Seems like millions of redditors say just that through the many slaps in the face to users, then hang around anyway. :S

I may be missing something here

I would guess Larson wasn't a fan, and thought that "new age" practices were mainly performative and non-productive, leading practitioners to get stuck in repetitive little circles, getting nothing done in the end.

If so, it's a pretty cynical take IMO, and certainly one of his more personal, brassy ones.

Came here to make this point.
The CCP's version of "communism" is almost a textbook example to me of how an interesting system that can work beautifully on the local level can be completely betrayed and turned in to something much more like an oligarchy.

I don't understand how someone of reasonable knowledge and judgement could possibly be a tankie in 2024.

I think it's a nested joke, where that one game totally dominates the kid's free time, with the clueless parents thinking that's the only relevant game in existence.

Doesn't sound that far from Shepard's Pie though, a tasty dish beloved by zillions.

And then all they do is pay for the bare cost of the ingredients.

They could have tipped an extra $1000 and made a lot of people cheer. But no....

both choices suck

What puerile nonsense.

Trump already demonstrated that he was a complete disaster and Russian asset, and I hate linking to the evil empire, but:

r/WhatBidenHasDone

These are good points and good techniques IMO, and to add on--

Humans have always been drowning in the unknown, hence our chronic set of coping mechanisms, but on top of that, in this high-tech information civilisation we currently live in, now we're drowning in information, as well. Which leads to some big problems, of course.

As in-- it takes considerable effort, honesty and openness to form a decent perspective on most subjects these days, particularly significant ones, and because of that hurdle, I fear that most people (you, I, everyone) are inclined to 'settle' for flawed understandings of topics, even with best intentions. Or at worst, some of us form whatever ludicrous opinions simply because it makes us feel better / at peace / self-righteous.

Point is-- it seems like the world just has way too much information for people to handle these days, effectively worsening our collective mental health and communal behavior, one might say.

@CobblerScholar@lemmy.world

I'm the founder of the community in question, and one of the first things I noticed is that an admin @Xylinna@lemmy.world restored some of the posts even while OP was still banned. Unfortunately their action was useless what with the images being blocked or deleted from LW.

So I reached out to that person a day or two ago, and ~~have heard nothing but crickets, so far.~~ EDIT: They responded just now, altho it sounds a lot like they don't know much about the issue. Credit to them for trying to help, however.

It also appears my colleague still hasn't received any meaningful response.

Point is-- I don't understand this business of volunteering for a public-facing role and then either neglecting or refusing to communicate with users who've been wronged for one reason or another.

They are well within copyright in terms of timeline. Anything after 1927 can and likely is subject to copyright. I don’t like it but that’s how it works. Given that they are images from trading cards, it would not surprise me if the rights holder was enforcing copyright through a third party service.

Granted, but I don't think that was the issue in this case. The Moebius images in question were arbitrarily removed/blocked, with most being zapped, but others remaining.

For the record, none of the many other copyrighted images were removed, either.

@GoldenCow@lemm.ee @Kichae@kbin.social @Candelestine@lemmy.world @crypticthree@lemmy.world

That clown-thing is one of the worst 'pranks' I've ever seen in my life. Someone could easily get PTSD from that, or someone else could easily assault the clown with lethal force because of the threat implied.

Good pranks are along the lines of the Just for Laughs / Gags series, not these dumbass American vigilante pranks, or that miserable 'clown' prank above.

I thought his smugness worked... for a while. He's been right on a great many things across his career, and was able to frame his scathing critiques in fairly unique, clever ways. (and/or his writers were) Indeed, at one time I admired his ability to look at things from pretty daring angles, even if he was sometimes way off.

Problem is, he's not the same anymore. Sort of like Joe Rogan, who at least started out with honest, interesting, amusing takes in a sort of 'college student+' kind of way. But something seems to have happened to these guys across the years. Not just the wealth, but the growing insulation from reality and.. the normalisation of right-wing extremism. Something like that, anyway.

Still, I can't just forget that Maher was killing it for plenty of years, there, even if he did rub people the wrong way.