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Do you use the version that come with your distro? No issue with mine. I mean, I have the occasional one but nothing that would push me to stop using it.

All the time.

There is no such thing as a (modern) language that is not assembled from borrowing from other languages. So even speaking a single language, one may already be 'borrowing' from quite a few more. Add to that many of us will speak at least two languages (native + English), or more.

So yeah, like many, I borrow words and expressions from any of the languages I speak, even more so with those words and expressions I have a sweet spot for ;)

Surprise, really?

I quit watching any streaming service, including Prime, and I'm doing fine ;)

Yes of course the answer is stop eating fast food. Live in a cave, don’t reproduce, that is how we create the least waste. Im not suggesting that. Im saying it’s gross that these companies willingly waste so much when we don’t really need to.

• Not going to fast food does not mean to stop eating, hopefully for your health.
• Nor does it mean to stop reproducing... I don't now about you, but I seldom fuck in public places.
• And it does not mean living in a cave either unless one considers going to a fast-food the apex of a great night out? Which I don't... but I also don't consider a fast-food a restaurant at all.

that is how we create the least waste.

Wrong. We produce less waste by closely studying our habits and usages and figuring out ways to change them to produce less waste, not by expecting a corporation to do it for us because they will only change (but they will) the second their financial results fall because they insist on selling (shit food and) wrapping their consumers refuse to buy. Until then...

Meanwhile, I'll go back into my cave that's surrounded by wonderful places one can go eat in the streets nearby, places who serve some real food without any wrapping. Odd, I know but we also have that stupid giant metal tower around here, and those fancy museums, the entire world likes to visit. And we eat baguettes.

Have a nice day.

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Thx :)

Then again older peiple probably waste the most, but I’m just guessing.

You may be guessing wrong, then. That is coming from a 50+.

when eating at restaurants, wrappers, cups, drink carriers

Stop eating at fast-food, maybe?

My spouse and I have not been offered a straw, or a cup with a lid, packages or wrappers of any sort since we've quit going to fast-food (or joint selling any kind of industrially processed ~~turd~~ food), that was some 20 or 30 years ago.

We get served in a real plate, use real silverware (sorry, I don't know the English word to say 'fork, knife and spoon'), drink (no soda) in a real glass and have our coffee served in a real cup. LIke we woudl at home save the food is not cooked by us but is also fresh and not prepackaged (it helps to locate those restaurants that are real restaurants, not the many that are just microwaving prepackaged stuff)

I think we would agree on quite a few points. I steer away from any polemical content, politics, memes and stuff like that.

I have a perfectly curated timeline which is the perfect mix of news, entertainment, enlightenment and conversation.

• Perfection is rarely a good thing and more often than not risks leading to living into an echo chamber. I like my feed as it is, including the occasional... what I would call turd content. Some troll or some plain braindead post. Why? Because it's rare and because once in a while it won't be a turd. It will be a surprising take on something, something that could challenge my own certainties.
• Perfection is also very subjective. Yours may not be mine. Who will decide which one should prevail if not a vote from all participants? Even more so when the tool is allowing anyone to filter content as much as they fancy no matter what the community decided to vote for.

I want Lemmy to remain Lemmy.

The only things 'remaining' are memories (sweet as well as bad ones), and dead things that have ceased to exist.

Here again, I would not trust myself if I realized I wanted for anything/anyone I care about to not change anymore. I've been living with my spouse for almost 30 years and counting and we've both changed a lot. That's to be expected, that's being alive. One only stop changing the instant one dies.

I don’t want Lemmy to sell its soul

Lemmy has no soul. It's a tool. Like the hammer or the screwdriver in my toolbox, like that fountain pen on my desk.

to attract the very people I don’t want to be around.

Those very people you don't want, exactly. That's your right to not want to see them but I'd rather keep the hand on who I want and want not to see, thx ;)

I’m just saying we have to grow and improve while holding on to our values and having some integrity about it.

My values are not about deciding who we should (not) appeal to. It's about considering how a tool (or a place) could be better in order to attract more users while not allowing anyone to take away any control from each user—so, every single one of us can make Lemmy work like they want.

I don't give a crap if people want to eat politics or memes all day long or whatever else I would consider an incredibly stupid waste of my time or toxic to my soul. I don't mind provided I can easily ignore them... which Lemmy allows me to already. My feed feels great and it's never a source of stress when I open it. And the occasional shit post I may stumble upon is, well, just that: an accident. Accidents are bound to happen, right ;)

So, if appealing to more users helps attracting more devs I'm all for it in order to correct/improve what needs to be in Lemmy.

Imho, what's needed is not to keep 'the bad' people outside of 'our' little paradise. It's to make sure Lemmy can't ever be hijacked or taken hostage by anyone or any group of persons and be transformed into something we would not like and we could not transform back. That's why a few years ago I switched to GNU/Linux (from macOS) and that's why I will not switch back no matter how many things I don't like under GNU/Linux and its community: I can always find a workaround and that's priceless.

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“Together, we argue, these cases suggest that deliberate full extinction might occasionally be acceptable, but only extremely rarely,” the team states.

• Such humility.
• Too bad we're extinguishing many species already, as we're trying hard to destroy our very own ecosystem, without much consideration if it's not the stupidest thing we can ever do and maybe the last we will ever do? And since we're good at what we do, we're doing it at a scale and at a speed that is not leaving much hope to be able to change direction, and that won't leave much hope either to quite a few other living species we're dragging to their doom alongside with us. At least, we can rejoice knowing we will have reduced economic waste in livestock.

The hell is this article?

My thought, exactly. I forced myself to read it in its entirety but next time I see a link to their website I probably won't be bothered.

Thx. I learned my lesson and never have been employed by anyone since that happened. Not the cheapest lesson ever, but a good one ;)

I fell for that one, many years ago. I fell badly for it. It was a painful lesson to learn with consequences lasting to this day.

Their solution is not working at all.

That is unless their sole and true objective is to have us all live in cages? Because that's exactly where this is going.