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TJDetweiler

@ TJDetweiler @lemmy.ca

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  • Fake vegans

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  • Serious question, not meant to be antagonistic. I'm honestly just curious.

    Is the purpose of your community to simply be an echo chamber of similar opinions? Is debate not allowed, or having a different opinion?

    I will never visit that community, but this seems like a wild abuse of mod powers. You do whatever you want, I don't care and have no skin in the game, but don't you want to foster discussion on your community? An echo chamber with other vegans doesn't seem conducive to achieving anything, other than maybe a feels good circlejerk. The downvote button exists if you have a different opinion. A straight ban for not toeing the line seems like further isolating your view points from the greater Lemmy community, as well as entrenches the view point a lot of people have that vegans are hostile to non-vegans.

    Calling other vegans fake vegans and banning them tho is whack as fuck but pretty hilarious

  • Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder

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  • Can confirm.

    Source: BC resident looking at our eastward neighbours.

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  • Relax, not a real tweet

  • Thanks to the KDE devs

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  • It was supposed to be the "universal language". According to Wikipedia, up to 100,000 people speak it globally.

    If I remember correctly, it was adopted by the League of Nations, a precursor to NATO, in the early 1900's.

    Here's the article if you're interested. I didn't really read through it to fact check myself cause I'm poopin' on break, but there you go.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

  • Linux Mint and Framework Laptops Join Forces

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  • Friend, I am no Linux shill, but I switched to Mint last week on my secondary laptop, and let me tell you, it's kinda cash and pretty easy.

    I had to verify the integrity and authenticity of the Mint download itself, but it's straightforward and tells you how to do that. Once you're done, you install the OS just like you would with Windows.

    Full disclosure, I don't use the laptop for much, so no fiddling needed for me.

    Edit: I guess I am shilling it, but I mean I'm not a Linux fanboy

  • AI just steals other people's labor

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  • He sure acted right on his follow up though.

  • unwatchable!!

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  • unwatchable!!

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  • Typically used to describe chemicals, or your ex girlfriend

  • A goofy idea to entertain the family

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  • Gotta have something to do when he's not monitoring his son's porn browsing

  • Snapchat is going to put ads next to messages from your friends

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  • Hey it's me, your therapist. It's for the nudes.

  • Steam

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  • We're so fucking back

  • Let's Uninstall Chrome but...

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  • Thanks for putting yourself on the pyre to prove a point. Hivemind is worse here than Reddit imo, because at least Reddit has a diverse user base...

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    Wish me luck at this critical milestone

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  • Drill, impact, etc are pretty much necessary to have cordless. I agree with the corded stuff though. Need an angle grinder or sawzall? Get corded. Way more powerful too.

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  • Haha agreed. You don't have to go back and forth over several hours or days to sort an issue out when you call. You can just hash it all out over the phone in a fraction of the time, and be on your way.

    Oh well, to each their own.

  • How do you get motivated in the morning?

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  • Chemically induced motivation. Just how I like need it

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    I'm tired, boss

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  • Pretty shitty thing to say, but anyway...

    Just because a few big corporations make cereal, doesn't mean you have an "illusion of choice". It's kind of how the system works. A company that makes 1 brand of cereal also makes dozens of hundreds more. They are using processes and equipment already in place to make a slight variation on existing products. It's kind of just how things work. Same with companies like Asus making dozens of hundreds of variations of monitors. I don't think that's illusion of choice. That's actual choices, with actual differences.

    Anecdotally, where I live, large corporations stock the grocery shelves with all their cereals, but local companies do make it in as well. I think in my situation, I do have access to items produced locally.

    If you want to make an argument that some dickhead company like Mondelez owns fucking everything, I'm right with you, but whining about cereal variety makes the argument really weak.

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  • Okay fair enough. Then as a Canadian, what's your experience like?

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  • I figured I was misunderstanding some context. Thanks for clarifying.

    This still seems to me to be a US-centric post, not something involving all Western democracies.

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  • Sweden is a western democracy?

    Sounds like that Swedish centrist union should pound sand

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  • For the first 2 points: Don't use "Western democracies". This is a US problem. Canada has much stronger labour and home protections.

    3rd point: Getting banned online is a "you" problem. Your government has nothing to do with why your shitty opinions get you banned or muted. The fact that you even have the ability to complain about your government online is a luxury many other governments don't afford to their people.

    4th point: Whining about cereal variety makes the entire argument hold less water. Who the fuck cares about brands of cereal. Buy your cereal or don't, but shut the fuck up about it. This is an empty complaint about capitalism.

    5th point: Fair enough.

    I don't directly mean you, OP. Unless you made the meme... In which case I do mean directly you.