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. >.>

We already have our local celebrities, anyway. And what good does it do them? Beans.

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.

Technically Volvo (and I assume Polestar) are publicly traded but for a while Geely owned it, which is the same as Tencent owning something, etc. It’s still a swedish company and I think because it’s operated out of Sweden, there isn’t the same pushback in the US.

That said, the note doesn’t seem to understand that all those companies are kind of shitty and owned by rich people, except maybe Hyundai?

Heh, probably just needed a more extreme example, like healing crystals. But man, even that ends up tested by researches if for no other reason but to debunk it, lol.

Well, those three things are what a psych teacher told me in community college like, way before I sought out my degree. Not that that should be a ding against her, she taught at pretty competitive 4 years, too.

That said, yours could just be a different framework (e.g. PTSD literature). I personally don’t think that works very well, as it represses the emotion (much like ignoring it would do). You could also argue physical exercise and deep breaths work, too, but again, that’s another framework and one that’s generally taught along with aggression literature.

So far, I’ve stayed in the know on every god damned thing, even going deep enough in some cases to explore the damage caused. It’s stressful, but somebody has to do it and I’m someone less impacted than the targets of this insanity (although I’ve dated a transfem for years and am trained in education policy, so obviously the news gets to me on a personal level).

One lesson about stress: you’ve got three ways to cope: (1) you address the source of the stress (or at least feel like you’re doing something, like protesting). (2) You ignore it with distractions, which is perfectly fine if it’s out of your control, (3) you reframe it, such as “this will pass” or “there’s still good in the world”, etc… All three will reduce stress.

We all do all three, and whichever one you find yourself doing is fine. For example, I feel good by trying to share my knowledge and convince my students to give a shit; I still play video games to relax; and I have told myself plenty of times that, while it’s bad (very, very bad), that as long as we survive we can build back our institutions (and believe me, the DoE is both important and deeply flawed-- as someone who survived a failed k-12 education and got a PhD in spite of it, education reform has always been my dream).

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.

Another tough but not impossible migration for my crew, but there isn’t a good enough alternative yet. Plus they finally got around to fixing streaming on Linux, apparently, and I’m about to swap back once my new m.2 is installed.

I replied to that post, but mostly to remind folks not to take for granted their free time and energy. I can’t afford to run right now since I’m working 3/4 part time and raising two kids mostly on my own, but if you’re ten years younger and aren’t as bogged down by work or family, please do so.

Run in local primaries, be your own AOC and fuck over complacent “safe seat” Dems. I’d love to see a FOSS nerd in office, even if it’s a fucking state comptroller or something. Lol

I got only one, but I didn’t block it so we’ll see.

It’s a shame people can’t just seek out friends at random for real, but in this day and age it’s obviously a scam.

Granted, Lemmy people… idk, I guess a Lemmy friend is the kind you dm when you accidentally break your Linux. Or idk, discuss Marxism? Lol

I like the little butterfly effect details. Blazing Saddles even got a different person hired at this place.

Oh, and Godzilla is real.

I’m down for spreading an LLM that is constantly very wrong. My students are driving me nuts trying to get away with passing off GPT as their own work and this would at least make me laugh.

I think I’d just go to a good ol “go fuck yourself”. Even if I was an AI that’d take a guy back a sec.

I mean, they’re super hatefilled. Just, you know, not at us usually.

Good God why would you put yourself through this to show us these screenshots. Jesus fucking Christ

It’s weird how one can be such an incel yet also a philanderer, but then again, the fact that some are employees suggests a bit of a power dynamic abuse. If an incel rapes someone, they’re still an “involuntary celerate”

I’m so glad this is a trend.

I wonder, as someone who has a name similar to a famous character myself, how Luigi feels about people using the Nintendo character as his symbol of rebellion. He is ex-game industry, after all.