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Oh that is cool! It makes stars and trippy fan blade patterns. It's neat you can share the link like that to share the patterns too.
It's like a kaleidoscope that also works for the ears. 😁
That was fun! 😁
Perfect 4th with linear velocity starts to cascade before they all reconverge with a big bleep. That was my favorite.
This is a lefty space
Is it? Which lefties? People dogpile on the ML creators all day, every day. Personally, I'm mostly okay with the M and hate the L from my understanding of each. But they still decided to let us all hang out here.
I want change, but I'm nearing 50 and not in great physical shape. There's only so much revolution I can do. I try to educate the public on things I think are important and to try to get them to internalize value in the things that they might want to protect for future generations. Fundraising, logistics, and mobilizing aren't my strengths. I don't know many people that could do that stuff really well. Lots of us are here because we're fairly introverted and are here having these conversations anonymously with strangers. If being revolutionary was easy, we'd either be in a lot less (or a lot more) turmoil than we're in now. Most of us can't make it our whole "thing."
We could and should be doing more to speak to what kind of voices we will or won't tolerate here in the communties though. I'm getting some heat for defending the big game hunter even though I don't agree with what he stood for, but I feel people were pushing a lot of internalized anger at the system onto this random guy who seemingly did nothing ethically wrong. I could have shut up and moved on, but this is a topic I feel I understand more than the average person here and was willing to call them out on their indecent behavior even if it means they're going to hate me or think less of me now. There's plenty of people they could wish harm upon and while I'm not the type to join in, there's a number of people I could name where I wouldn't be sad if they were gone, but this guy seemed fair innocuous in the grand scheme.
Lemmy is far from the last chance we have. Three years ago, 95% of us didn't have this, but we still tried to do our thing somewhere else. Piefed in providing great opportunity for those that still want to interact with Lemmy without some of the baggage. And more apps and forums will continue to pop up. You can always start an old school forum as well with myBB or what have you. That may be a better style of platform for something like what you want to see anyway since it's more specific, but at the same time, it narrows the audience potential greatly. While I don't necessarily support or condemn what cowbee, for example, promotes, I think the way they can appear in tangentially related posts and have a prepared means to unobtrusively yet powerfully share their beliefs to potentially receptive people is a solid example for others looking to do something similar. Keep looking around, see what works and what doesn't, and keep going for what you believe. You can do it here, somewhere else, all of the above, whatever. Be passionate and be helpful and receptive and you will get people to listen to you. It may not be to the extent you want very often, but we gotta take the wins we can get. Stay strong, and try to stay positive.
Oh, I hear you. I just scolded all the bloodthirsty folks on the post of the hunter getting killed by the elephants. I await that massive downvoting, nevermind I'm one of the few (only?) wildlife rescue people on this platform. The dude seemed innocent and law abiding and well liked in the local community where he was savagely killed and people here are cheering.
It's also getting pretty sketchy with all the Israel comments. I've always been pro-Palestine, but every day the comments seem to be a little less anti-Israel colonialism and more to the Jews secretly run the world and all Jews support zionism side of things. There is so much gatekeeping in the news and political groups here. I really hesitate to participate anymore, which is a shame compared to how things felt at the API Exodus.
I felt pretty far left before I joined up here. I might still be. I was interested in anarchism and communism before spending so much time here. Now I'm not anti that stuff, but yeah, I don't need to hear any more about it right now. I'll keep doing my own thing over here and I'm fine being unaffiliated with a label on what my beliefs are.
Everyone was so scared of being a bad mod, but mods are what keep us from getting to where good users move out because the ones that chase them out while not technically breaking community rules do their thing. It's a thankless job, and that's why I have no desire to be one, but I am forever greatful for good mods.
I largely agree with you, which is why I decided to participate in this post. I felt you were just losing the focus a bit from the frustration you came in with and from some of the people arguing with you here.
Like you said, I'd love to see more community building and the growth of actual movements here, but I don't know if that can be done on a generalist platform. I've got 6000+ subscribers here, and like I said, I'd say maybe a dozen of those users have actually been moved to do something. I don't begrudge the ones that are just "cute pic!" and move on with their day. If this was a comment section on www.progressiveleftycauses.com, I could be mad, but that's not what this is. I think it's important to maintain realistic expectations for a social platform. Everybody can easily jump in with a joke or a complaint, but getting strangers to do stuff is really hard. Hell, I can't even get most people to actually reply with "Great pic!" It just is what it is.
There's still nothing stopping you or I from pushing out agendas here. But that also goes for the jokers and the party crashers. I do agree that this platform may lose the inertia to become a practical haven for progressive causes as its major purpose, but it can always still support some of that.
Getting mad at the people here just to have fun is about as useful as the people that come here just to stir up trouble. If people aren't having fun here, people aren't going to join or stay.
I post daily animal content. Anyone just scrolling can just scroll and click on cute animal and move on with life. But for those that want to read the posts, you will find ample opportunities of all varieties to get involved. As much as I'd like it to be different, everyone on here has their own reasons they can't or won't get involved, but a couple might. It's gotten me to work at a rescue for 2 years now, and one or 2 others have DMed me saying they got involved with places I've helped them find, and a handful more have done things to make their homes more suitable to bring back animals or donated to places doing amazing rescue work. It's not changing the world, but it hasn't been pointless.
We've got some communities that I think are great, like Dull Men's Club. Again, everyday activities, but it's people doing small acts to make something better than it was. I'd love to have activists here teaching folks how to unionize, set up aid programs, etc, but the pool of those folks is very small. The news and politics communities we have do seem to be full of a number of very outspoken and angry people. It turns me off to participating in most threads. It's not surrounding one's self in an echo chamber or safe space, but most of us deal with enough IRL obnoxious people to want to do it more here. I read the article if it's interesting and skip the comments. I'd probably like talking about a lot of the events with people here, but not if the same handful of obnoxious people are going to insert themselves into every thread, but that is what happens in a public forum. Until someone creates and mods better communities and has the patience to be trashed daily in Power Trippin Mods because it's effectually impossible to ban people, this is what we're going to have.
It's sad I can't recommend Lemmy to most people I know. I think about not posting here anymore from time to time, but the platform is a good size for me to handle my audience, and there are a ton of really great users here. My content doesn't pull in the angry crowd typically either. But as a whole, we got a lot of anger, misplaced or not, being the first things new folks are going to see. I'm not huge into the memes or comics a lot of the time, but people generally are going to react much more positively to that than more anarchy/communist rage posts.
I wanted to get up close to wild animals, so now I volunteer at the wildlife rescue. Hard work sometimes, but overall very rewarding and a lot of fun.
That is pretty cool! Never heard of such a thing.
Yup, that's what did the trick. A lot of legal things I try to hunt embed the pdf, so I tried that, and I think the link was the 5th search result.
He thinks he is the normal one.
“I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be,” Kennedy wrote in the journal.
I tried skimming some other article on him filing to see if anyone else linked it, but they did not. Then I tried "kash patel court filing pdf" and after checking a few I found the link I shared that seems to be an insider law news site and they had it.
Kash Patel’s $250 Million Defamation Lawsuit Looks Better With Beer Goggles
- The Article included numerous false and defamatory statements of fact concerning Director Patel, including but not limited to:
a. That Director Patel “is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication, in many cases at the private club Ned’s in Washington, D.C., while in the presence of White House and other administration staff.”
b. That Director Patel “is also known to drink to excess at the Poodle Room in Las Vegas, where he frequently spends parts of his weekends.”
c. That “[e]arly in his tenure, meetings and briefings had to be rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights.”
d. That “[o]n multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to Justice Department and White House officials.”
e. That “[a] request for ‘breaching equipment’—normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings—was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors.”
f. That Director Patel’s alleged alcohol consumption has negatively impacted various law-enforcement investigations, including the Charlie Kirk murder investigation.
g. That Director Patel “recently expressed frustration with the look of FBI merchandise, complaining that it isn’t intimidating enough.” h. That on April 10, 2026, Director Patel “panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House,” and that his behavior was a “freak-out.”
i. That Director Patel is “often away or unreachable, delaying time-sensitive decisions needed to advance investigations,” and that on several occasions, Director Patel’s “delays resulted in normally unflappable agents ‘losing their shit.’”
j. That Director Patel’s “drinking has been a recurring source of concern across the government.”
k. The false implication that Director Patel violated DOJ’s ethics rules prohibiting “habitually using alcohol or other intoxicants to excess.”
l. That Director Patel has used his position to improperly “target political or personal adversaries of the president.”
m. The false implication that Director Patel abuses alcohol, thereby making him vulnerable to exploitation or coercion by foreign adversaries.
n. The false implication that this alleged alcohol abuse “has become a threat to public safety,” including in the context of “a domestic terrorist attack,” and constitutes a national-security vulnerability.
o. That Director Patel “is deeply concerned that his job is in jeopardy.”
p. That Director Patel has had a problem with “unexplained absences,” and “spotty attendance at the office,” thereby falsely implying that Director Patel has been derelict in his duties.
q. That Director Patel left the country vulnerable because “Days before the United States launched its war with Iran, Patel fired members of a counterintelligence squad that was devoted, in part, to Iran."
When you learned to read as a little kid, it took you years to learn enough words to read, and you didn't start with Shakespeare or Tolstoy, you worked up from See Spot Run.
Reading music is the same. You learn the first, start to recognize chords and patterns and context clues, and you learn to read more and more complicated things until you don't see the individual pieces, but the actual song like you don't see individual letters when you read a book now.
I'm 3 years in with a teacher, and I'm getting better every week. It often doesn't feel like it, because my pieces increase in difficulty as I'm progressing. It's syncing my hands to what I'm reading that I'm working on at this point. Once my reading progresses to where I can recognize chords and chord progressions quick enough, that's going to be the next plateau.
Just stick with it, and you can read music anywhere, not just at your instrument. Get in practice where you can. You'll always be that much better than the day before!
Same here. Wifey got me a Trade subscription maybe 3 years ago for Xmas and every 3 weeks or so I try a brand new single origin coffee I've never had before. (Except the one from India that tasted like pineapple! That one I ordered twice before it was gone.) It is $20 every 3 weeks since I drink one a day, but this week I switch up to the big bag so we could both enjoy it. That took it up to $50, but now it's a full 2 pounds instead of 10 oz. (That's 280g to 900g.)
I think all we can really do is set an example ourselves and to allow mods to do their jobs. We can only really control our own behavior, especially a place like Lemmy where it's basically impossible to ban someone.
I try to keep my posts PG, try to understand others, ignore people I can't find common ground with, and just try to be the type of poster/commenter I'd like to interact with.
I've eaten stuff from there once or twice. We had a rather mixed crowd of people and it made it very convenient to get something for adults of various cultures and their kids to all get some from one stop.
When my friend introduced me to it, I said, oh, so it's like if Sysco cut out the middle man and just heated up the food for you themselves, right? That's pretty much what it is. So I'd treat it like the mall food court. Food is just fine, like you'd get from a fast casual chain, and you can please near any variety of appetites in one store pickup.
I'd label it ethically neutral. You're not supporting a real local business, but they do employee locals, assumingly pay local taxes, and if you're feeding someone who may be shy to speak up if everyone else wants to eat one type of food and they don't, they're not put on the spot.
Perfect. I appreciate it!
It is far from the end of the USPS's problems. I did not intend to sound like I was discounting anything else you said. IIRC, they're still the only entity required to fund themselves, and with declining volume, they can't reduce service, but also have no power of their own to raise the price of mail. Right wingers have been trying to crush them for a long time, and it's impressive they do what they do despite those efforts.
The postal workers union also seems to be struggling a lot, which can't help things if all the workers are unhappy as well. I really feel bad for the USPS as it's one of the few gov institutions that no normal person really seems to have anything against and they provide a valuable service for every American.
They need to fully fund their employees retirement health benefits 75 years into the future
This should have been done away with in the 2022 Postal Services Reform Act, signed by President Biden.
The specific part of that reform addressing this was the USPS Fairness Act, which since there is a bunch of news about it failing to be passed so many times, because looking up something called a Fairness Act is so generic a term, and because the US diverged from a path of sanity, I can't find out if this is being enforced currently or what the heck the deal is, but that requirement is at least not supposed to exist anymore.
I appreciate you guys so much! I never expected to keep your attention for so long. 😁
I've gotten to learn so much and do some pretty amazing things thanks to you all coming to hang and talk about these superb birds every day.