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[-] Schroed4@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago

I don't hate y'all, but some of the posts here can be indigestable. Some posts simply assume everyone is on the same page with something - which is likely true, since you've been a community for a long time.

Maybe I'll come back and edit this with an example at some point.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 80 points 1 year ago

You're witnessing us after we've gone through countless internal debates and purges, some of which will always be legendary. We had a problem with transphobes at the start, they're all gone. We had a really bizarre fight for about a week over whether or not cats should be allowed outside.

My favorite of ours was the weirdly intense debate over if it's ok to stack rocks next to or inside of a river.

There was also BMF, one of the strangest people to ever live. My personal favorite was @LiberalSocialist@hexbear.net, who was the most contradictory poster we had. You'd think LiberalSocialist was an elaborate Andy Kaufman level bit of someone pretending to be an annoying liberal, but I think it's always been unclear whether it was a gimmick or not.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Something that's crucial for the rock stacking: On the one side was a hydrologist with sources and calm and patient reasoning explaining how that, yes while climate change and ecoside is a result of this capitalist system and as such there is no individual solutions to it, in this instance your individual actions are actually very harmful, so please don't stack rocks. It's not just a tiny thing, it's actually very harmful, so please don't stack rocks.

On the other side was a mix of users going either "yeah, but I just feel like it isn't an issue" and users going "fuck you I'm gonna stack rocks anyway" as if rock-stacking was their livelyhood and users trying to rules-lawyer the thing like "what if it isn't a running stream? What if I'm in a desert? What if it's volcanic rocks?" The reaction was wildly outsized, but apparently hexbear has a large rock-stacking userbase.

Edit: found the original thread https://hexbear.net/post/249555?scrollToComments=false

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[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

We can always bring back "are bidets bourgeois?"

[-] AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 1 year ago

You do and you can bet your dirty, disgusting arsehole we're defederating too.

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[-] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

i missed the beginning of the 'batteries and water and eels' thing and i still don't understand what that was about

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

At one point google apparently suggested a good way to dispose of your used car batteries was to dump them in the ocean

[-] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

ohhhh lol thank you! now i finally know

[-] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

It's always a good and fun activity to dispose of car batteries in the ocean.

[-] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Well yeah! Didn't you know dumping car batteries in the ocean is not only a safe and romantic date idea but also environmentally conscious because it feeds hungry electric eels?

[-] mah@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

ofc cat should be allowed outside what the hell 🤔

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

There are ecological problems. Killing birds and things. They've caused several species-extinctions in Australia iirc, where they are not native.

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[-] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago

Here are the sides:

Side fuck outdoor cats: Cats the way we humans are currently treating them are an ecological disaster responsible for countless species dying out, outdoor cats also statistically die much earlier, and there's no reason to keep your cat outside.

Side outdoor cats: wtf why are you being so fucking weird about cats

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[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anyone who harbors and abets a KKKat while allowing it outside to engage in what can, by any reasonable standard, only be described as a campaign of stochastic terrorism against the indigenous bird population is a social chauvanist and any org that refuses to purge them is revisionist.

Read Lenin. lenin-cat

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[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

On a harness or in an enclosed space that theybwon't escape, sure.

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[-] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Y’all mfs are missing a very important point in the outside cat debate:

If you live up in the woods at the end of a dirt road you need a cat to keep the vermin out and a small mowed perimeter to keep critters from gettin in your crawlspaces.

Or: it’s okay when I do it.

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[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago

God damn I would love to see your reaction to some of the classic BMF posts lol

Death to America

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With federation the prevalence of PMC radlib Karens has skyrocketed black-mold-futures

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