Frankly, I wouldn’t want to work in an office whose floorplan is only measured in 3 dimensions.

That sounds like something he would be down for.

Out of curiosity, I just looked up Alabama’s GDP, and it’s similar to the country of Portugal.

I love this

Oh, this is so much better. Going to replace the post image. Thanks

You know, I just made a PieFed account and haven’t customized it yet. Maybe using an alternate timeline banner like that would be fitting.

(If PieFed has banners. I haven’t really explored all the options.)

I’ve noticed that with experience comes better predictive play, rather than relying on reaction time.

I assume they intentionally left out some to round out the numbers a bit and hit 50% in a more interesting way without over half of it being the US.

Or even if they think they are leftist, they will learn here just how wrong they were

I remember being so confused when I first joined, because I saw the hexbear communities constantly posting insane stuff like hoping Biden would die, or using “lib” as an insult, and I assumed they were a conservative instance.

I worry that you’re right about it being too big of an ask to hope everyone becomes more welcoming and open-minded, but I’m still personally going to try to be a tempering voice on here. Part of the reason I post memes and stay out of political stuff 99% of the time is because I want there to be more content that’s just here for people wanting to have fun.

That deserves a medal as far as I’m concerned.

Well this sucks, but I understand and share your frustrations. You’re one of the names I’m always happy to run into around lemmy (and of course in TenForward). I hope stepping away takes a source of stress out of your life.

I’ve never tried to run an instance, but I’ve been fielding reports as a mod in a few communities and have seen a lot of the behavior that you’re talking about - that awful combination of viciousness and righteousness. I’ve had to remove hit-lists, calls for somebody to murder politicians, cops, or advocating violence against various people perceived to have failed someone’s “purity test”, and much more. And I only help mod in a handful of meme communities, not anything serious. I can’t imagine how much work must go into managing anything remotely political.

My worry is that this is happening everywhere on social media, and that we’re just on one of many platforms grappling with it. If you want my theory, stuff like this is downstream of social media being personalized and curated by opinion, either by algorithms (like TikTok, Twitter/X, etc.) or manually by moderators (like here or reddit). When you get too many people agreeing with each other, it creates an echo-chamber that amplifies the most extreme takes about everything and views differing opinions - or even tempering voices - as “trolls”, “bootlickers” (as you mentioned), or worse. The news has been full of people radicalized from various bubbles on the internet until they act in ways they might not have if exposed to more diversity of thought. It begins with people hyping each other up with extreme language that lacks nuance, maturity, or reason, and then ends with a small % of impressionable people storming the capitol, firebombing Teslas, or maybe becoming that one anti-natalist murderer that got Lemmy a mention in the news recently. It’s absolutely unhinged behavior, and I think these are all symptoms of the same thing.

In short, the fediverse needs normies. We need diversity of thought and opinion, or else more reasonable people are going to burn out or feel pushed out by all the noise and toxicity.

Never heard of that one, but will look it up. Thanks!

Getting there. I’m introducing my oldest (3) to all the Mario games now.

I would absolutely buy a globe with live weather. That would be so cool!

I can’t seem to find the original source, but based on search results, I’m seeing that this map has been circulating in similar circles to this and solar power communities since at least 2016.

Hey, that sludge pipe wasn’t cheap!