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  • Go touch grass.

    There's no need for this, seriously. I get that it's a gaming community but we're trying to be better than the usual toxic mess, right?

  • Thanks for the thought - we did a little of this over the last few years but it wasn't working for us. One of the more important parts of religious practice for both of us is the communal aspect, and as we live in a mid-size city in the Southern U.S. there aren't very many opportunities outside of a church setting for strong, long-term community building. Not saying there aren't any, but it's difficult to build a strong network when third places have essentially disappeared. The Episcopal Church is working for us, at least right now, as a place to build those networks and practice our faith without having to compromise on moral stances that are critical to us.

  • I'm always a little reluctant to post about religious topics on Beehaw because there's a pretty strong anti-christian sentiment on Lemmy in general which is, to be fair, entirely understandable.

    I grew up in the "Church of Christ" and my wife and I stayed part of our CoC congregation for a long time mostly because of the support network and personal connections we had built up there, even though we had a lot of problems with evangelical theology and the increasing conservatism. A few years ago we wound up in the crosshairs of a group of deeply unpleasant people because of some comments we made in support of LGBTQ folks, and ended up spiritually homeless for a while. We eventually ended up at a local Episcopal church and while it's been a big adjustment for us in some ways - we definitely weren't used to high church liturgy - we've really come to love it there. It's not without problems, but we feel like we're able to wrestle with our beliefs and still have the support of the community, and we've made some close connections there as well.

    Theologically I'm all over the place, so don't ask me for a firm stance on anything - I'm just making this shit up as I go 😅

  • I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you're not intending to make this assertion, but as a warning: transphobia, homophobia, and misogyny are not nice, and are not tolerated on Beehaw.

  • I've wondered before if my perception of headlights being so much brighter was them really getting brighter, cars getting taller, my eyes getting older, or a combination of all those (and other) factors. It seems like there might be a few things going on, but it does definitely look like lights are getting a lot brighter, and I'm obviously not the only one to be frustrated by it...

  • If I recall correctly, the main reason we defederated from those instances at the time was the sheer volume of spam we were getting from users of those instances. While we do sometimes have a need to moderate users from larger instances like Lemm.ee, it's not currently at a volume that we can't handle, from what I've seen.

    As always, as a moderator of several Beehaw communities, I would encourage you to report any comment or post you see that isn't up to the standards of Beehaw.org. Don't assume someone else is going to do it, and don't assume that moderators are always watching every interactions closely - we're all doing this in our free time and have other responsibilities. We may not take action on every report - sometimes things are borderline or the community has already pushed back and we feel like things are in hand - but I guarantee someone is looking at and considering every one.

  • If I recall correctly, the main reason we defederated from those instances at the time was the sheer volume of spam we were getting from users of those instances. While we do sometimes have a need to moderate users from larger instances like Lemm.ee, it's not currently at a volume that we can't handle, from what I've seen.

    As always, as a moderator of several Beehaw communities, I would encourage you to report any comment or post you see that isn't up to the standards of Beehaw.org. Don't assume someone else is going to do it, and don't assume that moderators are always watching every interactions closely - we're all doing this in our free time and have other responsibilities. We may not take action on every report - sometimes things are borderline or the community has already pushed back and we feel like things are in hand - but I guarantee someone is looking at and considering every one.

  • It was very early on, the first week or so after it released. I'm sure they've fixed a lot of the bugs but honestly I just haven't really been motivated to try it out again.

  • I tried to play London and it crashed constantly. Now, that's not all that different an experience from playing any Bethesda game, but it did kind of kill any interest I had in the mod.

  • For what it's worth, I appreciate this. I'm not in the right headspace for the usual circular firing squad right now.

  • Hey @UngodlyAudrey@beehaw.org, I know we don't really know each other and I'm just a random dude on the internet but I'm shattered for you and other folks like you that are rightly scared by this outcome. I'm raising kids in this nightmare and I'm terrified of what they're going to face growing up. I don't know what to do either. I know this is all empty words but it's what I've got right now.

  • Yeah Firefox on Android is extremely so for me at times. I've never noticed it specifically being on the first page load after a while, but I haven't been paying that much attention. I use firefox on mobile so that I can install ublock, because when I've tried to use a DNS-based solution in the pass I ran into all kinds of issues with battery drain, but the experience does leave a little to be desired at times.

  • I saw this headline and expected something very different than what I got, and I'm really glad. I think the last decade has made me really cynical about technology and the internet, for some good reasons, to the point where a story like this is almost surprising. I found myself a little caught off guard by how emotional I got while reading it. Thank you for posting this.

  • This post isn't really on-topic for c/technology. Please post it in c/Politics instead.

  • Just jumping in here to remind folks to Be Nice. We've had to clean up some comments in here already and if issues continue the thread will be locked.

  • This source was founded and is fully funded by the Heritage Foundation, and this article comes from the staff of the far-right Daily Caller. This is not a reliable source and anything coming from them should be taken with an entire salt mine.

  • I suspect their argument would be that they are more like a flea market. If you buy something fake or faulty at a flea market then the flea market probably isn't liable, the seller is. Now, I don't think this argument holds water, especially in light of Amazon's practice of combining all of the stock of a single product into one place, regardless of who the seller is, so that there's no way to know if you'll actually get product from that seller.

  • I don't think you're trying to be xenophobic with this joke, but I feel like you should know that it's probably not landing the way you want it to...

  • Hi @rosethornRangerTTV. I can see you've just recently joined our instance, so let me first say: Welcome!

    While you're here, please keep in mind the ethos of Beehaw when interacting with other folks in the comments - Be(e) Nice. We're working hard to make Beehaw a pleasant little corner of the internet that is welcoming and inclusive.

    I personally don't have any issues with something like this being posted in !politics, but @coyotino's question is valid. I think in the future it wouldn't hurt to include a question (or questions) related to your ideas to help get discussion started, or link to an article expanding on the idea that you're interested in discussing. Regardless, I'm glad you're here, and I hope you enjoy the community that we're working to build.

  • There's some research that indicates that there's a "contagion" effect with mass shootings that increases the more they are publicized, and that at least some types of mass killers seem to be motivated by a desire for notoriety. The FBI has backed a campaign for media to minimize coverage of mass killers' names and faces and to focus more on stories about victims in an effort to reduce these particular types of mass killings.

  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Technology@Beehaw.org, Community Culture, and Moderation

    Hey Beeple and visitors to Beehaw: I think we need to have a discussion about !technology@beehaw.org, community culture, and moderation. First, some of the reasons that I think we need to have this conversation.

    1. Technology got big fast and has stayed Beehaw's most active community.
    2. Technology gets more reports (about double in the last month by a rough hand count) than the next highest community that I moderate (Politics, and this is during election season in a month that involved a disastrous debate, an assassination attempt on a candidate, and a major party's presumptive nominee dropping out of the race)
    3. For a long time, I and other mods have felt that Technology at times isn’t living up to the Beehaw ethos. More often than I like I see comments in this community where users are being abusive or insulting toward one another, often without any provocation other than the perception that the other user’s opinion is wrong.

    Because of these reasons, we have decided tha

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    Harris picks Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, AP sources say

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    I've seen a lot of ink spilled recently over the Harris campaign's recent adoption of the tactic of calling Trump and his cronies "weird". There's a lot of hand-wringing over the Democrats ceding the high ground or being unserious about serious matters, but this article, and especially the source material it links to by Sdrja Popovic (a non-violent Serbian revolutionary during the Milošević regime) about the power of humor in non-violent movements, really changed my thinking on this.

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    Doxxing and callouts on Beehaw politics

    Hey folks. I just want to check in with the community about a post that was recently removed. My intention is absolutely not to create drama or stir anything up, but I'd like to make sure you all understand my reasoning for removing the post. Also, I'm aware that I'm not as good at articulating these kinds of things as some of our folks, so don't expect a classic Beehaw philosophy post here.

    The post in questions was a link to a twitter thread providing evidence of the IRL identity of "comic" "artist" stonetoss, who is unquestionably a huge piece of shit and a neo-nazi, or at least something so indistinguishable from one that the difference is meaningless.

    The post provoked some discussion in the Mod chat and several of us, myself included, were on the fence about it. I understand that there are arguments both for and against naming and calling out people like stonetoss. I find arguments in both directions somewhat convincing, but ultimately the thing that a number of us expressed wa

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    The Personal, Political Art of Board-Game Design | The New Yorker

    Mirror, in case you hit a paywall: https://archive.is/iCYt4

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    General Megathread for Elon Musk Nonsense and Twitter News

    Hey folks -

    The seemingly never-ending flood of Musk/Twitter news and commentary is getting to some of our users (and some of the mods, too), so we've decided to create a general Megathread for all things related to Elon Musk and X/Twitter.

    This thread will be a general Musk catch-all, so we're including news about Musk acting the fool as related to any of his companies (SpaceX, Tesla, Boring). News about those companies that don't involve Elon can be posted outside this thread.

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    DJ Cummerbund - My Hips Aren't Alright | Shakira, Offspring, others.

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    Setup for my first game of Star Wars Legions

    A friend recently brought over his Legions minis that he's been working on and we played a skirmish match.

    The image linked is the setup from some time mid-game.

    The matchup was Republic Clone Troopers (him) vs. CIS Droid Troopers (me). The Droids took it in the end, mostly due to General Grievous being an absolute truck.

    I found the game a lot of fun to play. We've played a bunch of Fantasy Flight's games - Runewars, X-wing, and Imperial Assault among them - and I'm starting to recognize a lot of common mechanics among their games. This was was relatively snappy and I enjoyed the command/activation mechanic.

    Minis and terrain were painted by my friend, who is a much better painter than me, lol. I was really blown away by the ship in the center of the play area, which he kitbashed from this Zurg Mothership toy from the Lightyear movie:

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    Hyundai subsidiary has used child labor at Alabama factory