SirElliott

joined 1 year ago
[–] SirElliott@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Even worse, 65.3 percent of Americans live within this zone.

[–] SirElliott@beehaw.org 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It sounds like they’re going to be allowing anti-LGBT hate speech, which was formerly a ban-worthy offense on their platform. Reddit and most Lemmy instances have rules against this, so I imagine Squabblr is going to attract the same sort of people that like using Truth Social.

[–] SirElliott@beehaw.org 55 points 1 year ago

John Jonik, the maker of this comic, maintains a website with high-quality images of many of his comics.

[–] SirElliott@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

When their expensive luxuries are actively harming the planet, I think their indulgences offer us plenty of justification to hate. Private jets emit the same amount of CO2 in two hours that an average car does in a year. This frivolous waste poisons our air and warms our fragile seas. I’m not envious of private jets or yachts; it would be unethical for me to use them no matter how much wealth I had.

[–] SirElliott@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

This is an incomplete view of the history of slavery. By the numbers, the vast majority of the people benefitting from chattel slavery were white. However, slave ownership reached similar per capita rates among some of the Native American tribes, and there were instances of slaves being owned by free people of color. Notably, there are a large number of black tribal members in the United States. The United States government signed a number of treaties with the tribes in the 1860s that required them to free their slaves and incorporate them as full tribal members.

None of this is said to diminish the fact that the American system of slavery was a product of colonization by European countries. But it is rather reductive to claim that only white property owners benefitted from the atrocity that was chattel slavery.

[–] SirElliott@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

She’s apparently a MAGA supporter, so I have no sympathy.

[–] SirElliott@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Doesn’t Peertube already do this?

[–] SirElliott@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suspect (and seem to recall reading) that the exaggerated pronunciations and pitch changes of baby talk may help aid children in language acquisition. For some other social animals that heavily rely on vocalizations to communicate, like dolphins, perhaps they do so for a similar reason?

 

Here is a link to this AP News article with the ads and email address requests removed.

This is a link to the paper's abstract.

[–] SirElliott@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The great thing about Lemmy though is that a community you interact with or even moderate doesn't need to be on your instance. If you're a member of Beehaw, which doesn't allow community creation, you could start your Dune community on Lemmy.ml or another instance and moderate it with your Beehaw account.

[–] SirElliott@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m still holding out hope for a similar Legends game set in Kanto/Johto. Arceus was so much more fun than Violet for me.

[–] SirElliott@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’ll be a very different experience from Half Life, but I’d recommend Spiritfarer! There’s a sort of hunger mechanic, although it’s for the other characters that stay on your boat. Your ship is upgradable and you can place all sorts of structures on it. By the end of the game, it really feels like it’s uniquely yours.

[–] SirElliott@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would you say any of the DLCs are a must? I’ve been enjoying the base game and can’t decide which ones to pick up.

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