BestOfLemmy

Original thread: https://lemmy.world/post/27067506/15809869

A good bit of literature has studied the problem and arrived to recommendations that overlap in parts & depart in others with this playbook.

https://lemmy.world/comment/15379625:

https://lemm.ee/post/55068846

Frustratingly, doing a search on that Changelog page for sources is mostly full of stuff not relevant to my search.

https://lemmy.world/u/BoxOfFeet

original: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.sdf.org/comment/17767141

By @TheBananaKing@lemmy.world

You're talking to people that want to continue rationalizing their tacit, frequently racist support for genocide, and their easiest out has always been to say, "but Trump is worse". They have never done the introspection required to look at their own personal role as a political being beyond what they're told to do by the Democratic Party and their donors: slacktivist vote shaming, always presuming the high ground for themselves (even while tolerating genocide!), and doing as little as possible on the ground outside of minor exercises in false catharsis like a cop-escorted, permitted march or an ignored letter writing campaign.

Link to post: https://slrpnk.net/post/16759720

!greentext@sh.itjust.works

On !linuxmemes@lemmy.world @Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world explains one way some companies get pushed into paying for Linux, and not just for support reasons.

Cultural appropriation is a broad enough term to functionally be meaningless, but I've found it helpful to think through 4 distinct interests at play, that I think are legitimate:

(the top image is a screenshot of a post that was on Lemmy, but then it was removed.)

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/15734804

Responding to a post on !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world asking what the point of moderation is on Lemmy when removed content remains visible in the modlog, @litchralee@sh.itjust.works gives a thorough explanation for why moderation exists

Original post: https://programming.dev/post/22687139

@Gullible@sh.itjust.works

Judas

I’m 40. I never got the memo about growing up. There was never an adult moment. When I was half my age, life had a lot more promise and that commonality drives a lot of the more balanced interactions. What you can’t really understand at a much younger age is how alone and lonely the world becomes with age for most people. That hopeful promise fades, and with it goes purpose and hope. Dreams and intentions pass you by and mistakes haunt you. This drives many to a hedonistic place of connections with anyone that lets the person return to a carefree time of hopefulness or anywhere but this reality.

The original comment by SouthSamurai@sh.itjust.works:

This is older but, with things that are coming up, I feel it is even more relevant.

Hilarity Ensues

well. to my everlasting shame it was the very website this post features. I got hooked in when it was still part of reddit. I was an angry young adult coming out of a terrible home situation and their collective “righteous fury” was appealing. after the move to a separate website, it just got worse and worse. hexbear, formally known as chapochat, had destructive drama outburtsts every single week right from the start.

I visited for the first time around this year. It was incredible. The people were so nice. The Palestinian children I met in Israel were incredibly rude and surprisingly well-dressed considering we were all playing on a playground. My aunt and cousins were translating what they were saying to me and encouraging me to say rude things back that they’d translate. Reflecting on that: weird fucking experience and incredibly sad overall.

This explanation has pictures, and I learned me a thing or two from it!

... I think learning about Nicholas II really contextualized fascism for me. The tsar was a traditionalist authoritarian rather than a fascist, but he really shows, I think, how ordinary people can hold totalitarian beliefs and still be ‘good people’ (note that I would never call the tsar a good person, but bear with me). Oftentimes people say “X is fascism” but quickly backpedal if real-world comparisons are drawn between family or friends. “They’re a good person!” they object, “Just misguided! Not like the other rubes!”

A really good explanation that I felt deserved to be highlighted.

Screenshot says:

Link to the original comments: https://discuss.online/comment/8360152

Context: - 'niedźwiedzie polarne' = 'polar bears' - 'chochlik internetowy pospolity' = 'common internet imp' - the English equivelant of the word 'dziabongi' is 'doodads'

https://lemmy.ca/comment/12091177

Behold the matching forearms of Lemmy:

(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.)

Great knowledge by the OP and a commenter!

The French may not have the first democracy, may not have the best democracy, but they have had to fight harder than most for their democracy.

I believe we can do it https://lemmy.world/post/16111988

https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

He's doing a great job.

Context, a thread on rising fast food costs and comparing local joints in terms of value: https://lemmy.world/comment/10015048

So much wholesome advice!

Well they already tried suing them when they began accepting girls and changed their name the first time to Scouts BSA, but that didn't work. But truthfully the two organizations have different missions and methods.