Two choices:

1. Medical mask and sunglasses (preferably those boxy ones people wear over regular glasses). Few people question medical masks these days.
2. Embrace the lunacy, and wear whatever mask/facial covering you think is cool/funny. Life’s short and a lot of people would do well to embrace harmless weirdness.

Not affiliated, just a fan.

Start here for inspiration: https://piratebox.cc/faq

“Hey Al, they’re remastering our series.” “WHAT?”

These folks are doing fantastic work. If you’re a Canuck, find the Reboot Rewind folks on your social media of choice, they’re going around doing screenings of their doc (and some of the D1 footage I think) in Canadian cities.

-Neutral name (sorry SJW)

Boo this person! (I kid, don’t boo them, they’re doing good work and I understand if not everyone wants to be a sh.it.head)

I’d ask how you define evil in this case. To me, an act is evil when the net detriment to the planet and its contents (including humans) is greater than the net benefit it creates, and the actor pursues said act knowing this. I’d argue it scales with the nature and context of the act. It’s hard to say this isn’t real. But yes, we all have the capacity for evil, and also can be complicit in other evils by dint of normalized behaviours (without necessarily being ‘evil’ ourselves)

I do agree that an absolute Evil doesn’t exist, the same way an absolute Good doesn’t exist. But we’re a pile of writhing meat puppets on a moist, moldy rock - we don’t exist on that level in the first place.

I likened it to a room with bidirectional portals yesterday - your analogy is much better, and has been stolen for future use.

If you have an issue with a given community, find or start an alternative one on another instance. If you have an issue with how your instance deals with anyone, sign up for a different instance.

I urge you to consider this before giving up on Lemmy entirely, it’s kind of the beauty of the federated services.

I would love to see someone discuss any enshitification trends with EHR software, as well as any initiatives to bolster FOSS stuff like OSCAR for hospital use cases (far as I know, it’s pretty much just used at the clinic level, with more and more uptake of proprietary solutions for that use case as well here in Canada [obligatory Fuck Telus]).

https://fammed.mcmaster.ca/oscar-emr/

What about patronising as in ‘patronising this business’? A little archaic, but I do hear it from time to time, usually with the ‘pay’ pronounciation.

Then again, if someone is accusing me of being patronising (which happens a lot for reasons I don’t quite understand, but I digress), it’s split odds whether I’m “pah-trun-ising” or “pay-trun-ising”.

English is weird (perhaps this is its wyrd?)

I pay $25/month for a single line that gives me unlimited talk, text, and data (Visible). Couldn’t be happier.

cries in Canadian

Imma just leave this here: https://www.campus-fm.com/

There’s an RSS tag on instances and communities, at least when looking at it via a web browser. Is at an indiviual instance or community level, though - as far as I know you can’t export your subscribed communities to link them all to an RSS reader in one go.

At least, there is for sh.itjust.works, dunno about other instances. See above blue smudge below.

Probably the same kind of people who make similar arguments about CanCon.

There’s always been this tension between “We need a thriving TV and film industry in this country” and “Most of what we produce is garbage for the purpose of using government grants” here. Can’t help but wonder if it’s the same on your end of the planet (#justcommonwealththings).

At least there are always a couple diamonds in the sludge, though (here, Schitt’s Creek, TPB, and I’m sure some others even though the other ones I think of are looong over)

This is my concern as well (+ I’m a cheapskate who usually only buys consoles or computer stuff once they’re pretty much obsolete and <$100 used).

History of every gaming device I’ve bought in adulthood including VR:

1. Purchase with some games;
2. If soft-modable, soft-mod and customize;
3. Play happily for a few months;
4. Put it in a box and never look at it again, or give to my kid who follows a similar cycle.

Edit: Though my counterargument here is just how many options the Steam Deck opens up. Want PC games - see: all the shit I’ve never played? Got 'em. Emulators? Got em. Want to use it as a mini pc for minor pc stuff? Doable.

And if it shows up here, it could Meta-stasize.

…I’ll show myself out.

One: I hate that you beat me to this. Two: woah, what the hell. Could be a bug with Jerboa but you don’t look like you have a userid. Neat! What up, space or null?

Edit: actually, looking more closely this is probably related to your display name specifically.

I got a dalmation
And I can still get high
I can play the guitar like a
MOTHA
FUCKIN’
RIOT!

plinking sounds intensify

Love this song