Burning boy had the bean borscht for breakfast before boating beneath big boom bombs.

She thought it was a Harry Potter spell to turn the government into a literal corporation.

It’s their safe word.

The concept of the app store was always a walled garden—anyone using it could expect a guarantee the content was reviewed to exclude malware and the payment system was directed through a single party with an expectation for security.

Now that the store has lost control of one of those elements, I would expect a notice like this.

If it were a grocery store, and a farmer won the right to operate inside a grocery store but charge separately from the registers at the front of the store, wouldn’t it be confusing if the store didn’t communicate that to the customers who thought they were just buying from a single store?

14 pregnant nurses and one glistening “Fertility Doctor” who just roams around the halls in an open bathrobe chugging orange juice straight out of the container.

Never mind, I figured it out:

Now stage a diorama depicting the last supper using marshmallow Peeps, and then set that Kenmore to “Betray Jesus”…

Nah, it would never happen.

We would end up with comprehensive gun control reform before we ran out of our precious billionaires.

So, boomers ruined the game for everybody and are now going home with their ball?

He really does look like a cross of Wonka and the Oompa Loompas.

On Hitler’s birthday, no less…

One can make useful items out of wood.

Guillotines, for example…

While the communities you view may differ from my own experience, I would say that political and news themed communities have had an uptick in aggression.

My sense is that it is less about the overall population on Lemmy, but more about the polarization of news and political topics in our society. If there were truly a force actively trying to promote a culture war to prevent a class war, I’d say they are doing an effective job.

Outside of news/politics communities, postings, and (directly or indirectly) related comments (or commenters), I have not experienced an increase in outright negativity and rudeness.

Just like in any written dialogue, I think some expressions of humor can be written or received poorly, lending to a received sense of rudeness—and those moments sometimes serve as reinforcement of actual offensive aggression observed elsewhere, you dick /s.

Jokes aside, I do appreciate you drawing attention to it, as a reminder for each of us to do our part to express ourselves more clearly—allowing for discussion, disagreement, sarcasm, and humor while maintaining respect and civility.

And, of course, continue to block users and communities you find objectionable; though, I would challenge anyone to ask themselves if they are blocking to avoid offensive content, or are they blocking to avoid content which does not align with their views. Silencing different points of view, ultimately, only expedites the original problem.

In only the most playful and harmless spirit of sarcasm, it kinda reads like, “you are immortal if you make choices which do not kill you”.

And as an extension, “if you choose to survive long enough, that will eventually kill you, as well”.

It sounds like a complicated way of describing an instinctively non-suicidal existence.

That was on the corner of Electric Ave and Mason Street in Somerville, MA. I used to live very near there.

I also expect the community to form some sort of vigilance committee to get volunteers on the streets to do what the person who was recording doing, only hopefully with more presence.

https://youtu.be/avb1XbO0EIs

Maybe it’s points of contact?

Two feet for the urinal.

Two feet and a seat for the toilet?

I remember thinking the giant on/off toggle in the Time Machine preferences back in those days was the first step toward migrating iOS interface elements into Mac OS.

It hasn’t progressed quite as I was expecting, but the System Preferences UI in recent Mac OS releases is somehow worse than anything I could have anticipated.