Landrin201

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[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I posted a comment, one of my first, about something I think would vastly improve the user experience. I stand by it 100%, what I describe there was by far the most confusing part for me. I think the new user guide in general could use a pass-over by people who aren't tech savvy and are going to be more "casual" users, right now it's quite long and IMO a bit too technical for most people. It's too much all at once.

Now that I'm past that, I'm finding it quite similar to reddit. The biggest "problem" so far is that it's so small, so a lot of the small reddit communities I was in are non existant. I'm not comfortable moderating (I don't really have the time), so I won't make them myself, but I will miss them. Tbh for some things I'll probably still use reddit on desktop (until they kill old reddit) but lemmy on mobile.

My biggest concern from the beginning, and the reason I joined a big and established instance, is what will happen to people's accounts if their instance gets taken down by the creators. To me that seems like a kinda fundamental flaw here. I'm really not sure how or if it could be fixed, either.

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also new, and I'm with you- reddit was always too full of right wingers for my liking. I also like this instance (lemmy.ml)and it seems to have a more left tilt, specifically when it comes to bigotry.

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's my favorite fantasy series. I highly recommend it if you like modern fantasy; you'll notice that a lot of stuff written in the last 20 years is often heavily influenced by it. It's also complete, so you don't need to wait for more books to come out

The hardest part with it, frankly, is that book 1 feels very different from the others because the author hadn't quite gotten his feet under him. It's also extremely long at 14 total books, each one over 700 pages. But I think it's well worth it.

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

If reddit "isn't profitable" why is spez worth over $10 million? That's not money you just stumble into having, and if your company "isn't profitable" wouldn't you not be making enough to be worth $10 million after only a decade? Wouldn't your money be going into keeping the lights on and not enriching yourself?

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

Yes but there's only 7 subscribers and I'm the only post :(

Then again it's a niche community about a fantasy series, I'm not surprised it doesn't have much going on yet.

c/WheelofTime

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I think it's something different, tbh. I think that most people feel that something is wrong with the world we live in. They see inequality and injustice happening, they recognize that their entire life is going to be spent being exploited by companies and not taking home much pay, they recognize that none of that is fair... but they have been taught from day 1 that the system is fine, that the individual needs to do better for themselves and "not blame other people."

So instead of pointing and saying "hey this whole capitalism thing seems to be really fucking over a large segment of the population, can we maybe not do that?" they have to find ANY other outlet to offload the crushing hopelessness they feel onto- and rightwing politicians give them that outlet. They direct that hopelessness onto whatever boogieman the rightwing leadership wants- and use the language they were taught from birth to accept about "individualism" and "hard work" to make them think that those people over there are the problem, not the system, and if we just remove them from the system then everything will be fine!

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

And also because I grew up using Windows, and it's the operating system that I am by far the most comfortable with. I'm just used to how everything in Windows works.

I've tried to use a couple of different Linux distros- I tried Ubuntu, and Debian, and one other I can't remember. None of them felt as intuitive, none of them had all of the programs that I use every day, and it was just harder to do stuff on it. I work with linux (headless) every day because I do software development, but for my PC I just don't want all the hassle of having to do so much manually.

And Mac is just right out (although I do use it for work because I don't have a choice).

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Spewing whatever is on his mind in any given moment never got him in trouble before, so he thought it's just a thing he can keep doing.

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If this is true, then I really don't see any way that people could possibly defend his actions. It looks like he admitted, on tape, knowing he was being recorded, with three different witnesses, that he had classified information that he had not declassified, that he KNEW IT WAS STILL CLASSIFIED, then SHOWED THEM THE DOCUMENTS. On tape.

I really don't know how anyone can compare this to the actions of any other politicians, this is just utterly insane. Hillary Clinton didn't knowingly and deliberately try to show other people classified information, at best she stored some classified information improperly, at worst her improper storage may have led to people who weren't cleared to see it to see it. And either way she coorperated with investigators at every step of the way, endured hours of congressional testimony, and didn't try to hide it or delay the investigation.

And I also think that it's fair to treat the President and Cabinet members differently than other people with security clearance when it comes to the improper handling and storage of classified materials. The president is constantly handling classified information, on a daily basis, anywhere he works. He handles so much classified information that I think it becomes nearly impossible for him to actually keep track of what he has that is and isn't classified. All it takes is one page of a file being removed from its folder and put somewhere else by mistake- and the president handles hundreds of such pages per day. And, of course, notes about a classified document or discussion are by default also classified- and the president is constantly taking notes to keep up with everything. I don't think it's reasonable to expect the President to be 100% perfect with this, they expect their aides and assistants to help to do it for them. But even with that mistakes will be made. The president handles more classified information in a day than most people with clearance will handle in months. The same goes for cabinet members and the Vice President.

The important thing is that when other presidents have discovered classified information in their belongings after their term expires, they have immediately contacted the current executive, told them about it, and asked them to double check that they don't have more. I don't think it would be good to prosecute, say, Mike Pence or Joe Biden for this, because they cooperated with the investigation and the nature of their office makes it likely things will slip through the cracks.

But if they start showing off the classified info they found and bragging that it's classified to people without clearance? Throw the book at them, that's 100% crossing the line.

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago

Agreed. I don't like how much our society has given into the Right's attempt to inherently politicize the existence of minority groups. The TREATMENT of those minority groups by the government is certainly political, but not whether or not they should be allowed to exist.

I'm 100% okay telling people who think that Transgender healthcare should be banned, or that the Jews are the root of societies problems, or that the government should force women to carry pregnancies to term to go have those opinions elsewhere, that they aren't welcome here. I don't think it's somehow "anti free speech" to do that either, they can go scream it on the corner of their street all they want. Just don't let them do it here, because these aren't issues that I think should be up for debate. The root of the "debate" around those issues is bigotry (and control over the individual, in the case of abortion) and I don't see any way to acceptably decouple the bigotry from the "issue" at hand.

Sometimes society decides an idea is too shitty to be expressed publicly without shame and ridicule, and I think that's fine. I don't have a problem with private spaces openly banning that kind of speech.

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Agreed, it's very alarming. They didn't even read the indictments that they are threatening violence over, they just saw that their team leader got indicted and immediately went "welp, guess it's time to start killing people."

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

No no, he used his magic fire body to melt his way through the earth, kinda like this,, except he also made the earth re-solidify above him. He kept going until he hit a cave then just kinda chilled in there for several thousand years until the dwarves very rudely broke in and woke him up.

He just wanted the longest, most secluded nap ever.

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