ImplyingImplications

joined 2 years ago
[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 23 points 4 months ago

I personally used it daily for years. There was more to the site than neo-nazi threads on /pol/. Anime, manga, kpop, and vtuber threads were some of the most popular and they were all highly moderated.

I enjoyed the lack of username/post history meaning no worshipping prolific posters or doxxing people by going through their history to find a post where they talked about their work.

No upvotes or ranking system meant good and bad posts weren't labeled. You figured that out yourself without other people (or an algorithm) telling you how to feel about it.

Frequent thread deletion meant the site was constantly a snapshot in time. It's like going to a bar. You're not going to know the conversations people had in that bar yesterday. It might not even be the same crowd as yesterday. The vibe is created by the people there at that time and it's constantly changing.

The site had barely changed how it functioned in 20 years. It was honestly one of the last bastions of the old internet before everything became about "engagement" metrics.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Conservative candidate has a 99% chance of winning in my riding. Thankfully voting only took 10 minutes out of my day so, while it feels useless, at least it's quick and painless!

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 months ago

Congrats on asking AI to recreate this meme from 2 weeks ago https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/24293631

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

There's two lampposts growing out of each other and everything in the photo casts a shadow in a different direction.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 103 points 4 months ago (5 children)

She was likely against the somewhat liberal views of Pope Francis, like how Christians should be kind to gay people and refugees.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 61 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I feel like there's always been a culture of boys and young men who didn't respect women, there's just never been podcasters actively promoting it.

The internet allows idiots to broadcast their message worldwide and social media promotes the most controversial stuff in order to drive engagement and, more recently, to promote a culture war that keeps the populus divided.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 41 points 4 months ago

Appropriate that you used tea bags because it's a popular legend that tea bags were created after customers misused the product. Some tea sellers started selling their tea in silk bags with the intention that customers would remove the leaves from the bag before use. Instead, customers dipped the bag of leaves directly into water.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Couldn't they just rate limit requests like every other API?

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

I had to look it up. It's what the Conservative party is calling the budget deficit. Carney's proposed budget has more spending than income and they're calling it "inflation tax" now. Probably because "axe" and "deficit" don't rhyme.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

Easy, just name the second kid Nadir.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That&#39s cruel!

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 63 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

All four gospels in the Bible recount a story of Jesus being brought to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, by Jewish leaders who accused Jesus of crimes and requested his execution. The story goes that Pilate had to do what the leaders asked but was not convinced Jesus was guilty of anything and decided to give him a chance at freedom. The Jewish holiday of Passover was happening and it was a tradition for Roman leaders to release a Jewish prisoner. Pilate offered a crowd of Jewish people the choice between freeing Jesus or a man named Barabbas (who is described as an insurrectionist against Rome and a murderer, not a thief). The Jewish leaders in the crowd turned them against Jesus and had them call for Barabbas to be released. Pilate is then said to wash his hands to symbolize the crowd is responsible for Jesus' fate and not him.

Historically, there's no evidence Romans ever released Jewish prisoners for Passover and Pilate himself is described as a ruthless tyrant who did not hesitate to execute Jewish people who did not recognize the authority of Caesar. There's no chance he would have freed someone who killed Romans, nor would he have been forced to execute someone he didn't want to execute because Jewish leaders requested it.

The Bible story was probably meant as an exaggeration of how much Jewish leaders didn't like Jesus and his message and how people followed corrupt leaders over the actual son of God. The meme is pointing out people seem to have missed the point of the story and would do the same thing today.

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