I agree. If all you can do is whine about different perspectives, you should defederate.

I don’t know why you should expect anyone to change their worldview based on one comment that contains, paraphrased, “China doesn’t have a child labor problem like the US does.”

You can’t just hurl insults and bullshit and expect anyone to change their mind.

Where are savings rates higher than 4%?

I’ll go sub over there too. I just want a community that’s not on Reddit.

!League@lemmy.ml I’ve been doing my best, but it’s mostly talking to myself.

Yeah, it’s weird that people prefer democracy to dictatorship. Freedom of speech is pretty important too.

I have a lot of issues with capitalism, but that doesn’t mean I’m ready to give up on democracy as a whole. And China has just about as many of those capitalism problems as we do.

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/savings-bonds/i-bonds/

Put 10k here. Make a free $1200 over those three years.

The plausible deniability is nice. Many places can see what domain you go to, but that’s the only thing they can see.

I can’t say I mind it either way. I don’t mind that our instance blocks porn, but I’m glad there are some instances that don’t.

I just blocked memes because it was taking up so much space.

I seem to remember plenty of teammates shooting each other in any iteration of Counterstrike.

First, I want to be clear this is a tangent from the main post. The specifics of what I’m doing “wrong” don’t matter to the OP as much as what kind of opportunities it opens up.

We’re talking solo queue, where the jungler hates coming bot unless it’s pushed into your turret, and your adc will use a lead to keep the lane at the enemy turret.

I’ve found that if I just completely abandon bot lane, my adc is about 50/50 to win lane. Enemy bot lanes are incapable of significantly freezing a wave. They’ll get desperate to push their 2v1 advantage, and do dumb shit. I’ve seen my adcs outplay the 1v2 dive often enough.

Given that, it makes sense to influence the game elsewhere. Sending the support mid in solo queue is underrated. Both vision and prio are so much more important mid than bot. Having the support near there gives you both.

I do love to link up with the mid, jungle, or both and come bot lane to punish the 2v1.

We’ve decided long ago that bad people surviving is better than good people dying.

I looked up my exact quote, which isn’t perfect, but a permanent ban seems kind of crazy.

It’s not really lethal if you’re vaccinated, especially if you’re young.

I wouldn’t downplay long Covid. And if I had to do it again, I’d change some things. But saying that once in an appropriate thread seems pretty innocuous to me.

Basically just the Reddit to Lemmy transition. Sounds easy.

I’ve been permanently banned from the League of Legends subreddit for saying a team that had caught Covid wouldn’t die because they’re young and vaccinated. In a post about them having caught Covid. And in response to someone calling it a fatal disease (which it can be for some, but really isn’t if you’re 20, vaccinated, and otherwise healthy).

Which is kind of mandatory for how they’ve designed Lemmy. If you share upvotes between instances, then you’ve gotta provide sources. Otherwise it’s too easy for one instance to manipulate all the others.

You could not share upvotes between instances, but that would really damage small instances. Imagine going to a small instance and instead of the Reddit front page you get the Reddit new page.

Is it, though? It’s intended to be a public forum either way. As the MPAA and RIAA should have learned, you can’t really keep a public secret.

Using Discord just makes that transparent. You’re absolutely being spied on, instead of jumping through a bunch of hoops to give yourselves false confidence that you’re not being spied on.

Sure. It’s an easy gotcha. But if you consider it a bit more it makes sense.

The US government as a whole, comparatively, are the good guys in this. The US government is pretty cautious and tends to shy away from spreading propaganda to its own people.

There are a lot of caveats there, absolutely. I’ll get into some of those. But let’s not pretend the US government is on par with the Russian or Chinese governments when it comes to social media propaganda.

The GOP being in bed with the Russians and collaboratively pushing narratives is not being done on behalf of the government. And I doubt whatever is happening at Elgin is targeting Americans.

I have particular experience with this because I tend to have an off-meta playstyle that enrages my teammates. (Basically a support that doesn’t stay bot lane.) People very often aren’t able to (or refuse to) take advantage of the opportunities I provide.

Very often I’ll get first blood top lane, get an advantage mid lane, have incredible vision, and then be under leveled and behind bot lane. At which point my AD will already be pissed and either throw lane by all-in’ing as soon as s I arrive, or hard commit to split pushing for the rest of the game. (Because they’re mad. Not because it’s appropriate.)

It’s probably ChatGPT.

Reddit admins weren’t always shitty. In fact… well, rest in peace, dude. You died trying to do a good thing for people.