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Bans, removals, and the inability to mod
  • You're now banned.

  • The one constant through all the years

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  • This is a worry and problem I've never had and don't really understand. One of the joys of social media (including the fediverse) is that you're judged by what you say and who you are, not what you look like. As a lifelong fat slob and general ugly person, I appreciate that.

    I welcome anyone bright enough to chat intelligently, regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, gender, religion, disability, age, etc.

  • Scalise says he's a unifier. The current state of the GOP will test that skill
  • It is folly to cover Scalise — or most republicans — in this way, as if what they're doing is normal.

  • Jamie Dimon says the next generation of employees will work 3.5 days a week and live to 100 years old
  • Jamie Dimon is a wealthy old fart who never worked a day in his plush lazy life. What he says interests me less than analyzing my neighbor's dog's poop as its eaten by bugs.

  • AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND @lemmy.world DougHolland @lemmy.ml

    My daughter and her friends were saying they were Satanists to piss off the "normal" kids. So I had her look up TST's 7 fundamental tenets. Now she really is one.

    lemmy.ml My daughter and her friends were saying they were Satanists to piss off the "normal" kids. So I had her look up TST's 7 fundamental tenets. Now she really is one. - Lemmy

    For those unfamiliar, The Satanic Temple is an atheistic organization. Here are its tenets. I often ask people what they disagree with and get very little in the way of meaningful response. >THERE ARE SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL TENETS > >I > >One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all cr...

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5764032

    > For those unfamiliar, The Satanic Temple is an atheistic organization. Here are its tenets. I often ask people what they disagree with and get very little in the way of meaningful response. > > >THERE ARE SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL TENETS > > > >I > > > >One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason. > > > >II > > > >The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions. > > > >III > > > >One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone. > > > >IV > > > >The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own. > > > >V > > > >Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs. > > > >VI > > > >People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused. > > > >VII > > > >Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word. > > https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/the-satanic-temple-tenets/there-are-seven-fundamental-tenets > > >DO YOU WORSHIP SATAN? > > > >No, nor do we believe in the existence of Satan or the supernatural. The Satanic Temple believes that religion can, and should, be divorced from superstition. As such, we do not promote a belief in a personal Satan. To embrace the name Satan is to embrace rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and archaic tradition-based superstitions. Satanists should actively work to hone critical thinking and exercise reasonable agnosticism in all things. Our beliefs must be malleable to the best current scientific understandings of the material world — never the reverse. > > https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/faq > > She's 13. Does anyone know if she's allowed to become a member? The website isn't clear on that.

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    Guantanamo Bay Detainee Sues Former Psychologists in New Torture Case
  • And maybe some time before he dies, let Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn out of this American dungeon.

  • Is there something like infinite scrolling on Lemmy?
  • Whoa. That totally Keanues me. I had thought of the lack of infinite scrolling as a bug, a feature I'd hoped was in development, but this srsly rejiggers my ears and everything in between.

    I already spend too much time online, so ... I'm with @dessalines@lemmy.ml — no infinite scrolling, please.

  • Wiener Linien researches parcel delivery service involving public transport users
  • Seems clever and feasible to me. I suppose you'd need background checks on the passenger-couriers, but after that small hurdle, unless it's an urgent package like a pizza, transit riders could get anything across any city in an hour or so.

    Where do I sign up?

  • Bernie Sanders urges left to back Biden to stop ‘very dangerous’ Trump
  • Everywhere I go I'm usually the oldest person in the room, and I've been hearing that line since long before I'd ever heard of Donald Trump.

    Always, the left has to support whatever bland middle-of-the-road candidate the Democrats put forward, candidates who seem idea-free and utterly without passion, because the Republicans have a terrifying candidate. Gotta take boring over terrifying.

    And Bernie's right. I ain't arguing.

    Sure is a bucket of swill we're always forced to drink from, though.

  • This post knows where you're viewing it from (Lemmy doesn't proxy external images) [ARCHIVED]
  • "You are viewing this from Firefox on Windows."

    I should worry that this info is exposed?

  • Most of my Reddit comments are about Lemmy
  • I couldn't stay on Discord even long enough to be treated like shit. It has such an unintuitive and clumsy interface, at least for an old fart like me.

  • A little meme for ya
  • I am grumpy today and also tired of Twilight Zone memes, but this one made me larff. :) Thanks

  • Sunak’s family firm signed a billion-dollar deal with BP before PM opened new North Sea licences
  • If that's true, mega congratulations. I don't know much about the way things are in the UK.

    If someone said that about my U S of A, though, I'd chuckle.

  • Sunak’s family firm signed a billion-dollar deal with BP before PM opened new North Sea licences
  • How utterly ordinary and predictable. The only thing unusual is, such deals usually don't make headlines.

    This is why we're doomed.

  • Better Comment Collapsing
  • There's a Firefox add-on that does this, but only for Reddit, of course. Click the line and you're on to the next top-level comment.

    One of the few things I miss about Reddit (and of course, it's not even Reddit).

  • Road maze stumps drivers in French village
  • A novel approach. It would slow me down, certainly, if I was driving there, or walking.

  • That's the difference between me and your god.

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    One more nail in the reddit coffin
  • Wow, you are the correct person to be a moderater, and I hope your patience holds out. OP has provided an incomprehensible picture with a nonsensical headline, and your response is so very polite. Me, I'd just roll my eyes and scroll away.

    I'm from Reddit, so I have to add: I'm serious, not joking.

  • Hey Lemmy, where are my karma point?
  • I've been here a month after 15 years at the other place, and it's an improvement.

    Sorry you got clusterbombed, though. You asked a fair question, something I wondered too when I first got here.

  • Hey Lemmy, where are my karma point?
  • Bad bot. OP is a newbie asking an honest question, and for that they get booted by a bot?

    It would make sense to notify a human mod when a post is drowning in downvotes like this one, but it's a mistake to trust the bot to hand out suspensions.

  • Hey Lemmy, where are my karma point?
  • We don't do karma here, one of Lemmy's major improvements over Reddit.