EmmaGoldman

joined 5 years ago
MODERATOR OF
[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

The point of rule 8 is explicitly and in no uncertain terms to weed out dreck, shit, garbage. Low quality bait, weird anonymous bigots, bad bespoke twitter opinions, etc. The dunk tank is a place for us to post garbage takes with the goal of deconstructing the brainworms or at least having some fun laughing at a moron. There is no shortage of bad posts on the internet, but just because you saw it doesn't mean that we have to as well. The dunk tank is a place where we can punch up together, rather than all of us getting riled up every time one of us sees one of the billion bad posts launched daily into the digital void by random morons.

If you'd like to continue getting mad at random internet strangers, you're invited to subscribe to /c/shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml or just reply to the bad comments you see on other sites directly with your dunks.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Posting isn't praxis, nor does it need to be. You can quit JAQing off and "begging for an explanation" now.

It's pretty clear at this point that no amount of explanation is going to be sufficient for you given the way you've continued to antagonize both moderators and everyone else who has tried to clarify the situation to you in this and previous threads.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The dedicated comm has already been determined to be /c/shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml as it's an already existing community and it also helps foster increased interactions between Hexbear and Lemmygrad.

The disaffected rule 8 posters already have an alternative space available to them, those that refuse to use it for some reason don't somehow gain the right to post their content elsewhere just because they're frustrated with the rules.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (12 children)

The slop trough is open right now at /c/shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml

I encourage you and everyone else disappointed by rule 8 to subscribe there.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (32 children)

Yes, absolutely. Dunk tank content removed under rule 8 (and even before it was formalised) is always some random irrelevant take posted by a nobody with no platform, of which there are literally hundreds of millions on the internet. I think the most notable posting we've ever even had to actually think about whether rule 8 applies is some small time twitch streamer with under 1000 followers who posted something racist on twitter.

The goal of rule 8 is and has always been to limit the absolute dogshit takes that random bluesky accounts nobody's heard of, shitty YouTube commenters, or bad Facebook posts made by some random guy you used to work with 5 years ago.

The intention is to allow for the picking apart of posts made by people with a reasonably large platform or even vague association with the levers of power, without having to wade an endless supply of boring bad takes from nobodies in order to find something worth dunking on.

The rule has been explained multiple times, your disagreement with the rule does not make it unclear.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How do you look at a guy who acts and styles himself like that and not have "pedophile" ever enter your mind when thinking about him?

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Cannot recommend this move enough. Unplugging permanently from social media toxicity is one of the best things you can do for your mental health, especially as a queer person.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't normally post something like this but "Cum-Ex scandal" is too funny to pass up.

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Wait wait wait, you're telling me that Ukraine might be antisemitic? But but but zelenskyyy is Jewish, he could never be an anti-Semite. I mean, unlike those Bad Jews in America who support kkkhamas!

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

CW: talking about animal death

Just for reference, this entire argument is as incorrect as it is disingenuous. Setting aside that animal agriculture requires far more land to grow crops (and thus more land plowed) to feed the animals before you eat them than just eating the crops, the number of animals killed on roadways is about 100 times higher and the number directly killed for consumption as part of animal agriculture is more like 10,000 times as many.

Plowing a field is loud and slow, and the actual act of turning over the ground disturbs the ground a lot which can be detected several meters away. Animals are not dumb, most will run away. The majority of animals that would die as a result of plowing a field will be ones escaping that get picked off by birds of prey.

The biggest human caused problems with plowing that contribute to animal deaths are from starting around the edges of a field and circling your way inward as most small animals will instinctively run into the grass rather than across the wide open already plowed area, in order to avoid those birds of prey. Simply avoiding this pattern or even using no-till planting can further reduce unnecessary animal deaths by providing an escape route.

Source: my neighbour is a retired agronomy professor

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

It's like a boomer power fantasy show. The whole concept is like "what if your conservative brainworms were always right and your kids had to talk to you and your pickup truck yeoman farmer fantasies made you secretly one of the most powerful people on the planet."

 

Most common exposure routes include insecticides, pesticides, cosmetics, press-finish fabrics, and pharmaceuticals.

 

Seriously, it's like these dudes are fed agitators trying to get all ebikes banned or something. They just cannot help themselves and are drawn to exclusively riding in places they are illegal, instead of using any of the copious number of spaces designated for dirtbikes.

 

lookit 'em go! bug-facts

 

Ayn Odin 2

hitler-detector

 

sicko-orca

 

Building a floating platform specifically so you can do digital crimes against humanity.

 

Based? Cringe? YOU DECIDE!

 

what-the-hell

 

FUCKING DO IT

The fee should be about 1000x higher than listed, but shit, do something

 

sicko-laser Go see if you can influence the surface of the sun.

 

SO CLOSE

view more: ‹ prev next ›