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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

The best satire reframes real life in a way that you suddenly see just how insane reality is. The Barbie movie does this very well and it presents real things that still happen every day all over the world in the course of the movie

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I came here to say "none of them" because they all suck gigantic balls and I just use a NUC instead. I also just use unified remote on my phone to control it with a track pad keyboard as a back up.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Unregulated capitalism places all of the power in the hands of the wealthy. Even with the amount of regulation in place, the last 4 decades has irrefutably proven that. The transfer of wealth from the bottom 95% to the top 5% has has been insane.

The only reason we need so much regulation is because people are garbage and if they can gain something for nothing, they will. You cannot consider the pure idea of capitalism without also considering the reality of human nature, that it is inherently going to create a pyramid scheme like situation where the top transfer power and wealth to themselves in the largest quantities they can, in spite of pesky things like laws and taxes.

 

So, yes, I am a reddit refugee. I have played around a bit in lemmy with liftoff & lemmy.world and so far it's great.

What I'm really curious to know is what is the best way to to find active communities & join them?

If I wanted to find the most active Warhammer40k community, where would I start?

If it is on a different instance, can I still (in theory) fully interact (view, upvote, comment, post) with that community by subscribing to it from my lemmy.world account in liftoff?

If they have in some way federated/blocked lemmy.world, could I create an account directly on that instance, log into it in liftoff as an alt and swap between my accounts to have full access?

If it is 'shadow'banned/blocked/defederated/whatever, how would I tell?

Thank you in advance, I've really enjoyed trying to be active here so far and everyone has been super nice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Close! AdMech; radium rifles go brrrrrr

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And if my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it's very tricky to assign this level of real world specific equivalence, because the making you hit/wound/save as a sequence is mostly there to let you roll more dice and interact with more mechanics.

They could replace everything with a formula that results in a single number you need to beat on a single dice fairly easily, and go even more in depth with it, but that's not very interesting.

Having the roll sequence allows for a lot more "oooooooohhhhhhh" moments without up setting the rhythm of the game and means that each player gets more interaction with abilities and leader buffs etc. And it's fun to roll lots of dice.

IMO it would make more sense to say that the combination of stats represents the general resilience and armour of a model, but that assigning each step of the sequence this level of specific equivalence is reading to much into it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I thought they have grid place penalties for an unsafe release like that?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Albon crossed the line directly behind Perez and was 0.5 seconds faster, you can't blame the conditions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Albon was directly behind Perez, like crossed the line within a couple seconds at most, and was .5 of a second faster. Half a second. I'm sorry for Perez fans because he has shown before that he can do ok at qualy, enough to keep up, and he's shown he can defend like a lion. But there's no excuse here. He got beaten by Sergeant in a Williams FFS, who was right behind Albon. They all drove the track in the same conditions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Lemmy will need to hit a critical mass of regular users before all the niche non-Programmer orientated communities will start to properly populate, hopefully it doesn't drop off before then

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Pretty much the same, having reached a certain age before the internet was a thing, all my shit is out there already. I genuinely don't care if Google has all my info from decades of Gmail, YouTube, googling, Android phones etc etc because they make it convenient for me to use all their products. What I'm not happy to roll with is massively sub par experience due to adds or rage bait curated feeds. So I'm not on Twitter, Insta, FB or anything just because the experience of using it would suck. If they want to track me that's fine, just don't be gross about it and don't get hacked (hoping I don't jynx myself)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I screamed when Max pulled out that lap. I really wanted Alonso to have poll, and I'm not a huge Max fan, but he earned it. No one can ever say Max just "had a good car" because it is clear as day he's a generational talent and extremely hard working at racing and doesn't rest on his laurels for a moment, every GP.

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