The culture of lemmy is very anti consumer, which helps to insulate it from that. If the normies started moving in, that’s when the problems start.

Someone who posts to reddit like it’s their job. They’re normally a mod for a far too many subs, repost already popular memes and probably take payments to push advertisements disguised as memes. I remember a period of time when everyone was posting weird happenings in front of their houses from their doorbell cams. The brand burn ins were always turned on.

I only really blocked power users on reddit and lemmy doesn’t have those yet. Not the same way gallowboob was.

I got 400k miles on my current truck. I need to do some repairs to the frame, but I’m going to keep driving it because it’s still cheaper to keep it running than deal with a new truck that also needs money put in to it to fix factory design defects.

So you know about the Moonies.

Real people wouldn’t even notice from the streets, but rich fucks would see them from their jets and oppose it.

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They’ll just pay a drug lord to take her out and leave it be.

If the deployment cycle started before Unity pulled their shit, I wont hold it against them for finishing with it.

People need to invest in Godot now. Either in just learning it or as a finical supporter.

Otherwise, I’m always interested if someone does something in GZ/LZ/UZDoom or cooks up their own engine. Hrot has no business being as good as it is being made in Pascal by one person.

Twitch chat and youtube comments of altright streamers. It’s means “Clown World” and is just vague enough that auto moderation tools don’t really catch it.

He wants them to die. Preferably after they enlist in the military.

Every nation has had some degree of a superiority complex at some point in their history, but while most nations dialed down over time, the US has dialed up. A lot of that are reverberations from Cold War propaganda.

I see that complex in a hand full of other nations and they’re all either at war or preparing to go to war. It’s disgusting and terrifying.

Freakazoid.

Imagine if we put the same efforts to helping Ukraine as we are bombing Iranian schools? Can’t have that though. We seem to be allergic to actually having a just war.

I picked China from skimming your comment history. Have you defended North Korea? jfc

Discredit the truth by burying it in lies. China did take Hong Kong and suppress protesters against their will. Same with Tibet. They want Taiwan but going after that right now could give Trump a just war and they’d rather see the US shoot itself in the foot in the international space. The more extreme stuff against China may just be propaganda that China itself created to discredit the more reasonable claims. The same way that the US government spread rumors about aliens at Area 51 to discredit the sighting of spyplane testing.

I think it’s your defense of China that’s getting you called a tankie.

I actually don’t like most fantasy, but Lord of the Rings is a bad example of that. Most of the races are not evil, but had evil or faulty leadership. The Uruk-hai weren’t a natural race, but a corruption created by Sauron.

Most fantasy that do have evil races are descended from D&D, which has self described, biological determinist, Gary Gygax to blame.

I don’t believe her.

No, that really wasn’t her point. That was my theory when I was reading it as a kid and when I dropped the books halfway though for being annoying, I had assumed that it would be addressed later. I was shocked when I learned it was never addressed. Did it seem right with you that the Weasleys wanted a house elf? How about when Hagrid used house elves to test for poison in foods? Or when Harry thought that Hermione was being annoying about her whole Civil Rights thing?

The house elf situation is actually really easy to fix. At least within Hogwarts. Dumbledore could have simply given them freedom and payed them to stay. Little Witch Academia did a House Elf story in 23 minutes that links to the greater season story arc. Reign of the Seven Spellblades did demihuman rights as a core part of it’s first story arc and world building.

Lisa Simpson is an example of having the right idea, but being too young to have a greater effect. The show depicts her as annoying, but right. Rowling depicts Hermione as wrong because she’s annoying.

Rowling is either a bad writer or a bad person if she couldn’t or choose not to address the slavery of the house elves in the seven books of the series.

nah. There are Harry Potter fans who’s world views are shaped by the franchise. To the extent that they’ll write articles defending the House Elf Slavery. Here’s one example. https://web.archive.org/web/20191002072741/https://www.pottermore.com/features/to-spew-or-not-to-spew-hermione-granger-and-the-pitfalls-of-activism