downvotes go everywhere

Unless you’re in kbin.social, which doesn’t federate downvotes.

That said it’s still handy for other kbin users and a good indication that it’s been reported already.

That one looks a lot more normal but… why does it look like I can see the tree through its head???

Thanks, beautiful photo.

I’d forgotten how Metal the cicadas look over there.

Ours all just look like this so pictures like yours look like some kind of Undead version or something to me, with its crazy red eyes.

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

Yikes I’m glad I don’t believe in argumentum ad popularum or at this point it would be prion apocalypse confirmed!

@Hotspur hey cool you and I just posted about prions at the same time!

That the next pandemic is going to be a Prion disease that develops within the factory farming system.

What the. This is not the kind of theory I came in here expecting to see but you’re right it is highly creepy.

So basically you need to start playing minecraft on a 3 seater sofa, surrounded by dog treats.

@LaunchesKayaks it’s probably a seating issue.

Get one of these chairs

@ernest actually fixed this at one point but it broke again with the big changes last month. I’m thinking he will fix it again sooner or later.

We were hoping it made you drunk faster but most likely we just got kidney damage and neurotoxicity.

What can I say, it was hazardous being a bored teenager in the days before the internet.

Because we were young and stupid. It only happened once - once was enough.

That’s funny, in my interface (kbin) it still looked like a list but it said 35.

\35 Those were the best times. Your body’s still young af but your mind has grown up and gained some wisdom.

Convinced several people in high school that mixing mineral turpentine into their drinks was a good idea.

I was doing it too but still seems pretty messed up to take others down with me.

users and contributors need to stop feeling entitled to maintainers’ unpaid labor and time

And the rest of us need to stand up for maintainers against bullies.

Notice I didn’t say money, I said resources. And I’m thinking in global terms.

I’m not saying, say, American government take cash of American billionaires and give it to different Americans.

I’m saying, who controls water, who controls oil, who controls farmland. Who pressures nations with threats if they try to be food self sufficient. Who steals. Who orders and finances killings. There is enough here on terra for everyone, but it’s being misused and hoarded.

No it’s really a very similar situation - meme was coined in 1976 (Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene) and was pretty widely known.

Internet memes were thus named because they are literally a subset of memes. So for people who know the wider meaning of the term it’s still got the same connotations. Calling internet memes “memes” isn’t problematic for us.

What’s happened to you is kind of like when people say “animal” but they’re only thinking of mammals. In most contexts the missing scope isn’t noticeable.

Which is understandable but going after someone for not knowing about the French revolution is a lot like going after someone for not knowing about meme theory.

These days I see it as a shorthand, a metaphor for dismantling the system of resource hoarding so that we can more equitably distribute it - let the world consume what the elite have hoarded.

It’s also sort of a joke that reduces them to use value.