It wasn't until ubiquitous social media that I realized lucid dreams weren't the norm for everyone else. My default dreams are both lucid and recurring: I have the same fifty-odd dreams over and over and have the freedom to change the ending, rewind, or otherwise alter events. Oh, there's one-offs too and not every dream is lucid but that's what I considered a "normal" dream growing up in the previous century.
Nemo
joined 2 years ago
He's the one being unreasonable.
He's recently made one big change that he likes and is interested in trying other big changes. See if you can direct him to try something a little saner.
Eh, the mistake was in engaging with a post that was surely about to be deleted by the OP.
I wrote a long thoughtful reply to a heavily downvoted post only to find the post had been deleted before I could hit submit, and I hadn't copied the text.
The Children Macnuggits — "Life Is Excellent"
Relevant lyrics:
I like my glowing box and
I like my showers hot
But you can’t take the kill out of
Kilowatt
I know that talk is cheap
And I know that I am weak
But I’d like to be around next week
What... do you think of it as?
It's a reply to your comment about downotes. The point of votes is to rank threads, and the point of ranking threads is to promote cogent comments and avoid irrelevance, misinformation, and malice. I do this in real life and I do it here.
On the contrary, in real life I remove myself from conversations where people have nothing worthwhile to say every day. Half my job is judging when that's the case so I can prioritize the interactions where people are ready to be cogent and concise.
I personally love it, and I thought about claiming the Chicago Handshake as a single drink, but in the end Old Style by itself is both more universal and more iconic.
It's a Chicago dog and a can of Old Style, and it's not close.
There are times when it's relevant and times when it's not, and the latter is a lot more prevalent.
But on reddit, the real reason is because about three years ago reddit admit let mod teams know that misgendering anyone was a violation of site-wide rule one, and if we mods didn't crack down on it, the admin would crack down on US.
Insisting on gender-neutral language is a way to keep clear of that.
I agree with Tilley that many of Chambers's complaints seem Mastodon-specific, or at least not applicable to the threadiverse.
The only really big disagreement in philosophy I have is the complaint about direct messages not being private messages. We've all seen the way that private messages have been used to harass users on reddit. That direct messages don't include an expectation of privacy on lemmy is, to me, a strength rather than a weakness; something that advantages the recipient over the sender, which is the balance of power we want.