DarrenTheFoxcoon

Hey, it was a fresh new Lemmy community, just waiting to be Konquered

Leaves without giving Mal0 a hug? That's just rude >:C

Auto same-URL crossposting, on top of auto-hiding crosspost dupes on the main feed? Dang, Lemmy just gets better and better 💖

I'd suggest the crosspost button instead (copy icon between the "Save post" star and the "More" ellipsis)

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https://pawb.social/post/13576785

Very good analysis of Furry from the outside, nicely done 👍 Some thoughts I had as I watched it:

• Most of the pearl-clutching about Furries seems to come from Puritan countries, esp. USA & UK. Other countries? Quite the opposite. Examples off the top of my head:

  • Orangina citrus soda (French ad agency FFL Paris)
  • German beer Füchschen (literally, "Foxy")
  • Mexican baseball mascot lapdancing in the crowd

• Notions of "children"'s mascots almost never occur to any of us Furs, except for the obvious Rule 34 moments. It more feels like, without consciously thinking about it, my childhood interests grew up with me. Does nostalgia play a role? Perhaps some unstated rebellion against squeaky-clean Puritan and Corpo media?

• Xenophilia & neophilia are probably the strongest drivers, conscious or not. Every day in this fandom, someone comes up with something both strange and wonderful.

• Accordingly, Furry art is a wondrous baptism-by-fire of Queer acceptance (also conscious or not), especially regarding body-positivity. As one gets used to seeing an 8-foot fox with 3 pairs of watermelon-size breasts & multiple tentacle dicks, the discomfort of trans and intersex bodies falls away. (I admit to my shame that transmen once made me uncomfortable; Furry art slowly slapped me out of it.)

• It's both flattering and amusing to have "deeper meaning" / "deep sense of self" ascribed to our silly cartoon animals. Most days it feels like Furry simply is, no hidden depths needed. Is all art like this?   "Just shat out this portrait of some lady over the weekend, it's whatever" ~Leonardo da Vinci, probably

Agreed. Interpersonal relationships are stronger bonds then us tech dudes (myself included) tend to appreciate.

People are still on Facebook despite all their unacceptable actions over the years, because the alternative is to completely uproot your whole social circle (everyone all at once, good luck with that) or seriously risk cutting off people you care about.

Almost the same applies to Furs still on Telegram, though afaik TG hasn't ever done anything remotely as bad as Zuck, Elon or Spez

EDIT: sidestepping the uprooting part is what's fantastic about the Fediverse btw; compat and futureproofing between diff websites being a must-have from the start, and that's awesome <3

Gettin' those performance gains 🏋️‍♂️

Clearly the answer is to send Synths and Protogens. Boston Dynamics x Freedom of Form Foundation collab when?

Yes, I agree -- the dirty emissions were prob causing acid rain or other serious problems that needed to be addressed anyway.

Absolutely wasn't trying to dunk on cleaner tech or climate change, sorry if it seemed like it. Leftie enviro-hippie doesn't even begin to fully describe me fam, lol. We're on the same team.

Put a tiny Mindstorms chip in the minifig's head, and I'm sold 🤑💰

Ah yes, I remember this news from months ago.

TL;DR for peeps in a hurry: Dirty emissions from cheap fuel-oil were making/seeding extra clouds over the ocean, enough to reflect a measurable amount of incoming sunlight.

New cleaner fuels (or electric power?) = no more extra clouds = slight uptick in global temp. Oopsie whoopsie.