Do people who make these memes actually play at tables like this, or is this hyperbole for the sake of clicks? Do they play at all?
hzl
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It's an environment that's mechanically centered around dunking on people. It's all upvotes, downvotes, and arguing. The design of the platform itself encourages it, because that's what it's built to do. Lemmy isn't really any different, it just hasn't had as long to develop the same level of toxicity. The same mentality is here too, though, and is growing pretty consistently.
A year ago Lemmy felt like a relative breath of fresh air in comparison to what it's quickly become. These threads are half arguments and the feeds are half people spamming 6 threads in five minutes to build up some sort of visibility.
Honestly I feel like Lemmy sort of tricked me into wandering into Reddit 2 after having mostly left Reddit.
I'm still not sure whether this was referring to Samalamadingdong or if there's another episode that hasn't dropped yet.
Meaningless hair splitting. I still have my entire collection of SNES cartridges. They're still playable, and no one can take them short of robbing me. If my ownership of those games was limited to a license that could be revoked, that might not be the case.
That's not how you spell "steals".
That is absolutely untrue. Games used to be sold as a physical object containing the game files. No serial numbers to redeem, no servers, no downloads or updates. Sometimes you'd get a booklet with the game that had some codes in it that the game would ask for on startup to make making copies a little more difficult, but that was it.
You'd literally have everything you need just on the CD, disk, or cartridge. We 100% owned the game and the system it was played on, and the only way to revoke that would have been to physically break into your house and steal it.
This whole games as services thing is about 20 years old tops, and it wasn't even remotely approaching the standard for quite a while after that.
I can't tell if this is an actual confusion about the difference between the American health care and social services systems or just like petty malicious internet one-upmanship.
Assuming it's the former, disability payments aren't actually part of the health care system in the United States. Like, you don't get a payout from any organization that actually handles healthcare, it's a separate bureaucracy that just serves to gatekeep disability income.
Imagine how much better the economy would be if people weren't forced to prop up absolutely shitty companies they don't believe in just to pay their bills. Like, we might actually have improving products and experiences instead of a constantly diminishing race to the bottom.
They're filed with their state, not a health insurance company.
It's crazy that we have intersex kids having surgery forced on them to put them into one box or another and at the same time people are pretending that it's actually happening to trans kids. Like, literally building a society where this is done to one group of people while lying about it being done to another.
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Building more housing only reduces the cost of housing if you don't allow all of it to be turned into air bnbs. We need to modernize zoning laws.