A million years ago in gamer years, a buddy of mine and I were playing an online coop game of Castle Crashers (I think, it’s been awhile, might’ve actually been something else). Neither of us are really “gamers” and definitely not online gamers, we just thought it was cool you could play with random people. Also, we were drinking alcohol that night, so the best decisions were not made.

Long story short: We did not realize that there was voice chat in the co-op of this game. So, we were basically drunk assholes, playing horribly, and talking about a bunch of inappropriate and very personal topics. At different points in the evening, we both joked that we had this sense that the other player(s) were trying to communicate with us and once or twice we were like, it’s almost like they can hear us.

Then as we were winding down for the night, I hit some button randomly that enabled the audio feed in for voice chat, and the words coming out of that child’s mouth on the other end would have made a whore blush. I guess they could hear every word we said throughout the night, maybe the mic on my laptop was enabled by default, or maybe someone hit the wrong button at some point. I felt kinda bad, we definitely talked about age inappropriate stuff and I know at points it must’ve seemed like we were trolling the other players.

So, if that was you about 10 - 15 years ago, I’m sorry. I didn’t say the N-word, use any slurs, or trash talk any minorities, although as gay dudes it might’ve sounded like we were homophobes. I dunno. It’s been a long time. But I’m still sorry.

On the NSFW profile: There’s a one-off rule set in place, as best I can tell. If you’ve ever participated in a post or community that’s NSFW / quarantined / etc, even if your content itself was not NSFW or if the thread/community was SFW at the time but was later marked NSFW / quarantined, and even if you’ve since deleted your content or it was removed by mods, your profile will be marked as NSFW. At least, that’s how it appeared to work back in the day.

If you are 100% certain that you’ve never posted in an NSFW / quarantined thread/community and that nothing you’ve ever participation has since had a status change, then that might actually be evidence that there was some suspicious activity. No guarantee, of course, but for example if someone hacked into your account then posted a bunch of Only Fans shit that was quickly removed, it might lead to the locked account and the NSFW designation.

Granted, I’m not saying that you didn’t get banned for the anti-reddit comments and out-reach. I do know that anti-reddit comments aren’t necessarily automatically deleted / removed and accounts aren’t guaranteed to be banned for it. Usually, it seems like that’s reserved for cases where, objectively speaking, the comment was rule-breaking (common themes being abusive lanugage / name calling) or otherwise off-topic. I’ve seen numerous comments on Reddit talking about Lemmy, linking to Lemmy, as well as to other alternatives, even speaking unfavorably of Reddit and its dear leader, that stay up and are left untouched. But we also all know that all it takes is one prickly admin or ceo to take personal offense. Nature of the internet being what it is.

Betty White, NOOOOOOOOOO

What the hell is their fascination with raw milk?

Where I live in the USA, it’s become a trendy thing amongst rural conservatives. If someone is talking about how they switched to raw milk, it’s almost a guarantee they are MAGA supporters. Which is wild, because when I was growing up, it was almost the complete opposite. Raw milk was a “hippy” thing for fringe, counter-culture liberals.

My clearly biased opinion is that in this part of the US, drinking raw milk is at least partially a way to virtue signal and participate in the counter-culture. And when you think about it, drinking raw milk kind of actually makes sense in this context. It appeals to a lot of conservatives’ cultural beliefs – anti-science / mistrust of science, “rules for thee but not for me”, and appeal to convention. Scientists are wrong. Nobody can tell me what I’m allowed to do. People drank raw milk for thousands of years and survived just fine.

Speculative opinion aside: The people I’ve met over the years who seek out raw milk have mentioned a number of different reasons.

Some say it tastes better than pasteurized milk. Some claim that raw milk is more nutritious than pasteurized because the heating process destroys or binds proteins, vitamins, immunity boosting components, etc in milk. Some do it because it’s quicker or cheaper than a trip to the store (because they know the farmer, farmer lives close or delivers because farm is a friend/family member), and they’re supporting local producers instead of giant conglomerates. Also, pretty uniformly, they’ll claim that with modern practices, there’s very little risk of getting sick if you’re careful, and not riskier than buying pasteurized stuff from the store.

And let me explicitly state this because some people on Lemmy seem to have reading comprehension issues: These are not my opinions and I’m not saying they are accurate, I do not drink raw milk, and I don’t condone it, particularly if you’re feeding it to unsuspecting people and children.

Anecdotally, it seems like a good solid chunk of these folks eventually get sick enough or frequently enough from drinking raw milk that it’s very common to find out 4 or 5 years down the line that they no longer drink raw milk. And that’s just the ones who admit it, because I would not be surprised if it’s even more common than I think – a lot of people are too stubborn to switch back or too prideful to admit they were wrong.

Just keep me completely out of any loops that require non-consensual responsibility. For all other loops, let i = 0 then i++ until i >= 100.

If you can’t explain it in a way that any random moron will understand then you don’t really understand it as well as you think you do.

I didn’t see a link, but I’m wondering if the etymology mentions the words shitify and shitification which, at least in my personal experience, pre-date the term enshitification by a decade or two.

Oops I crapped on the ceiling again.

Hump burger. Hump sandwich. Hump soup. Hump hump. Hump on top. Hump on bottom. Hump thirty. Humpity hump. And that’s about it.

I can’t believe it’s not butt air.

They hate the site and yet they still decided to turnip?

Honey, this vegan cheese smells exquisite, nutty notes with eggy undertones and a cloying bile-like putrescent sheen with a, is that bacon, yes a bacon finish. Amazing how far food technology has come.

"It’s so hot that even the famous cacti of the Sonoran Desert, such as the saguaro cactus —the Trident-like one you’ve seen in countless cartoons and cowboy movies —are struggling in the heat. They photosynthesize at night, when it gets a little cooler. But climate change

Has extended the times in which it is hot as hell not only further into the calendar year but further into the night. The saguaro cactus is struggling to photosynthesize when it’s still over 100 degrees, even after the sun has set."

Cacti, and plants in general, do not and cannot photosynthesize to any appreciable degree at night. Even the brightest, fullest moon and clearest sky full of stars is not enough light for this process to be effective/efficient. They do their carbon capture / gas exchange primarily at night, but that’s a separate process and is not the same thing as photosynthesis.

But also, this whole section is just poorly formatted, unedited, incorrect, and badly written. Like even the tone seems to change in these “2” paragraphs. Why even include this in the article? It really undermines the rest of the content, in my opinion.

Some of them, maybe not all, but some of them 100% believe everything coming from Trump and his administration. That’s how cults and a lot of organized religion work, people are literally groomed into this style of belief where they must prove they have true, unwavering faith in it despite the contradictions and evidence otherwise.

It’s only slightly more useful than those service / status / outage reporting links that no matter how fucked the site is, seem to always indicate that everything is 100% fully functional at this time and has been for the past 28+ days.

This is literally true and I know it because I came here to say it and then noticed you beat me by 5 minutes.

I’ll be honest, I know that the Epstein thing was/is supposed to be the unifying matter that Republicans and Democrats all agree on, but outside of online discourse, I haven’t heard any MAGA discussion of the topic in weeks (or longer).

Maybe I’m just in an anomalous social circle, but from my perspective, it seems like there’s a vocal minority of MAGA online who make a ruckus about this, when in person, they just don’t give a crap.

So, I hate to think it, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter what excuse Republican leaders give or what story they weave. I’m guessing they could literally just release mountains of evidence and fully admit that Trump did it, intentionally, and he enjoyed it immensely, and his popularity with MAGA would probably only drop a couple of percentage points (and that’s if it didn’t actually go up for him “telling it like it is”).

This is me, kind of. I’m just brown enough for 9 months of the year and have just enough anxiety in crowds that literally every time I go through airport security, I can count on the fact that I’m going to be “randomly selected” for enhanced screening. Whatever they use to make that decision does not like sweaty, anxious looking men and/or the dark hair / brown skin combo.

I ordered a blueberry bagel, and I very specifically wanted only the one blueberry, not the dozens of others that were also baked in. While I appreciate the enthusiasm, I’m afraid I must deduct one star for this miscalculation.

You can’t prove all of them are dead.