There are no health benefits to smoking or vaping as opposed to just not smoking. I don't know how directly this needs to be told to you, but I think right now you're too deep into addiction/denial to see it.
If you love your girlfriend, sometimes it's okay to trust them on something, especially if everyone else is also telling you the same thing, even if it's not what you want to hear.
Really makes you think, doesn't it?
The point is that it's being defended against. That's the whole point of this post. So your audience are people who are already entrenched against the fediverse, being faced with a Lemmy invasion. And they're the kinds of people who relish these Reddit activities in the first place.
Do you think engaging with them in this incredibly superficial way is going to suddenly change their minds?
Or do you maybe think it might instead reinforce their cognitive biases now that they've spent a day and a half "defending" r/place against the militant minority?
But the whole point of coming here is I didn't want to use the website and give them engagement.
I think part of the problem is that when everyone is pulling in different directions, the effect of people like me boycotting using Reddit entirely to try to make some kind of dent in their use statistics basically ends up doing nothing.
If you're "defending" your banner, meaning refreshing and adding inputs on a regular basis, you're providing a ton more engagement, views, and clicks, as well as getting other Reddit users more entrenched in their defense of their stupid website, than any other possible activity you could do on that site. So thanks, I guess.
The worst case scenario for r/place is a world where everyone just sits in their corner after populating it at the start. Zero stories, boring, people no longer want to engage. What you're doing? Dramatic gold.
It is a totally different reality. The nature of social media bubbles means that you are experiencing an entirely alien experience just by dint of being here. The problems of Reddit look huge when everyone around you keeps talking about them, you subscribe to communities that hate Reddit, and it sounds like everyone is on board with the exodus from Reddit because, well, they're here.
But Reddit has ten? a hundred? times more users than the Fediverse has, even fully federated. All the people who stay are going to be people who didn't deem the problem serious enough - this means complaints about Reddit won't be upvoted, and there is a high chance that the only way that users feel affected by what Reddit has done at all are the blackouts that affected their performance. Everytime someone posts there about what is wrong with Reddit, it simply results in ten replies about how the problem can't be that big, and Reddit still enjoys the engagement.
The nature of human intuition and social media means that it's very easy to fall into the trap of believing your universe is the real one, and it's just as true for us as it is for them. In my case I've chosen not to go back to Reddit entirely and provide the one objective metric I can of my unhappiness: -1 user on their site.
I've let it go, and so should you.
Excited and commenting just to show support. I have to admit I've never used an app for any feed browsing at all (old.reddit user when I still used Reddit, even on mobile) but will try to give it a go once it goes public and see what I've been missing out on!
The thing is that you're meant to reverse the images. The problem is the number of people who haven't watched Raimi's Spiderman co-opting the meme.
The main question for this argument that piracy does a lot of good is: are the people who are pirating things using it for this purpose? I don't think there's an ethical conflict for me to say that I am happy for piracy to exist for software that is otherwise unplayable, but think that piracy should not exist for new games that just come out.
Someone quoted a study that within the first 14 years is where most of the profitability comes from. Maybe I'd be okay with people pirating anything that's been around for 14 years, but I think most people who keep using this "pirating is good" line won't agree with this compromise.
Fell asleep in Dubai waiting at the gate for my transfer eight hours early. Woke up too late to realise the gate had changed while I was sleeping and I couldn't board in the five minutes left. I thought I'd wake up once more people were there but thanks to the gate change, it never filled up.
I don't think anyone other than you thinks the word "creature" implies a creator, so you making that distinction really only gives power to creationists rather than taking it away.
Moreover, even if it does come from creatura, the argument can easily be made that creatures beget (create) other creatures. It seems a very silly and tenuous thing to suddenly muddle a conversation over.
So you think she could be right? You just don't want to do it? That reasoning doesn't make sense. If you think she's right you should be stopping right now.