value of liberalism. I don’t think it was grassroots. I think it was Steve Bannon’s troll army or some other coordinated institution. Here on Lemmy I keep seeing violent leftist rhetoric, and I also wonder if it’s feds, or reddit’s goons undermining the competition. They’ll post “murder all pigs” or “shoot fascists” and get like a thousand upvotes, and their arguments are belligerent and idiotic, and they pile on you for disagreeing. Feels coordinated. Feels like 2016 honestly.

is there anything we can do about it?

Downvote, report, block. Don’t engage (trying to remember that myself). But I bet they’re still driving people away.

And pages upon pages describing mountains. The Hobbit was an amazing book though.

Yeah they were way too emotional in the movie. I much prefer the seriousness of the book where they acted like mature adults. And Gandalf was more badass in the books, and Gimli wasn’t just comic relief in the books. But the visuals were amazing in the movie. 10/10 for visuals.

They’re literally trying to sell this land, with a “for inquiries” sign. I’m showing respect for their game.

Also, 99% of this sub is just memes, not shit posts at all. Look how sincere and mean and hurt you are.

Your shit attitude towards others

Um, that’s you. Lighten up.

Yep

Dude will be living very well when the right property management company responds to that “for inquiries” sign.

The “for inquiries” sign suggests they want to sell. The fucked up cars (including one with four flat tires) suggests they want this eyesore to lower surrounding property value and further incentivize the sale. Also the house is visibly falling apart. I hope the owners get a decent price. I’m not criticizing. I just think it’s an interesting story in one picture, so I’m sharing.

That’s not a legit reason to ban someone.

Free speech is chaotic specifically because it allows chaotic speech. So free speech being chaotic doesn’t depend on the speaker’s opinions. A particular instance of speech being chaotic depends on the speaker’s opinion. But free speech is chaotic because it’s all about allowing a chaos of speech.

What depends on my opinions?

I’m pretty sure free speech is chaotic. I’m 100% for it, but it’s chaotic.

In relation to “comeuppance,” that stuff is not entirely relevant. Frightened goons and croneys/lackeys still show “respect” (and probably feel it as they understand it). They’ll also act out the hostile wishes of the cruel bastard they follow. Comeuppance doesn’t follow my wishes through them. If I want a good life, I can’t get hung up on whether they get what they “deserve.” I’m focused on my own things.

And yeah, I’ve had one of those guys literally yelling at me that “the only respect is fear!” I disagree, but his friends obey him and I’m a loner. There will be no “comeuppance.” That’s resentfully imagining revenge into the universe. That’s how you become warped and hostile. I have things to do. I’m not interested in “comeuppance.”

Actions have consequences, but if you’re a cruel bastard the consequences might be that people give you more respect than you “deserve,” and if you’re smart about it then you can manipulate and torture people your whole life. I’ve seen the “worst” people, totally abusive and dishonest, commanding the most respect. They have no conscience and they spit on people who don’t “fall in line.” I just avoid them.

Stupidity and bad luck bring about “comeuppance.” There’s no such thing as “deserve,” at least not objectively, not to the universe.

Just do the exercise in reverse

I need more than to just keep working the problem. I’m middle aged and living with family again, I’ve always been poor even though I excel at all my jobs and I have a degree. And there’s no such thing as a “conclusion,” except death, so what I’m working at is stable ongoing engagement in an arena where I can maintain that engagement. Still trying to think what that can look like. Thanks for the encouragement.

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