Yeah, it’s a pretty deep pit of depression. I suspect most people who consider themselves blackpilled are clinically depressed. Not at all useful. But then again, neither is being judgmental of them.

More like a pig wallowing in shit if you ask me

It definitely definitely is.

But it’s not a Trump echo chamber, hence their absence.

1. There probably are some right-wing instances, but I’m guessing they all got defederated for… reasons…

2. Conservatives already have their own platforms e.g. truth social, twitter, 4chan, others

3. The very format of Lemmy is more egalitarian. For example, it gives an enormous amount of power to individual users to filter out unwanted content, and decentralizes content moderation over a variety of instances. This doesn’t appeal to some right-wing ideologues who seem to value more hierarchical, centralized systems. Basically, Lemmy is more democratic (or has the potential to be more democratic) than other platforms.

Based on a quick google search, the jury is out on whether artificial sweeteners affect blood sugar and insulin at all.

A study from the National Library of Medicine says they do but cites no source and the study itself isn’t reaaly about that; it does demonstrate that diabetics that drink artificial sweeteners have higher insulin resistance, but is that a causal relationship? If so, which is causing which?

The mayo clinic says straight up that artificial sweeteners don’t affect blood sugar at all.

There is a response to release insulin purely on tasting something sweet that’s been demonstrated in some mammals using artificial sweeteners, but nobody’s been able to consistently reproduce it in humans.

So… Eh? If there’s any kind of scientific consensus on this it isn’t clear to the layperson. Maybe I’ll start measuring my blood sugar before and after having a coke zero just to see for myself.

I’d be surprised if it’s even that high. Just going outside would spike your chance of skin cancer.

Others have cited sources about how wrong you are. It’s also just common sense. With the sheer amount of diet soda that the world drinks, it would be fairly obvious by now if aspartame was significantly carcinogenic.

Even the text you quoted (but didn’t cite, not helpful) only says that prolonged exposure may be a risk factor. Quite a leap to then say that “aspartame = cancer”

I believe its mostly soda water and caramel coloring (no duh)

The sweetness is from aspartame, a very common artificial zero-calorie sweetener.

Aside from that it’s gonna be a (trade secret, they’ll never tell us) mixture of artificial and natural flavorings. All virtually zero calorie, and probably in very small amounts.

I mean, maybe but what will you do if they fail to appear before court? I don’t think the undead are super concerned with prison sentences

It’s not a customized plate, it’s just straight up fake. Sov citizens buy them, and cops often don’t even pull then over because they’re so fucking annoying to deal with.

There’s a lot of information, there’s also a lot of misinformation. Many people don’t trust authorities, sometimes for understandable reasons, so they end up in the fringes.

Also, the Nazis, and even the Confederates, weren’t all that long ago in the grand scheme. A couple generations. Many people learn these tendencies from their family.

Also incels are somewhat different from Nazis/fascists. There’s obviously a lot of overlap. There’s always been men who had trouble with women, but I think being a male virgin after a certain age is enormously more vilified these days than it was in, for instance, the 50s, even among more progressive, left leaning groups. Admittedly, that’s anecdotal so I could be wrong.

Open mobile app support

Ad free (depending on the app and instance, but its pretty easy to get Lemmy without ads)

No CEO to make whacky, unpopular decisions without clear purpose or recourse

No shareholders whose priorities will always take precedence over the users

There’s also something to be said for being part of a smaller community

Of course any and all problems can occur in microcosm within a particular instance or community, but it’s trivial to just block that instance/community. As for brigading, bullying, and harassment, Lemmy offers no solutions to human nature, unfortunately.

If we’re lucky it’ll be better than the Halo series. That’s a damn low bar, though.

There’s been a couple terrible trailers. If you use an ad blocker, don’t have cable, and happened to miss the social media posts around when the trailers dropped, then there you go. Happens to me more and more these days.

Because the casting made it clear they aren’t even trying to make a true adaptation is the games, so they aren’t courting any Borderlands fans.

And everyone else is asking why they made this trashy, lame mad Max ripoff.

And it’s not really appropriate for kids, so you can’t even use it to make little Timmy shut up for 2 hours.

And there isn’t a new game coming out (afaik) so no brand synergy.

They haven’t given a single person a single reason to watch it except ‘Kevin Hart is allegedly funny, right?’

Which takes me to think, maybe there are things men need emotionally that women cannot provide, but I couldn’t write a list.

You could probably write entire books and doctoral theses about this right here. In fact I’m sure people have.

I think, fundamentally, men need the same things women need: love, support, a sense of belonging, opportunities for self improvement, on top of all of Maslow’s needs, and more. All things that are often denied to people for various societal and economic reasons. And some men will deny themselves these things because we are lied to about what will make us happy.

More than anything many men feel the need to be in control of all aspects of their life. Control their finances, their property, their spouse. But it’s impossible to be always in control, so there will always be an angst there. Men who have everything they thought they needed to be happy, and still aren’t, may sooner or later look for someone to blame. That makes then vulnerable to divisive rhetoric.

I’ve never been married but I am a man who, frankly, hasn’t ever been very happy in life despite being loved by my family; yes I think a married person can feel very lonely.

The game “logic” you’re talking about is tied to the frame rate by default. Or perhaps it is more accurate to say that a game’s frame rate is a function of available compute power and the complexity of the logic that must be solved every update (every frame).

Accounting for this usually isn’t difficult, but developers are only human and it’s easy to make mistakes when your game is being developed for very few hardware variants. The original dark souls was ps3/xbox360 only. Since the game performed the same on all it’s target systems, the oversight wasn’t obvious until PTDE released for PC much later, which was apparently ported by a skeleton crew with very little time and budget.

This doesn’t happen as much these days because developers are much more aware of PC (and its limitless hardware variations) during development. Also, there are more console variations to account for, e.g. the Xbox series S vs X. Devs just can’t get away with being lazy with frame rate variations anymore as it will become a problem very early in quality assurance, and may even cause compliance violations which can bar your game from launching on consoles.

You’re thinking in terms of how we do simulations within our universe. If the universe is a simulation then the machine that is simulating it is necessarily outside of the known universe. We can’t know for sure that it has to play by the same rules of physics or even of logic and reasoning as a machine within our universe. Maybe in the upper echelon universe computers don’t need power, or they have infinite time for calculations for reasons beyond our understanding.

Yes, my comment is assuming if Trump loses this year, I’d bet he’ll try for a second term in 2028.

1. Most people who want him to drop out were never going to vote for him anyway.

2. People (perhaps erroneously) perceive a chance of Biden actually doing it. Trump will never drop out as winning the presidency is his only shot at avoiding incarceration. He’ll probably run again in 2028 if he’s still around by then.

3. Trump isn’t incumbent, meaning the GOP already had a full primary in the past year. They’ve already determined they don’t have a better alternative. Technically the Dems could have nominated someone other than Biden, but it was never a very likely possibility, so people aren’t as familiar with Democratic alternatives.

4. Republicans either don’t believe any of the criticisms you made of Trump are true, are okay with them, still believe him to be the lesser of two evils, or some combination of these. This is largely due to right-wing propaganda e.g. Fox News, OAN, Info Wars, etc.

I’m no expert, these are just what I perceive to be happening. There’s probably other factors at play as well.

Edit: with the recent supreme court rulings, I’m guessing that he may be able to avoid jail even if he doesn’t win. I still don’t see any chance he’ll drop out.