The choice to be on open-source, community-owned social media rather than corporate owned platforms is, itself, a political choice, and one that, in the absence of other focuses for discussion, will attract politically outspoken people. With no other core community here to focus discussion, everything will fall back to the things most people here have in common: FOSS, anti-corporate sentiments, etc., all of which are themselves inherently political topics.

“It’s chemicals!”

Technically correct, I guess.

Karl Urban just highlighting Simon Pegg’s lack of dedication to his role.

As a kid, I could never trust adults who wanted to limit good things.

Guess what? This effect has been found in other experiments!

The marshmallow experiment is one of those that self-help gurus and LinkedIn ‘influencers’ love to peddle as being meaningful, in no small part because it tells people who had lucky upbringings that they are inherently better than others, and not just a product of their environment. But when it’s actually examined critically, it falls apart.

Because most people are not so anal retentive as to give a damn about Hasbros trademarks.

My dad smoked for years. But so did a huge percentage of boomers. Where I grew up, poor and rural, the majority of people smoked.

You know what the majority of people didn’t have, but which I did? An epileptic grandparent. And a family history of epilepsy is associated with autism diagnoses.

Le is pronounced “luh”. La is pronounced “la”.

What we’re looking for here is les, the plural, which is pronounced “lay”.

And if people would just recommend or advertise instances, and try to grow instances rather than the network directly, there’d be no problem. But every Fedi platform falls into this ptoblem of hiding the host and championing the platform itself, rather than powering independent social websites.

It’s so frustrating and sad.

Same. Honestly, even in college things were OK until social relationships got in the way, and then I couldn’t manage. Things fell apart so fast…

I think it’s dangerous to imagine people follow these folks, or let them run rampant over society, because they aspire to be like them. That makes it so much harder to really understand why people support them, or even just refuse to tell them “no”, and makes it impossible to do anything about it.

People believe that life is a meritocracy. Even when they themselves can look around at the people near them and see that those in positions of power don’t deserve it, they still view society as a whole as “fair”. Yes, they personally have may have gotten screwed over, but, in general, the people who float to the top got there because they were smarter and more capable. Therefore, we should sit back and just let them cook.

They need some kind of trigger to see the billionaires not as people who have earned their place, but who have stolen it.

Well, it’s hard to argue with someone with good opinions on cheese.

Trump, and many of his supporters, think that America is China’s biggest client. They’re totally blind to the idea that China is China’s biggest client, and that it’s not even close.

Their total lack of understanding of the world outside their little exceptionalist bubble is hilarious and depressing

Well, he’s special! It’s right there in his title! He’s the specialest little employee. Yes he is! Yes he is!

They don’t own it yet

You answer your own question.

And from this post, I discovered there’s a new SPC game im development.

This just made my month!

It works the same on Lemmy, it’s just that on Lemmy you subscribe to groups, and on Mastodon you subscribe to users.

Groups just forward replies and other interactions it sees to subscribers.

You have to soft launch your fascist dictatorship. People need time to accept the possibility.

It took a lifetime to turn the Roman Republic into the Principate. You gotta ease into these things to keep peope from shanking you on the senate floor.

Personally, I’d just like to see up/downvotes replaced wholesale with emoji reactions.

Downvotes are a dark feature designed to excuse Reddit (and YouTube, etc.) from actually moderating their platforms under the guise of “social” moderation, but it’s actually something that stifles speech that challenges the consensus, rather than preventing toxicity.

Meanwhile, custom emojis are another way for instaces to differentiate themselves.

Some things you need to know about LLMs:

1. They are probabilistic text generators, which look at their training data (in a very abstracted way) and go "based on what’s written here, what’s most likely to come next?

2. They treat numbers like any other word or phrase

This means, when using them for TTTPGs, they will treat everything like it’s 5e, because 5e dominates the discussion, and that any numbers they spit out will only be right by accident.