Here it is. I was wondering why you were so fucking adamant about this.

It’s because you think that someone sharing an image of a meal they enjoyed (or they think looks good) is somehow an attempt to convert people or some form of evangelizing. Holy shit that is a toxic as fuck take, and I can’t engage with it in good faith.

I don’t look at an image of someone’s salad, bean burrito, veggie stir fry, tofu dish, etc and think that’s someone trying to make me vegetarian or vegan. That’s fucking unhinged. It’s just somebody trying to share something they enjoyed. If it’s not my jam it’s not my jam. I’m not going to be offended by it unless it’s a friend who’s been told repeatedly it’s not my thing and they’re still sending it directly to me (group chats don’t count).

If we weren’t this deep into the comment thread I would legitimately think you were shitposting.

Congrats, you win I guess. Your frustration with meat eaters is 100% justified, and you’ve scientifically proven that no vegetarians or vegans have ever once been annoying evangelists to the people around them, despite all evidence to the contrary. I especially liked how you compared meat eaters sharing pictures of their meat based meals to people wanting to supress LGBT representation. That’s such an amazing masterstroke of logic and philosophy that it’s changed my entire worldview!

Likewise, anyone saying something about “omnivores”/“carnivores” etc can only go off of who opened their mouths to them.

Again, my point is just as valid as the person saying they’ve encountered many more non-vegetarians trying to convert people. They don’t know how many, who did not bother to share their thoughts with them, they met. By your own words.

If you think it’s bullshit, well you said it, not me. I’m not arguing against that. I’m saying that the comment I first replied to is bullshit too, if that’s what you want to call it.

I’m not making any judgement on vegetarianism, veganism, or anybody’s dietary requirements or choices.

I’m saying that the entirety of “well I’ve never seen it”, “well I have!” is fruitless clashing of anecdotes. It’s slightly more wordy “nuh-uh!” “yeah-huh!” except people get reinforcement on whatever they already believed.

And I find it hilarious and somewhat unbelievable that anyone over the age of 21 hasn’t met a single vegan that tried to convert people, not even one, but has met multiple non-vegans spamming pictures of meat at vegans to… try and convert them. Are you kidding me? Who the fuck does something like that, it reads like an “and then everybody clapped” story. How the fuck did that get so many upvotes?

My entire point is that I see these sorts of “well I’ve never encountered a proselytizing [insert group here] person, so that means these stereotypes are just mean and based on nothing!” but all it takes is one person to say “Well I have”.

Beyond that, my anecdotes are as valid as theirs. Which is to say not worth much at all.

That’s fucking terrible.

Unfortunately in my roughly a decade in IT, I’ve only seen a vendor failing to deliver a core feature tank a contract once. It’s completely fucking absurd how many systems/softwares/products are in use because contracts were signed based off specific feature promises, that then were never completed.

Does this shit happen in other industries? I have a hard time imagining some company signing a contract for delivery trucks that for instance, ran on diesel, the truck manufacturer saying they didn’t have those yet but would by time of delivery, delivering gas trucks anyway, and the company that ordered them going “Well I guess we’ll just suck it up. No need to have legal get a chunk of our money back. No need to stop doing business with that truck manufacturer. We’ll just make the fleet mechanics retrofit them with no extra budget, time, or headcount. Let’s go do lines in the executive bathroom.”

But that’s what seems to happen with software products all the fucking time.

The fun thing about anecdotes is that they aren’t in any way indicative of the wider world.

Out of all the vegans and vegetarians I’ve met in my life, I think at best maybe 1/4 didn’t spend a protracted amount of time extolling the virtues of their lifestyle. Maybe you don’t consider that an attempt to convert, but a lot of people do. Either way it was annoying.

Conversely, I’ve only ever seen two “omnivores” try to convert someone who wasn’t, and it was a one off joke among friends.

Because lemmy is much smaller, you tend to rub into the same users more often. So if someone comes off as abrasive, blocking them can have a notable impact on your experience.

Dogpiling is worse, and it can pay to know what instance the community you’re posting in is, as the games community on hexbear is going to be different than on world.

It’s much more “left” than reddit. Notably, while this instance, lemmy.ml, is the flagship instance run by the lead dev, the “ml” stands for marxist-leninist.

I would want to hear ‘no’ by this point because that would give me the release to pursue others.

If they haven’t locked you down, you owe them nothing. Be direct.

If they were worth waiting for, they would give you a straight answer.

“I’m interested in you, but you’ve been lukewarm about this whole thing. Whenever you make up your mind, you know where to find me, but I can’t spend my life waiting for you to make a move.”

That’s shortsighted as hell. I cma understand not wanting to have multiple clients installed but there’s GoG at the very least.

Gog gives drm free installers, no laucher needed. Install it somewhere, go into steam, add non-steam game. Boom. Done.

Everyone was too concerned the AI would do it and wasn’t looking close enough at the C-Suite Execs.

Maybe check fmhy’s (free media hell yeah) piracy megathread? I think that’s one of the most up to date "megathread"s.

Or some piracy communities on lemmy. !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is the biggest one, and is the successor of the piracy subreddit (the head mod left reddit and started their own lemmy instance).

The Man Who Killed Google Search - Where’s Your Ed At blog, by Ed Zitron

That’s bitch baby mode. Just use MASgrave to fake activation/license. No need for that silly workaround every time.

Without any info on how they compile the “Top 50 viral” list, I’m not sure how significant this really is.

Never heard of that chart before, so this feels like it was just an easy article for click farming.

I don’t hate the song, but how in the fuck do you start a workout to that?

It’s become a wealth/status symbol for people who don’t like the more traditional bougie shit. Lets them still delude themselves into thinking they’re salt of the earth types.

I can afford for 2/3 of my vehicle to be functionally useless! Dohohohoho!

To anyone saying they like the battle system of “turn based with QTE/rythm” you might also like Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario (original N64 and Thousand Year Door), and the Mario and Luigi series (first three of them). Mother 3 also has a rythm element matched to the >40 battle tracks. Go emulate them rather than trying to track them down at scalper prices.

They all use turn based battles with timed button presses for extra damage with attacks, blocking/dodging, and specials. Definitely not as pretty, as good a story, or as complicated mechanics, but same sort of battle system.

There are plenty of other horrific medical conditions without cures or significant funding into their research.

Blanking on the medical name, but there’s a disease that fucks the immune system into turning bruised flesh into bone. Most sufferers of it don’t even make it to 20 years old. And the existing treatments to reduce it all have terrible side effects.

bustin makes me feel good!

Yes, that’s something we all should be doing, but that won’t stop this from effecting you.

Google is trying to make a change so that all apps will have to have their creator show their identity to Google so they can be installed. This specifically applies to sideloaded apks. That means it applies to everything from sketchy random apks, to github, to F-Droid.

There’s no way to work around it (if it even can be) until Google rolls it out so custom ROMs can reverse engineer it to offer an option to disable.

Even if it can be disabled on the phone’s end, that now cuts your potential userbase so dramatically that it’s going to gut the open source software scene on android. Either give in to Google (so goodbye high school student devs, people from not ok countries, or people making shit Google doesn’t like), or enjoy your potential userbase of maybe a few thousand people who have the custom rom(s) with a workaround, resulting in an actual userbase of maybe one hundred.

Hey, everyone knows you need to wait for the answer to open the door.