WatDabney

joined 2 months ago
[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 hours ago

They must've misread "peace prize" as "piece-of-shit prize."

I access lemmy through Firefox, and I just have bookmarks for all of my accounts and have whichever ones I'm using the most pinned. Switching from one to another is just a matter of clicking a link.

I don't know of any way to combine everything into one feed, though I wouldn't be surprised if one or more of the apps will do it. That's exactly the opposite of what I value though - I don't want just one feed - I want whichever feed I happen to be in the mood for at the moment.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Ah - I get a chance to preach.

I think it makes a lot of sense, and I've been trying to convince people of that since I've been here. It costs nothing and provides benefits, and what more could anyone want?

When I first came to Lemmy, I couldn't figure out any reason to pick one specific instance, and I finally decided that the only way to know if it mattered was to create multiple accounts and compare them. So I did.

I sort of intended to eventually settle on one, but as it turned out, I never really did, and in fact have added a number of accounts since.

The first and most notable thing I discovered is that every instance is different. Unsurprisingly, specialty instances like ani.social and literature.cafe are different from the general instances, but even the general instances differ from each other just depending on which other instances they're federated with and which communities they carry.

I default to All on most instances, and All on lemm.ee, for instance, is significantly different from All on Sopuli, or from All on dbzer0, or from All on Beehaw, and so on. So I can effectively tailor my experience simply by using different accounts.

I generally have about three general accounts that I cycle between, with another few specialty ones - either specialized by topic, like ani.social, or specialized by bias, like .ml. I find that's enough so that pretty much no matter what I'm in the mood for, I have an account that fits.

Additionally, from a more simple practical perspective, instances change over time, and are sometimes shut down entirely. That's never directly affected my experience, since I always have other accounts. So for instance, when .world started to decline, I just stopped using it, and when lemmy.ninja shut down (RIP), I just spent more time on other instances. And as new instances pop up, or just come to my attention, I just make an account, then take them for a test drive and see what I think. I've discovered a number of good instances that way.

So... yeah, I think it makes a lot of sense and it's pretty much effortless and entirely free, so there's no reason not to do it.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I hate to be the one to piss in the punch bowl here, but the only reason that they did this is because it in fact didn't require any spine at all.

Whether or not trans women play women's sports is an issue that has no effect at all on the fortunes of corporations and billionaires, so none of the soft money the Democrats receive has been contingent on them ensuring that trans women were banned, so they were free to oppose it, and did. And that's it.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

No - Trump's EPA doesn't need to "look around" and see the truth because it's not that they're somehow failing to see it.

They're lying sacks of shit who are fully aware of the danger and just don't care, because their job is to serve the interests of a handful of wealthy and powerful sociopaths who also don't care.

That's the real truth, and it's the American people who need to see it.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Some kind of dark ages - yes.

I suspect it will be considered the Lunatic Age or the Misinformation Age or the Willfully Ignorant Age or something like that, since its most distinctive characteristic, in retrospect, is likely to be the oddity that the creation of the most efficient and comprehensive information-sharing system the world has yet seen led pretty much directly to a worldwide epidemic of ignorance, stupidity, irrationality, and insanity.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Behind closed doors, the consensus has been that other countries don't want to get dragged into the current war in accordance with NATO mutual defense agreements.

But since Trump insists that he can end the war, that's obviously not a consideration for him - by his claims, there will be nothing more standing in the way of Ukraine membership in NATO.

Which makes this announcement that much more significant - essentially what he's saying is that even after the main obstacle to Ukraine membership has been eliminated, the US will oppose it.

Why?

Because... no, Trump is not Putin's puppet. He's something even worse - a cringing sycophant, desperate for affirmation from his strongman idol.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

psychopath /sī′kə-păth″/

noun

  1. A person who engages repeatedly in criminal and antisocial behavior without remorse or empathy for those victimized.

  2. A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 3 weeks ago (39 children)

That's what Daddy Putin wants, so that's what Daddy Putin gets.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 weeks ago

I think they're analogous to people who would stand and watch a stoning, then congratulate themselves on not having thrown any rocks themselves.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can do a spot-on impression of the standard deep, booming monster-truck rally advertising voice.

"This FRIDAY! (Friday... Friday...) Only at the Gigantodome! Beer Swiller Productions presents MONSTER TRUCK MAYHEM! You'll pay for the entire seat but you'll only need the EDGGGGGGGGE!"

Well... of course you can't hear it, but if you could, seriously, it's dead-on.

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