[-] dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml 78 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All countries are a few steps away from this type of shit. Nation states may have been a good departure from monarchies but have very much proven to be trash; the "cultures" and "ethnicities", etc. they proclaim to protect seem very much to be bullshit money-making schemes at best. A serious shift away from vertical economic and social hierarchies is the only solution. But deprogramming the world is not going to be easy.

[-] dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Top Left: Bilbo snaps while trying to get the ring from Frodo in a moment of weakness at Rivendell in Lord of the Rings.

Top Right: The ghostly bodies under water in the Dead Marshes where Gollum is leading Frodo and Bilbo in The Two Towers.

Bottom Left: Galadriel refusing the ring from Frodo while freaking out and explaining how she'd become evil if she took it in LotR.

Bottom Right: Part way through Smeagol's transformation into Gollum in The Return of the King.

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I have been experiencing crashes specifically when opening more comments in a thread.

It seems also that there are certain "x more replies" interactions where this doesn't occur. But it is pretty consistent, especially when there are a larger number of comments in a thread.

I am on an A52s updated to the latest firmware and Jerboa is updated to the latest version, if that makes a difference.

[-] dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago

So was reddit a long long time ago. I watched and felt it shift to the centre the heavily to the right. Conservatives destroy everything in the world. I don't doubt your favourite communitues will start heavily skewing right soon enough.

[-] dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was looking for Captain Marvel movie content way back when it came out and accidentally clicked on one of those pitiful right-wing, woman-hating nerdbro videos and my suggestions suddenly became quite heavily peppered with similar horrible content. It feels the same thing doesn't happen with non-conservative content quite so much. I wonder if there's just so much right-wing and liberal content that the algorithm's percentage calculations don't know how to compensate for this sort of political nuance, or is it something more insidious?

[-] dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

The problem is the concept of work hasn't shifted to keep up with the technological reality that has been created. Jobs should slowly be phased out. We need a new economical concept to take hold that doesn't rely solely on class and fear to make it trundle along. Jobs should be what you do to grow your own fruit and veggies for fun, while the administration and maintenance of basically everything should be left to technology. Wealth and wealth accumulation should no longer exist or be seen as anything other than childish and irrelevant.

[-] dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago

A lot of people in the comments can't seem to make the distinction between what they have been fed since they were little and that they are used to, and what is good, or tastes good.

[-] dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 year ago

69kg is actually a pretty normal weight, 69lbs is super light, 69st would be incredibly fat. 69F would be super cold and 69C would be ridiculously hot. 69K would be insanely cold.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world

I wanted to move away from the "ent" label on reddit and start a new community to discuss dry herb and extract vaporisation. Ideally it'll be a place free from too much commercial presence and a place to compare and showcase devices and methods, somewhere new to share your clouds and thoughts on products, new developments and DIY TED goodness.

https://lemmy.ml/c/vaporists

[-] dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately there are too many "open-minded" and "open-minded"-adjacent people who have huge blindspots to their own hypocrisy and philosophical paradoxes. I've met so many IRL and net-folk who are lefty "activists" who are huge fucking racists and douchebag misogynists. Extinction Rebellion for example is full of them. I get a bad taste in my mouth whenever I remember certain interactions with them.

[-] dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

I truly hope this type of hierarchical thinking can stay fun and not create the kind of grating pomposity that pervades every bloody animalistic thing. I want us to grow beyond childish competitiveness.

[-] dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As much as possible, corporate interest and action on social media needs to be exposed and dismantled. Capitalism is inherently antisocial and comes with a bunch of social hierarchies and unquestionable "accepted" inequalities embedded within. Plus I don't enjoy trawling through miles of boring carbon copy jokes and endless attempts at edgy right-wing tinged "humour". The cancerous spread of fascistic "freedom of speech" culture that defies the logic of the concept destroyed reddit.

[-] dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 year ago

An urge to destroy fascism.

[-] dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 year ago

Keep poking, disrupting and agitating until you get any reaction. Catharsis is also important.

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