Unfathomabely based

Thanks for the honest reply. I guess a couple thoughts I have on your response.

1. The screenshot in question was a vegan banning other vegans for not being vegan enough, so this didn’t seem like carnist trolls, this seems like multiple people integrated within the vegan community getting banned for having a slightly different opinion.

2. Is carnists a real term? I don’t think I have ever heard of someone who eats exclusively meat, unless this term is meant a different way

Anyway, sorry about the trolling you experience. I am personally not vegan, though I find the endeavor admirable. I think a lot of Lemmy and social media, and social circles in general need to practice a bit of “live and let live”

Serious question, not meant to be antagonistic. I’m honestly just curious.

Is the purpose of your community to simply be an echo chamber of similar opinions? Is debate not allowed, or having a different opinion?

I will never visit that community, but this seems like a wild abuse of mod powers. You do whatever you want, I don’t care and have no skin in the game, but don’t you want to foster discussion on your community? An echo chamber with other vegans doesn’t seem conducive to achieving anything, other than maybe a feels good circlejerk. The downvote button exists if you have a different opinion. A straight ban for not toeing the line seems like further isolating your view points from the greater Lemmy community, as well as entrenches the view point a lot of people have that vegans are hostile to non-vegans.

Calling other vegans fake vegans and banning them tho is whack as fuck but pretty hilarious

Not one comment in here about Lord of the Rings.

Which I agree with. Amazing movies. Glad everyone’s on the same page.

For me, it’s James Cameron’s Avatar. Visually stunning, especially for its time, but the story has to be the most cliche, predictable, boring, lazy piece of writing to ever have existed. It’s like they held an environmentally conscious 11 year old at gun point and made them write a story. The cigar chomping military guy working for corpos wants to pilfer a beautiful planet for its resources with disregard for the native populations that live there. Where have I seen that before? Oh yeah, ALL AROUND ME, EVERY FUCKING GOD DAMN DAY. Get an original idea.

Fuck this stupid piece of shit dumbass movie. It’s intellectually insulting. It’s a disgrace.

/endrant

You’re right, that is a shit opinion.

Can confirm.

Source: BC resident looking at our eastward neighbours.

Had my eye on Children of the Sun a while back. Thanks for the reminder it’s on sale, I think I’ll pick it up too.

If your point is that cops are corrupt, I agree. I also agree that resources given to cops would be better allocated to specialists to deal with certain situations, like a mental health crisis worker sent to a distressed member of the public, instead of police.

I don’t know about disbanding the police. For all their faults and flaws, they do also do work that I’m sure most people wouldn’t want to be involved in. I’m sure those occurrences are far and few between, but still.

The George Floyd reference seemed somewhat off topic, but I appreciate your level headed response nonetheless.

Because I happen to live on the small island where this happened, and live with my feet firmly planted in reality and not on the internet. I don’t hate cops for the sake of it. If I hate them, which I largely do, it’s for legitimate reasons, not because “they’re in a gang”. I have real experiences with cops, where they did real things that were bad, to me and people I know. My issue with them is their actions. Not some perceived gang. Our police have problems, but they aren’t plagued with the same problems at the same scale that American police are. American police are actually a gang. Ours aren’t, or are at least, to much, much lesser extent.

If you’re American, commenting on our police, arguing with someone who lives within the same jurisdiction as said police, stay in your lane. If you are Canadian, and happen to live in the same area, I’d love to hear why you think they are a gang, so feel free to let me know.

These are Canadian police on an island on the west coast… Not American police. I’m not defending these pieces of shit, but George Floyd’s murder has little to nothing to do with these guys or our police here on the island. Ours aren’t great, but they aren’t a gang like the American police are.

Relax, not a real tweet

Jesus Christ man, do you even have a point or are you just spinning your own tires here? Lol that entire above exchange was painful to read

It’s less money in their pockets and more money in ours. That’s not going to be a double win in their books.

Getting Epic’s money isn’t a slam dunk for profit. You’re hedging your bets taking guaranteed Epic money for lower potential sales vs non-guaranteed Steam money for higher potential sales. Having a bad exclusivity deal on Epic and then selling your game at a loss (90% discount) on steam isn’t profiting both ways, and sometimes isn’t profiting either way.

I also disagree with the sentiment that you’re reinforcing bad behavior. If anything, you’re signalling to them that you won’t support exclusivity deals, and are happy to wait for a deep discount on Steam. Ultimately, that’s a win for consumers.

That said, fuck exclusivity deals, and I’m much in the same boat where I’m hard pressed to support developers that take them.

No, it’s an old dodge ram.

You’re a smart cookie. It is in limp home mode, according to the transmission folks, caused by some sort of electrical malfunction.

The truck is a Frankenstein, and a lot of stuff that was mixed and matched caused electrical issues. It has an engine in it that isn’t the original make or model.

I never took it to 50mph, only 50km/h, as I didn’t want to highway drive it. It didn’t feel like it shifted once between 0 and 50km/h.

No power starting from a stop. Takes like 60 seconds to get up to 50km/h. Without getting too exciting here, it has a background of electrical problems. We have a pretty great transmission shop near where I’m located, so hopefully another kick at the can and they can solve it, because it’s out of my league to fix myself at this point.

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In dumbfuckistan they do.

Agreed it could save a ton of money. However, Westhills Development still owns the land, so the city could purchase the building, and when the contract is up for renewal in 25 years, Westhills Development could theoretically bulldoze the building and redevelop.

Sounds like some shitty backdoor deal made under previous mayor’s administration and his cronies. Pretty typical in Langford.