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Cool, that’s a game I’ve been mildly interested in for a while. Love Tolkien’s dwarves but I’ve heard mixed things about the game itself.

No. I log in every once in a while to laugh at all the bullshit AI-generated content that now fills my feed. Otherwise I only really keep my account since it’s the only platform where I still have old classmates etc, in case I’d ever want to contact them.

Sure, I’m not American myself. But I’m pretty sure much of the violent rhetoric on social media right now around killing CEOs etc is from Americans. The murder of Brian Thompson happened in America after all and all the anger around health insurance wouldn’t really make sense in most of the world where there’s universal health care.

I mean those people in the new world also did a bit of genocide of the native people as a side project and the movement in France included a regime of terror where like 30000 people, including peasants and revolutionaries, were murdered by other revolutionaries. It was hardly just the burgeoisie that suffered. But sure, desperate times may call for desperate measures. It’s not something I’d particularly want to live through though and there’s no guarantee that what comes after will be better.

Just be careful you don’t get in the crossfire yourself once the people’s bloodlust takes over and who the elite is shifts. In some cases, wearing glasses was enough.

I’ve seen both. Example of what I mean

I can understand you emotions, even if I can’t directly relate (living in a country with universal healthcare). But I do think it’s a slippery slope. Those kind of “kill the oppressors” movements may hit the “right people” at first, but also have a tendency of going wildly out of control. (Khmer Rouge etc)

I think most people are more like saying “LOL” at what happened rather than “Lets kill [insert person name here]”.

I’ve definitely seen quite a few memes that were like “Here are the names and faces of a few other health insurance CEOs. No particular reason ;)”. But yeah it’s probably not most.

I think it’s America that’s getting more violent. You see the same thing on other platforms.

I don’t measure it. That said, I just spent my 8 hour workday in front of a screen. So at least that. By the time I go to bed it’ll probably be like 12 hours if you count reading on an e-ink display.

The work of Pytheas of Massalia. I think it would be quite an interesting read.

This is probably true in general, but as OP asked specifically about furry art, the situation is quite different. Furry art platforms like Furaffinity etc are much less profit- and algorithm-driven than platforms like Amazon and Ebay. It’s an entirely different ecosystem that exists largely outside the huge platforms.

A really tiny channel I like is Don’t Look East. Currently less than 3000 subscribers and most videos just get a few hundred views. He does unscripted travel vlogs about rarely visited destinations, mostly in Asia and Eastern Europe. For example he recently travelled the entire Thailand/Myanmar border by motorcycle.

Instances can defederate with other instances, effectively blocking them. For example your instance has blocked lemmynsfw.com and quite a few instances block lemmy.ml. It’s not the best instance to choose if you want to federate with a lot of other instances.

Can’t say that I have. Do you have a sample video with the kind of music you’re talking about?

I’m 100% sure they exist and I’m 99.9% sure there won’t be any contact over the next 10 years. It’s entirely possible there will never be, though I do hope otherwise.

Just looked this up. It looks like the new generation just shows up as an MTP device instead of an external drive. That doesn’t stop sideloading books onto the device, it works as before.

However, they’ve seemingly stopped allowing the “download and transfer” option for Amazon-bought books, which was an easy way to get them into Calibre and remove their DRM. So that’s something to keep in mind for sure if you want to buy ebooks from Amazon.

As someone who has sideloaded a ton of books onto their kindle, why?

Guild Wars 2. I’m not really into grinding for hours or optimizing my characters, so I appreciate that the game can be played quite casually. That’s also true of ESO, but that one feels basically like a single player game to me, while GW2 feels much more social with a lot of player cooperation just arising naturally through its design. Also love the zone design, having a lot of exploration and things like jumping puzzles. Story is pretty decent as well.

Criminals will be required to work social services for the common good. High-risk criminals will also be put under constant surveillance either by automated systems or, in extreme cases, Human guards to stop them from reoffending.