It's probably for the best. You sound not insane enough to be a true one of our their members. đ
You are asking if I am the basis for their religion? Well actually, before time existed I...
Oh no, you meant to ask if I am just a follower? No, I am definitely not merely a low-level follower of that cult. Definitely that is a true statement.
Think of an instance like a vehicle (bicycle, train, car, airplane, etc.) while the content (posts) is the destination, which I guess makes the communities the city streets that arrange the content for easily going from one to the next. Anyway, the instance takes you âthereâ (wherever you want to go), but you can get there from most instances, or you can even make your own instance, so deciding your ultimate destination is not a great feature of choosing an instance (it's actually much more complicated than that, but to a first degree of approximation that much is true - you can pretty much access meme communities from any instance, or block those communities regardless of which instance you are on, as you choose).
At first there seems to be some exceptions, like startrek.website, but there too it's just a convenience factor - you can subscribe to those communities from anywhere (that federates with it, e.g.lemmy.world) - or you can be on the startrek.website instance but block every one of those local communities (if you wanted) and instead post and comment all across the Fediverse in other communities.
So it's not proper to look at the instance level for a solution to this issue. And as for the community level, setting aside the communities dedicated to memes on purpose, the prime issue of memes appearing everywhere seems to be moderation or more apropos lack of it. If you wanted to start a serious community, about e.g. philosophical discussions (which already exists btw - press the community button and search to find several), then you could put in the actual effort to keep out such lower-effort content that you do not like to see. And if you do not like it, surely there are others who think the same. But somebody, somewhere is going to have to expend the effort to make it happen, or else it simply won't.
Also here's a fascinating essay on the subject: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb. Reading that is a large part of what made me leave Reddit, and almost Lemmy as well, but being forewarned is forearmed so now that I know, I can limit myself and be alright with how I use social media. It's a really good read!
https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb a fascinating essay on the subject
Incorrect, the smile should be beaming in the last panel. One small step for mankind and all that jazz. :-D
I think it's Warcraft or something: "not the bees, not the bees!!!"
I cannot imagine this. I can't afford to go to sleepy-bye right now! I need to... need to... nee...
DAMNIT!!
Why not give your mind to us the cosmic horrors right now? We have cookies. :-D
The recipient better be fireproof to avoid getting burned by such vehemence.
Allow me to disagree - but only if we both find this digression fun to be clear:-).
The likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have already escaped the grind. They don't seem all that happy.
Americans have had an extremely high standard of living, in the global sense. Yet we are some of the angriest people in existence.
Studies show that while you need enough to live, anything beyond that increases stress (someone else wanting what you have), and disconnectedness.
Anyway, people being dicks to one another seems to have little to do with resources and a lot to do with psychology. Which may have been input into our genes due to limited resources, but now that it's there... it won't so easily be ignored, and the pathway to curing it seems like it will have to be different from how we got to here.
Well, I hope this thought was fun to read and think about!:-)
Omg this is the very first moment in my life that I might start to look forward to AI writing articles.
And... it's already over. Bc such articles may be shorter, but they will find their own way to become enshittified for the sake of profits.
That is only bc it is useless / redundant info - we already know! :-P
By distracting drivers into causing accidents? Statistically speaking... probably.
There are several to choose from:-)
He needs coffee â
An unlimited supply of photon torpedo barrages?
But however it is accomplished, yeah, we all agree that murder is the goal.
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I don't know how to link to it directly, but I mean the #5 entry in this imgur dump (the preview pic is wrong, it's showing the #1 entry, but you'll know the right one bc of the guy holding the hoop). Some of the others aren't bad either, but definitely check out the hoop one, I'm saying.:-)
(The title you see below mine is the wording chosen by the OP of the full post - I hope I do not cause offense, but I cannot control it showing up here as it is linked.)
Natureâs first green is gold,
>Natureâs first green is gold,
>Her hardest hue to hold.
>Her early leafâs a flower;
>But only so an hour.
>Then leaf subsides to leaf.
>So Eden sank to grief,
>So dawn goes down to day.
>Nothing gold can stay.
>If you can keep your head when all about you > Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, >If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, >But make allowance for their doubting too; >If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, > Or being lied about, donât deal in lies, >Or being hated, donât give way to hating, > And yet donât look too good, nor talk too wise:
>If you can dreamâand not make dreams your master; > If you can thinkâand not make thoughts your aim; >If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster > And treat those two impostors just the same; >If you can bear to hear the truth youâve spoken > Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, >Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, > And stoop and build âem up with worn-out tools:
>If you can make one heap of all your winnings > And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, >And lose, and start again at your beginnings > And never breathe a word about your loss; >If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew > To serve your turn long after they are gone, >And so hold on when there is nothing in you > Except the Will which says to them: âHold on!â
>If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, > Or walk with Kingsânor lose the common touch, >If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, > If all men count with you, but none too much; >If you can fill the unforgiving minute > With sixty secondsâ worth of distance run, >Yours is the Earth and everything thatâs in it, > Andâwhich is moreâyouâll be a Man, my son!
The result may surprise you: about 50/50, based on polls. These people relate their thoughts and experiences and explain why they feel as they do.
> Honestly though, "get on board or STFU" is not a particularly compelling pro-democracy bumper sticker, nor is "meh, what are you going to do?"
> All we want is for someone to keep it đŻ - the percentage, not the age.
Comments & analysis: Mistah Kurtz-he dead / A penny for the Old Guy / I / We are the hollow m
I
We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind's singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star.
Let me be no nearer In death's dream kingdom Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves No nearer-
Not that final meeting In the twilight kingdom
III
This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man's hand Under the twinkle of a fading star.
Is it like this In death's other kingdom Waking alone At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness Lips that would kiss Form prayers to broken stone.
IV
The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river
Sightless, unless The eyes reappear As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose Of death's twilight kingdom The hope only Of empty men.
V
Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long
Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is Life is For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
If the president wants to protect American democracy, he should hand over his office to Kamala Harris.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/16476649
> For the good of the republic and to demonstrate new leadership before the election.
Lays out an argument about how to navigate the difficulties ahead, addressing the challenges that would result.
Jon Stewart is outstanding, but also this video seems like one of his better ones. Aside from gun issues specifically, part of what makes this great is his calling the for-profit media sources out for their hypocrisy and willful ignorance, and callousness to the lives of innocents including our children.
Originally a light-hearted post poking fun at and doing a survey to gather input, but it has turned into a thought-provoking deeper dive into what it really means to be someone that people would call a "tankie". Note that to some (die-hard conservatives), we all are "tankies" on the Fediverse, but is there a meaning beyond the pejorative of merely "holding a belief that I do not personally agree with"? Come and join the fun, or read about the community consensus even long into the future?
I feel like we need to talk about Lemmyâs massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml]. Itâs been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, letâs say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, t...
https://lemmy.world/post/16211417
Lemmy.ml, like lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net, has consistently been accused of improper Federation practices and many instances have decided to ban one or both of the latter by default, with many individual users having already gone further to block the former as well. However, many individual users on lemmy.ml seem unaware of the accusations of the practices of their admins, and some people go so far as to see lemmy.ml as a sort of default instance on the Fediverse.
This discussion promotes wider knowledge of the situation and what might be done about it in the future, in order to e.g. not turn away new potential Federation members (Fedizens?:-) that could otherwise associate what happens on that instance as something relating to the Fediverse as a whole.
