Lemmy is absolutely inundated with bad faith actors who seem suspiciously intent on sewing as much division as possible, getting the left to be as politically ineffectual as possible, and never offering anything as a viable solution. There’s no meaningful barrier for entry so it’s pretty trivial to make a bunch of accounts and push an agenda.

That’s by no means limited to Lemmy, but Lemmy is absolutely littered with them. It’s been like this for quite a while.

I mean personally, it’s not something I expect to be reminded of in the top of the feed for what is otherwise a pretty light webcomic community.

I lost two people to cancer this year. Sucks.

I’m not sure this comic is the heartwarming post you think it is.

For some people, possessing any empathy at all qualifies as “virtue signaling”.

Personally, I left Reddit a long time before because of control freaks with no lives who feel the need to dictate their personal preferences to others as though it were a dire moral emergency.

Totally reasonable to avoid uploading to imgur if you’re worried about third party advertisers collecting your metadata, but that’s hardly unique to them. I block ads and also don’t have any illusions about countless websites sharing metadata with advertisers. I’m not really aware of a reliable image host that doesn’t do this.

Imgur blocking the UK over OSA is a pretty reasonable move, though. Demanding that companies collect ID verification data from users is to me a much bigger liability than their advertisers seeing my IP or browser or whatever. Personally, I fully support companies deciding not to participate in the hoarding of personal information that could be compromised by entirely too common data breaches.

I didn’t even know sweat bees could sting. When I drove a cab I used to sit in a field with my feet sticking out the window and they’d inevitably come land on me and suck on my toes. I suppose it wouldn’t make much sense to sting your food source if you don’t have to, though.

Okay boomer.

What movie is that?

This is such a weird trend in general in the past few decades. We went from typifying things by decade to typifying them by generation, which makes no sense whatsoever because these generations are still alive. It’s not like everything from 2000-2010 was made for millennials specifically and no one else is allowed to watch them. Shows might have general target age ranges that are taken into consideration in marketing, but amazingly people don’t stay the same age their entire lives and targeting has very little to do with who might actually enjoy a show.

The concept that a specific piece of entertainment, terminology, fashion, or idea belongs to one specific generation and only that generation is extremely silly. Each generation doesn’t just wither up and die once the next generation hits their 20s or whatever. Likewise, there’s nothing stopping a teenager from sitting down and watching Farscape and deciding they love it.

That’s not the story Billet told.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3byz3txpso

That’s not how you spell “steals”.

I can’t tell if this is an actual confusion about the difference between the American health care and social services systems or just like petty malicious internet one-upmanship.

Assuming it’s the former, disability payments aren’t actually part of the health care system in the United States. Like, you don’t get a payout from any organization that actually handles healthcare, it’s a separate bureaucracy that just serves to gatekeep disability income.

Imagine how much better the economy would be if people weren’t forced to prop up absolutely shitty companies they don’t believe in just to pay their bills. Like, we might actually have improving products and experiences instead of a constantly diminishing race to the bottom.

They’re filed with their state, not a health insurance company.

Imagine being lucky enough to have hands and squandering it with capitalism.

Looks like it’s mostly being covered by left-wing and neutral sources.

The fact that a term that just means “paying enough attention to be aware of the world around you” is used derisively is incredibly indicative of how much of a braindead mess a lot of the population has become.

Why link the paywalled repost instead of the author’s actual website?

https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/so-youre-a-ghost/

I came here to say that I don’t think the author of this comic has ADHD.

Why would anyone who knows how to play music at any level use an AI to do it, let alone a significant composer?

Just pick up an instrument and fool around with it.