OpenStars

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[–] OpenStars 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Invited Alexander over to an event, then regretted it THAT much (he had to make a plausible excuse somehow!:-P).

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[–] OpenStars 1 points 20 hours ago

Thanks - I actually had the setting turned on already but triggering it off and back on again caused it to start working properly, for whatever reason. Indeed that is a helpful indicator:-).

[–] OpenStars 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This account (that you responded to) was created a mere few hours ago. It might even have been created purely to troll people, possibly by someone who has gotten used to being banned using a recognizable account name.

On PieFed I find it very helpful to see an icon next to people's names indicating brand-new accounts. Some Lemmy apps can do that as well (I switched over to Voyager here to see if it would, but nope, at least not by default). Anyway I wanted to point out that it is a very useful feature, for exactly such scenarios as this!

[–] OpenStars 2 points 1 day ago

AI Trump, brought to you by Musk:-D

[–] OpenStars 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Counterpoint: then why emphasize "nude photos", over e.g. the patients' financial information?

This title is clearly leaning into the sensationalism.

Which has enormous ramifications, e.g. right-wingera world-wide right now have mostly stopped listening to traditional media sources, citing how untrustworthy it is.

In this case the info is at least correct just slanted, though in other cases it gets so slanted as to qualify actually for the word "biased" (even if it was an editorial decision purely for the title of a piece rather than the actual author).

On such events the decay and fall of entire ~~empires~~ democracies rests.

Well, I need to step off of this soapbox I guess - whatever was going to happen has already done so, it would seem, so it may not matter anymore (except... shouldn't others attempt to learn from these mistakes to avoid similar from continuing to happen again?).

[–] OpenStars 1 points 2 days ago

Sounds about right to me. I'm not a toxic alpha-male, nor a proper ~~Karen~~ female, all I know is that regardless of what they say I'm actually

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[–] OpenStars 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Bold of you to presume that they would think of that before doing so!

[–] OpenStars 4 points 3 days ago

They are also "patriots" and "Christians" (love they neighbor - who is that? everyone. what does it look like? not... like... that) and "smurt" and "efficient" and so on.

[–] OpenStars 1 points 4 days ago

The nice thing is that if we could work on either, then we could work on both at the same time. Caveat: we cannot work on either, for the most part, bc people are selfish and short-sighted:-(.

 

(Not my OC, so thought I'd share, if it works despite the defederation)

 

Not my OC, nor even current, but I hope it makes you smile nonetheless

 

(not my OC nor my OP, just helping spread the message around:-)

 

It's kinda damn cool no matter what! 😎

 

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/413830

(the top image is a screenshot of a post that was on Lemmy, but then it was removed.)

 

For me it was only 2 out of at least 3, if I count "hear about" as being more than a casual mention (I wanted the title to be shorter but I actually mean looking up as in reading an article about, to find who / what / why / etc.), and if I ignore the cache of explosives found in Virginia.

For context, the three that I mean were: the driver in New Orleans, the truck explosion in Las Vegas, and the shooting in New York. (Edit: people are saying that the last one is not strictly speaking related to terrorism, at least that we know of. A better title for this post would have been "violent" rather than "terrorist" events.)

Damn, we sure live in "interesting" times! 🙄

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/6234778

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23669729

(not my OP, just trying to help add content to the community and increase awareness of other communities as well - i.e. follow the cross-posting trail for even moar fun:-P)

 

(not my OC, just reposting so this community sees it too)

 

I am notoriously bad at posting. No, really. Like Really, REALLY bad I mean! :-P

So I try to help the Fediverse grow by commenting. Probably WAY too much. Like not every hour, but definitely multiple times a day.

How about you - what do you feel is appropriate for your situation? Would you like to see more content, or less, or is this just the right amount?

 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/14326001 (so please comment there rather than here?)

It's only ~5 minutes long, and very worth a watch imho.

@4:31: "liberal democracy has been marked by its emphasis on procedures, not outcomes - we honor the process, even when we dislike the outcome; the drive to quickly get what we want even at the cost of bypassing procedures and undermining institutions is deeply dangerous"

 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/14326001 (so please comment there rather than here?)

It's only ~5 minutes long, and very worth a watch imho.

@4:31: "liberal democracy has been marked by its emphasis on procedures, not outcomes - we honor the process, even when we dislike the outcome; the drive to quickly get what we want even at the cost of bypassing procedures and undermining institutions is deeply dangerous"

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