If all the food in my fridge is warm I don’t immediately assume my electricity has been cut off rather than something is wrong with my fridge.

If it’s anywhere near that long you should see a doctor.

I really don’t understand why it’s such a common confusion. None of these people struggle with the difference between their gas supply and their oven.

Oxygen is a good recent French one on Netflix. Very claustrophobic.

People seem to be convinced that the worst thing that can happen will definitely happen.

I mean… The last decade or so of general events seems to suggest that’s the most likely outcome in most situations.

Did you see the “Fables” creator’s recent action and commentary on IP law? https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the

The issue for the commenter you replied to is that they think that laying the blame for a specific incident at the personal responsibility of the people directly involved somehow means that the diffuse responsibility of wider society in creating conditions wherein those incidents are guaranteed to regularly occur is somehow no-longer relevant.

All that seems to matter in their assessment is who gets the finger pointed at them when the problem happens, not, why does the problem happen and what can we do to avoid it?

The driver can be personally responsible for their own failures without that alleviating the responsibility of good decision making by those who are responsible for ensuring people are able to live their lives safely.

It’s so much safer to have an accident in a modern car than one from even just a few decades ago. There’s no amount of better-than-what-we-have levels of driver awareness that can make up that gap.

People are confusing (probably due to intentional prompting by those trolls trying to have bystanders fight their battles for them) the very real problem on Reddit that if you chase karma there were benefits to be had in terms of credibility and reach of your messaging and so whatever entities might benefit from such would tend to fill the space over in Reddit with content like that. Realistically that doesn’t change the most common content much as it really comes down to the sort of thing people will upvote but it did make it a bit worse. That’s being confused with some notion that somehow anyone who wasn’t chasing karma was entirely ignored. That just isn’t true. You might not be the absolute center of attention unless you’ve either post or said something especially worthwhile but so what?

True. But then you got 1 karma for every comment you made anywhere on the site and often the requirement was like 50 karma.

Restricting posts to users who have managed to make a maximum of 50 comments that didn’t overwhelmingly piss everyone off isn’t actually very restrictive.

I really don’t buy into any of this “oh, you had to only say what people wanted you to say!” handwringing. I never once saw a user with negative karma who wasn’t just there to actively cause trouble. I’m quite certain this notion that you had to subscribe to some sort of groupthink to make it through the karma system originates from a very tiny number of people who perceive not being actively anti-social in a social space as oppressive persecution of their “totally valid” “alternative opinions”. By all means, show me accounts that were actually participating in good faith that were pushed out of the conversation by the karma system and I’ll loudly complain with you on their behalf.

But you can’t do that. Because they’re always some flavour of racist nazi troll dickhead.

I said whatever the hell I wanted and was frequently confrontational or contrarian and still had some embarrassingly high amount of karma simply because I participated a lot and wasn’t actively there to fuck things up by intentionally being a toxic edge-lord troll.

Iirc Forbes ran an article about it.

Counterpoint: the generic communities being hosted on Lemmy.ml (an instance with a very strong political identity) simply because it was oldest was a real risk for the growth of Lemmy as a whole and this is a fantastic opportunity to rebuild those core communities on more generic Instances like Lemmy.world.

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You could try Brandon Sanderson’s free YouTube videos of the long running university course he teaches on writing: https://youtu.be/-6HOdHEeosc

Firefox has settings to automatically hit accept or to automatically hit deny or to first try to hit deny then hit accept if it didn’t work. You could end up agreeing to things you might not want to either way though (as sometimes opt out and deny are seperate things you need to do both for.)

Honestly.

You have. Normally they are much smaller to the point where they can be nearly invisible.

"Bettet to kill the girl than rape her?’

Talk me through exactly how you got that message from this billboard?

If you’re looking to keep costs super low I imagine you’re better off going for a second hand projector over a cheap new one.