Legalizing weed was supposed to create a bunch of new addicts and turn our towns into slums. Turned out just fine.

“Local heroes throw themselves in orphan crushing machine in vain attempt to clog it temporarily”

What? I thought that was the whole point. Incredibly lame.

I’d use them to subtitle everything because i’m deaf

There are some legitimate use cases. I mean as a hard of hearing person I’d love to be able to live caption my daily life (the tech isn’t quite there yet but it’s close). We should be pressuring governments to require visual indicators that they’re recording instead of policing individual users.

Cunt is a really nasty misogynist slur in the USA and a friendly mild ribbing in the UK and Australia.

The tokens as currency thing feels exactly like gaming microtransaction bullshit to me. Obscure the true cost of each purchase by selling in-game currency. Dark patterns lead to higher spending.

One doesn’t explain copypasta, one is merely a vessel through which the copypasta flows

If you see it all the time, respectfully, you might be the problem. This isn’t effective communication.

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Pretty sure it violates rule 9. That said I wouldn’t mind a c/CuratedReddit. I don’t go there so reposts would be new to me!

Could you define what you mean when you say the word “art”? I think this may be a semantic disagreement. I think the people you’re arguing with are using a definition similar to “human creative expression” while you seem to mean something different.

Not all men are dangerous just like not all snakes are venomous. Knowing that some are dangerous means that I will be cautious around all of them until I’ve determined if they are the safe kind or not. The price for being wrong and trusting the wrong guy is too high.

I would take “worse than a panda” as a compliment, but I understand your point.

Would you rather have a man drop on you in the woods or a black bear?

Do polar bears occupy habitat that could realistically be called “the woods”?

I always assumed this question was referring to a brown bear - black bears are pussies and polar bears are instadeath. Pandas are adorable, obviously better than meeting a man. Other species are unlikely for most english speaking people to meet in the woods. Brown bears are the only species that make this question interesting.

It will never be exactly the same, but I feel lucky to have found something that captures at least part of the feeling of what Reddit used to be like. There’s the potential for it to grow into something just as cool in its own way, or maybe even better. And for now, it scratches that culture and discussion itch well enough that I don’t feel the need to wade back in to Reddit at all except for searching for specific answers to niche questions.

These are all worn voluntarily. This issue isn’t about the equivalent of scandalously clad young girls, it’s like if girls were being involuntarily stripped of their clothing by their classmates. It’s not about modesty standards it’s about sexual abuse.

Hm. I wasn’t expecting the pro-child porn argument. All I can say is that’s absolutely legally and morally CSAM, and you’re fuckin nasty. Oof. Not really gonna bother with the rest because, well, yikes.

Yeah there’s some nasty shit here. Big yikes, Lemmy.