But you’re also betting that the economy will come back alive soon enough because without it all you have is a heavy pile of metal.

You probably don’t even have that. Unless you have your own vault, someone else is holding it for you, and if things collapse far enough, good luck ever seeing it

I’m not sure where you are in the world, but here in Australia, parks and beaches are always full of people on Christmas day!

It’s also not a fork

Pretty much done with. Summer lunch on the beach with family. Went for a swim. Got sunburned. Storms were predicted but never eventuated.

Stressful leading up to it, not knowing if we were going to have to cancel our plans at the last minutes (because of the storms), but it all worked out in the end.

The problem is, at this point at least, Garmin is still the best in market, and their path down enshittification hasn’t cut away the tools that make that so. The stuff they paywall is stuff that isn’t needed, and as long as they keep it that way, I’ll be ok with staying with them. I use a Fenix 6S, and they stopped doing anything interesting with it years ago, but it still works and still does everything it did on the day I bought it. I probably won’t replace it for another 6 months or so, but even though I’ll likely buy Garmin again, this shit has me concerned enough that it probably won’t be a Fenix this time, because I feel like enshittification that does impact basic functionality could drop at any moment…

I spoke to Pewgar about the eco fascist thing. It was old by the time I became aware of it, and was deleted by the user, and no further occurrences had happened in the intervening time. They told me they used the term without understanding the implications of what it meant (ie, they didn’t realise it was literal fascism)

Similarly, the other removed comments are old, with no recent repeats that I have found since then.

In any case, community mods have their own rules for community bans, but as for an instance ban, despite the comments, given their age and lack of repeat occurrences, I don’t believe pewgar is a fascist or a genocide advocate, and so no instance ban was issued.

If there have been repeats of those types of comments since the initial ones were made 2 years ago, I’m not aware of them. If something comes to light that makes me believe pewgar (or anyone else) genuinely supports genocide or fascism, the ban hammer will drop.

I’ve been using CachyOS for a couple of years now, so I suppose that makes it my favourite distro of 2025

The latter

Does ATproto have a larger number of users than ActivityPub or does Bluesky have a larger number of users? Once you take Bluesky itself out of the picture, ATProto isn’t exactly a super popular protocol…

My relationship with gender didn’t so much manifest that way.

Before I came out and accepted myself, I openly told myself I “should have been a girl”, but I also believed I wasn’t, and that was that. I didn’t really feel anything at the idea of femininity. That was my experience of feeling gender

It’s because of your app. Login with default lemmy UI in your browser and you’ll be able to create it.

Done!

It’s not about what you consider gender neutral. Someone asked you to show them a bit of respect and use terms they’re comfortable with. It’s not hard.

FYI, that cul-de-sac is from Pluribus, and it was built specifically for the show

That cul-de-sac was built for specifically for Pluribus, so that they don’t end up with the Breaking Bad situation where people throw pizzas on the roof of the house that was used as Walter and Skylers house in the show. It wasn’t in Breaking Bad.

My D&D group started off with one token girl. Then he transitioned. So I became the token girl.

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The thing is though, no one actually changes their opinion because Musk spouts contradictory bullshit. His fellow transphobes just see him pushing transphobia, and don’t care what he’s actually saying. For them as well, the point is the hate. The words are just as meaningless, whether it’s their words or someone elses. The only thing that matters, is that it pushes hate.

For people that are already trans allies, his words don’t change anything.

And for people who are on the fence, who don’t know how to feel about trans folk and their rights, musks words won’t change anything either. The thing that turns fences sitters in to supporters is seeing the human face of trans people. It’s the experience of trans people shifting from a hypothetical talking point in to real people, who are impacted by the hate. And again, that has very little to do with the words people use.

No. Musk and other transphobes don’t actually believe what they believe because of the reasons they state. They believe what they believe, and say whatever feels right in the moment to support their hate, and don’t care in the slightest if it contradicts another of their beliefs somewhere else. The hate is the point. The words are just window dressing.