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I came across a ~2014 era memes folder on my NAS and found a few of them in there. Otherwise, I’d have never remembered they existed.

Because if neither “side” is going to stand by democracy, why are we even bothering with the charade?

It’s shitty, but, like you said, I get it. He’s also not wrong.

I would take any and everything you see in YPTB with the largest grains of salt. Most of the posts there are from frequent flyers apparently unaware and unable to see that they are the problem. The comments to those are from similar frequent flyers. Basically every post there is framed to make OP entirely the victim and often are turned into some kind of conspiracy-laden narrative about the mod(s) involved. Frankly, YPTB and similar communities are beyond redemption, IMO.

I will admit I do not know (nor particularly care to know) the specifics of this case, but some of the communities Jordan mods are targets for some of the worst people in this place, and he’s only human. So don’t crucify me if there’s some egregious offense I’m ignorant of and don’t take this statement as a direct defense of that. I’m merely pointing out that the guy takes a LOT of abuse from some real, uh, how do I put this charitably…“characters”.

Lemmy, of late, has lost many of its more rational voices, so please keep that in mind and exercise caution when asking the inmates what they think about the rules of the asylum.

1. It’s fine where it’s at?
2. YPTB is a cesspool of drama blown out of proportion / “look at me, I’m such a victim!!”. Last time I looked (I blocked that community), it was mostly just a bunch of frequent flyers not realizing they’re the problem being circle-jerked in the comments by other people who are frequently and properly modded. To make a decision to move based on that, especially given the provided post is from someone who always seems to be involved in some kind of drama + a mod who gets a regular 15 minutes of hate over nothing (and people flat-out making up narratives to make them the victim) seems like a flimsy excuse.
3. Looking at your alts, the most likely candidate instances for the new community would be dbzer0 or anarchist nexus, both of which I’ve blocked and neither of which I particularly like (blocked them for a reason).
4. It’ll add yet another dead community to the community list that looks like "[Closed - moved to…]

If you want to make a new community elsewhere, go for it. But instead of closing this one, find someone else to take it over.

Just gonna have to swipe right and find out.

Nice, and yeah, definitely. Until my senior year English class, the only books were were allowed to use for any reading assignment were Shakespeare or Newberry award books.

No

What’s the saying?

“What do you call someone who got all D’s in med school?”

Doctor. You call them “Doctor”

Definitely different experiences, but yeah, agree. Generally, I only like to listen to the audiobook after I’ve read it (unless there’s no other option). It’s difficult for me to not miss important plot points when I’m listening to it, but that’s probably just my ADHD.

If you do, post it!

SNACO?

He could just be on vacation? Someone just pointed out earlier today he hasn’t posted in 2 weeks.

No clue, but it very easily could have come from the one I grew up in.

The_Picard_Maneuver is MIA, so I dove into my ~2014 era meme folder and am posting some golden oldies

I just started this one yesterday. Enjoying it so far. I’m only a few chapters in, but it definitely fills in a lot of blanks from PIC S1 like “Who is Raffi and why are she and Picard suddenly BFFs?” After reading her introduction, yeah, I’d want to be best friends with her, too.

It puts so much of the first season into context that I felt was missing when I watched it.

Thanks for the recomendation.

Lol, well, maybe if Eeyore would can it once in a while and just let people enjoy things…

The genre doesn’t exist, but it should: “Bedtime Stories: Narrated by Morgan Freeman and Stepehn Fry”.

Seriously, this. I can’t stand to read “the classics” but I love reading things that interest me. Would be nice if schools recognized that and encouraged reading just for the sake of it rather than forcing kids to trudge through endless stanzas of “ye art incorrect and thou must protest this injustice. Oh Horatio! Oh, lamentation this! Lamentation that!” Like, fuck, I lost the plot 3 pages of lamentations ago.

Just let kids do book reports on Harry Potter (or whatever’s cool these days). At least they’re reading and their brain cells are firing.

Provided it’s got a decent narrator, audiobooks are like literal bedtime stories, and a lot of players have “sleep mode” that will either set a timer or stop it after the current chapter. Seems like an easy way to get people into them, IMO.

I have two of Stephen Fry’s autobiographies on audiobook and would basically let his smooth voice lull me to sleep. 😆

Ugh, I had the Sega Master System version (same game) and it was pretty awful.