Health care executives sentence millions to death because saving their lives isn’t profitable. If you kill someone attempting to take your life, that’s self-defence.

I am on board with promoting self-defence as a form of political action.

No, I’m from the Shire, and Mordor doesn’t exactly make conversation with us.

But I pay notice to the black smoke. To the Nazgul strikes and the fires of war. I can feel his dark eye watching us all from atop his wasteland tower, whispiering lies and doubt into innocent ears. I hear a poison tongue speaking wicked words into the ear of a decrepit leader, making him but a puppet. I see a war chief turn on his master in a bid for power, only to be cowed and granted a traitor’s reward.

I look to the east, and see Mordor.

But everything you said about Mordor could apply to Russia.

No, I saw them. My point stands. Is there any thing to indicate the horse is unhappy about the chains, cells or rider? From the post itself, we have to assume the horse is pretty chill about their circumstances. Why do you assume otherwise?

…Have they indicated that? We’ve only been shown a picture of a horse. That’s not enough to make that very aggressive claim.

Imagine an apartment building. The landlord decides the local city council is too overbearing, and decides to move to a different city. They expect the tenants to move with them.

Problem 1: The local city is known for inclusivity, and the new city is known for being overpopulated and having an overbearing city council. Either the landlord has sinister motives or didn’t do their research.

Problem 2: The tenants weren’t told of the move before the moving van came, and were given no opportunity to weigh in on the decision. The landlord was calling all the shots.

Problem 3: The landlord sealed the building as they moved, making it impossible for someone else to take over as landlord and keep the building running. There was really no reason to do that.

This went about as smoothly as you’d expect. While the landlords did eventually unseal the building, a lot of people completely lost faith in them and moved into a new apartment building in the same city, but with a new landlord ( [email protected] ).

They don’t get a cut, they get a wage. That wage is as low as it is because of lobbying from wealthy fucks, and they can reduce it to 0 by firing you with flimsy reasoning. The workers make the rich rich, and the rich makes the workers poor.

Customers want goods cheap, but they’re really bad at noticing what’s cheap and what’s manipulative. JC Penny tried to remove sales and just offer cheaper clothes, but people wanted more expensive clothes with a 50% off label on it. Shops will inflate the price on a luxury item to make a lower-priced item look reasonable, even if the lower price is still inflated.

This feels like more of a regular joke than a dad joke. It’s rare you get swear words in dad jokes, even ones in an Irish accent.

Irrelevant. Seizing control is a part of hijacking, not the entire thing. You also have to be subverting its purpose, such as changing a vehicle’s destination or making a radio station play a different message. Unlocking the community would make it do what it was doing before, which is not subverting its purpose.

If a ship is headed to New York, but a gang of pirates decides to take it to Barbados instead, that’s a hijacking. If the captain goes rogue and makes the ship go to Barbados on their own, but the crew revolt and force the ship to go to New York like it was supposed to, that’s anti-mutiny, not hijacking.

I don’t think hijack is the right word. You hijack something when you seize control to subvert it’s original purpose. In this case, you’d be seizing control to return it to its original purpose. This feels more like an anti-mutiny, where the leader goes rogue and the crew refuses to go with them.

Not relevant… On 196.

This raises the question: is it your moderation that people like? Or do people only like it as much because of the extra layer of moderation you dislike?

Absolutely yes. I just need a partner to have them with, which is easier said than done.

I just want to stress that they are platonic cute together. Two besties who love and support each other, no romo.

You seriously need to talk to people if you think that’s how people are. There are people with self-worth issues. There are people who don’t mourn their family. There are people who had body odor problems, and learned how to fix them, and will understand what you’re doing wrong and how to fix it with a sympathetic eye.

AI will respect you exactly as much as a rock will. It won’t. It won’t even know you’re there. There is no such thing as being less human than AI.

You are a part of people. You can pretend you’re not, but it’s only pretend. You’re better than that.

You’ve been spending too much time with AI. You’re starting to hallucinate like one. They only said “people”, not all that extra stuff you just assumed they meant.

I think a good step one would be to stop assuming “people” means “actually loved normal people who view anyone developmentally behind them as subhuman scum.” It could just mean people. You’re a person. You’re part of “people.”

There’s a lot of people who were where you are right now, and they struggled and pushed forward and grew into something not normal, but functional. They have a ton of advice they had to learn the hard way. And they are all too eager to give the compassion they were never given. They will teach you.

I am a lemmy user who knows exactly where I am, but I also want to say “desire paths”

Makes sense. One of those “it’s easier to add than subtract” things. I probably won’t do that, but if it works for you, then that’s good.

Sorry, why did you need to math your hit points? Were you not keeping track already?

First off, the first comment is only the first comment we can see. There are four comments worth of context we have not been provided with.

Second, he wasn’t asking how it was commercial, he was asking how he could commercialise it. He was trying to spread the post as much as possible, and has an analytics tool to track it. Puts me in mind of market research.

Third, that still doesn’t explain how it’s facetious. What he said about being commercial was said in the same tone as the things that were self-evident. Just claiming it’s facetious is like saying “haha, jk.” Why should I believe it wasn’t serious?

This came across, to me at least, like a genuine attempt to test the advertising reach of the fediverse. He failed to convince the mod otherwise, and the mod was right to shut that down.