Typically, an abstraction maintains the essence of the original. Asking “what if <good thing>, but it costs <bad thing>” isn’t an abstraction.

I’m not aware of a proposed solution to climate change that involves mass torture or murder.

The question feels more like one of those terrible parlor games where you have to pick a few cards and then argue some randomly generated point.

Sorry, is there a Project A-ko game?

Chummer and omae always worked better for me.

THUMB WRESTLING DOMINANCE

TIL. Thanks.

Have you considered tiny weights for your right hand?

We’re old, politically like-minded, and we dog pile folks who disagree with us (e.g. Conservatives).

I’m not 100% sure why I’m here. I think it’s that I really like the idea of decentralized social media, and I generally fit the group think.

Anyhow, welcome to Lemmy! I hope you enjoy it!

What’s a munis?

That’s awesome! It took me a while to build a connection.

Even if my blood boils every other day, I would kill for them. This is really weird. They can bring the worst out of you and, in an instant, flip it on its head and make you feel almost high.

Yeah, it’s a weird dynamic. I haven’t fully gotten used to it, tbh.

I always hated the sound of kids crying and wanted this kid to be different in that respect but I still hate it and my blood starts to boil the longer he cries (again, I’m not going to hurt this kid. I’m not a violent person).

I had similar feelings. There were a few times where I wasn’t in a good place emotionally, so I made sure the screaming kid was safe, closed the door, and took five to calm down. Then I opened the door and did what I could to help the baby.

I didn’t think I was a person who got angry/frustrated that easily, but yeah, a screaming kid can have that effect.

I felt so bad when my first was born. I felt similar, the immediate jolt of love and connection wasn’t exactly there … he would scream, and I would cry. …

3 years later that same baby, I’d rip my fucking skin off with rusty pliers if there was a chance of keeping him safe

This is my experience as well. Nobody seems to talk about it IRL, but I see similar sentiment online.

They go through a bunch of phases in the first three years:

• houseplant (need to be watered and fed, don’t interact much),
• blind kitten (need to be fed, not in control of movements, don’t really interact, can move)
• kitten - can move and interact, not really in control of actions.
• Puppy - can interact, likes playing, not in control of emotions, can move
• drunk troll - likes moving, vaguely understands what’s happening, gets upset for weird reasons, starting to express love towards you, destroys things for fun/frustration

And then they start getting more like people. It’s easier to interact with them. As they get closer to creatures we understand, it will be easier to love them.

Good luck. It gets easier and better.

Dude, this is a SFW instance. lemmynsfw.com is that way 👉

Breakfast beans? Damn. You’re a bean fiend!

It’s what I love most about Lemmy.

I fully expect that to make a comeback in the aftermath of the climate wars.

too real

The developers building Lemmy are very different from the folks building bots. I’ve got a half-assed repost bot working, but there’s no way I have the time or inclination to work on Lemmy itself.

Generally speaking, a bot needs to meet a much lower quality/reliability bar than the server does.

I think I’m one of the few users that enjoyed Reddit’s random bots. Seeing the Accidental Haiku bot restructure a comment as haiku, or the Consecutive Number bot point out a number progression was fun.

As long as they’re polite, and respect community boundaries, I think they’re fun.

People can post from anywhere, but need to be physically present to show up to a parade. And it’s easy for a single person to post multiple times. FWIW apparently the weather sucked too.

Weirdly, I haven’t seen news outlets provide estimates of the number of attendees. The closest I’ve seen is

attendance appeared to fall far short of early predictions that as many as 200,000 people would attend

from CBC. It sounds like it was low turnout, but I’m not clear how low.

Assuming the photos are legit, the No Kings protests clearly got a lot of people out.