KombatWombat

Yeah it's the same for me. Most of the time I don't open links to third parties, and when I do it's often to skim the introduction to see if the information is worth the read. But TLDRs are like trailers; they let me know what's going on and can sell me on the full thing if it's interesting.

This is relevant to a lot of the points people are making: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RequiredSecondaryPowers

Also, this thread reminded me of a video from many years ago: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-vQ2RVqJCNM

If you want to learn how to code, can't you just google "coding tutorial for beginners" or something similar? Probably you would need to pick a language, but that would similarly be solved with "recommended coding language for beginners". Then it's very easy to find a resource that starts with hello world and gradually introduces new things. And I'm sure if it moved beyond a browser toolbox, a guide for setting up whatever IDE would be included.

Learning to code is by no means easy, but it's possibly the best type of thing to learn when it comes to having a wealth of free, easily discoverable guides. The main obstacle is choosing to put in the time, and this comic removes that obstacle by forcing them to not put it off.

Ideally, an audience would pick up on the bad-faith side not addressing arguments, engaging in personal attacks, making unjustified claims, etc. and be unimpressed. The interrupting especially should prompt some intervention by a moderator, but usually they don't have a means of preventing it from happening other than chastising after the fact so it still relies on some degree of human decency.

I'd still call it a debate, just a poor quality one.

You may be thinking of r/ComedyHomicide. It captures examples of when needless captions and reactions dimish the humor in something. Humor is subjective of course, so you also had stuff like r/ComedyNecrophilia, for when a dumb reply enhances it in some way.

Another user's unpopular opinion gets downvoted in c/UnpopularOpinion, despite them having a reasonable explanation for their thoughts. Your complaints are valid, and I wish this place was more active too. Many of the fediverse equivalents of the subreddits I enjoyed before the exodus rarely get posts or are actually abandoned, and that's if someone bothers making one at all. Even the ones that are active still get a small fraction of the discussion that their subreddit would get. Also, there's more fracturing and inter-community drama, with instances fully defederalizing with other insances because of problems with certain communities there. And naturally the apps available are much less mature.

Lemmy is excellent for leftist politics, tech enthusiasts, and some other select interests. But it doesn't really let you discover things or integrate into a community well. Filtering out things that I have little interest in leaves very little, whereas Reddit was big enough for me to be very picky in flitering while still including all kinds of niche things in my custom feed. I still often search for reddit posts if I want to learn from an informed community perspective or get a guide for something.

I hope more people give this a chance, because it really does avoid issues with company-owned social media, but I guess it's hard for people to overcome inertia and make the switch.

There are vegan versions of those too, they're just less common.

No it doesn't count for nothing, and I'm sorry you and your friends went through that. But if people blamed you when the drivers were clearly in the wrong, that takes a special kind of being an asshole that the average person just isn't.

Two of the links are discussing lawful fact, not morality, and even if they were, the commenters are saying "no, you can't use your car to 'encourage' people to move". The other two have commenters saying the driver committing vehicular manslaughter is crazy and obviously in the wrong. Particularly the last link has people expressing sympathy for the victims and animosity to the driver.

Nothing here suggests that victim blaming is common when someone driving does something illegal and injures a pedestrian.

Sovcit discovers UBI.

People often say that voting third party is throwing away your vote, but using your vote as a protest like you describe is perfectly valid. Politicians from the major parties do care about how they can appeal to swingable voters, and third parties getting more votes does makes them more influential for future policy. You give up having influence between the two people who actually have a chance in the current election, but realistically you didn't in the first place if you don't live in a battleground state.

It's your vote. Don't let other people chide you for not spending it on what they think you should. Just use it for a cause that's worthwhile to you. It's the people who don't vote at all that get ignored.

Emojis are used very widely, including places meant specifically for young kids. These places would already censor words, but requiring emoji censorship as well is adding complexity to a problem that is already difficult to handle. Companies not on the ball with the release of sexual organ emojis would let kids see that until it's added to their filter list. Kids wouldn't know what it means, but it can lead to them googling for context or encourage a conversation with the predator using it if they ask about it.

Honestly, I just don't think it's worth the headache. Eggplants and peaches and cats are already pretty easy to understand in context, and if you need more than the emojis we already have, we do have our old fashioned words.