Direct effects of the “body positivity” movement

Being fat is unhealthy. Loving yourself does not mean you are without flaw, it means making yourself the best you you can be. Stop being content with being fat, and stop allowing your friends to be fat

Thrawn wasn’t in the sequels at all tho, he only showed up in Rebels (which was definitely not taken seriously by Disney at all) and then after it was obvious ppl loved him they added him to more shows

Yeah, Biden sucks that fucking bad lmao. Wish we could get a functional third party in this country

Preaching to the choir there. But with that being said, a lot of the actual content creators on reddit have jumped ship. It’s still going but it’s not as busy as it used to be, and upvote/comment numbers are down across almost every sub whenever I look at it. There is clearly a market for that form of content, seeing how it has frequently been plagiarized by Youtubers, instagrammers, and now tiktokers for the past decade or so. If that content truly falls off then reddit will be in serious trouble.

Sure, but at the same time all of the casual redditors who somehow weren’t aware of the controversy (the ones making threads asking who spez is, for example) are now going to learn more about the controversy and be informed enough to make their own decisions on continuing to use the site. For the short term their engagement will go up but it’s very possible that their long-term engagement drops even further after this decision

They can’t have seriously thought this would work in their favor lmao

It wasn’t a post, it was a pop-up on the app. Boost continued working for several days after the API changes supposedly went live. And I’m not calling it a positive that he’s not communicating, I’m just pointing out that there has been some communication when you and others seem to think there’s been none.

I mean, when reddit stopped working on boost it now shows a message saying that he’s working on boost for lemmy. That’s not no communication. It could be much better though

It’s a mixed bag. Many of them focus too much on policing the rules as strictly as possible and lose sight of the spirit of the community. They are a necessary evil in my opinion, but they shouldn’t be appointed with zero accountability as they currently are. Elections and community votes to remove mods that abuse their power should be more common.

Using /s is utterly pointless and I can prove it, although I doubt you’ll read it.

If someone legitimately doesn’t get the joke, adding a /s won’t make it funny to them, at most all it will do is prevent them from replying with some kind of attack. So I guess if internet harassment from incompetent people that can’t read sarcasm actually affects your mental state, adding a /s is a decent band-aid replacement for the therapy you obviously require.

In most cases, the S is “necessary” because your joke wasn’t funny, and the S will not make it funny, it’ll just make people pity your lack of humor.

Lastly, in the case where people get the joke, as soon as they see the S they will no longer find the joke funny. It’s the equivalent of saying bazinga after every joke. It’s not funny, it’s just annoying, and it ruins the few times you actually manage to tell a good joke.

And feel free to keep shitflinging, I am neurodivergent and I don’t need morons like you self-ruining your jokes in the name of some random internet people with no social awareness.

I legitimately think reddit would be better if everyone who used the phrase “cake day” was permanently IP banned from the service. And hate subs aren’t really a reddit tradition, more a general Internet thing, but go off I guess. Also, fuck the S, it’s the second most unproductive and inane reddit tradition

Legit Chicago. No work on the CTA that desperately needs a new line (or several), but just spent $800m ($300m over budget) on the Jane Byrne Interchange and immediately started work on Kennedy for another $150m (will end up being at least $300m). I can’t help but imagine if they took that billion and spent it on the CTA instead

John Green truly is a treasure. As usual, there is no such thing as a moral corporation

Cake days were by far reddit’s most unproductive and inane tradition, they should’ve died long ago. I will personally see to it that every person wishing or attempting to wish a happy cake day is verbally harassed until they delete their account.

Sometimes you have to fucking do something. We can’t make big changes overnight. Start small. Organize soup kitchens in your community. Or a community garden. Or start holding party meetings and recruiting people to the cause. And stop making excuses for “leftist” murderers just because they’re “leftist”.

No, in uneducated American circles you would be correct but in actual political discourse a leftist is truly a leftist. A liberal is an American “leftist”.

When will someone think of the big titty bi goth girls smh my head

Damn I never thought of it that way

Look up sounding

Can you possibly be more out of touch?

Please don’t take this as a challenge