[-] Franzia 56 points 11 months ago

How can I communicate with redditors?

[-] Franzia 63 points 1 year ago

What do I say if I wanna be one of the girls pampering and kissing the :3 person?

[-] Franzia 70 points 1 year ago

Alright fine, I'll be a Luddite now. Every time we 'upgrade' or 'make progress' it is really about controling the working class and circumventing a previous business model. Capital pays more and more for the inputs: fuel and technology, in order to justify their control. And then once they have it, they use progress to justify poor labor protections. They never use the predicted best solution, or even a compromise, they use the solution that offers them more power.

[-] Franzia 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Real talk,

1.) USemissions laws state that cars have much stricter emissions standards than SUVs and pick up trucks. Manufacturers have made the pickup truck more attractive to buyers for this reason.

2.) its easy to upsell a lot of Americans on a pickup truck because a lot of Americans want to do DIY handiwork or can be sold on the virtues of the safety of a pickup truck in the result of a crash... people driving the most dangerous vehicles are ironically the most fearful of the road.

3.) Design in other vehicle classes has stagnated. Every year I see more cars only available in Europe that I'd love to have, but can't.

4.) They last longer, so they stay on the road longer too.

5.) Renting cars and trucks is generally annoying. Getting large items shipped is becoming more expensive.

[-] Franzia 64 points 1 year ago

Can't wait for the worlds worst person to buy it

[-] Franzia 55 points 1 year ago

Formal dress codes are upper class by aesthetics. Its just another little bite of compliance that one is expected to take before joining those in power.

[-] Franzia 61 points 1 year ago

Not exactly. They're tankies, which has its basis in appreciating the USSR and modern day China and some other governments that call themselves "Communist" while having very few if any leftist and communist qualities. Hexbear is eager to defend genocides, whitewash parts of Russian history, and tell you why America is in the wrong in every single event, and therefore America's opponents are good. Most confusingly, they're also trolls. They really enjoy that these arguments anger other people.

[-] Franzia 57 points 1 year ago

If you like to play a girl character in a video game, you might like playing one in real life

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Its a krule world (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Send me virtual love at paypal.con/franziaonlyfans2

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I will lower your sanity

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Drule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Franzia to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

I want to be able to manage and sort them. I use firefox, so both tags and folders are okay. manually exporting groups of them to like documents related to the topic I was researching (and then removing the bookmark) would also be okay. Self-hosted solutions are also welcome.

Very successful post, thank you everyone for sharing your bookmark-related tools.

[-] Franzia 59 points 1 year ago

Being poor. You pay the bills of the rich.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Franzia to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

Hey I remember a community I liked called Mealtimevideos - not too short, not too long. Just right for lunchtime.

EDIT: https://slrpnk.net/post/2009611

EDIT: found! https://lemmy.best/c/mealtimevideos

Can no longer find this community. Is it

  • Deleted?
  • Defederated?
  • I am banned?

Edit: The creator/mod was banned from lemmy.world following some bot spam, and this automatically deleted the community.

Really would like if we had... discord style bots that would notify of these changes. I guess there is a modlog, but I have never looked at it.

Furthermore, I find this community was... better curated to my tastes (Video essays, urbanism youtube, and infodump videos) compared to the simple "Videos" communities.

Perhaps I'd like a c/Nebula since most of my favorite creators are now on Nebula and youtube is on a downward spiral.

EDIT: The creator / moderator of the instance replied!

Video discussion is the #1 thing I want to do on social media. I love videos and want to talk about em.

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Puppygirls rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Franzia to c/thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world

Denver is paying out to George Floyd demonstrators over police actions.

Cross-Post: https://lemmy.world/post/4046699

(denver post comments community)

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My doggy gf (lemmit.online)
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UwU

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submitted 1 year ago by Franzia to c/chat@literature.cafe

I found an account dedicated to spam posting "enlightened centrist" talking points and pundits. Their name itself is part of the advertising. They even would post the same content across multiple communities, without cross-posting. And not just political stuff, they posted the same meme about 4 times without linking them.

I know this sort of thing happened all the time on Reddit and essentially it was hopeless because of how the corporate power structure worked.

"Politics" and "News" communities seem especially "apolitical" (that is to say Neoliberal) and hands-off "free speech to the end user" about what is posted. I'll frequently see a lame article, sensationalist headline, instead of the first source or the most informative one. Or I'll see a great thread about a great news story - and someone reposts the same content the next day with better timing, and it will be weaker journalism with weaker comments - yet more people will see it. Now this doesn't constitute abuse, but it will be just as permissive of abuse of the system as Reddit was.

I've also seen threads asking about where to find good sources, how to find accurate journalism... without much great advice. It's sort of an acquired skill, but we have the potential to help people acquire it.

[-] Franzia 64 points 1 year ago

Looked up a recipe and it seems pretty easy to make non-raw edible cookie dough. Cook the flour in the microwave, and then substitute out the eggs with extra butter and milk.

Life your life, OP.

[-] Franzia 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This guy probably has so much PTSD and so much yearning for the adrenaline that war provided him.

The Man who Killed Osama Bin Laden... is Screwed (Esquire)

"I'm not religious, but I always felt I was put on the earth to do something specific. After that mission, I knew what it was."

Of course this guy is a violent drunk and a conservative! This country has treated him like SHIT.

"No one who fights for this country overseas should ever have to fight for a job," Barack Obama said last Veterans' Day (2012)

After sixteen years in the Navy, his body filled with scar tissue, arthritis . . . he gets from his employer and a grateful nation:

Nothing. No pension, no healthcare for his wife and kids, no protection for himself or his family.

He's taken that as a calling - and become yet another angry conservative grifter. Speaking engagements, media appearances, tweeting hateful bullshit for attention. Since claiming he was The Shooter (of Osama) he's claimed to have been a key member in other SEAL missions that have been made into movies. Who knows the truth? Nobody is allowed to correct him, and that's why he can build this brand for himself.

His shit stirring is always newsworthy and pushed in front of us. Anti-mask shit, transphobic shit. So I'm happy we can see his miserable personal failures, too.

[-] Franzia 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“This was, quite frankly, a maniac who decided he wanted to take lives,”

~~Copycat shooter with a manifesto, armed with the usual kit: A plate carrier, an AR-15, and a Glock.~~

~~While I can see this is a racially motivated shooting, I think this pattern indicates some deeper... suicidal, martyrdom ideology. The intent includes the suicide. It's suicidally motivated, too. These plans include the repetitive messaging of a newsfeed marching down the list of mass shootings by scared whitr supremacists. Racial killing, suicide, manifesto, and the date makes it a copycat killing. Is he truly a maniac, if so many are falling into this same set of cowardly cries for help?~~

~~I feel no sympathy for the dead shooter. But I stare into the abyss, feeling I must empathize with the scared white supremacist who does this next.~~

~~Stochastic Terrorism (wiki)~~

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submitted 1 year ago by Franzia to c/thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world

Post Link: NPR: NYC Rolls Back Bail Reforms (May 2023)

Giuliani: Eric Adams Can't Let Hochul Have Bail Reform 2022

Giuliani and Adams are dragging Hochul towards the center on this issue. And Zeldin (2022 R. Governor Candidate) capitalizes on it.

NYPost: judge discretion was never the provlem

This writer effortlessly slides the goalpost. 'We can debate the perceived issue of racism in bail all we want, but criminal court judges need to be able to decide.'

DataCollaborativeForJustice: Bail Reform issue explained 2023 (.PDF)

CNN: Police Say Recidivism Fuels Rise in Crime Stats 2022

CUNY summary of bail statistics (2022)

“The actual data on New York’s bail reform doesn’t lend itself to easy soundbites,” said Michael Rempel

VERA: NY Bail Reform effects on Prison Population

VERA: graphics on NYS Prison Pop.

69% of total NYS Jail Population is Pretrial Detainees

Recidivism is being used as the current wedge issue by police and reactionaries to undo bail reforms. It's working. Eric Adams is providing the perfect reactionary playbook to fight against every single reform we want. We need to find rhetoric to combat these arguments.

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Loserule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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