Except it just goes in a circle.

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If you can show me Roman furry artwork (for a friend who really wants to see it, of course), I’ll withdraw my whole line of comments.

I’m speaking in historical terms here. By new I mean within the past couple of decades.

Certainly not the majority, but being “mainstream” doesn’t require a majority.

You can’t just paint targets and hope their absense will make things better; you have to have ultimatums, so that they and their peers have incentive to change.

Wealth is not the problem. Individuals wielding wealth in a way that hurts the rest of us is the problem. Not all rich people are overtly evil. But some are, and acknowledging that seems like as good a place to start with a solution as any.

Unfortunately, a gun isn’t going to get you past the [REDACTED] or tell you where [REDACTED], and it is supremely unlikely that a single gun will [REDACTED HARD], and even in that unlikely scenario, the backlash from [REDACTED DUDE JUST STOP].

If Sync brings more users to Lemmy, that’s a net win for all of us here.

Let’s be honest here. Wanting to be a talking animal isn’t really any less weird than wanting to yiff one.

Trying to distance yourself from the latter by claiming the former is a futile effort.

Sure there’ve been talking animals since humans have been telling stories, but what seems to be new is the rando who’s always there in the comments to say “Yo, I’d totally tap Tigger’s ass”, “That Coyote character is a snack.”

The problem is where the mainstream lies. In Islam, the mainstream is fundamentalism. Of course, fundamentalism is a problem for Christianity and every other religion too, but right now that is not the mainstream of those sects. And that is why Islam gets criticized more heavily than other religions.

Fundamentalism is cancerous wherever it lives.

If you like that reality garbage, I won’t yuck your yum, but I enjoyed not having to see any of it. I miss being able to forget that shit like Obese Hoarder Wars or Little Person with 13 Kids exists.

Having to configure settings all over again on every single device pissed me off, especially since the new app didn’t even have subtitles customization of any kind. As someone who uses subtitles for almost all viewing, nothing turns me off of a streaming service faster than being stuck with shitty black bars and gigantic blocky text by default and being unable to change it.

And for fuck’s sake, nobody likes video previews with sound, and you can take your credit-skipping autoplay and shove it up your corporate ass.

I sign into “max” now and get bombarded on the home screen with basic cable reality show trash, and every time that happens it just makes me want to use it less. The only thing keeping me coming back is the occasional Soderbergh project and an as-of-yet still decent catalogue of movies, though even that has dropped off noticeably.

I would drop my subscription if it wasn’t bundled into my phone plan.

For me it’s because of Cinemax - ie Skinemax - which used to be associated with the softcore porn they’d play late at night.

It always mystified me that HBO Max was even able to use that name since it was so evocative of another premium cable network.

Amen to that. Monoculture is bad, in every context.

The Vulcans have it right: Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.

I definitely notice it with a push mower, but there’s also the issue of the grass blades themselves always being cut in one direction. That’ll produce a noticable effect over time if you don’t vary mowing vector.

Voyager won me

But you have to alternate the pattern each time you mow or you’ll get wheel ruts.