Calling people the things they literally are is not name-calling. For example, conservatives tried to overthrow our government, tried to overthrow our democracy, and have been sending elementary schools in my town bomb threats for weeks. It's not name calling to say they're terrorists.

Edit: To clarify, the bomb threats are because a librarian joked about having a "woke agenda." These are the same types of people.

Considering this is a temporary measure, I imagine not. Lemmy.world has been under constant attacks as the #1 Lemmy instance and it's not going to stop just because bots can't get in automatically anymore.

I don't keep an ATM in my bedroom, unfortunately.

Only time I have cash for tipping is when I get tipped.

This wouldn't go in either

Especially since they thought selling all their western franchises off at bargain bin prices to go all-in on NFTs was a good idea, and they've been pushing them to date despite continued unpopularity. Decisions like that aren't just out of touch, they're downright stupid.

It wouldn't surprise me if they ended up bought by Sony, considering their working relationship and poor leadership. Hell, I never bought FFVII Remake despite really enjoying FFXV, my first FF title, because of their business dealings. It was PS4 exclusive and I didn't wanna play it at 1080p 30 FPS on my near-launch console at the time. I knew it was temporary and coming to PC eventually, so I waited. This was followed by being Epic exclusive and the first $70 PC title, so I waited for a launch literally anywhere else and a sale. Eventually that happened with a Steam launch, woo-hoo, except by that point I didn't care as much as I did at launch and they had already given me the game as a PS+ title. Didn't really feel like buying it when I already had access, didn't ever even end up playing it, and now I have Intergrade's PS5 version as part of PS+ Extra these days for when I get around to it. In my eyes, they're kinda just standing in the way of their own sales in favor of taking whatever cash these companies are willing to offer them. I didn't buy FFXVI either, because I still have VII RI in my backlog from all that shit.

The people who develop lemmy get paid to do so, as stated by iirc Dessalines themselves.

I would put donating to those running instances at the highest priority, because without servers, we have nothing.

You should check with a doctor to see if they can help with your "I'm just an asshole unprovoked for no reason" problem.

And they wonder why we think they're lunatics.

Republicans and Americans

No, just the Republican Americans. The ones who say they're Christian but completely ignore how often the Bible outright says to love those around us in favor of hatred because of some irrelevant thing that doesn't affect them in the slightest, like race or sexuality.

The rest of us normal people are capable of acceptance of each other and desire for the greater good.

If you genuinely think like this I'd say you're projecting from a golden toilet.

To clarify though, no, I don't want to work and I still don't understand why there's this idea that we should. All this automation and AI progress has people fearing for their jobs, but fuck that, they can have the jobs. We need to go the other direction and build a safety net for people who lose them, not cling to menial labor.

For all their complaining about safe spaces, they're the ones who seemingly need it the most.

Probably because reality is left-leaning.