would the cow rotate without your intervention? are you actually rotating the cow with your mind powers or are you simply opening a mental gate through which you may observe the rotating cow? this is the important part for me

Lmao anything to avoid admitting it's a lost cause

They should've surrendered under whatever terms necessary 2 days into the conflict

I'm 1, and no, not really. But that's more for ethical reasons.

all right everyone let's expend extraordinary amounts of energy and time fighting with people over whether this section of internet whiteboard should display a fascist flag or a corporate advertisement! what an incredible use of time!

My area doesn't have huntsmen unfortunately. We do have wolf spiders though which are similar I think. They're lil guys though.

tbf the confusion is not so much that the author would be allowed to but that they'd want to. people would naturally assume that like with many things people put time into creating, such as novels and video games and whatever else, that the fee required to access it is desired by the author and in some way benefits them.

I've walked through so many spider webs over the past few weeks. I do find them very rude. And it's just like, man, if you put your web where I'm going to walk through it then it sucks for you too, then you gotta go rebuild it.

I still don't kill them, though. Just relocate them to somewhere sufficiently far away that hopefully they don't build their next web in the same place.

Except for one spider that I maybe killed. I walked into its web and it stood on my arm and bit me so I flicked it away. No idea where it went or whether it survived. But honestly, what a jerk.

Landlords should not exist in the first place. When fantasizing, why aim for mediocrity?

Here's my favorite introductory text on socialism, by Albert Einstein, which is the "left" as opposed to "liberal" that you mentioned.

I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time; and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

The way they tell it, you'd think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people.

They are, it's called the capitalist class.

And your information is incorrect, hexbear is one of the oldest Lemmy instances, and we've always been among the most active. My account is over 3 years old. It's just that we only federated recently.

the user you just replied to made their account a year ago and has an extensive post history